Tuesday, 1 September 2015
Conditionals and Future Contingents
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Conditionals must be, by their very nature, unsound. They're unsound because they are non-deductive. They express what could be th...
Acceptable Unsound Reasoning
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Despite the problems with unsound reasoning, most of us (or everyone!) who use such reasoning will still require that our unsound...
Monday, 31 August 2015
Some Newish Takes on Mind-Body Dualism
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Quantum mechanics has been used to explain just about everything that's so far unexplainable. Consciousness doesn't escape th...
Sunday, 30 August 2015
Carnap and Quine on Implication and Entailment
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According to Quine, Bertrand Russell (as well as others) confused “if-then” with “implies”. Quine said that “ there is much to...
Friday, 28 August 2015
Strawson and Wittgenstein on Descriptive Philosophy
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The English philosopher P.F. Strawson (1919–2006) helped to define the notion of “descriptive metaphysics” and also defend it as an ac...
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