I don't like this video. It's content is all right, but it was annoying to read everything you were saying just a few words at a time, and the music didn't really add anything to it either. The font is a little too weird and small at times too.
This seems to look like the philosophy of Mind. Is that what you are studying or teaching? I thought a "lie" was defined as a deliberate untrue statement: consider an ugly man is attracted to a particular woman and asks her if he can have her number so he can call her:"My phone number 555-1234". This is a lie because she knows this is NOT her real number. An error can be a false statement: William Taft was the 29th U.S. president. I just looked it up and it is wrong but not a lie.
@roychess In the description, I've used the word "falsity" in its archaic form: a different word for "lie". I'm not discussing errors at all: what I'm discussing is the difference between inductive contradictions and deductive contradictions, and the narrative platform I'm using is the idea of an imaginary friend who lies. It's narrative conceit -- nothing to do with Philosophy of Mind. As the title of the series states, I'm concerned with basic Symbolic Logic.
I disagree. I don't think it's possible to hold a belief in x and notx at the same time. When examining human feelings, you inevitably find that what the person actually believes is a more subtle proposition that is not directly contradictory, e.g.
"I love the taste of chocolate and I don't like the consequences of eating fatty foods."
That's an example of a sentence that cannot be true because of its structure (deductively) rather than its content (inductively).
Logicians disagree about the falsity of propositions like that one. Bertrand Russell would say that it is false, Ludwig Wittgenstein would say that it is meaningful nonsense.
I don't like this video. It's content is all right, but it was annoying to read everything you were saying just a few words at a time, and the music didn't really add anything to it either. The font is a little too weird and small at times too.
duhboss1 3 months ago
then dont say he's lying... just ambiguous
Metaclese 5 months ago
This seems to look like the philosophy of Mind. Is that what you are studying or teaching? I thought a "lie" was defined as a deliberate untrue statement: consider an ugly man is attracted to a particular woman and asks her if he can have her number so he can call her:"My phone number 555-1234". This is a lie because she knows this is NOT her real number. An error can be a false statement: William Taft was the 29th U.S. president. I just looked it up and it is wrong but not a lie.
roychess 1 year ago
@roychess In the description, I've used the word "falsity" in its archaic form: a different word for "lie". I'm not discussing errors at all: what I'm discussing is the difference between inductive contradictions and deductive contradictions, and the narrative platform I'm using is the idea of an imaginary friend who lies. It's narrative conceit -- nothing to do with Philosophy of Mind. As the title of the series states, I'm concerned with basic Symbolic Logic.
naannyms 9 months ago
ehh.. "I like and don't like chocolate" isn't really a "lie".
someone's feelings can be ambiguous about a certain subject, e.g. I hate fatty foods but like them at the same time.
symoblic logic doesn't quite work in everyday sense because of conventions in human languages
Cammie010 1 year ago
@Cammie010
I disagree. I don't think it's possible to hold a belief in x and notx at the same time. When examining human feelings, you inevitably find that what the person actually believes is a more subtle proposition that is not directly contradictory, e.g.
"I love the taste of chocolate and I don't like the consequences of eating fatty foods."
naannyms 1 year ago
keep up these vids please =) I have this Symbolic logic philosophy course next semester xD having some background on it would be great,
thanks for making this :P
coolbeens21 2 years ago
Make a truth table
richmondmex 2 years ago
So what if I said "this sentence is false"?
theben2k 3 years ago
That's an example of a sentence that cannot be true because of its structure (deductively) rather than its content (inductively).
Logicians disagree about the falsity of propositions like that one. Bertrand Russell would say that it is false, Ludwig Wittgenstein would say that it is meaningful nonsense.
naannyms 3 years ago