The Bavarian cream one is original (pictured above). The holiday inspired ones are recent. But I agree. It's a ball of air and sugar. Supposedly the o...
Which would mean science in general suffers from a kind of locked-in syndrome. It's not just that a theory of consciousness would be affected by that....
It's awesome that nobody mentions that Sanders is a Jew. If he'd been the Democratic candidate, we would have heard about that over and over. It would...
Schopenhauer said the Law of Explanation (our perception that everything has to have a cause) is part of a process of pulling a united world apart. Is...
Yep. He just meant it's hard because science doesn't have the conceptual tools to answer it (but maybe that's changing). Explaining functions is the e...
In this analogy the fever is behavior and Joe's illness is a mental state. So you're drawing a clear distinction between them. This is a fairly weak s...
No, I wasn't accusing you of that. You seemed to be saying that Witt helped us understand that words have various senses. Frege had already covered th...
I think you're exaggerating. If language really worked differently in each case, language would be useless. Misguided psychoanalysis. Living languages...
It just means there's no eternal dictionary somewhere. It's really not complicated or controversial. Some words are so old their roots are prehistoric...
If I ask what you mean by "God", it's not that I think you have a personal definition. It's that different language communities use it differently. Ul...
Spacial extension is built into the concept of a physical thing. No other sense can detect that from a distance. Sight is the favored sense of materia...
Nobody uses private, untranslatable languages. Witt wasn't attacking a thesis anybody anywhere has ever held. He was just highlighting that language i...
The oldest known written philosophy is the episode in the epic of Gilgamesh where, on the way to find eternal life, he stops at a bar and the bar maid...
Mental states are central to morality. That's the heart, not the appendix. Scientists call it first-person data. It's certainly not invisible and not ...
You missed the link to Wittgenstein there. But yes. It's uncontroversial that people have mental states. The cost of your doubt is morality. If you're...
Behaviorism is built on certain hinges that we don't verify. What I want you to do is turn the above around on the world you see around you. You have ...
Correct me, but wouldn't Wittgenstein advise that we don't have a vantage point on ourselves necessary to diagnose behaviorism? They aren't private in...
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