Re: Smullyan Shmullyan, give me a real example

2006-05-26 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 26-mai-06, à 02:50, James N Rose a écrit : Bruno, You struck a personal nerve in me with your following remarks: Bruno Marchal wrote: They are degrees. The worst unreasonableness of a (platonist or classical or even intuitionist) machine is when she believes some plain falsity

Re: Ascension (was Re: Smullyan Shmullyan, give me a real example)

2006-05-26 Thread Tom Caylor
Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi, OK, let us try to name the biggest natural (finite) number we can, and let us do that transfinite ascension on the growing functions from N to N. We have already build some well defined sequence of description (code) of growing functions. Let us choose the Hall

Reasons and Persons

2006-05-26 Thread Russell Standish
Several list members cajoled me into reading David Parfit's Reasons and Persons. So I braved our dragon infested library, and sourced a copy. I can see why his book is relevant to this list, particularly part 3 of his book Personal Identity. It was a good recommendation - I can certainly