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Scott Soames said that, so I'd be surprised if its a misconstrual. He also said Davidson misunderstood Tarski. Tarski didn't provide a formula that co...

Came across this: If people thousands of years ago used Davidson's reasoning, they would reject the possibility that science would one day rely on sym...

Why would an entity that has the appearance of a regular human necessarily have phenomenal consciousness? That's a strong claim. It would require stro...

Sounds familiar.

Banned @"Michael" for the banned-Wheatly-joke which I didn't understand.

Tories post fake Labour manifesto Wow.

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I'm on the ontological antirealist side, so it concerns me that a statement of materialism has no truth conditions. I would interpret your behavior ps...

A dollar is an abstraction, though. So an economic model of dollars is about a relation between a mathematical abstraction and an abstraction?

Its either continue giving billions to Ukraine or give up and plant pumpkins. You can do a lot with a pumpkin. I know what you're saying, though.

Sort of. That's how Davidson sees it. That's what the yawl thing was about: for my interpretation of you, your behavior (which reveals your beliefs to...

Yay secondary sources. So for Davidson, the meaning of a statement is its truth conditions. If we can't translate the statements of a certain language...

Per Davidson, if I'm a materialist and you're and immaterialist, I interpret everything you say with the assumption that we believe the same things ev...

I thought our defense was a bunch of H-bombs. The USA saves the world: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Luca_Giordano_-_The_Fall_of...

You're right. I shouldn't have said anything.

So we're still fighting the Cold War? The nice thing about the Cold War was that the US was in a position to hemorrhage funds into the US economy and ...

I don't understand why we are. How would it impact us if Russia defeated them? Wouldnt the lives of Ukranians improve in the absence of war?

I dont think that's possible.

Do you think we should be giving military aid to Ukraine?

I was talking about the alien language. How would you prove that it's entirely translatable once you're fairly certain that at least part of it is? We...

Say we've been chatting along fine, we're pretty sure the aliens said they came to serve man. How would you eliminate doubt that their language is tot...

It's usually more like: for the Pharisees, morality dictated washing up to the elbow before eating. Nobody but a few wackos would think, "Yea, but the...

Was there a philosopher who looked at things this way?

Somebody would be considering incommensurability from the get-go, but there would be no way to confirm that. If human evolution was triggered by the c...

Intranslatability isn't incoherent. "The mechanics of time travel were beyond the abilities of the human intellect, so the aliens couldn't translate t...

Ok, not everybody understood the article.

I see. You were being a good moderator. I think we nailed the basic ideas. We had sort of moved on to the provocative final sentences in the article, ...

I guess I didn't understand why you said this: Are you saying that if one brings a counter to Davidson's article, one should ask whether the counter i...

If scheme A and B are incommensurable, then an A-person 1) won't understand a B-person, and 2) couldn't possibly know that this understanding is missi...

I think one of the reasons Davidson doesn't have much potency is that he wants us to think in terms of truth, but then wants us to understand truth as...

While we're all offering how we prefer to think about it: as any visual artist knows, there's a lot of relativeness to what we sense and experience. C...

It appears that truth is a concept too basic to analyze. We just know what it is. Some people see the T-sentence as saying that the truth predicate is...

So he's opened the doors of his time machine and invited us to return to the way things were before Descartes speculated that nerves are like strings ...

The claim that there are no conceptual schemes would have to come from a transcendent vantage point. That would also represent the beginnings of a phi...

Yep.

They didn't have 115 either. They were missing some concepts.

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What you've got is the Janus theory of truth and reference. Deflationism is ironically complex and takes some pondering. There's more than one version...

Aborigines had no word for the number 114. How do you translate when they dont have the word?

There's no actuality in the T-sentence rule. Read about it.

I'm curious about how you got this impression.

It's pretty clearly not correspondence theory. It's just sentences spoken in two different formal languages.

Welcome to my brain.

Who said we don't have unmediated connection to the objects we think of as real?

The T-sentence is trivially true. It's not a theory and it explains nothing. Deflationary truth is compatible with any kind of ontology.

I only got interested in analytic philosophy because I wondered how they answered the problem of induction. I read about Wittgenstein, but didn't see ...

That doesn't even make sense. :nerd:

You're not an American, dont worry about it.

Suppose you somehow have the job of writing a new national anthem for Lithuania, but you dont know where it is or anything about it except that they m...

I was trying to go without ever actually reading Wittgenstein. :shade: