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I think it's as specific as it needs to be. A person sensed rustling and made a half conscious hypothesis based on previous beliefs. My point was that...

I'm not finished with the article, but I'm just noting that the author is acknowledging that beliefs have propositional content (maybe some other kind...

Nobody's subhuman. They're just boneheads looking for somebody's chain to yank. Think of them as children. They're kinda cute.

I'm gonna have to think about that for a while.

It's hard to picture what sort of intentionality could be connected with uninterpreted data. IOW, I think you're assuming that at some base level of a...

It's just a rule for the use of the predicate. It's not a definition.

So after the recent Russian hack of sensitive US data, I wonder if Russia will stop fucking with the US sometime before the two go to war.

Very generous of you to explain correspondence theory to me, but it's wrong, Tarski knew it was wrong, and did not propose to define truth.

I actually didn't realise they were debating. I thought they decided not to. Anyway, Banno needs to explain that beliefs are either true or false and ...

Truth is undefinable. IOW, if you don't know what it is, no one could explain it to you. What does the T-sentence rule have to do with justifications?...

I don't know what you're talking about, but you can flag posts if you find them offensive.

Then you won't be disappointed.

As long as you're at peace with it, it doesn't matter.

It's as beautiful as it is flawed.

There's nothing you can do about it tho. Is that frustrating?

Right. There are periods of decline and then periods reform and renaissance. The way you know the culture is actually done is that the fragments are s...

Depends I guess.

I wonder if that would work as an argument against Davidson: we can't tell if a sentence is truth apt unless we know the context of utterance. "S" is ...

On the one hand, the ancient Sumerian culture is still alive in anyone who knows the story if Noah's ark, but their language, like Latin, hung around ...

Plus the sentence could become truth apt (if we grant that sentences can be) if you named your dog 'The present king of France' Still have to look to ...

From outer space it all looks like one long bloody slog. Intentions are just shadows. That's your dose of nihilism for the day.

If you're really interested, watch the Frontline documentary. It's as unbiased a viewpoint as you'll find. Obama said it himself on the way out: Syria...

No, he really did signal American support to Syrian rebels. When Assad called his bluff, he backed down. Trump the turd did less damage to the world t...

I think most people on the planet who get vaccinated will get that one. Should be soon.

I got the Pfizer vaccine. The second shot is 17-21 days later.

I'm a respiratory therapist.

I did. I don't feel anything. People who were in the phase 3 trial say the second shot is the one that makes people sick for 24 hours. The advice is t...

No, his Syrian "red line" inspired Syrian rebels and his withdrawal from Iraq helped create ISIS. There's a frontline documentary about it. The reason...

It's just not truth apt, right?

I told you it was a new strain! I speculated anyway. I'm getting the big shot tomorrow. Wish me luck (hopefully it won't turn me into a zombie).

Do they really believe beliefs are real?

I'd rather be alone on the way to hell. Ya know, mull things over, think about eternal torment without having to deal with anyone else's baggage.

Yea yea. I know what you mean. For me, the big implication is that we always think in terms of opposites. This is why there is no information in unifo...

I figure dogs just live in the moment most of the time. They hunt because it's instinct and it's fun. It's a bonus to them that it fills their bellies...

The T-schema is sentences, not statements. You can do as Austin did and just reject propositions, but continuing to use the word while harboring a non...

Thanks for clearing that up.

So the meaning of red contains its negation. Data, if defined as a basic lack of uniformity is the beginnings of meaning, or it's at the core of meani...

That surprises me. How are Finns thinking about the vaccine?

”In philosophy, a proposition is the meaning of a declarative sentence, where "meaning" is understood to be a non-linguistic entity which is shared by...

Mass covid-brain. :grimace:

This thread is getting weird.

Cool!

Interesting, thanks. I'm trudging through the SEP article. It's more poetic than I thought it would be. So the general definition of information (GDI)...

Cook's Medieval Worldview is good. He talks about the re-emergence of cities and why Roman law facilitated it.

Why? You can't answer a simple question?

For Quine, our theories populate the world with objects. Isn't that correct? I'm asking.

True statements are being uttered, but this is stripped of folk psychology surrounding realism. It's Quine.

If you accept Word and Object doesn't your realism get weaker? You still have plenty of true statements being uttered, but without the folk realism mo...

Apparently the vaccine makes people sick as crap for 24 hours. Jeese!

So let's Quine this. The only way to avoid the Quine bombs is to conclude that Banno's sentences perform a function his interaction with us. We want t...