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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Status of the Model-Theoretic Argument: Three Arguments against Reference, Part 3 by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to David Potts. You probably would have to re-write the piece to get it published. It seems to me the sort of thing that would most likely be published as a book chapter rather than a journal article. I’d have recommended sending it to …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Radical Theology: An Introduction to Karl Barth” by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Stephen Lindsay. I’m no expert on either Protestantism or Barth, and from what limited knowledge I have–I’ve read his Dogmatics in Outline and maybe half of his commentary on the Letter to the Romans–don’t find…
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(Policy of Truth) Structural Realism and Newman’s Objection: Three Arguments against Reference, Part 4
It’s now time for me to make a small confession, which is that I don’t care very much really about Hilary Putnam’s late-career misadventures with “internalism.” When I first went off to philosophy grad school many long years ago, Reason, Truth, and History was still relatively new and much talked about. I obtained a copy,…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IV: The Senate
This is the fourth part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Over the last few posts we looked at the role of Roman magistrates who carried out a range of executive functions for the…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Status of the Model-Theoretic Argument: Three Arguments against Reference, Part 3 by David Potts
Thanks. I read Heidegger 20 years ago or so, and I haven’t thought about him much since then. My main takeaway was that he seemed to be trying to transcend the subject–object distinction. An ambitious project! Unfortunately, his writing is not su…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Status of the Model-Theoretic Argument: Three Arguments against Reference, Part 3 by John Davenport
This is brilliant; the causal account must be generally right. I had started to trace in Heidegger, long ago, something on the origin of intentionality / aboutness. Heidegger did not give a reductive explanation, but at least (I thought) indicated some…
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(Our World in Data) We updated our topic page on artificial intelligence
Our page on artificial intelligence has been enriched with key insights and 23 new charts.
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