Copyright (C) 2018, 2019, 2020 Dennis Joe Darland
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My ideas have their roots in the Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell. Also the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein. It is a modification of Russell’s Multiple Relation Theory
of Belief. I have tried to answer Willard van Orman Quine‘s concerns about intensional contexts. Mine is a multiple relative product theory of belief. In it there is a intensional relative product between relations. I use ,”R” and “S” for the relations. R is the relation between words and ideas of objects. S is the relation between ideas of objects and objects. Objects are events, universals, and logical constants of various sorts. Common language is possible because we come to mostly agree on the R | S relational products. All these are taken (at least almost always) intensionally. We rarely know extensions. The problems with intensional contexts are caused by using extensions where only intensions may be used. We cannot know two classes are equal unless we know all their members. But if we go beyond our knowledge and so judge, errors can occur. Talk about extensions may be reduced to talk about intensions, but not vice versa. Two extensions may be equal where the intensions are not equal. In fact, upon analysis, extensions disappear altogether.
My recent Port of the WildLIFE AI Language – completed
My Philosophical Work in WildLIFE in Github – still in progress
Definition_of_Relative_Product.pdf
Notation_for_Truth_Functions_and_More.pdf
Multiple_Relative_Product_Theory_of_Propositionsal_Attitudes.pdf
Relative_Product_Theory_with_Quantification.pdf
On Quine and Propositional Attitudes.pdf
Proposed Definition of Propositions.pdf
Proposed Definition of Possible Assertions.pdf
Toward a Description of My Logic.pdf
An Analysis of Assertion Russell Considered for PM.pdf
An Analysis of Quantum Phenomena in My Theory.pdf
Link to BRS Site – Paper On a Multiple Relation Theory of Belief
Comment on Tarski’s Semantic Theory (pdf)
A Metaphysics of Incompleteness.pdf
Understanding the Axiom of Reducibility.pdf
On P believes Q believes V(a, b)
Universals, Natural Law, Induction and Intension
Existence Relations Between Words, Ideas and Objects
My Views on Free Will versus Determinism
My Thoughts on Freedom and Responsibility
Belief and Truth – A revision of my analysis
Why I believe the laws of physics are not laws of logic
Some reasoning for the last link above
My Philosophy and Quantum Mechanics
On Logical Atoms, Change, Identity and Possible Worlds
All Knowledge is from Experience
On Samuel Lebens on the Nature of Propositions
You Cannot Understand Nonsense
An Example of Quine’s explained in WildLIFE