Are contradictions meaningful?
Introduction In this essay I answer the question in the title with a very confident “Yes”, I give multiple arguments for this answer. For the purposes of this essay a…
Introduction In this essay I answer the question in the title with a very confident “Yes”, I give multiple arguments for this answer. For the purposes of this essay a…
Link to article on SEP. Consider the following quote: "The term "pornography" is used in all of these different ways in everyday discourse and debate, as well as in philosophical…
Is it worth reading if you are interested in meaningfulness, contradictions, names and ontological arguments. W.v.O. Quine - On what there is
Again I'm quoting Paul Ziff's Semantic Analysis: 41. [...] Consequently, if my contention about meaning is correct, then the first 'do' in 'Please do not do it!', unlike the second…
I quote Swartz: "What sort of thing is my pen's being on my desk? We are inclined to say such things as "My pen's being on my desk is true,"…