VALERIANO DIVIACCHI 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 the only attorney involved who had the courage to speak honestly and truthfully to the best of his knowledge and ability; who was the […]
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. […]
I. Prologue There are only a few papers arguing a solution for the Sorites Paradox based on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (“PI”) and related writings. This is understandable for two reasons: 1) Wittgenstein never mentions the Sorites though he must have known about it because he spends considerable effort contemplating vagueness and the problems it poses […]
We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using […]
I. Prologue / Nature of the Problem. Replacing mind/body dualism with brain/body dualism for consciousness and perception solves no philosophical or scientific problems but only further convolutes and obscures the problems. If hard sciences such as physics and chemistry can create predictive meanings for their wordgames through fictions or entities (regardless of which they may be) […]
I. Prologue / The Nature of the Problem and Questions Presented The aphorism “people only believe what they want to believe” is a common description by proponents of an observation or argument of their opponents’ beliefs — proponents and opponents in a relative sense, this aphorism is often said simultaneously by all parties having opposing descriptions or […]
I. Prologue/The Nature of the Question It would be silly for me to do any type of critical analysis about data science for the simple reason that at this point in my life I cannot do the math. “To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to […]