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Is it defensible to claim that religion is a personal relationship with God and therefore contains no claims?
This is a striking example of a question that boils down to the ambiguous meaning of a word. Yes, if you mean religion in the sense intended by your aunt, you can say it need not involve any other ...
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Why are there so many different opinions of categorical propositions?
It is not uncommon when reading authors who wrote long ago, to find that they were unaware of distinctions that we now consider important. It is pretty much inevitable that as a subject advances it ...
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Are contradictory propositions in the propositional logic still contradictory in the predicate logic?
Something that is a contradiction in the propositional logic remains a contradiction in predicate logic. The problem with your examples is that they are not particularly clear as to whether you are ...
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Is it defensible to claim that religion is a personal relationship with God and therefore contains no claims?
"God exists"
"God loves you"
"God sent an invitation to all people to enter a personal relationship with Him"
"God sent Jesus to die on the cross"
"People ...
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Existential import: in logic, do propositions default to true or false when objects in them do not exist?
"Every politician in this circle will have a firefighter to their immediate right" is typically coded into predicate calculus as ∀x∃y(P(x) → F(y)∧IR(x,y)). If there are no politicians in the circle P(...
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Is it defensible to claim that religion is a personal relationship with God and therefore contains no claims?
No, it is not defensible
Religion, according to her, is the personal relationship between God and a believer.
If so, then according to her...
Hinduism it not a religion
Buddhism is not a religion
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Is it defensible to claim that religion is a personal relationship with God and therefore contains no claims?
When the meaning of a word like "religion" is ambiguous, I like to make up new words to distinguish each of the ways someone may use the term. :P
Personally, I do think the term "...
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Do images have propositional content?
It's uncontroversial that most declarative sentences have propositional content,
Not so fast. While outside the philosophic context hardly anyone would object, in philosophy of language a lot more ...
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Definition of proposition
Some comments.
Propositions are (usually) not linguistic entities: thus they differ from statements and sentences.
This is the meaning of:
"The term proposition is used to refer to ... the ...
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Implication Introduction formulated as a theorem?
The two different symbols on the page you link to are indeed different. The first is the turnstile symbol Ⱶ which may be read as 'proves', while the arrow → is material implication. These are very ...
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Is it defensible to claim that religion is a personal relationship with God and therefore contains no claims?
Religion is on one hand an attempt to understand the world. Religion provides a series of answers to important question about the real world. Giving explanations is always connected with the claim or ...
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Making 'sense' of Wittgenstein's senselessness / nonsense distinction in the Tractatus
See :
5.4733 Frege says: Every legitimately constructed proposition must
have a sense.
Thus, we may equate nonsense [unsinn] with an illegitimate grammatical combinations of words, something ...
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Is there a logical system that accounts for cause and effect relationship?
Assuming for the sake of discussion the fact that clouds are the cause of rain, this does not mean that "if there are clouds, then there is rain" is correct.
From the fact that clouds are the cause ...
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Why is the statement false: If (A⊃B)∨(A⊃C) is true, then A implies either B or C
As the OP and the comments note, both of the results are tautologies.
Here is the truth table for the first one:
Here is the truth table for the second one:
As the OP notes the two sides of the ...
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Intuitively, why are Universal Statements true in the Empty Universe?
Think of ∀xP(x) as an implicit conditional: ∀x(xϵU → P(x)), where U is the universe. In an empty universe the antecedent is always false, hence the conditional is vacuously true. In contrast, ∃xP(x) ...
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The nature of elementary propositions in the Tractatus
4.22 An elementary proposition consists of names. It is a nexus, a concatenation, of names.
4.221 It is obvious that the analysis of propositions must bring
us to elementary propositions which ...
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What did Wittgenstein mean by ”contradiction is the outer limit of propositions”?
Wittgenstein's wording is not at all clear, and Black's exposition is only a little better. When Black says that we would have to take successively stronger propositions, he is referring to the common ...
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Do images have propositional content?
The Picture Theory of Language was briefly put forth by early Wittgenstein (SEP). From WP:
The picture theory of language, also known as the picture theory of meaning, is a theory of linguistic ...
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Do images have propositional content?
Verbal utterances (speech), ink marks on paper (words or drawings), pictures, sensory perceptions, memory traces that suddenly interrupt an ongoing process -- any of those, and in fact any observed ...
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Problem with propositions about future
Well semantically propositions have a definition that may be different in maths and science. So this means varying answers depending on which department did the teaching.
In philosophy I was taught ...
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Why isn't "I am Bill" a proposition?
Simply put, the speaker begs the question. Their argument seems to be structured like this:
The propositional content of the two characters' knowledge can be exhaustively expressed by "Bill has ...
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can we know whether the self-referential statement: "It's not possible to deduce whether P1 is true or false" is undecidable?
I'm not an expert in this area, so someone may wish to correct me.
Since you appear to be wishing to look at this formally, let's start with a formal view of the problem.
In a formal setting, a ...
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Is the principle of non-contradiction self-evident?
"A is B" and "A is not B"…. Are both of the above statements mutually
exclusive? If so, then would that not mean that the principle of
non-contradiction is self-evidently true?
Assume the truth ...
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Confused about the answers to two logic problems
There are two questions.
True or False? If monkeys can fly, then 1 + 1 = 3.
The antecedent of the conditional, "monkeys can fly" is false. So is the consequent, "1 + 1 = 3". In classical truth-...
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Are contradictory propositions in the propositional logic still contradictory in the predicate logic?
The english sentence snow is white doesn't translate to the FOL sentence \forall . x S(x) -> W(x). There are two reasons for this:
The sentence snow is white is a generic, and generics don't ...
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What's the difference between analytic and synthetic AND implicit/explicit?
The short version is that thinking of analyticity in terms of what is contained or implicit is too narrow.
There are at least four different accounts of analyticity. The term was coined by Kant, and ...
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Confused On The Definition Of A Proposition
Philosophers use the term 'proposition' to mean several different things. The difference is so great, it is doubtful that it can mean all of them, so you would need to understand from the context ...
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Is it defensible to claim that religion is a personal relationship with God and therefore contains no claims?
The answer by @JoWehler was excellent. This answer should be viewed as expanding on that. Religion, first and foremost, is an attempt to answer a set of fundamental questions that plague mankind. ...
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Is it defensible to claim that religion is a personal relationship with God and therefore contains no claims?
Is it defensible to claim that religion is a personal relationship with God and therefore contains no claims?
No.
If you argue that ...
[religion] includes dogmatic claims without evidence and that ...
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