Monday, October 3, 2016

Thomistic Moderate Realism Reduces to Armstrongianism or Platonism

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I've always had difficulty understanding Aquinas's "moderate realist" view on universals, at least as that view is expound...
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Thursday, August 18, 2016

Naturalness vs. "Arbitrariness" and "Simplicity" in Mereology

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There are three answers one can give to the question: "When does composition occur?" (1) Always. (2) Sometimes. (3) Never. T...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Pragmatics at Home

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Here's an interesting case of implicatures I noticed the other day when discussing what movie to watch with my wife. (>> means ...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Modernizing (and Medievalizing) Analyticity

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A project I've been hoping to do eventually is to re-work the concept-containment notion of analyticity. Something has always seemed to...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Perceptual Representation: Pictures and Sounds, Seeing and Hearing

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Perceptions are representations . What representations are can be cashed out in several ways. First, they are about something. Second,...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Russell on Existence in TPLA III: The Argument from Transferability

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In the last post we explained what Russell's views on existence are and how they entail a "higher-order" theory of existence ...
Sunday, February 14, 2016

Geach on Good and Evil: Some Counterexamples?

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In Peter Geach’s paper “Good and Evil” Geach draws a distinction between attributive adjectives and predicative adjectives. An adjective A, ...