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Registration Date: Oct 29, 2007

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Topics Submitted: 42 topics

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Replies Received: 77

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Most recent topics:

• Proof of equivalence.
  
• Free Logics and Empty Domains
  
• Problem with Lemma (First-Order Logic)
  
• What are you reading?
  
• Psychological Nominalism
  

Most recent posts:

• I need help with this proof in free logic. The existential quantifer acts normally. The inner existential quantifier (∃Ex) is defined (substitut...
• I have a hard time taking Derrida seriously, although I used to vouch ardently for his importance. Actually, I have a hard time finding time to take D...
• The claim that natural languages have "infinite creative potential" is made about models of language, not about the actual linguistic practices o...
• Thanks for the reply. I'm pretty exhausted right now, but hopefully this does justice to what you are getting at. I'm not sure what y...
• If the domain of a first-order interpretation is empty, a universally quantified statement is true. While I've never liked this, my fears were que...

Most recent shouts:

• quickly [Jan 24, 2010 - 1:29 AM]: Oh, I always thought it was someone who runs around declaring "philosophy! philosophy!" Or maybe some particular philosophy.
• quickly [Jan 23, 2010 - 2:58 PM]: @ sheps: thanks...I've usually been able to find Greek -> Latin of Republic, Meno, etc., but no Theaetetus - Plato's absolute best work! (To be read alongside Hegel's "Consciousness" in POM")!
• quickly [Jan 22, 2010 - 11:48 PM]: Also, you avoid shitty English renderings of synthetic languages, can mostly preserve word order and emphasis, and so on (and you can preserve many relevant vocab. points without silly english words like "The capital "M" Mind.".
• quickly [Jan 22, 2010 - 11:47 PM]: Well, there isn't a wealth of relevant material in Latin available, and most Greek texts were translated into Latin.
• quickly [Jan 22, 2010 - 9:32 PM]: Because I can read Latin decently and we are reading (some of it) it in class. So if I read it in Latin I will improve my Latin and complete my class assignment.