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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 2d

tried saying this at McD's this morning. they still made me pay.

mja @mja2.bsky.social · 2d

Aristotle calls the vice prodigality and contrasts it with something like stinginess. I guess the question to ask is whether the action is proportionate to the problem. Surely the act in your case is supererogatory, and I’m not sure Aristotle has anything corresponding to that.

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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 2d

There is the possibility of violating the virtue of magnanimity, you can be too generous. And that is a violation of the mean. But yes, some circumstances call for, say, extreme anger and not some tempered response. The mean sometimes requires such an extreme response.

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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 6d

The 'discovery' everywhere of bad binaries could really use some familiarity with the many logics of vagueness. And in dozens of other ways of course analytic philosophy can help those who find these issues pressing. The relevance is not hard to trace.

mja @mja2.bsky.social · 6d

It's a lazy criticism. How is, say, modal logic relevant to the phi issues so many find utterly pressing? All the buzz about the 'evils of essentialism' are frequently confused about the many logics of essentialism. A little logic can help. /1

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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 6d

Gains ground? I'd've assumed he way^2 ahead

mja @mja2.bsky.social · 11d

let's celebrate the moment of vague self-awareness

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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 11d

She definitely needs to reconsider how she treats her staff….

mja @mja2.bsky.social · 12d

So, soleminizing a wedding is not necessary to the validation of a wedding? If so, then what does soleminzing do.

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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 14d

Go Leo!!!

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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 16d

he’d borderline consider it, I guess

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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 18d

Someone has a nice paper roughly in this area on slurs and use-mention. Maybe Christopher Peacock? Mentioning slurs can sometimes be as bad as using them.

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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 19d

yes. the first does not expressly restrict the enrollment of non-freshman.

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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 19d

The scope doesn’t seem to matter here. Only F’s may enroll and F’s only may enroll both entail that no one who is a non-freshman may enroll. It’s worse if you read it as F’s may only enroll!

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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 22d

nice messages. be a real shame if they were deleted

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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 23d

yeah, Priest notes that some are 3-valued. He also notes that some have inconsistent classes of logical truths. hard to see how it could be worth the tradeoff. but I haven’t looked at them closely.

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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 24d

how many values?

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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 24d

what could be the motivation for a contradictory theorem? Priest works very hard just to show that some contradictions are sometimes true. btw how many inference rules are invalidated: raa, hs, mp, mt, ds, explosion...

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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 24d

are there logics with contradictions in their theorems? contingent contradictions are difficult enough.

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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 25d

To the extent that this is discussed at all among actualists (or the ones I know) the preference is for some fine-grained approach to individuation of soas. But I’ve only seen informal discussions.

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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 25d

I wasn’t presenting an argument. They do argue however, especially the actualists, that every state of affairs exists in every world. So every state of affairs is an actual object. And so every possible world actually exists. Though only one obtains. That’s enough, I think.

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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 25d

Yeah, I think that’s the idea. You can find the same states of affairs obtaining in many worlds.

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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 25d

If propositions turn out to be Fregean thoughts, I think we get the same result.

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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 25d

My approach to the problem stipulated that facts were SOAs and both propositions and SOAs, taken at face value, are abstract objects. Of course, lots of assumptions again. But if something like this is right, then the existence argument for diversity fails. Both sorts of objects necessarily exist.

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mja @mja2.bsky.social · 25d

I’m using the terminology of the argument which includes ‘facts’ and ‘propositions’ and argues for their diversity. The argument in broad outline is that they are diverse since propositions exist in worlds where their corresponding facts do not. So, all sorts of assumptions here.

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