Identity and personal identity
Some people think that the identity notion is captured by the second proposal above. I think we need two notions of identity. I will not discuss that now. Strict identity…
An argument against traditional monotheism
Merely a translation of the danish version here. Translation keys Domains D:x = things D:y = things D:t = moments One variable predicates Ex = x exists At = the…
The analytic principle of questions
Kennethamy: What is it for something to be logical? So many threads ask whether this or that is logical. Is probability logical? Are moral arguments logical? And so on. I…
Quote: Archibald A. Hill (maybe)
"A speaker of the language should be able to pronounce correctly any sequence of letters that he may meet, even if they were previously unknown, and secondarily, to be able…
The principle of unique location
For all things, for all locations y, for all locations z and for all times t, that a thing is in location y at time t and that y is…
Dialogue – Kennethamy and Emil
Kennethamy in response to something about certainty: I did not say there was such a thing as objective certainty. I said objective certainty was what Descartes was aiming at, not…
A justification principle about logical implication
[Update 11/22/09] I note that Ben actually talked about this principle in a post on his blog, “if it’s reasonable to believe a bunch of premises, it’s also reasonable to…
Psychological and epistemic certainty
A rewrite of an earlier article "two kinds of certainty". - A quick explanation of two types of certainty that people tend to confuse. Psychological certainty The first is the…
“More desirable” and “less undesirable”
“In sharp contrast, men more than women tended to rate egoistic dominant acts as more socially desirable, including “Managing to get one's own way,” “Flattering to get one's own way,”…
Stephen Law and Nigel Warburton's "Five Questions About Clarity"
This essay on clarity is great and short. Read it.
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