VALERIANO DIVIACCHI / The Truth on SJC Cases 12025 and 13241

VALERIANO DIVIACCHI     For full version with additional references, citations, and exhibits, see VALERIANO DIVIACCHI / The Truth on SJC Cases 12025 and 13241   VALERIANO DIVIACCHI Private citizen Valeriano Diviacchi pursuant to the First Amendment states the following regarding SJC Case 12025, In Re Valeriano Diviacchi, in which the undersigned Valeriano Diviacchi was […]

IS LOGIC A BRANCH OF MATHEMATICS OR IS IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND?

This is a question that analytic philosophers have been asking since the latter part of the 19th Century. Many would argue this question is the formation foundation of analytic philosophy starting with Alfred Whitehead and Bertrand Russell’s attempt at uniting logic and mathematics —-in their Principia Mathematica advocating the “logicism” view that all mathematical truths […]

IS ETHICS OBJECTIVE OR SUBJECTIVE?

Neither and both. Morality means the individual’s leap to meaning in life, it is an ideology that in theory can be non-violent if the individual decides martyrdom for that meaning is part of the meaning of their life. However, by this meaning of martyrdom, they are being violent to themselves, so morality often cannot eliminate […]

IS EVERY MATHEMATICAL THEOREM A TAUTOLOGY?

If one uses a classically rigorous definition of a tautology, the answer is yes. Classically, a tautology is a statement that is necessarily true by the classical laws of logic (identity, non-contradiction, excluded middle). So, statements such as “if the grass is green then the grass is green” and “all bachelors are unmarried men” are […]

A MICROCOSM STUDY ON WHY LAWYERS SHOULD NOT BE USING THE LANGUAGE OF MORALITY

One aspect of my disciplinary case with the Massachusetts Bar and its false findings calling me immoral is a microcosm of why professional rules of ethics should not be used as a normative process to regulate any profession, in particular that of being a lawyer. This aspect is the simple and undisputed fact that one […]

HOW DO THE VALUES OF PHILOSOPHY HELP IN THE STUDY OF LAW?

They do not. I have studied philosophy my whole life, graduated from Harvard Law School, did trial work for 25 years, and wrote the book “An Existential Philosophy of Law”. They are complete opposites. Philosophy rationally seeks knowledge of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence. Law is the rationale by which the few […]

WHY DID GÖDEL’S INCOMPLETENESS THEOREM BECOME SO FAMOUS OUTSIDE MATHEMATICS?

This question is actually the reverse of what should be asked about this Theorem: why is it so famous within mathematics? Answers by mathematicians to this question assume their conceptual math problems are at the heart of this Theorem and thus ridicule its application to conceptual problems of formal logical explanations for anything else. This […]

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CODE AND LANGUAGE?

In the simplest of terms, code is not language and language is not code even though informally sometimes it is incorrectly called “computer language”. Neither the computer nor any linked community of computers such as the internet speaks a language; humans represent useful language information in their computer use through code. Language consists of and […]

THE REFUGEE by Philson Ong

I sit at a bench in the park. The sun is setting, staining the sky with beautiful red and gold. It is autumn and the leaves fall to the ground at the slightest wind. They are as colorful as the sky. I sit there admiring the view. Then I notice him. An aged man walks […]

SUBSTITUTION QUANTIFICATION

Reified formulas are supposed to be a technique for transforming into and for explaining the meaning of natural language sentences through quantification logic syntax and semantics. Whether such a transformation is possible is itself a dispute in philosophy. This dispute is sometimes referenced as a distinction between Platonic and nominalist interpretations of syntax or semantics. […]