[lit-ideas] Re: Malt, Coffee & Chuck Taylor

  • From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:39:49 -0230

The disclosure of the variety of extant dispositions/characters/metals is a
required moment of the philosophical vocation. Both the master and the novice
learn from such disclosure (though the nature of the learning is different, of
course.) 

Pedantically yours, 

Walter C. Okshevsky
Memorial University

Quoting Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Now see what you've done, Walter?  You knew how these guys are and yet you 
> went and started it anyway.
> 
> Mike Geary
> transcending Memphis every moment I can.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Omar Kusturica" <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 5:40 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Malt, Coffee & Chuck Taylor
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > --- wokshevs@xxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >> P.S. I don't think that ideas can be valid or
> >> invalid. Validity is logically a
> >> property of inference (and sometimes of bus
> >> transfers). Inference is possible
> >> only from one or more statements to another
> >> statement understood as a
> >> conclusion.
> >
> > * In formal logic, "valid" is used sometimes to denote
> > a property of arguments, sometimes of conclusions. In
> > the ordinary language, we frequently talk also about
> > valid points, valid assumptions, valid objections,
> > valid beliefs, and valid ideas. Insisting that the
> > word can be used only in one sense seems pedantic.
> >
> >
> >> Truth is a possible property of statements or
> >> propositions. A statement can be
> >> either true or false but not both.
> >
> > * I'm not sure. Let's take something every-day like:
> > "Sky is blue." Or, "Dogs are cute." Or, "Travelling by
> > bus is frustrating." Or, "Tennis is difficult." Are
> > these statements simply true, or simply false ? Should
> > we really expect a rigorous examination of these
> > statements to expose them as either true or false, or
> > should we expect to find something closer to what most
> > college sophomores think, that they are true to some
> > extent but not absolutely ?
> >
> > O.K.
> >
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