On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 7:55:57 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > On 10/26/2018 1:03 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 2:33:13 PM UTC-5, Tomas Pales wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 8:06:03 PM UTC+2, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> >>> >>> OK. But it seemed to me you said that is better not to make unnecessary >>> assumption. >>> >> >> My only ontological assumption is that existence is logical consistency. >> This assumption gives rise to the set-theoretic multiverse, and I don't >> mean just ZF or ZFC but all consistent versions of pure set theory. You add >> assumptions that restrict this set-theoretic multiverse to arithmetic. >> > > > > "Logical consistency" is likely not needed for existence. > > https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dialetheism/ > > > Logical consistency is a relation between sentences. It's not about > existence. The sentences might be about the existence of something, but > that's different. Or the sentences may have variables quantified by > existential quantifiers, but that's different too. To say logical > consistency is needed for existence would be a category error. > > Brent >
In other words: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v08/n07/richard-rorty/the-contingency-of-language : *As long as we think that there is some relation called ‘fitting the world’ or ‘expressing the real nature of the human self’ which can be possessed or lacked by vocabularies-as-wholes, we shall continue the traditional philosophical search for a criterion which will tell us which vocabularies have this desirable feature. But if we could ever become reconciled to the idea that reality is indifferent to our descriptions of it, and that the human self is created by the use of a vocabulary rather than being adequately or inadequately expressed in a vocabulary, then we should at last have assimilated what was true in the romantic idea that truth is made rather than found. What is true about this claim is just that languages are made rather than found, and that truth is a property of linguistic entities, of sentences.* - pt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
