Assertion and inference rules
Possible Worlds quote: “In the second place, the concept of conjunction can be conveyed without using any sentence connective whatever. One way - indeed one of the commonest of all…
Possible Worlds quote: “In the second place, the concept of conjunction can be conveyed without using any sentence connective whatever. One way - indeed one of the commonest of all…
So, I am on my way home a Sunday in May and when I get into my apartment I find that my roommate has left his bike helmet on the…
Emil: There is an infinite number of possible Gods. Without evidence every guess is as good as the others or nearly so. The chance of guessing the right God is…
Unaided and aided reasoning Humans reason about many things. Some things are more complex than other things. The more complex a thing is, the more probably it is that one…
I was watching The Unbearable Lightness of Being when a scene suddenly made me realize a possible problem with regularity theory of physical laws and the ought implies can principle.…
Quote from The Web of Belief “Rather, believing is a disposition that can linger latent and unobserved. It is a disposition to respond in certain ways when the appropriate issue…
"Philosophy, throughout its history, has consisted of two parts inharmoniously blended; on the one hand a theory as to the nature of the world, on the other an ethical or…
Read this great article about copyright, the film industry and the usual stuff.
Fast: “We need to keep in mind that "I know that I know" is ambiguous between 1) I am certain and 2) I have knowledge that I know. The latter…