Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Whoa! This is discouraging indeed. After all my defense of ordinal, hyper-ordinal, . . . here: https://forum.objectivismonline.com/index.php?/topic/33241-universals-and-measurement/&tab=comments#comment-364687 Probably y…

In reply to boydstun. I think Rand did regard counting as a sort of measurement. I don’t know Suppes’s view on that, and don’t really have a worked-out view of measurement itself (that would decide whether counting is or isn’t m…

I’m not saying that there can’t be any influence at all; I’m saying that where both are influences, one does the driving, and the other sits in the backseat (or in some cases, is stuffed into the trunk, or ejected from the vehicle alt…

The Living Planet Index is the biodiversity metric that always claims the headlines. It’s often misinterpreted. How should we understand it?

Beneath the popular index, the Living Planet database helps us understand where and what animals are deeply threatened, and what animals are thriving.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Well, I can’t speak for Tom, but as for myself I obviously reject the Rand-Hayek Incompatibility Thesis, since I’m still deeply influenced by both of them. I reckon Chris S. would say likewise. But then Chris an…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. The passage you quote from Rand, is only a substitution-unit case. Rand did not understand that that suspension of characteristics making things into interchangeable members of a class is not the same as and does not accompli…

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I don’t understand the caveat you issue at the beginning of the original post: There are, I say, some indispensable concepts we should not expect to be susceptible to being cast under a measurement-omission form of concepts. Among these would b…