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It hasn't, though. Prosperity is a strong drug.

When Wittgenstein talked about forms of life, did he mean conceptual schemes?

That people who propose them are assuming a vantage point that their own reasoning says they can't have.

The author has a transcendent vantage point. We don't.

The author said so.

I don't see how that section applies to the story.

In the story one human learns the alien language, but it remains untranslatable into any human language. The learner gains a new ability related to te...

The earthings wouldn't be able to make sense of the alien language, true.

An author could write a story about untranslatable conceptual schemes and the idea would be coherent. But that's not the kind of scheme Davidson is ad...

Right. Yes. Truth by Convention. An innate ability isn't analytic knowledge. We have all sorts of innate abilities. It shouldn't be surprising that so...

Did you know a horse's brain is about the size of a walnut?

Is the vice president supposed to be more corrupt than the non-vice president?

This caught my eye. Pointing with words, commanding, asking, apologizing, condemning, etc. aren't post hoc. They're actions as much as running or clim...

Indirect realism has been pretty popular since optics and lenses were the big thing. I think Davidson had probably heard of it. :cool:

Garden variety indirect realist, then.

I think he was just analyzing the concept of a conceptual scheme. If you accept schemes, you have to accept translatability. Transcendentalism? Are yo...

Even an absolute monarch has to take public opinion seriously, so every human government is democratic to some extent. What supposed to be different a...

I thought it was: if there are different schemes, the very idea of different schemes implies translatability.

My interests have veered off into nihilism lately, which is a long way from Davidson. Just a last question: if there are differing conceptual schemes,...

So you're saying our perceptual apparatus is directed at hidden states? Maybe. If I'm looking at the duck rabbit, I may be aware of the lines that mak...

Davidson was a meaning holist. He saw the root of meaning in usage throughout a language community. It makes sense if you consider that you don't cont...

Doesn't a conceptual scheme dictate what we call "real"? If you're talking about a "higher reality" that is beyond conceptual scheme, it looks like yo...

Then why are your civil rights in the freaking constitution?

Lazy anarchist. Thought so. You mean if the system is racist, why give more power to the system? The idea of civil rights is that the government is in...

I meant people I've actually met. How is it different from anarchism?

The only libertarians Ive met were mentally... unstable, so I've never been inspired to look closer. How does it work? How is it different from a desi...

The birth of a dynasty. Want to move to Guam?

:up: Abstract objects are things like numbers and sets. They aren't considered to be mental objects for reasons pointed out by Frege. I asked Nagase o...

Tim, I think you might take the rafter out of your own eye before you try to withdraw the straw from your brother's. :joke:

180, you're painting a bleak picture. People in the in-group can't see it, so I suppose they can't help. There can be no plan until all the members of...

Love it. Are you familiar with the epic of Gilgamesh? Think about the time between now and when Genesis was first written and go backward that same am...

Life is the greatest of all gurus. I would really like to talk to Heiddeger about nihilism.

So we dont predict future events, we predict descriptions of future events? :chin:

We can't describe events in the future because we dont have access to them. Laws of physics are expected to predict events, so in what sense could we ...

Since we're mostly philosophy kindergarten, this is a bad idea.

Well, there you have it. Have a good day.

That the concept of a vantage point is the best way to understand moral rules. But maybe I don't understand Davidson. Worldview isn't something a pers...

I'm not sure what you mean by "abstract ideas." An abstract object is by definition a thing which various individuals note and can be wrong about. Mat...

He points out that we expect a common coordinate system, not that there is one. What facts would we use to assure ourselves that commonality exists? A...

Nothing prevents us from imagining that. The problem of induction is about the justification of laws. It's a problem for knowledge internalists who in...

Empiricism doesnt work for verifying the average philosophical assertion (such as that we ought get on with it). Surely youre not a rationalist. So th...

Koan.

It just means that if you want to locate the basis of communication in rule following, one of your challenges will be to explain telepathy.

You can't convict Fred of murder just because the witness can't tell the difference between him and the perpetrator. Eye witnesses are known to give c...

I dont understand. What's the point? Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” 3 What do people g...

Plant peas. After journeying through your body, they'll just end up back in the dirt where they started.

Is there a benefit to doing that?

If you want someone's perspective, say something like: "Frank, what do you mean that a racist person can be fond of the oppressed and exploited? How c...

"The way things are going... they're going to crucify me." -Poor little Harry

Poor little Harry.