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Plausibly, ethics ought to be in part a practical discipline, one teaching us just how to become virtuous and avoid vice. In fa...

I had a delightful two hour session last night just outside Waco. M31, 32, 33, 42, 43, 74, 77, 81, 82, 103, 110. NGC253, 281 (maybe, ...

When we teach arithmetic to children, we make use of counterfactuals: "If you had two oranges, and got two more, you would h...

For the definitions, see yesterday's post. Horn 2: Truth is nomically coextensive with a Natural property. We will now generate a proble...

This argument is a dilemma, of which I will only give the first horn today. First we need two definitions. Say that a property i...

I think that among the conditions that an account of resurrection needs to satisfy is this one: the account has to make it possibl...

The stuff below may be old hat. But it's fun. A naturalistic semantics would give an account of the truth of a naturalistically acceptab...

Here is a fun similarity between the liar paradox: Claim (1) is false and the truth-teller paradox: Claim (2) is true. Intuitive...

This has turned into a week on the liar paradox. Here is an interesting variant on the liar paradox that includes no self-reference, either ...

is I will assume at first a fairly standard view of language, not my own weird view. The following two claims are very plausible: Whether a ...

Liar paradoxes are easy and fun to generate. Here is one that is fun: My latest belief, let us suppose, is that George's latest b...

The following remark is inspired by Williamson's "Everything" piece. Here is a liar paradox that uses no direct r...

The argument is a reductio . Shaving is sometimes permissible. There is a relation I such that I x P holds if and only if P...

No truth is false.

Start with the following fairly normal A-theory. There is an A-timeline, and it is logically primary. It is marked: "... -5yr -4yr -3yr...