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Cut the pie any way you like, "meanings" just ain't in the head!


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No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.



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While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics.



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... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour).



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I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!



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It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.



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I can only please one person per day. Today isn't your day, tomorrow doesn't look good either.





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