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My Philosophy
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The ideas presented here are all preliminary. I am just working them out. I prefer to do it on web pages, as they have a
greater persistence than email. I hope to get feedback and have been sending emails with links to these web pages.
I hope to be able to improve them from feedback that I could not with just email (without the persistence),
or publication in a journal (where I would for the most part have to produce a final product before getting feedback).
Also, I realize I haven't been 100% consistent with my notation. This is partly due to the fact that the ideas are
just being worked out and also a faulty memory. Also is the using of names compatible with prolog. But I think the
intent is generally clear. I also realize I haven't given as full of citations as perhaps I should - and I hope to
eventually go over everything and remedy this. But it is hard for me sometimes to get my ideas down before
I forget them, so much of my writing is done in a hurry!
I am working (starting December 15, 2008) on editing (spell checking etc.) my work.
In the initial work I did, I used Microsoft Word, so I had a spell checker, however, due to problems it had with special
(logic) symbols, I switched to a different HTML editor, which did not have spell checking. Now I have the GNU tool
Aspell working under cygwin to do it.
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Also I am working out ideas on My Blog.
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Ideas toward a practical philosophy
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Opacity RevisitedI(Added April 23, 2009)
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On my method and a very brief introduction to Prolog.
My Philosophical Method.
- Some background information.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on 'incomplete symbols'.
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My thoughts on the nature of analysis.
- Effort to work my ideas in modal logic out systematically.
- My Definitions.
- Second Effort to work my ideas in modal logic out systematically.
- My Definitions - On a simplifying assumption.
- My Definitions - second try.
- Some thoughts.
- A critique of this approach to Modal Logic(added April 20, 2008)
- Carnap and others on the naming relation:
Carnap on Naming.(revised December 18, 2007)
- Note on definition of
belief and opacity.(revised August 1, 2008)
- Individual dispositions and social meaning
(added June 9, 2008)
- On Symbolic Ambiguity.
- On Meaning, Belief, Types and Nonsense.
(revised December 18, 2007)
- On Substances, Naming, Essences and Meaning
(added July 25, 2008)
- On the Past and the Future
(added July 28, 2008)
- On Experience of Objects.
(added July 29, 2008)
- A Question about HOL and incompleteness
(added July 30, 2008
- A Another Question about HOL
(added July 31, 2008
- On Landini on Russell and Wittgenstein on Belief.
(and how it relates to my views).(revised December 18, 2007)
- On going on the same way.(added January 16, 2008)
- On Scientific Laws and Our Knowledge of Them(added January 20, 2008)
- On 'is' and 'ought' (added January 28, 2008)
- On Ethics(added May 8, 2008)
- On Talking about Symbolism.(revised December 18, 2007)
- How Sensation Language is Possible.
- Note on identity beliefs.
(revised December 18, 2007)
- Belief_r in plain English -
As best I can explain.(revised December 18, 2007)
- A revision to my definition of belief On Variables
(added Sept. 26, 2007)(revised December 19, 2007)
- A sample complex belief(added December 19, 2007)
- Note on definite descriptions and opacity.
(revised December 18, 2007)
- Note on why opacity matters.(revised December 18, 2007)
- Note on the logic of belief.(revised December 18, 2007)
- Note on Symbolism(revised December 18, 2007)
- Note on the Nature of Mind
- Note on Quantifying into belief contexts.
(revised January 12, 2008).
- On
Intensional Functions of Functions
- Note on Understanding.(revised December 19, 2007)
- Note on what Propositions are.
(revised December 19, 2007)
- More on Intension.(revised December 19, 2007)
- This is not a sentence. Sentence?
- On Truth and Wittgenstein's Objection to Russell's Theory of Knowledge.
On Truth.(revised December 19, 2007)
- On Explaining Symbols.
- On Symbols and Existence.
(revised December 19, 2007)
- On Necessity.(revised December 19, 2007)
- On Conditionals, Causation and Necessity.
(added January 11, 2009)
- On Kripke.(revised December 19, 2007)
- Quotations on Scientific Laws.
- My philosophy in Prolog.
- More of my philosophy in Prolog.
- PM incomplete symbol definitions and link to text of PM:
Definitions
- The trouble with Incomplete Symbols.
- Principia Mathematica Class Definitions in Prolog:
Class Definitions.
- Discussion of PM Class Notation.
- Zip files containing Prolog source code (anonymous ftp) prolog source
- A prologic Dialog.
- Predicates, Intension, and Induction: Grue.
- Note on de re/de dicto.
- A discussion of my philosophy with W. M. Discussion with W. M.
- On the Tractatus and Causation
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