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My Philosophy

  1. 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.

  2. Also I am working out ideas on My Blog.
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  3. Ideas toward a practical philosophy
  4. Opacity RevisitedI(Added April 23, 2009)
  5. On my method and a very brief introduction to Prolog. My Philosophical Method.
  6. Some background information. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on 'incomplete symbols'.
  7. My thoughts on the nature of analysis.
  8. Effort to work my ideas in modal logic out systematically.
    1. My Definitions.
  9. Second Effort to work my ideas in modal logic out systematically.
    1. My Definitions - On a simplifying assumption.
    2. My Definitions - second try.
    3. Some thoughts.
    4. A critique of this approach to Modal Logic(added April 20, 2008)
  10. Carnap and others on the naming relation: Carnap on Naming.(revised December 18, 2007)
  11. Note on definition of belief and opacity.(revised August 1, 2008)
  12. Individual dispositions and social meaning (added June 9, 2008)
  13. On Symbolic Ambiguity.
  14. On Meaning, Belief, Types and Nonsense. (revised December 18, 2007)
  15. On Substances, Naming, Essences and Meaning (added July 25, 2008)
  16. On the Past and the Future (added July 28, 2008)
  17. On Experience of Objects. (added July 29, 2008)
  18. A Question about HOL and incompleteness (added July 30, 2008
  19. A Another Question about HOL (added July 31, 2008
  20. On Landini on Russell and Wittgenstein on Belief. (and how it relates to my views).(revised December 18, 2007)
  21. On going on the same way.(added January 16, 2008)
  22. On Scientific Laws and Our Knowledge of Them(added January 20, 2008)
  23. On 'is' and 'ought' (added January 28, 2008)
  24. On Ethics(added May 8, 2008)
  25. On Talking about Symbolism.(revised December 18, 2007)
  26. How Sensation Language is Possible.
  27. Note on identity beliefs. (revised December 18, 2007)
  28. Belief_r in plain English - As best I can explain.(revised December 18, 2007)
  29. A revision to my definition of belief On Variables (added Sept. 26, 2007)(revised December 19, 2007)
  30. A sample complex belief(added December 19, 2007)
  31. Note on definite descriptions and opacity. (revised December 18, 2007)
  32. Note on why opacity matters.(revised December 18, 2007)
  33. Note on the logic of belief.(revised December 18, 2007)
  34. Note on Symbolism(revised December 18, 2007)
  35. Note on the Nature of Mind
  36. Note on Quantifying into belief contexts. (revised January 12, 2008).
  37. On Intensional Functions of Functions
  38. Note on Understanding.(revised December 19, 2007)
  39. Note on what Propositions are. (revised December 19, 2007)
  40. More on Intension.(revised December 19, 2007)
  41. This is not a sentence. Sentence?
  42. On Truth and Wittgenstein's Objection to Russell's Theory of Knowledge. On Truth.(revised December 19, 2007)
  43. On Explaining Symbols.
  44. On Symbols and Existence. (revised December 19, 2007)
  45. On Necessity.(revised December 19, 2007)
  46. On Conditionals, Causation and Necessity. (added January 11, 2009)
  47. On Kripke.(revised December 19, 2007)
  48. Quotations on Scientific Laws.
  49. My philosophy in Prolog.
  50. More of my philosophy in Prolog.
  51. PM incomplete symbol definitions and link to text of PM: Definitions
  52. The trouble with Incomplete Symbols.
  53. Principia Mathematica Class Definitions in Prolog: Class Definitions.
  54. Discussion of PM Class Notation.
  55. Zip files containing Prolog source code (anonymous ftp) prolog source
  56. A prologic Dialog.
  57. Predicates, Intension, and Induction: Grue.
  58. Note on de re/de dicto.
  59. A discussion of my philosophy with W. M. Discussion with W. M.
  60. On the Tractatus and Causation
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