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When you correct Actual Communist Boy on meaning of words, you're inferring there's a ruleset of meanings of words
^ see rule following paradox

And when you're on equivalent ground for discourse, his definition is just as equal or true as yours

So you only want common ground on a definition

Pragmatic maxim or pragmatic theory of truth is that which is useful is true

But it allows a lot of things

I can't attack someone's belief in god, if they feel it useful

I accept all the theories of truth though...
Deflationary, correspondence, blah blah

There's no need to call people being able to interpret tones of voice and body language as ESP

@Lenore ❤️

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Shut up Jon

ESP could be just be "senses outside of normative percepts" or some shit

But that naturalizes it

Like savants with savant syndrome able to do huge calculations normal people cannot

Would fall into a "sense outside of normativity"

Fucking modal semantics

it's time to stop

A concept is contingently true... why would someone say this

Mmmmmmm hyperintensional modal semantics

I'm getting all gooey

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-modal/#ModAxiConFra well

@Deleted User Type-F physicalism

Is still physicalism

@Deleted User Hempel's Dilemma

I accept a tautological definition of physical and natural

But reject dualism, because it's not parsimonious

You need not say there's some alternate substance called "the mental"

So... you just eliminate it and use that as a placeholder normatively... (because people have concepts of mental)

A la: people have mental illness (these are physical illness)

Abstracts are contingent on ... the subject or concept holder... unless you're talking about the referent of the abstracts

Impossible = still impossible in possible worlds

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44111476

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/memory-transferred-between-snails-challenging-standard-theory-of-how-the-brain-remembers/

P1. Nothing comes from nothing
P2. There is something
C. There has always been something

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Crunch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bounce

It's merely aesthetic and the baggage Inspiring Philosophy talks about

They're alternate cosmological models

A - > B -> A

Singularity - > Universe as it is today - > singularity