But funny. Look, either the cat's fine or buy a new one. I had to replace the batteries in my remote the other day. It hasn't necessarily frozen to de...
How about we go back to this, then? Remind me, what was the supporting argument for it? Some here have tried, but it has amounted to an informal falla...
Unfortunately, your response is predictable. This isn't the first time that you've gone to throw in the towel prematurely without putting any real eff...
An ignore function compatible with smartphones. Please. (Apparently a slight change in design and a few more smilies is higher up on their list of pri...
Okay, let's get the basics straight: There is no believing without belief. You either believe or you do not believe. And, if you believe, then you hav...
No, that's an erroneous inference. I want to maintain the distinction, as well as the relation. They're distinct, but not mutually exclusive. Not only...
No, you're not really saying anything here. It's just more wordplay on your part. You're just inventing a new term for the beliefs I'm talking about, ...
Throw 'em in jail! :roll: The sad truth is that some people can't see past their own prejudice, or refuse to do so for fear that they might be succumb...
It's curious that you quoted large parts of my post, and even a statement directly below the part to which I'm referring, yet you left out that crucia...
That doesn't address what I said. I said that the word is not the thing. I didn't say that a word is not a thing. Evidence for what? That's either a n...
I agree with apokrisis. That it's wordplay kills any further point he had. And that it's wordplay could be put to the test. I think that many people w...
No, that wouldn't be better, since they - pre-linguistic humans, at least - do believe. (Unless you're talking about Belief 2.0). And they believe as ...
Like the example I just raised of being stung by a bee for the first time, having no prior experience or foresight about what would happen. We know th...
It almost inevitably leads to it, which is what I've argued. In reality, there are very few exceptions, and none which are relevant to this debate. Ex...
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. You're just begging the question. I have no more reason to accept your assert...
Okay, let's start by examining the premises of your argument: 1) "There is no other way to express (or formulate) a belief to ourselves and others tha...
You tell me. You can see what I've said on the matter. What's the difference between the talk of ants and your talk about a thermostat? There's a limi...
I think that you've missed the point. I wasn't arguing that there could be a colour that we know of as blue, without the word "blue". I was arguing th...
No, I don't take it as a given that conceptualisation requires language use, rather than that language is a tool necessary to express concepts. You ca...
Whose consideration? Yours, but not mine. My understanding, as I explained in my last reply, was that we were talking exclusively about humans, and th...
But he doesn't need to know what "blue" is. Why would he? He does, however, need to know what blue is. That is, he doesn't need to know anything at al...
Yes, I've been claiming from the start that the one entails the other, as I made clear. Or, better put, that the one leads to the other, as I said ori...
Okay, so I have an assertion to match your own. I'm willing to explore it, and defend it and so on, but it's down to yourself and others to ask me que...
Well that conversion went down hill quickly. Is this an indication from you that you have nothing substantial to say in reply? Because that's how I'm ...
Did you not read what I just said? I haven't claimed otherwise. I am not claiming equivalence. I am claiming entailment. Don't waste my time. Sure, a ...
No, I don't think that we agree, unless you agree with me that he already had that belief, namely that the sky is blue, despite having had no prior un...
I think that you're missing out steps in your argument which you seem to be simply assuming, so let's break it down. We start with an individual with ...
Not a contradiction. As I said, that would affirm what was the case prior to the learning of the translation. And we know that prior to the learning o...
Ugh. Seems like an alright bloke, but as for his views... :down: In other news... I order a takeaway. Delivery driver turns up outside the double-door...
No, I think that you must explain why it is supposedly impossible, as one could do with your example of a round square. What more can I do except desc...
These are the weak points, in my assessment. You state in your profile that a proposition is a statement which can be true or false. Yet it's conceiva...
Yes, great idea. And I'm sure that that would in no way be seen as an attractive position for child sexual predators. Yes. The only problem is that th...
Yes, but who would be making the psychological assessments? Who would determine whether they pass or fail? Or do we have have computers that can do th...
Come off it. Your question contained a controversial assumption about my position, and that's what I was objecting to. I don't think that it does. I t...
That's a straw man, not a point that I've made. A right to self-defence which is not absolute (as I specified, and by which I mean not unconditional) ...
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