The grain that never matters
Why the sorites is not a trick to be dissolved but a true report on how our predicates are built — and what epistemicism asks us to swallow to keep classical logic.
Notes
Workings, shown.
Short pieces thinking something through. They are drafts — I keep them in the open because an argument is kept honest by being read. Each was written by me and will be wrong somewhere; if you find the place, write.
The skateboard at the gate
“No vehicles in the park,” open texture, and why the hard case is not a hole in the law but the place where law does its characteristic work.
Scorekeeping
What it would take for meaning to be inferential role all the way down — and the bill Brandom has to pay at the border with the world.
Saying as doing
Austin’s performative, the slow collapse of the constative/performative line, and why the law is a museum of speech acts.
Following a rule
Kripke’s sceptic, the regress of interpretations, and how rule-following connects the seminar’s puzzle to the courtroom’s.