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Such an interesting debate that took place during the early 20th century
Now that was one busy semester!!! If I have to read Kant within this lifetime, it will be too soon. But I did survive, I was scared at one point that I wouldn’t. Formal Logic, Kant, and Theory of Knowledge are some of the more labor intensive courses at UNL. The semester kept me from updating my blog, but I am glad to be posting again.
I enjoyed the Formal Logic class. I am concerned about this focus towards the meta stuff though. I find what seems to be going on within the language more interesting than the meta stuff. I am glad that I can do proofs within paraconsistent and intuitionistic logic. I want to get better with Fuzzy Logic though, that is a very interesting logic. I hope to get some practice over the summer.
Kit Fine gave a very cool presentation at UNL this semester on vagueness. He has a proof which he thinks shows that given classical logic, any account of vagueness will be impossible. He is willing to give up on some aspects of classical logic in order to make progress on the problem. Giving up on classical logic concerns me (though I am not sure as to why, I am worried my support for classical logic is not well thought out). I think it was one of the few times I agreed with Dr. Becker. He maintained that if Fine is right then we have two choices, give up on some aspects of classical logic or just pick some arbitrary point and say person 53 is bald and person 54 isn’t. I am certainly not opposed to the idea, but there is something a little too easy about such an answer. While that isn’t a reason to reject these arbitrary choices, it gives me the “intuition” that something is wrong.
I hope this will be a productive summer (though I have mainly been recovering this past week). I want to significantly improve my paper on dispositional essentialism, but it needs a lot of work. Same with my paper on simplicity. I want to read through Pritchard’s new book “Epistemic Luck,” Salmon’s book “Reference and Essence,” Cartwright’s “The Dappled World,” and more closely Mumford’s “Laws in Nature.”
Well, looks like I am going to give this blogging thing a try… well, at least it isn’t a myspace account!
