Saturday, August 04, 2018

Returned from Cranbrook-Revelstoke trip/Proverbs on holding the tongue

Golden, British Columbia

I returned home  today from a several hundred kilometre driving trip for ministry work; much of it in heat typically warmer than in Maple Ridge in the summer. I would like to have more tasks closer to my skill-set, but I met many good Christian people on tour and at the host churches. I gained more employment and life skills. I made friends.

Most people were positive and fair, and if I was critiqued, it was in love, but for the otherwise small minority, the following Hebrew Bible and Biblical concept came to mind...

New American Standard Bible

Proverbs 21: 23

23 He who guards his mouth and his tongue, Guards his soul from troubles.

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

I, deny

East Maple Ridge

BLACKBURN, SIMON (1996) Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Another short entry in regard to the subject of negation in philosophy, which is also a subject in the Langer, Symbolic Logic text under review on this website.

Based on Blackburn, to deny a premise/proposition as true equals asserting it as false. To asserts in negation. (99).

I deny atheism as a worldview, and at the same time assert it as false. I assert the philosophical negation of atheism as a worldview.

(This is not to state that within atheism, there are not some valid critiques)

I deny libertarian free will as a view, and at the same time assert it as false. I assert the philosophical negation of libertarian free will as a view.

(This is not to state that within libertarian free will view (s), there are not some valid critiques)

In regard to the last three images from Blackburn: That is red is contradicted by that is green, and if both are considered false, it does not exclude, for example, that is brown.

Frege texts are in German and limited to cite in English:

Negation and being by Daniel Dahlstrom of Boston University

The Review of Metaphysics 64 (December 2010): 247–271. by The Review of Metaphysics.

Frege insists, for example, that the being of a thought (das Sein eines Gedankens) may be affirmed or denied and, hence, must be distinguished from its being-true (Wahrsein).12 Thus, for Frege it is not the affirmation but the thought that is denied. In the Tractatus (§5.5151), Wittgenstein categorically rejects an asymmetricalist position: “The positive sentence must presuppose the existence of the negative sentence and vice versa.”13 (251-252), Gottlob Frege, “Die Verneinung (1919)” in Logische Untersuchungen, ed. Günther Patzig (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1986), 56 and following.

Analyzing this, it appears the view is that the being of thought accepted or denied, must be philosophically separated from an affirmation of it being true or false. This would connect to Wittgenstein and views of certainty which I did review for my PhD.

BLACKBURN, SIMON (1996) Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

DAHLSTROM, DANIEL (2010) The Review of Metaphysics 64 (December 2010): 247–271. by The Review of Metaphysics.

FREGE, GOTTLOB (1919) “Die Verneinung (1919)” in Logische Untersuchungen, ed. Günther Patzig (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1986).

WITTGENSTEIN, LUDWIG (1951)(1979) On Certainty, Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Blackburn page 99.
Blackburn page 258.
Blackburn page 258.
Blackburn page 258.
East Maple Ridge


Monday, July 23, 2018

Denying the consequent (Arguing carefully)

North Vancouver, last evening

From Blackburn it is valid that the antecedent is prior to the consequent in philosophy and logic. It is stated that

p = Antecedent
q = Consequent

It is argued:

p The leg is broken
q The leg will hurt

The inference is...

-q The leg does not hurt
-p The leg is not broken

This is logical.

Psychology Dictionary April 7 2013

Cited

Logic. If a conditional statement is accepted as true then the negative can be inferred as well. Also called modus tollens...

Cited

Denying the consequent is where the negative aspect is also true.

This is logical.
Blackburn page 99.


BLACKBURN, SIMON (1996) Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

However, in contrast.

The leg is broken

The leg is comfortable

(The leg is under the influence of narcotics)

This is logical.

Again we analyze the logical and the reasonable.

Saturday, July 21, 2018

This is using fuzzy logic

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Premises and conclusions using fuzzy logic would be philosophically imprecise.

This type of logic was something I was strictly guided not to present  when writing my British academic questionnaires.

But even with British academic propositions, it was difficult to avoid degrees of truth. When dealing with the problem of evil and theodicy, I was often faced with concepts of degrees of evil. My doctoral text was reviewing and countering the philosophy that gratuitous evil worked against the existence of God. There are often, I reason, degrees of evil, but in my Reformed theology and philosophy I embraced the view that God wills and causes all things (both directly and allowing) and uses evil for divine purposes, and in that sense it is not gratuitous evil.

However, in my view, presenting logical and more importantly to me, reasonable premises and conclusions in text does at times require the use of degrees of truth.

For example, the use of HTML colour requires degrees and shades of red. A bright red, solid form of red is represented as #FF0000 from many sources. Another form of red may be called red, but is actually brownish in colour, for example. Various degrees and shades can be presented logically and reasonably with premises and conclusions, but in reality, there are many kinds of reds. Some are mixed with blue and/or yellow and other colours.
Blackburn page 151. 

From Blackburn, again as with the Langer, Symbolic Logic textbook, we deal with negation. If a room is hot, using fuzzy logic and logic of degrees, then it is at the same time, not cold.

BLACKBURN, SIMON (1996) Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Blackburn