I don't think so --that it's undeniable or obvious or given. If this is along the line of bachelors don't have wives, then that's no fun. But I'm afra...
Excellent questions! Let me play with them a bit. If philosophy provides a theory of science rationality, and then tries to, I don't know, 'measure up...
I'm not anti-psychology, by the way. I just read you as focusing on the psychological, as you do in the passage above. It's not unreasonable to suspec...
Is skepticism really such a threat? I think there's a gap between the game of extreme skepticism (it's fun to play both sides) and a more serious and ...
I'd say that we are trained to respond to -----> by looking to the right and <------ by looking to the left. arrows. Yes, in my view. A mistake is alw...
Might be worth mentioning a proto-Wittgenstein whose ideas in around 1764 were: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/herder/#PhilLangLangThouMean I thin...
That sounds like the goal of a psychologist. 'If you want to know why the word-object thing was so cool back in the way, read PI.' Does that sound rig...
:up: When things are going great, maybe we don't need a grand narrative. But yeah it's nice to have one when the mud gets deep and the wind gets cold....
:up: Perhaps you'll agree that that anyone can emphasize the destructive or constructive mode in Wittgenstein and cherrypick quotes to that purpose. F...
OK, perhaps, but what's the status of that sentence? Are you not describing how one uses 'rules'? Or something like that? Also I think rules can funct...
I don't pretend to deduce the details from what's merely a general approach to the problem of meaning. I'd like to read more about biosemiotics. I sus...
You are just telling me what I've been saying, that meaning is in the 'material' world. What people call 'rules' aren't binding but merely low-resolut...
Funny that you should say that when I've been comparing our speech to barks, the movements of limbs, and so on. Mouths shake the air, hands smear liqu...
My point was that there's nothing magical or necessary about our current categories. We have the signs 'reading', 'thinking', and so on, each with the...
Sure. We have a rich 'mentalistic' vocabulary, which we use for such things all the time. The question is whether animals coordinate their behavior 'm...
That's a reasonable assertion, but perhaps you'll agree that there's nothing final about those categories. Why not 23,546 categories? Why not a gramma...
We're on the same page there. That's part of why I give the reference theory hell. If our marks and noises get their "meaning" from the world at large...
I don't think the trail of text above this post supports that. It has been suggested (in so many words, seems to me) that pain refers to a sensation, ...
"Cries" is an intentionally jarring metaphor. "Just" cries suggests meaninglessness, where I'm simply looking at relationships of stuff in the world (...
I was suggesting one motive among other possible motives for the philosophical insistence on immaterial entities. It gives philosophers a special doma...
Haven't read it, but I'll look into it. I think philosophy has tried to become more rational which includes providing a theory of science. Imagine dis...
:up: As far as ordinary life goes, I think we can and do feast on mentalistic language without hesitation. Even in the context of philosophy, I too ca...
Google it. Look at some data. As mentioned, I recently read Enlightenment Now. You'd probably hate it, which doesn't make it wrong. I think I'm OK wit...
From the Blue Book: Perhaps Wittgenstein should have stressed not only the other signs (the system of signs) but the world with which that system is e...
Of course. See the comment about complexity above. I'm aware that humans can be sarcastic. But aggressive irony is not yet rocket science, as irony is...
Just as "knowing French" is far indeed from referring to some precise and complete (immaterial) "content," so is "material." Think material as the "pl...
Of course. And the rest of nature never surprises us? I like to visit a fossil bed and walk on rocks. Some of them give way. I've learned to prepare f...
I hope so, since you are using it that way. As Nietzsche might say, it's a 'lie' we need to survive, treating the different as the same (ignoring the ...
I'm not clear on what you are asking here. But I'm happy to say that I don't claim to have some final theory of everything. I also don't pretend to de...
AFAIK, animal communication is generally less historical, so that signs are not arbitrary in the Saussure's sense. I suppose they are inherited geneti...
No, I don't mean meaningless. I've used the example of the vervet monkey's cry several times now. Organisms coordinating their action in a shared worl...
Yes, restrict. I'm exploring a materialistic, biological, behavioristic perspective ... largely inspired by Wittgenstein, which I also take back into ...
I think it's tough to deny the seeming referentiality of words like "cow" or "hat." But what is "refer" supposed to refer to? I feel as if I am trying...
:up: I agree with Popper that creativity is crucial, so that science even grows in the soil of poetry. But we have to test those hunches. I'm not such...
I think I understand why you might say that, but I don't think the private sensation that you seem to be referring to (trying to refer to?) can affect...
Hi there ! I suppose I am suggesting something like that. At the very least I think considering the coordination problem of bodies helps free us from ...
Consider thou the vervet monkeys. One gives a particular cry, and the others take the appropriate evasive action with respect to the predator associat...
Most of our skill with this stuff is "pre-articulate." We are not transparent to ourselves. Can a squirrel give an account of its squeaks and barks? H...
:up: One might say that we got carried away with certain traditional abstractions until most of us could no longer see them as something like hypothes...
It's just that pre-scientific, pre-philosophic assumption that he successfully challenges. To be clear, I'm not saying that worldly things are the act...
As a child, I tended to believe what the adults in authority said. I've been harassed by manic street preachers. I tend to ignore them, because I don'...
Joe has a fever. Am I ready to diagnose his disease? In short, we need more info. Let's say that Joe was drunk-driving and that we know his wife is in...
I think it's moderately justified. I'd say that my issue is pretending that such an hypothesis is exactly right, or that it's without problems. Sensat...
Does the token "law" refer to the concept of law or the law itself? If it's the concept, do you think any two people have exactly the same concept in ...
If it's all just opinion, then why aren't we just gossiping about preferences and hunches here? I don't think all opinions are equally accurate or use...
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