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A number of people on this forum don't have an inner world. They don't even know what that means and it irritates them if you suggest anyone has that....

Mary always regretted that Jesus didn't get circumcized because they were out living in a barn at the time.

The Virgin Mary was Jewish though.

The universe was preparing you for the philosophy forum. According to the farmers I work with skunks are in the weasel family and they're badass chick...

Did you know skunks eat chickens? Just learned this today. The whole universe has changed for me.

Kind of like Sartre? "I am the situation"

Cool!

I think this guy probably took a large amount of LSD before he started writing.

What do mean by "marked?" A square wave would be used when you want something to blink on and off, like the hazard lights on a car, or the turn signal...

Depression just comes and goes for some people. It's not like addiction to crack that you can conquer somehow. It will go away when it's ready. Or may...

You've brought this up before, the idea that there is no intention in language use. Not sure what to make of it.

You mean added? When you mix two frequencies, you get a waveform that is a composite of four different ones: you get A, B, A+B, and A-B. This is super...

The novel was like a lightning rod that collected nebulous elements of your psyche and generated a jolt that you became aware of. Dreams can do that t...

Like the difference between love and need? Or what?

Sounds good. :up:

From the OP: :grin:

It's probably the most widely discussed angle on the private language argument. :wink:

Nobel prize went to researchers who were ridiculed and ignored prior to COVID-19.

Assertion is a voluntary action, so it kind of requires a self of some kind, doesn't it? If you mean the self is drawn out of events post hoc, I think...

Any insights about the whole thing? New wisdom or anything?

Or infinity. We can't fathom it, but it's always there lurking in the contours of thought. When I think of the self I seem to fall into thinking of it...

It would be awesome if this kind of conflict could be resolved by this kind of discussion. But in the real world, it's settled by bloodshed. When it's...

Plus, if you're a determinist, you don't stand apart from the rest of the universe. Whatever impels the universe in general impels you. You sort of di...

You don't see the relevance of the private language argument to Kripke's skeptical challenge? :chin:

If you came up with some kind of rationalist attack on the private language argument that would be cool.

I don't see how.

:up:

That may be true.

That's an interesting question, but it's not Kripke's skeptical challenge. His challenge is simpler: what fact is there regarding how you were using t...

Kripke allows that mathematicians can adequately specify the rules of addition. That's not being called into question.

Kripke's challenge isn't about finding proof of something. It's not an epistemic question. It's metaphysics. But as for Jenny, what you want to do is ...

I think the question is reaching for something beyond the limits of language, so I think you've got the right idea. :grin:

Oh, yes that's Kripke. I guess I just don't see it as resolution per se. He's just explaining why we expect rule following. Hume's problem of inductio...

The target audience seems to be philosophy professors because he advises bringing the challenge up for consideration by students. Kripke isn't a philo...

I don't believe Kripke is offering a resolution. He's just explaining why we think we're justified in picking out rule-following. I think he leaves us...

I think what he's saying in the passage you quoted is that we have to look to the language community to discover why we ever talked about rule followi...

But what would you look for in an extraterrestrial signal if you were assessing for rationality? You'd probably want to see intention, right? What tel...

The challenge is about rule following, specifically about rule following activity that's now in the past. It's not an epistemic problem. It's not abou...

thank you!

That damn covid scam! It's still killing people! Not as many as it used to tho. It doesn't really rate much higher than flu these days. I'm taking a b...

I meant we healthcare workers talk to each other. There wasn't any official narrative that conflicted with what was happening on the ground as far as ...

It happened everywhere in the US. We talk to each other, you know. :razz:

Nothing. As soon as the virus went AWOL in NY it was a foregone conclusion that we were headed for herd immunity. All over America, hospitals adjusted...

All spin, no substance. That's our world!

Cool. I'm discussing normativity elsewhere, so I probably won't be adding to this thread. :up:

I also believe there's ginormous room for improvement in the way things were handled. My list reflects my time working in the hospital. You remember p...

A large number of people actually did die from COVID-19. Is that the part you didn't believe? Or what?

His cousin was little Red Ridinghood.

Yea but Cassandra was right.

Darn tootin'