Time travel: reading material
I am taking a metafysics class1 and last lectur's topic was time travel. That is an issu i sort of like but i dislike the way people discuss it, in…
Validity and necessary truths
Validity is defined in a couple of ways. I like to define it like this: An argument is valid iff the superconjunction1 of all the premises and the negation of…
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…
Why something rather than nothing? An argument for the necessity of a something-world
PDF due to mathematical expressions that Wordpress does not support. why-something-rather-than-nothing_-an-argument-for-the-necessity-of-a-something-world
Motivation, reason, the impossible
Inspired by reading of David Hume's Enquiry concerning the principles of Morals (EPM) edited by Tom L. Beauchamp.1 "Hume is often interpreted as arguing that no value judgment--however extreme, obscene,…
A journey into possibility land
Intro and types I've been paying very close attention as of late to a special type of discourse: Namely, about what is possible and what is impossible. This study has…