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(Blog&~Blog): December 2009
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Scattered Notes On Logic, Truth And Paradox Updated Every Wednesday. Eastern APA (Part II). Eastern APA (Part I). This Is Not A Post. Hell Lure You In. Language and Time (and Space). Quote of the Day. The problem is U trying to fit set theory into ur . I am an enemy of "Christendom.". View my complete profile. Thursday, December 31, 2009. Eastern APA (Part II). On Monday night at the smoker, I finally did get a chance to get into it with Colin. Here endeth the sermon. Links to this post. This morning, I ...
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Words and Other Things: December 2007
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Words and Other Things. This blog has moved to http:/ inferential.wordpress.com. Saturday, December 29, 2007. I am really excited about this. It will, hopefully, help motivate me to write some more posts about logic and get those model theory posts off the backburner. I'm hoping to link this to some things about substructural logic and proof theory, since Restall's proof theory book. At the start of the term all the new TAs had to go to several seminars on various aspects of teaching. One thing that ...
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Words and Other Things: February 2008
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Words and Other Things. This blog has moved to http:/ inferential.wordpress.com. Wednesday, February 27, 2008. In reading the intro to Barwise's Admissible Sets and Structures, I came across the following paragraph that I liked. Rhetorically, that is an impressive opening to the book. It is easier to get fully behind Barwise's more modest sentiment though. Of course, I find these when I'm doing practically no historical work. Links to this post. Monday, February 25, 2008. The latter may have been more re...
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Words and Other Things: September 2008
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Words and Other Things. This blog has moved to http:/ inferential.wordpress.com. Monday, September 29, 2008. Call for papers: 2009 Pitt-CMU Philosophy Graduate Student Conference. I'm pleased to announce the 2009 Pitt-CMU Philosophy Graduate Student Conference. Keynote speaker: Hartry Field. Theme: Truth, Meaning and Evidence. When: March 28, 2009. Call for papers: The deadline for submisisons is December 1, 2008. More information can be found here. And by Errol here. Links to this post. The point of thi...
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Words and Other Things: December 2008
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Words and Other Things. This blog has moved to http:/ inferential.wordpress.com. Wednesday, December 31, 2008. A few reflections on the fall term. I'm slightly late with this, but I'll go ahead with it anyway. A few posts ago I said that I'd come up with some reflections on the term. This is more for my benefit than for the benefit of others, but someone might find it interesting. Read more. Links to this post. Tuesday, December 30, 2008. Being a non-conservative addition to a language means that the add...
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Words and Other Things: October 2007
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Words and Other Things. This blog has moved to http:/ inferential.wordpress.com. Tuesday, October 30, 2007. Get thee to a punnery. Why are there not more discussions of the instrumental value of music? Drum roll* But seriously, Aristotle seems to want to say that music isn't final without qualification because it has some instrumental value. I'm not sure if that is a standard pun among ethicists and other value theorists, but I hadn't heard it before. I think it is a shame, if not. Links to this post.
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Words and Other Things: November 2008
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Words and Other Things. This blog has moved to http:/ inferential.wordpress.com. Friday, November 28, 2008. Just a reminder [deadline extended]. The deadline for the Pitt-CMU conference. Edit: has been extended to 12/15. Please submit! Links to this post. Tuesday, November 25, 2008. I just found out that Yiannis Moschovakis's Elementary Induction on Abstract Structures. Links to this post. Monday, November 24, 2008. The birth of model theory. Links to this post. Sunday, November 16, 2008. Friday, Novembe...
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Words and Other Things: November 2007
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Words and Other Things. This blog has moved to http:/ inferential.wordpress.com. Wednesday, November 28, 2007. Technical difficulties apparently, and LaTeX bonus. Blogger is keeps eating a long post I have on van Fraassen's view of explanation. I don't have the patience to mess with it any more tonight, so I wll simply point out that recently (since February 2007 I guess) a very easy installer for LaTeX has been available on Mac. MacTeX. Links to this post. Saturday, November 24, 2007. Probably doing tho...
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Words and Other Things: A few reflections on the fall term
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Words and Other Things. This blog has moved to http:/ inferential.wordpress.com. Wednesday, December 31, 2008. A few reflections on the fall term. I'm slightly late with this, but I'll go ahead with it anyway. A few posts ago I said that I'd come up with some reflections on the term. This is more for my benefit than for the benefit of others, but someone might find it interesting. Read more. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I'm a grad student in philosophy at Pitt. View my complete profile. I declare ...
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Words and Other Things: April 2008
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Words and Other Things. This blog has moved to http:/ inferential.wordpress.com. Wednesday, April 30, 2008. I declare victory over year two. In any case, finishing that presentation brought me up to quota for classes I need to have done by the fall and my teaching obligations have been completely discharged. Woohoo! Links to this post. Saturday, April 26, 2008. What are the differences between the two sorts of connective? To X ⇒ f(A. And the rule, from proofs of X. Links to this post. Links to this post.