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I read your post. It just didn't make any sense to me.

That was the best post ever. :heart:

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I'll take it. It occurred to me that I just assumed Davidson meant that projecting intention on the speaker was part of radical interpretation. The wo...

I'll buy that. The brain comes with an off-switch. We may flip that switch when we want to. This would contradict Nietzsche's view that religious beli...

Thanks for taking the time. :up: Maybe they're right? Social stability is a life-and-death issue. Having a logical story isn't (unless it is.) ..

I went a few steps down the rabbit hole of determining what role Davidson meant attribution of intentions to play in radical interpretation. I think t...

You can put chocolate chips in pretty much anything.

The Holy Spirit is the same thing as the World Soul. It's from Platonic and Stoic philosophy. Probably closer to being what we would call natural law ...

They're different persons. They're the same God.

The Trinity is mysterious. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are not like portions of one pie. Each one is the whole pie in terms of Godhood, power, and...

Interesting, thanks! This is how Calvinists view it: The reason they give for the fact that very few humans were actually saved from God's wrath is th...

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Do you believe that Jesus is God?

I'm not cynical. :grin: I just put in the op in energetic terms. I'm interested in the idea of underlying truth, especially when attempts to express t...

As you will recall, Davidson focuses on a situation where you don't know the language Jenny is speaking. You don't recognize any of the words. All you...

How would that work? Could you give an example?

Charity is basically about attributing intent to the speaker. We're looking for the speaker's beliefs in order to understand the speaker's intentions.

What would you say the sacrifice of Jesus was meant to accomplish? If Christianity was just the core message of Jesus, I would say I love Christianity...

:up: The world is a weird place.

A long string of educated men apparently believed it.

I think it's weirder than you're giving it credit for. John 3:16 is alluding to Abraham and Isaac, with God the Father as Abraham and Jesus as Isaac. ...

The OP is asking about the lack of logic in the core Christian doctrine. I don't think it makes sense, but it's survived for about 1800 years. How doe...

John 3:16 states the doctrine of the Propitiatory Sacrifice. The torturing part probably comes from the way the Romans executed people. Kierkegaard ta...

Did you ever try to accept it without understanding it? Apparently so.

Tzeentch finally discovered QAnon

Right. As with the computer generated poem, realizing there's no intent undermines meaningfulness.

I agree. I think it's crunching data that's made out of intentional human content. He's saying that the expectation of intent goes into calculating me...

The way a lack of intent affects meaning can be seen by imagining that you see a handwritten note with poem written on it, stuck on a wall in a bar. Y...

Lewis' ideas are Quine-approved, especially the arbitrariness of conventions. I don't know how he dealt with malapropisms.

Lewis' definition of a convention is like this: Is that what you had in mind? Or were you thinking of convention as being the same as a dictionary?

Maybe? Is there some right answer to what you should identify with? I'm sure most people have the experience of witnessing a thunderstorm and feeling ...

How could we tell the difference between being causal, and simply identifying with something causal?

Just by way of guessing at what you're saying (I guess I'm intrigued :razz: ), language use is something humans do in space and time. Like music or th...

You're being a little too mysterious for me to follow. I have no idea what you're saying.

Are you saying that a sentence is actually a type of action?

I don't follow. What is it that's being reified?

Oh, I guess I was asking bongo. :grin:

Well, I was asking what you think.

That the score and a performance can't be identical is shown by the fact that we can have many performances of the same score. What's being reified?

I agree.

We could agree that "P" is an assertion from someone. The quotes indicate that? Does that work?

I have a replica of Versailles in mine. You're missing out.

Bob, "Neoplatonism" is a word invented by academics to categorize a specific set of ideas, typified by Plotinus. People don't debate the meaning of th...

Why Russia will continue to stagnate economically, continue to be militarized with low tech equipment, and become more isolated from the world: https:...

Aristotle wasn't a Neoplatonist because he wasn't alive when Neoplatonism came into existence. There's nothing contentious about that. Anyone who know...

Honestly, you're coming across as kind of clueless.

Neoplatonism Read about Plotinus, the Enneads, and Augustine. Also, watch this, somewhere in there he explains the Neoplatonic origin of the Trinity. ...

Ok. Maybe aesthetics comes from a fundamental attunement to the universe that consciousness arises from. It's the universe's awareness of itself. Wher...