Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Mar 2014, at 06:08, meekerdb wrote: On 3/13/2014 9:54 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: which was my objection to writing <>t. In such a formula, t can only be regarded as shorthand for some tautology. If you want. Any simple provable proposition would do. Then f also occurs in every world s

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread meekerdb
On 3/13/2014 9:54 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: which was my objection to writing <>t. In such a formula, t can only be regarded as shorthand for some tautology. If you want. Any simple provable proposition would do. Then f also occurs in every world since (p & ~p) can be formed in every world. B

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Mar 2014, at 01:49, Russell Standish wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:10:45AM +1300, LizR wrote: (Do everyone see a lozenge here: ◊ ?) Yes I do! Not me (alas). Damned. I will need to use the more ugly <> instead of the cute ◊ ! No problem. Bruno Although it is visible when

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Mar 2014, at 22:10, LizR wrote: > (Do everyone see a lozenge here: ◊ ?) Yes I do! Nice, I hope everyone see it. Does someone not see a lozenge? Here: ◊ Do someone not see Gödel's second theorem here: ◊t -> ~[]◊t ? Bruno -- You received this message because you are subscrib

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Mar 2014, at 20:05, meekerdb wrote: On 3/13/2014 11:43 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Mar 2014, at 18:03, meekerdb wrote: On 3/13/2014 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Mar 2014, at 21:51, LizR wrote: On 13 March 2014 04:33, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hello Terren, On 12 Mar 2014, a

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:10:45AM +1300, LizR wrote: > > (Do everyone see a lozenge here: ◊ ?) > > Yes I do! > Not me (alas). Although it is visible when typing my response. Cheers -- Prof Russell Standish

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread LizR
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Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread meekerdb
On 3/13/2014 11:43 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Mar 2014, at 18:03, meekerdb wrote: On 3/13/2014 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Mar 2014, at 21:51, LizR wrote: On 13 March 2014 04:33, Bruno Marchal mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be>> wrote: Hello Terren, On 12 Mar 2014, at 04:34,

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Mar 2014, at 18:03, meekerdb wrote: On 3/13/2014 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Mar 2014, at 21:51, LizR wrote: On 13 March 2014 04:33, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hello Terren, On 12 Mar 2014, at 04:34, Terren Suydam wrote: Hi Bruno, Thanks, that helps. Can you expand a bit on <>t?

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Mar 2014, at 17:56, meekerdb wrote: On 3/13/2014 8:19 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Mar 2014, at 21:14, meekerdb wrote: On 3/12/2014 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hello Terren, On 12 Mar 2014, at 04:34, Terren Suydam wrote: Hi Bruno, Thanks, that helps. Can you expand a bit on

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread meekerdb
On 3/13/2014 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Mar 2014, at 21:51, LizR wrote: On 13 March 2014 04:33, Bruno Marchal mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be>> wrote: Hello Terren, On 12 Mar 2014, at 04:34, Terren Suydam wrote: Hi Bruno, Thanks, that helps. Can you expand a bit on <>t?

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread meekerdb
On 3/13/2014 8:19 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Mar 2014, at 21:14, meekerdb wrote: On 3/12/2014 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hello Terren, On 12 Mar 2014, at 04:34, Terren Suydam wrote: Hi Bruno, Thanks, that helps. Can you expand a bit on <>t? Unfortunately I haven't had the time t

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Mar 2014, at 21:51, LizR wrote: On 13 March 2014 04:33, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hello Terren, On 12 Mar 2014, at 04:34, Terren Suydam wrote: Hi Bruno, Thanks, that helps. Can you expand a bit on <>t? Unfortunately I haven't had the time to follow the modal logic threads, so please f

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Mar 2014, at 21:14, meekerdb wrote: On 3/12/2014 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hello Terren, On 12 Mar 2014, at 04:34, Terren Suydam wrote: Hi Bruno, Thanks, that helps. Can you expand a bit on <>t? Unfortunately I haven't had the time to follow the modal logic threads, so please

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-12 Thread LizR
On 13 March 2014 04:33, Bruno Marchal wrote: > Hello Terren, > > On 12 Mar 2014, at 04:34, Terren Suydam wrote: > > Hi Bruno, > > Thanks, that helps. Can you expand a bit on <>t? Unfortunately I haven't > had the time to follow the modal logic threads, so please forgive me but I > don't understa

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-12 Thread meekerdb
On 3/12/2014 8:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Hello Terren, On 12 Mar 2014, at 04:34, Terren Suydam wrote: Hi Bruno, Thanks, that helps. Can you expand a bit on <>t? Unfortunately I haven't had the time to follow the modal logic threads, so please forgive me but I don't understand how you co

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hello Terren, On 12 Mar 2014, at 04:34, Terren Suydam wrote: Hi Bruno, Thanks, that helps. Can you expand a bit on <>t? Unfortunately I haven't had the time to follow the modal logic threads, so please forgive me but I don't understand how you could represent reality with <>t. Short

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-11 Thread Terren Suydam
Hi Bruno, Thanks, that helps. Can you expand a bit on <>t? Unfortunately I haven't had the time to follow the modal logic threads, so please forgive me but I don't understand how you could represent reality with <>t. Thanks, T On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > Hi Terran

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Terran, On 11 Mar 2014, at 17:10, Terren Suydam wrote: Hi Bruno, Sure, "consciousness here-and-now" is undoubtable. But the p refers to the contents of consciousness, which is not undoubtable in many cases. "I am in pain" cannot be doubted when one is feeling it, but other felt sens

Re: truth of experience

2014-03-11 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 12:10:31 PM UTC-4, Terren Suydam wrote: > > > Hi Bruno, > > Sure, "consciousness here-and-now" is undoubtable. But the p refers to the > contents of consciousness, which is not undoubtable in many cases. "I am in > pain" cannot be doubted when one is feeling it, but o

truth of experience

2014-03-11 Thread Terren Suydam
Hi Bruno, Sure, "consciousness here-and-now" is undoubtable. But the p refers to the contents of consciousness, which is not undoubtable in many cases. "I am in pain" cannot be doubted when one is feeling it, but other felt sensations can be doubted, e.g. see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl