Truth tables and necessary truths
In the essay Validity and necessary truths I used truth tables with necessary truths and impossibilities in it. I did it like this: P □Q P→□Q T T T F…
In the essay Validity and necessary truths I used truth tables with necessary truths and impossibilities in it. I did it like this: P □Q P→□Q T T T F…
Concerning a formal debate with a theist: "I'm not telling the theist how to affirm, I'm saying how to present it. A numbered list of premises, inferences and a conclusion…
A probability is something that is more than a mere logical possibility. I also think that it is stronger than a mere physical possibility (I'm a regularity theorist). Here's one…
The issue is what the truth maker is of a certain type (subset), L, of propositions. A proposition belongs to L iff it has the form “X is the correct…
A little experiment using another style of writing. My inspiration is this short story by Smullyan.1 It is very good. Some background knowledge of epistemology is advised. First is the…
It sometimes happens that one is analyzing some theory and one discovers that the theory in some sense implies something meaningless. But that doesn’t make sense when we think about…
I've read many times and places that an argument is sound iff 1. The argument is valid. 2. All the premises of the argument are true. [1] Let's call this…
I posted this text a long time ago in Danish and I translated it and used it on the forum. I think I forgot to post the English version here…
I thought about how induction relates to the probability of something, and I came up with this formula. Induction is here taken as repeated confirming observations of some theory or…
Here's a little paradox that I've come across while thinking. It's about worldviews and knowing that at least one thing I currently believe to be true is actually false. The…