Graham Seth Moore

[Graham Seth Moore @GrahamSethMoor1]

@PAHoyeck I was given a fully online course with a writing component next semester (yikes).

And so I'm going with the tactic of take-home-essays with a follow up interview where they defend what they wrote. It's going to be a massive amount of work, but what else can I do?

[Graham Seth Moore @GrahamSethMoor1]

@christeas_peter @DrScotMSullivan If you're merely imagining it, then (assuming there's no other red thing in sight), then there is no thing before you that is red!

Your imagining gives you the *appearance* of red; but *appearing red* does not imply that there is something that's red!

[Graham Seth Moore @GrahamSethMoor1]

@NathanNobis Lol. Surely the reason why disciplines do this is because they're insecure about their lack of rigour.

It's to philosophy's credit that there isn't a widespread norm of prattling off citations for widely known truths.

[Graham Seth Moore @GrahamSethMoor1]

@DrScotMSullivan What?

[Graham Seth Moore @GrahamSethMoor1]

@LatFilosof Same. I'm a very sympathetic reader. Which is a good trait for understanding philosophers and then explaining their ideas to others. But perhaps not so good for staking out a unique position of my own.

[Graham Seth Moore @GrahamSethMoor1]

@PAHoyeck Isn't Rousseau Swiss?

[Graham Seth Moore @GrahamSethMoor1]

@stevemagness Yeah. For me, the whole point of signing up for a marathon is to scare myself into sticking to healthy habits for 4 months. Of course I want to do well. But I also want to eat clean, improve my cardio, cut down on alcohol, prioritize sleep, etc.

[Graham Seth Moore @GrahamSethMoor1]

@AleMartnezR1 It's just not true that materialism only recognizes contingent facts. "Water is H20" is both necessary and perfectly acceptable to the materialist.

[Graham Seth Moore @GrahamSethMoor1]

@DrScotMSullivan It's just false that materialism only recognizes contingent facts. It's necessary that water is H20, and every consistent of this fact material.

[Graham Seth Moore @GrahamSethMoor1]

@DrScotMSullivan The first man on the moon might not exist, but Neil Armstrong certainly exists, therefore Neil Armstrong is not the first man on the moon.

[Graham Seth Moore @GrahamSethMoor1]

@DrScotMSullivan I think this is pretty clearly false. I'm way, *way* more certain that e.g. cats are mammals (a kind of rudimentary scientific knowledge) than I am that e.g. de se belief states are propositional.

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@JJ_McCullough I.e. people who've never heard of hockey.

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@PAHoyeck Then there's the 180+ IQers who are like "Singer's Animal Liberation is philosophy but patently isn't just playing with words, sooo..."

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@bennycarlyle @RichardHanania If you rotate the camera to point west, then south, then east, you will see that the vast majority of vancouver is single family homes.

[Graham Seth Moore @GrahamSethMoor1]

@PAHoyeck When students ask me "why do we accept a definition of validity that counts such bizarre arguments as valid?" I tell them "look, you *can* rig up an alternative definition of validity that doesn't have that consequence, but I think you'll find it's more trouble than it's worth."

[Graham Seth Moore @GrahamSethMoor1]

@PAHoyeck and paraconsistent logics have a seat at the table.

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@pierslangland @PAHoyeck Technically all arguments with inconsistent premise sets are valid. If the premises are inconsistent, then the argument trivially meets the condition for validity: it's impossible for the premises to be true while the conclusion is false.

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@jt_kerwin Theres a weird genre of public-facing academic that is PhD-in-one-thing-so-they-can-posture-as-expert-in-another-thing