This is all a matter of definition; make more of it than that at your peril. And, granted, conditionals/inference/implication take some getting used to. The rule with fine tools is to not misuse/abuse them, for reasons obvious. Same with logic and its rules.It is inherent in our truth tables that we configure a statement to be either true or false, but it seems that this might have certain exceptions, especially in conditionals. — 3017amen
1. How does one reconcile Being and Becoming — 3017amen
2. Does the Kantian Metaphysical paradigm " all events must have a cause" fit into the category of something beyond reason and logic? — 3017amen
So, using logic, how does one configure the truth value of 'all events must have a cause'? — 3017amen
And you to via endorsement, 180This isn't meant as glib, but this is why we caution that formal logic isn't to be understood by translating it into natural language. Trying to parse formal logic with natural language semantics only creates confusion. — Terrapin Station
Conditionals really aren't meant as natural language if-then statements. — Terrapin Station
How then are we to proceed? — tim wood
Well, exactly so. From aboveYou proceed by understanding the conditional truth table as the conditional truth table. Just take it for what it is. — Terrapin Station
Do you stand on natural language being a bar to understanding that which does not have its original expression in natural language?This is all a matter of definition; make more of it than that at your peril. And, granted, conditionals/inference/implication take some getting used to. — tim wood
Do you stand on natural language being a bar to understanding that which does not have it's original expression in natural language? — tim wood
Still, don’t we need conventional language for truth tables to have any meaning? — Mww
You do need to talk "around" them in natural language. — Terrapin Station
What is the difference between being and becoming? Is any form of being not a “becoming”? Can one “be” in a static/incomplete or static/complete sense?
We are beings within space-time, thus it follows that our being is a becoming. — 3017amen
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