The Truth Of Signs Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The history of formal logic, one excerpt at a time. We are currently visiting the pre-history of logic through Plato's "Theaetetus".
Theaetetus
PlatoThe Truth Of SignsPlato's "Theaetetus" aims to show that knowledge-equals-perception implies Relativism. But such an aim is absurd, since the two theses are incompatible. If person P1 perceives that X is Y, then the person is perceiving that X is Y, not that person P1 is perceiving that X is Y.
Paperback, 2014
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The Judge's House
Bram StokerThe Truth Of Signs@edibotopic reminds me of "The Judge's House" by Bram Stoker. incidentally while trying to find the name, stumbled on an internet curiosity - https://t.co/sz0kDppcqp
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Phaedo
PlatoThe Truth Of Signs@ElsewhereFamous I didn't phrase my comment well, sorry 😅 I was thinking of a metaphysical question - "is it possible for a thought to come into existence if it didn't exist before". I recently read Plato's "Phaedo" and he more or less argues that certain of our thoughts
Paperback, 2009
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Parmenides
PlatoThe Truth Of SignsThe key insight of Plato's "Parmenides" to me is a deeper understanding of "connection": if a thing is related to anything else, then any section of reality including all of that thing will necessarily include material which is *not* a part of it.
Paperback, 2016
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On Interpretation
AristotleThe Truth Of SignsP.S. I will of course be getting back to Aristotle's "On Interpretation" soon. I just want to wrap up a treatment of "Theaetetus" as a proper follow-up to the event we held.
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