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@"Harry Hindu" (bear with me for the non-standard quotation style) > Were you asking me to describe the image, or what the image is about? I was more ...
January 28, 2022 at 20:38
All right, but pragmatic considerations should be taken into account to get the full picture of our communicative practices concerning de re/de dicto ...
January 28, 2022 at 20:29
Why? What are the reasons? Where are the arguments to support your claim that JTB is the basis for belief as propositional attitude? I mean, ought we ...
January 28, 2022 at 10:25
How is this relevant? Instead, give me an example of a proposition, sentence, statement (or whatever else you don't care to distinguish from propositi...
January 27, 2022 at 23:44
Sure and propositions statements sentences (and whatever else you have in your menu) can be parsed in sequences of electric impulses with different el...
January 27, 2022 at 22:57
That is the problem of putting visual content into propositional form. Images can be ambiguous in a way that is not captured by any related descriptio...
January 27, 2022 at 17:18
I don’t see what JTB about knowledge has to do with our understanding of belief ascriptions. Your understanding of belief ascriptions is biased by you...
January 27, 2022 at 12:54
Not sure about that. Take a couple of English sentences with their relative translations in French: A1) Alice loves Jim A2) Jim is loved by Alice B1) ...
January 26, 2022 at 19:48
Good question. Here is another one: if all propositions can be rendered in linguistic form, then what proposition would correspond to the following im...
January 26, 2022 at 14:33
Many philosophers take the technical notion “abstract entity” to mean something that is not the result of some mental operation (“abstraction”). Accor...
January 26, 2022 at 13:44
creativesoul's reminder of "rigid designators" is misleading. Kripke's theory of rigid designators was supposed to address the logic distinction betwe...
January 26, 2022 at 11:10
de re belief ascriptions can be less ambiguously rendered in the following form: S believes of X that p E.g. Jack believes of that broken clock that i...
January 26, 2022 at 08:00
creativesoul's ideas about belief ascriptions sound not only preposterous (and justifiably so for me), but also very dangerous: e.g. imagine some chri...
January 25, 2022 at 17:29
The philosophical debate about propositions starts (or should start) from some strong intuitions that should be readily acknowledged by all competent ...
January 25, 2022 at 16:49
I made the same observation a while ago.
January 23, 2022 at 22:20
You too along with your mentor
January 21, 2022 at 07:19
I didn't ask for help, I asked you how you understand the relation between the notion of "belief" and the one of "concept". You retorted the question ...
January 20, 2022 at 16:23
Sure, but again I’m interested to understand better what kind of substantial issues your claims are supposed to address. For the same reason I asked y...
January 20, 2022 at 10:32
That doesn’t sound a correct report of Jack’s belief. Indeed it would make Jack’s belief contradictory. A better report would be: Jack believes that c...
January 19, 2022 at 19:55
I take the word “concept” as referring to some cognitive abilities presupposed by belief ascription. For now all I’m inclined to add is that concepts ...
January 19, 2022 at 12:52
It wasn’t clear to me since "the cat believes the bowl is empty” could be taken as mentioning a sentence not as using it to describe whatever is suppo...
January 19, 2022 at 10:12
I disagree. The referent of the word "belief" is a cognitive intentional state/event (depending on the dispositional or actual meaning we attribute to...
January 18, 2022 at 13:33
To me, they are enough to seriously challenge Banno's account as he presented it so far. But as I said, we can determine our views on beliefs better b...
January 18, 2022 at 12:45
I don't see how we can further it. I and you seem to agree on points that he fails to address. And apparently proudly so. I have a question more about...
January 17, 2022 at 22:07
Well I'm just afraid that this one is by far the best reply you can come up with on the topic under discussion, sir.
January 17, 2022 at 21:55
@"creativesoul", so far with half-backed stipulations and random links which he doesn't even care to support or understand. mmmkey.
January 17, 2022 at 13:08
Poorly articulated, sorry, I meant: or he could try to claim that, in this case, the propositional content of the belief that the present King of Fran...
January 16, 2022 at 18:06
@"creativesoul" Indeed this is what I already remarked in my previous comment: Maybe he could try to claim that either X doesn't really believe that, ...
January 16, 2022 at 12:25
@"Banno" I've argued at length and to the point what I think about your arguments. While you didn't serve me with the same treatment, instead you are ...
January 15, 2022 at 01:01
@"Banno" Unless there is a specific reason to adopt it, I still prefer my way of quoting. Anyway thanks for the hint. > If I were half as good a teach...
January 14, 2022 at 23:47
@"Banno" > It's wryly amusing to find oneself again the topic of discussion. And the good news is that I didn't finish yet. > For a negotiated fee I w...
January 14, 2022 at 20:44
@"creativesoul" Thanks a lot for your feedback and pls take your time in commenting whatever I said you find worth it. Just let me add that your under...
January 14, 2022 at 10:46
@"Athena" Thanks a lot for the additional information! I think that your manifest passion and knowledge could be better shared on a dedicated blog whe...
January 14, 2022 at 00:42
@"creativesoul" I read your three posts, and I’m inclined to agree on all points. Still the comments of @"Banno" to them look pretty messy to me both ...
January 14, 2022 at 00:13
@"Athena" Thanks a lot for your feedback and the references! > I lost my best source of information about what Eisenhower did to embed the MIC Isn't E...
January 13, 2022 at 14:30
@"creativesoul" > I will say this, the question itself is based upon the belief that all those things mentioned are concepts. I do not share that beli...
January 12, 2022 at 17:01
@"Banno" > Yeah, come on, @creativesoul, write us an explanation of how the whole world works. Preferably in less than a hundred words. Your sarcasm i...
January 12, 2022 at 16:52
@"Athena", your wrote: Prussia? I'm curious to know more about your views. Di you publish anything on this subject? Can you suggest any readings that ...
January 11, 2022 at 13:50
@"creativesoul" Could you pls elaborate more on this "He is more Wittgensteinian than I. Much more actually"? Would you be able to briefly clarify how...
January 11, 2022 at 09:58
I couldn't read all the comments but what I would add is that the expression "head of State" looks as a combination of metonymy and metaphor, b/c head...
January 10, 2022 at 12:22
Some thoughts that do not directly answer the question of the main post but settle some useful hints on how to address it: - As long as democracy, cap...
December 17, 2021 at 10:52
@"Joshs" lately I don't have much time/concentration for intellectually challenging readings, but I very much appreciate your suggestions about "theor...
December 12, 2021 at 14:24
@"Bartricks" Indeed if you understood, you would see how catastrophic your argumentation still looks to me. And it’s catastrophic for 2 main reasons: ...
December 12, 2021 at 13:44
@"Joshs", By “you are conflating ontological with epistemological concerns”, I simply meant that some of your comments sounded as objections to my vie...
December 12, 2021 at 00:05
@"Bartricks", > And I have argued that sensations give us an awareness of the sensible world by resembling it. I doubt that. First of all notice that ...
December 11, 2021 at 18:57
@"Bartricks" > Change itself is the object, but because sensations can only resemble other sensations, change itself can nevertheless be concluded to ...
December 10, 2021 at 23:53
@"Joshs" My strong impression is that we are addressing different philosophical issues. You seem mainly concerned about what is required to have a bet...
December 10, 2021 at 22:29
@"Joshs", very elaborate and interesting analysis. I’m afraid I’m not as skillful as you to articulate my views. Anyhow, did your analysis prove that ...
December 10, 2021 at 10:31
@"Joshs" , There are 2 hints that I can get from your comments: 1. Moods and passions can be related to personality traits 2. Moods are actual states....
December 09, 2021 at 22:40
@"Joshs" unfortunately I don’t know enough about the enactivist approach to affect or other mental states, and I’m not sure how to process your quotat...
December 08, 2021 at 23:06