Paulosophical Vimplications

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• THE GENOCIDE DEBATE REVISITED

  By paulosophicalvimplications on October 30, 2024 • ( 1 )

  Harris and Trump are calling each other a fascist. But either claim will die the death of a thousand qualifications. So it’s not a claim. It’s what Wittgenstein would call a move in a language game called political rhetoric. Fair… Read More ›

• AWFULISING

  By paulosophicalvimplications on October 30, 2024 • ( 0 )

  “A Harris victory on November 5th will spell the end of America as we know it.” Well yes, the America we’ve known has never had a female president. “A Trump victory on November 5th will spell the end of America… Read More ›

• THE STUMP SPEECH/INTERVIEW DISTINCTION

  By paulosophicalvimplications on October 29, 2024 • ( 3 )

  As my millions of followers have noticed, no doubt with considerable disappointment, I’ve been holding back lately, both on a) those events taking place in the Middle East and on b) the election campaign taking place south of the 49th…. Read More ›

• ONTOLOGY – EIGHTH INSTALMENT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 9, 2024 • ( 0 )

  VIII. DIMENSIONS, SHAPES, AND INTERSUBJECTIVITY We live in a three-dimensional world. Too quick. We conceive of our world as three-dimensional, but it doesn’t follow that it is. Though it may be – we’ll have to see – that for all… Read More ›

• ONTOLOGY – SEVENTH INSTALMENT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 8, 2024 • ( 0 )

  VII. FINITISM – PART TWO The issue here is Zeno’s Paradox and how to resolve it. To get from here to there I first have to cover half the distance, then half the remaining distance, then half the distance still… Read More ›

• ONTOLOGY – SIXTH INSTALMENT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 7, 2024 • ( 0 )

  VI. FINITISM – PART ONE In his Third Meditation, Rene Descartes offered a unique version of Aquinas’ Cosmological Argument for the existence of God. It goes like this. Everything we experience we experience as not going on forever. Even if… Read More ›

• FROM THE YES-BUT-DON’T-SAY-IT FILE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 5, 2024 • ( 2 )

  The core axiom driving any cognising organism is to treat like cases alike. And this, of course, requires that it distinguish between this collection of things and that collection of things. These distinctions are not always easy. Are we in… Read More ›

• Guest Post. And now for something completely different …

  By paulosophicalvimplications on September 1, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Complementing an academic’s freedom to dissent is the maximal removal of impediments to her pursuit of hypotheses and matters of fact about the stuff that furnishes the universe and of the universe itself. This stuff undergirds the core investigations of… Read More ›

• ONTOLOGY – FIFTH INSTALMENT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 23, 2024 • ( 0 )

  V. OCCAM’S RAZOR AND ATOMISM The core axiom driving any cognitive system is to treat like alike. So naturally, whenever there’s such an option, the mind would prefer to think that things are, at some fundamental level, alike, so they… Read More ›

• ONTOLOGY – FOURTH INSTALMENT

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 23, 2024 • ( 0 )

  IV. IN PRINCIPLE VERSUS EPISTEMIC So we’ve decided that ‘being’ is itself an unanalysable primitive, but an enabler concept nonetheless. And we’ve decided that by kind of being we mean a closed set of causal relations. So there can really… Read More ›

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