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Schizo-Epistemology: A Necessary but Deniable Condition?

2008-04-28: Anthony Crifasi wrote:

>Due to the fact that you began to actually address my previous
>arguments in this reply without clipping them out or pretending as if
>I’d never addressed your arguments, this conversation can continue.

>Joseph Polanik wrote:

>>Self-Identity Over Time — A Necessary Condition Of Existence?

>>Anthony,

>>one of your crucial claims seems to be that the proposition ‘I remain
>>self-identical throughout all my perceptions’ is a necessary condition
>>of existence.

>>this proposition may be symbolized, as follows:

>>[1]: P -> Q

>>where

>>P = ‘I exist’
>>Q = ‘I remain self-identical throughout all my perceptions’

>>you also claim that Q is false.

>>[2]: -Q

>>———————————————–
>>Problem 3: [non]Plausible Deniability
>>———————————————–

>>you argument for [1] seems to be that Q is undeniable.

>I have never said that Q is undeniable. I have only argued that it is a
>necessary implication of self-existence.

you might want to review Kripke’s _Naming and Necessity_, particularly
the section in which he discusses the Goldbach conjecture, an unproven
theorem in math according to which every number greater than 2 is the
sum of two primes. “Goldbach’s conjecture, then, cannot be contingently
true or false; whatever truth-value it has belongs to it by necessity”.
[p. 37]

say that the Goldbach conjecture is proven true. according to Kriple, it
would be necessarily true. it would then be undeniable; for, anyone
attempting to deny the conjecture would be creating a contradiction
between that denial and the basis of the proof of the conjecture.

consequently, if Q may be denied without thereby creating a logical
contradiction; then, Q is not necessarily true.

once again your argument has jumped into the tarn looking for the House
of Usher; but, I expect you to deintarnate it yet again.

Joe

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Philosophy is, after all, done ultimately in the first person for the
first person. — H-N Castaneda

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