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Javier Azul

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Exodus 20:7: “Thou shalt not take the Name of The Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His Name in vain.” Matthew Poole’s Commentary: “… In vain, as we render it, and as the word schave is frequently used, as Job 7:3 15:31 Psalm 60:11 89:47 Isaiah 1:13. You shall not use the name of God, either in oaths or in common discourse, lightly, rashly, irreverently, or unnecessarily, or without weighty or sufficient cause. Which being a duty enjoined not only in many places of sacred Scripture, but also in the apocryphal /APC Sir 23:15-17, and even by heathen authors, as Plato in his Book of Laws, and it being evident by the light of nature to man’s reason…” Imagine yourself old and frail. A reader of philosophy (mainly philosophy of mind and epistemology) and history of philosophy (mainly about Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, and 17th-18th century European philosophy). I do almost no research into ethical philosophy and no research into political philosophy. I believe that content-empiricism is true. If you believe it is false, tell me why. ([email protected]). • I reject Aristotle’s theory of definition. • I’m sceptical about Aristotelian theories of essences. • I don’t have a settled belief about the nature of universals. • If a deductive argument has a universal premise, a particular premise and a conclusion, this seems to me to involve circularity. How can the universal premise be argued for other than to say that it was arrived at via induction or analogy? • It seems to me that at one of the roots of induction is analogy. If particulars are considered, they are classed as belonging to the same group if they are similar, and is not similarity at the root of analogy? Would not all similar members in one respect be considered probably similar or identical in other respects? Maybe there is induction in supposing that similar attributes or behaviours are expected based on past experience. It seems like induction and analogy occur in tandem. I’m interested in: mechanical electronic and electrical engineering, physics, mathematics and biology (and the philosophy of these last three).

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