captainsalmonpants
captainsalmonpants t1_j1ghxcz wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in To gift of not to gift, a philosopher's dilemma | Attentiveness, the kind that cuts through the indiscriminate busyness that besets modern life, is the greatest and hardest gift to give (Skye Cleary, John Kaag by IAI_Admin
If you hold yourself to a very high standard in gift giving, could that affect your expectations for others?
captainsalmonpants t1_ix9yf94 wrote
Reply to comment by chromeVidrio in On the advantages of believing that nothing is true by Vico1730
False, WE do not know that.
Your dog statement cannot be evaluated without context. We can infer that context from a stated purpose, knowledge, or assumptions about one or both, but absent that it's just a set of meaningless symbols or sounds.
captainsalmonpants t1_ix9syz6 wrote
Reply to comment by chromeVidrio in On the advantages of believing that nothing is true by Vico1730
And the state of not knowing which is called "indeterminate" which is the result of a vague predicate. How does your logical system handle indeterminacy?
captainsalmonpants t1_ix9qi7v wrote
Reply to comment by chromeVidrio in On the advantages of believing that nothing is true by Vico1730
But what do we call an unclear statement that produces contradictory results?
captainsalmonpants t1_ix9eew5 wrote
Reply to comment by chromeVidrio in On the advantages of believing that nothing is true by Vico1730
What does it mean to have a dog? Are you referring to the legal construct? Does it mean the dog obeys you? (Always?) If in this moment I'm temporarily caring for my friend's dog, do I have a dog? Do my friends have the dog or not? Can we both have the same dog simultaneously? Can having a dog mean different things to people of various cultures, or even to members of the same culture?
captainsalmonpants t1_jdhkb0j wrote
Reply to comment by HumanSeeing in How a close group of brilliant friends, in a tiny German university town, laid the foundations of modern consciousness by ADefiniteDescription
No, no! We didn't have "modern" consciousness before that. Just be thankful that you don't instead have that dusty old pre-modern variety.