Sun 30 May, 2010 06:04 pm - As a wage slave and a cubicle lizard surrounded everlastingly by soul-crushing beeping bits of metal and plastic in an assembly line of words and phrases cobbled together for obscurantist purposes,... (view)
Sun 23 May, 2010 06:40 pm - [QUOTE=prothero;167833]I predicted my wife would have an english muffin and tea for breakfast this morning. She did. I do not claim she did not make this decision using her "free will".... (view)
Sun 23 May, 2010 05:37 pm - [QUOTE=kennethamy;148329]Of course Judas could have done otherwise if he had chosen to do otherwise. What makes you think he could not have chosen otherwise? How was he compelled to chose as he... (view)
Sun 23 May, 2010 03:26 pm - [SIZE=85]If I'm following Owen correctly, he is saying that the Law of Exluded Middle is correct: "Either P or not P."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=85]But if that is right, future contingent... (view)
Sun 23 May, 2010 02:59 pm - [QUOTE=Owen;167396]"that the Moon existed before people existed is true."
How do you demonstrate that you know it to be true?
I think that it is very probable, ie. it is a strong... (view)
Sat 22 May, 2010 01:37 pm - [QUOTE=ughaibu;167384]Owen's original assertion was "future tense propositions cannot be true now". It's true that fifteen minutes from now, I will either be at home or not at... (view)
Sat 22 May, 2010 01:24 pm - [QUOTE=Owen;167378]It is not the case that: If (p or ~p) is necessary, then p is necessary or (~p) is necessary, for synthetic propositions.
Aliens exist in Andromeda, or Aliens do not exist in... (view)
Sat 22 May, 2010 12:59 pm - [QUOTE=Owen;167371]Truth and falsity are abstract, ie. they exist only within mind.
If there are no people, then there are no abstract things at all.
There cannot be a 'proposition'... (view)
