http://blog.nerdfiles.net philosophy Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:08:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Premise: Statements uttered bear propositional content. Contraposition: Non-propositional content is not contained within a statement. A statement on paper, as example, say, has no attitudinal content, but does bear a propositional content. This will be its "literal" or "isolated" content; thus, we rightly label its status as such. (C)ats have four legs; (C) ... http://blog.nerdfiles.net/2008/11/19/noncognitivists-against-the-first-blush-infantile-thoughts/ The term "good" lacks natural properties. Agent A cannot be said to necessarily predicate of conjoined properties {X, Y, Z} as set that it is "good." In some cases, we may find {X, Z}, and A may only believe {X, Y, Z} are present. The X and Z may in ... http://blog.nerdfiles.net/2008/11/18/quasi-set-theoretic-approach-to-the-n-fallacy/ (1) "Too much of X is bad for you." Is this analytic? Can "too much of X" be viewed in terms of its material properties so as to generate a naturalistic fallacy a la Moore? Does this depend on the content of X? X=lovin'! X=Love! Well, we can look at ... http://blog.nerdfiles.net/2008/11/18/moral-adages-and-analyticity/ "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law." Gloss: Let us look at what concerns an immediate failure of the first formulation of the categorical imperative. First, we concern ourselves with the pre-theoretical, namely, the conditions which might ... http://blog.nerdfiles.net/2008/11/16/categorical-imperative-as-epistemic-modal/ I will introduce some new terms, and an attempt to clarify them will not be forthcoming. Perhaps they will be "high definitions" or their meaning will be unclear. Consider this a methodological dogma (rationalism). Moore claims that (1) I know that this is a hand, thus I know I am not ... http://blog.nerdfiles.net/2008/11/15/the-skeptic-against-coherence/ The diluted Christian claims that "abortion under the right circumstances is fine by me, but under the wrong circumstances, I will say it should not be permitted." The circumstances of the abortion will be the contributing factor as to whether it is judged right or wrong, acceptable or unacceptable. The ... http://blog.nerdfiles.net/2008/11/15/abortion-and-the-convenience-argument/ 1. In language carries our beliefs as vessel, but we can be like archaic vessels lost in a labyrinth. 2. Twins conjoined at the head claim they are happy. The philosopher asks, "Are they really happy?" We are being pushed to think their is a dichotomy. There's a predicate pristine that ... http://blog.nerdfiles.net/2008/11/15/happy-judges-haplessly/ Kripke's claim is that if we discover some cat is a robot, we will not say "no cats exists." We will in fact say, "Whoops. Looks like we were wrong about cats." This is the epistemic sense in which it is "less necessary" than "bachelors are unmarried men." However, Kripke proposes ... http://blog.nerdfiles.net/2008/11/15/your-cat-is-a-robot/ Spies and Such The examples goes as follows. It is supposed to show how problematic it is for us to quantify into propositional attitude contexts. Smith lives in an apartment building. He sees a shady figure down the hall. Smith, a paranoid sort, comes to believe that (1) the shady figure is ... http://blog.nerdfiles.net/2008/11/15/of-manifold-discourse/ I need twenty a posteriori necessary truths, stat. Cats can be robots, in the metaphysical and epistemic sense. Former: well, we "discover" that cats are animals, and thus a natural kind. "But that's the epistemic sense!" Scratch: Dammit! The scientist ain't uncovering necessary truths! Less funny: Animals are physical entities arranged in a certain ... http://blog.nerdfiles.net/2008/11/14/necessary-pompousteriori/