fixed syntax (and elementary statement) — darthbarracuda
Hegel, Schopenhauer, Spinoza, Leibniz, and even Kant — darthbarracuda
The concept of a metaphysical "God" is dependent upon other metaphysical concepts, like "The Absolute" or "The Unconditioned" or "The Primordial Basis", none of which are able to be meaningful themselves. — darthbarracuda
surely Plato knew his Allegory was a metaphor but meant to establish a point that could not be explicated by a meaningful word — darthbarracuda
Carnap's verification principle applies to synthetic statements, not analytic statements, and the verification principle is an analytic statement. — darthbarracuda
So Hegel's statement that "pure Being is one and the same as pure Nothing" amounts to just that...nothing. It's gibberish. When we imagine "Being as Nothing" we end up thinking about some kind of vast black void, or a feeling of emptiness. But that is simply poetry. For most metaphysics, then, these statements are pseudo-statements: they bastardize the meaning of a word and use it in a fictional way. — darthbarracuda
According to Carnap, these metaphysical theories don't even count as a theory, because they are simply poetic metaphorical fictions. — darthbarracuda
1.) What sentences is S deducible from, and what sentences can be deduced from S?
2.) Under what conditions is S true or false?
3.) How is S to be verified?
4.) What is the meaning of S? — darthbarracuda
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