Re: "Friendly Premises"

Acme Diagnostics wrote:
> Torkel Franzen <torkel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >"Acme Diagnostics" <LFinezapthis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> >>>For example, diatribes based on
> >>>the idea that "intensional" in logic means "ambiguous" are perfectly
> >>>pointless.
> >
> >> Not in the context of kookdom.
> >
> > Kooky or not, such diatribes are really pointless.
>
> How come you don't understand Frege's Context Principle?
> I told you that the two words are highly equivalent in context
> of kookdom.

Thanks for the reference; I enjoyed reading about Frege's Principle,
though I can't say that I'm convinced by it at this point:

publish.uwo.ca/~rstainto/papers/The_Context_Principle.pdf

Which leads to a bit of a digression, though perhaps one more
interesting than the actual topic:

> The context determines the meanings, not the
> other way around!

That may explain why one of Torkel's oft-used tactics is to ignore the
bulk of a post and comment on one word or phrase out of context (as
he's done here with 'self-proving procedure'). Conscious tactic or
not, it's apparently quite successful: note that even after
considerable after-the-fact explanation on your part, many readers
still don't know what you mean by the phrase, and some have given up
even trying to know.

> You need to dust off that book and read
> it again.

Why assume 'again'?

You make this error continually!

Why assume 'error'?

.

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