Dear Screen Actors Guild Member, Screen Actors Guild today released the following statement in response to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producer’s (AMPTPs) ad scheduled for tomorrow. “There they go again. The AMPTP’s ad is great fiction, with convoluted bullet points and confused messages — and, it’s completely wrong. Here’s the truth: * [...]

The language of Physics, a language that both reports and predicts, is an inherently empirical language that must also make an appeal to the unobservable . As such, within the realm of Physics, distinctions need be clarified between two types of terms; those that are observable, and those that are theoretical, and, consequently, between two [...]

This scene never made it into the final cut of the film. The producers thought that it didn’t work because it took too long for Melvin (played by Paul Darrigo) to die after being half eaten by the Reptilicant. I think that the scene could have been rather entertaining myself. I mean, it is a [...]

In Two Dogmas of Empiricism, Quine critiques several attempts of defining the analyticity of synonnimity, definition, and semantical rules. His first observation is that the notion of synonnimity is in just as much need of definition as the concept of analyticity itself. Additionally, if we are to choose the concept of truth by definition, or [...]

Dear Screen Actors Guild Member, In an “open letter” full-page ad published today in the Los Angeles Times, eight entertainment industry CEO’s whose annual salaries and bonuses exceed the amount needed to achieve labor peace for our industry asked why SAG wants a better deal than the other Hollywood guilds. What they conveniently left out [...]

By the simplest of terms, the object language is the language of science, and the metalanguage is the language of the philosophy of science. In other words, the metalanguage discusses and describes the object language. For example, the proposition all ravens are black exists in the object language, whereas the proposition all ravens are black [...]