The phrases “I cannot find …” and “I couldn’t find …” and willful possibility
Examples: 1. I cannot find my socks. / I couldn't find my socks. 2. I cannot find a counter-example to the theory. / I couldn't find a counter-example to the…
The phrase “so-called …” and the correct use of language without knowing the conditions for correct use
Consider the phrase in the title in this paragraph: “each has a thumb, followed in order by four fingers: the index (or forefinger), the middle, the third, and the so-called…
Norman Swartz on the omniword “thing”
From Beyond Experience, p. 157: "The term “ things ” here is meant in a very broad, inclusive sense. On this interpretation, “ things ” will include, of course, the…
“This Here Hand Is My Hand, I Think”
"Participants in a recent psychological study will probably never a look at mannequins – or their own bodies – in quite the same way again. Before the study, they knew…
Similarity between PWS and predicate logic
It seems to me that the formulas: 1. ◊P 2. (∃x)(Fx) and: 3. □P 4. (∀x)(Fx) are quite similar, if we translate the modal propositional ones into PWS. Here is…
The Myth of Morality and interpretation
Joyce does a rather strange interpretation in The Myth of Morality p. 121. He writes: However, I doubt we even need concede that much. These “conditional reasons” are very shady…
Seneca the younger on suicide, letter 70 and 77
Because of their shortity I will replicate them here. Letter 70: "1. After a long space of time I have seen your beloved Pompeii.[1] I was thus brought again face…
Pyrrho on higher level inductions
I once thought of a bridge scenario. It went like this: There is a bridge. Someone, a man, wants to find out whether it will break down in the future.…