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This looks like slipping grammar to me. How does a sentence say something? A sentence is just a series of words that form a unit.

Read this. There will be an essay test after you finish.

I thought of doing a thread on the philosophy and psychology of recognition, but then I realized that would be too much effort. :razz:

No. A person who invests themselves fully in the identity of Democrat or MAGA probably didn't experience neglect, whether they accept that categorizat...

I couldn't make sense of most of your post, sorry.

According to my recent reading on recognition, people who have any kind of non-binariness probably experienced neglect in childhood, so that they neve...

This is a misunderstanding. Physicalism is not a variety of ontological realism. Ontological realism just says we have the ability to declare what the...

This is true. A behaviorist, for instance, can't complain much about wording, because no language use is supposed to actually refer, or convey meaning...

If you were hoping that one day people will occupy Antarctica, probably not. It would take a 5-10 degree global shift upward for 10,000 years. Humans ...

I don't.

I don't think there's any fact of the matter regarding shared nor individual intentionality. It's all Wittgenstein's Group Dynamics.

I haven't. They look very much like my cup of tea, though. :up:

P is the proposition that the cat is on the mat. You asserted that you think P. If P is false, then you are mistaken about what you thought. You aren'...

Why would the truth of 2 be dependent on the truth of P? Think, know, and believe are called intensional operators. They signify what's going on betwe...

I think human speech might be similar to bird flight. The potential for it is hardwired, and it becomes actual when circumstances trigger the developm...

Maybe. The quoted part looks like an uttered sentence. Strictly speaking, I have to have knowledge of the context of utterance to help me understand w...

I don't think it makes sense to say that a statement makes an assertion. People make assertions. What we're doing is analyzing human communication, "a...

I don't follow. What's the problem with 1st and 2nd person assertions? That the content of an assertion is knowable in principle. I thought you were l...

I was responding to sime's statement that he can't remove himself from his assertion. I read that as saying his assertion can't be treated as somethin...

Maybe. What I was pointing out is that Trump probably wouldn't have made any decision if it weren't for people briefing him on world events like his o...

A. It's true that B. It's possible that Some philosophers would say that anytime a person asserts a proposition (P), whether by speech, writing, road ...

I've been looking at what the Middle East will be like in 2100. It occurred to me that living underground might be an option, so burying heads in the ...

I don't think It's true that and it's possible that have the same meaning.

I like that thought though, at the end of the universe there's a to-do list that will never get done.

I agree, but if I also hand the guy a blanket, I'm making the same assertion you are: that he's cold. My act of asserting can't be your act of asserti...

I think we're talking past one another. I don't think Trump has any particular policy regarding the middle east. I doubt it. He just does whatever he ...

Trump is having fun. His advisors tell him stuff, he expounds his great wisdom to them. They say, ok. He's the commander in chief. I get that some peo...

Aquinas believed the soul is fused to the body by supernatural means. They aren't really separate. The intellect is an aspect of the soul, right?

I guess the soul is supposed to be fused to one brain. You could think of the way a computer's software interacts with the hardware. Or maybe it's lik...

So do you think the intellect can or cannot witness the images? If it can, it would just abstract based on what it saw. In this scenario the brain wou...

Oh, so he's saying the intellect witnesses the images. And you're saying it couldn't do that?

Why do you say the brain produces phantasms? Why couldn't the mind do it?

The Middle East has been fucked up since the British ruled it. The US has not returned it to a state of organic ease and well being, but all they want...

I've thought a lot about Adorno's ideas about form and content. He's saying that if you sit in the audience and listen to a symphony, it may be labele...

no

Probably so. I'm not sure what you said, but, probably so.

How would you know time elapsed?

No. The idea is that time and change are the same thing. Carlo Rovelli's view.

If there's ever a heat death of the universe, time would stop for all practical purposes because nothing would happen. Nothing would change.

I knew about Hacker. He's basically saying Kripke strayed from Wittgenstein's intentions. Since you've read it, I'm sure you realize that Kripke was e...

Or they might just be independent?

Like who?

I doubt it.

Why do you think that? Have you read Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language? It's stunning. Kierkegaard critiques Kripke. Off the top of my head, ...

Kripke is a branch off Wittgenstein. I don't think that kind of philosophical reticence existed in the early 19th Century. Philosophy dives into and b...

They don't care about that either.

The average American genuinely couldn't give a flip. I think that's true of Trump as well. He's just having fun.

They're both.

This is the problem Socrates talked about when he said every philosopher longs for death so he or she can stand outside of life and finally see it fro...

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