Dennis' Daze – Page 5 – The daze of my life

What to do – revising my philosophy

By dennis | August 2, 2014 - 1:43 am |August 2, 2014 computer science, ethics, logic, philosophy, psychology

I think it has been long enough that I have enough new ideas that I need to revise what I have written. Also I hope I can express some better. Also I may round my ideas out even when they are not as original.

Gave Up

By dennis | July 27, 2014 - 6:37 pm |July 27, 2014 Uncategorized

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Seems there is nothing useful I am capable of.

Decided to work on quantum mechanics

By dennis | July 22, 2014 - 2:09 am |July 22, 2014 computer science, math, physics

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I decided this was what I was most likely to do something significant in.

Cannot figure what to do next

By dennis | July 21, 2014 - 3:52 pm |July 21, 2014 computer science, differential equations, logic, math, philosophy, psychology, software

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I seems that I have done what I am capable of in almost everything. I think I am correct in my criticism of opacity (Quine, Stich). But many words (variables and quantifiers etc in logic) do not simply stand for an object. This gets very complex – I think it… Continue reading →

The CIA and the UniBomber

By dennis | December 3, 2013 - 4:08 am |December 3, 2013 ethics, health, medical, philosophy, politics, psychology

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The UniBomber, Ted Kaczynski, was the subject of a CIA mind altering research program, MKULTRA, in 1958. The purpose of the program was to take from its subjects the ability to act autonomously and required them to behave in a bizarre manner. He was in the program three years. He… Continue reading →

Idea on ‘implies’

By dennis | November 29, 2013 - 11:52 am |November 29, 2013 logic, philosophy, psychology

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I have a new thought. There is no relation ‘implies’ (other than material implication) (between propositions). Where one one wants to say F(a) strictly implies G(a). One really has a relation SI(F,a,G,a) S believes it would be belief_r(S,t,’SI’,’F’,’a’,’G’,’a’) & symbol_r1(S,’SI’,Si) & symbol_r1(S,t,’F’,F), …..

the Royal Order of Adjectives

By dennis | October 27, 2013 - 12:44 am |October 27, 2013 logic, philosophy

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I recently finished Laurie Endicott Thomas’s book _Not Trivial_. I learned much more than I would have expected. More so about English grammar than Logic. For example, I had never heard of “the Royal Order of Adjectives.” I did remember most of how to diagram a sentence.

The opposite of the usual case of opacity of reference

By dennis | September 16, 2013 - 5:01 pm |September 16, 2013 fiction, health, philosophy, psychology

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Usually you have one person referenced by two names, but someone does not know this. But there can also be a case that two different people are known by the same name, Suppose Dan is in the hospital (an in-patient) and has a therapist, named Anna. Then (after out of… Continue reading →

The MetaLogic of Belief

By dennis | September 10, 2013 - 7:18 pm |September 10, 2013 Uncategorized

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I believe I have mostly been working on the MetaLogic of belief. I have done enough that the point should be clear. Opacity does not present any problem for the reality of beliefs. But expressing our beliefs in this way is very cumbersome and so not practical, even for logic,… Continue reading →

Progress Learning LaTeX

By dennis | July 29, 2013 - 10:35 pm |July 29, 2013 computer science, logic, math, philosophy

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Studied some today. Seems not as difficult as I expected.

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