Banno has brought up this problem: You and I may believe the same thing, but my cognitive act of belief is not your cognitive act of belief. Some peop...
How do you beat something down a person's throat? With a plunger? Wait, that would make them throw up. Anyway, as I was saying before the plunger issu...
Ok. Honestly, I really don't care that you were wrong. It happens to most of us sooner or later. There was something you were sure about and: Damn! Yo...
Try this: Propositions are usually considered to be the Primary Truth Bearer Beliefs were once in the running for the role of truth-bearer, but that's...
I actually asked a friend: should I be a dick? My friend said considering the story, absolutely. So I did. If I invited bad karma by doing that, well,...
You would have been correct in that case, but 1) that was in no way in contention, and 2) this explanation conflicts with what you actually wrote: You...
It didn't even occur to me that you didn't realize that farms don't count as wilderness. If you spend a lot if time in the wilderness your senses adju...
Not to put too fine a point on it, but no, a command is not a statement under this definition of "statement." The IEP did not provide alterative wordi...
You just have to make sure you know how the words are being used. I think the closer you get to the roots of AP the more "statement" is used in a math...
I'm a totally amateur philosopher. Tumbleweed education (wherever I drift). A proposition is a statement (unless we're operating with Austin's altered...
Well put. I want to draw attention to the verb to believe. It's an action along the lines of endorsement. The believer is saying: "This is true. This ...
I don't think Hanover meant his mental states can't in principle be communicated. It's hard to argue that there can be belief without some accompanyin...
Love and respect come naturally to people who spend time in the wilderness. It's people who live in cities who may lack love due to nature-blindness. ...
This is the question. A belief is truth apt. It's a proposition. What sort of thing is a proposition? We don't know that anymore than we know what mat...
A little reflection reveals that concepts (think math) have to be something more than mental objects. And to your comment that language is learned soc...
We should look to use when we're talking about the meaning of speech or writing (although it's easy to show that there can be meaning without any actu...
We weren't talking about meaning. Note: This is ontological talk. Then you go on to lay out the issue Frege addressed. Why not accept his approach? Gr...
You agree that understanding a concept is not what we mean by "concept." I misunderstood then. In regard to beliefs, think of the statement: The slug ...
You asserted that evolution starts with the nonliving. Was I incorrect in assuming you meant something by that? Your confidence in this strengthens my...
True, but cosmic sized archetypes are always on standby with sex. I was pursuing the idea of fate (determinism) and a struggle against it. But point t...
What's the difference between modification and change? The Yellowstone wolves are a case of a species creating selective forces on its environment. Th...
Evolution is change. Change is always recognized relative to something unchanging. If the moths evolved, the unchanging reference would be the genus a...
:up: Cubists had made paintings that would fuse multiple views into a mangled, splintered whole as if to say that unity of world is a lie. I think of ...
I heard a radio program once interviewing a guy who had been tortured by somebody (can't remember who). He said the process finally burns off everythi...
The wheel of fortune. Boethius. Wrestling with God. Being sexually attracted to God's authority? I'm going to be thinking about this for a while. I li...
True. What's risky to some is nothing to others. After watching that video I started wondering if addiction to risk was really what was going on with ...
Grasping the concept is the concept? Somebody isn't using the word "concept" correctly. A student told Socrates, "I can't imagine what the moon might ...
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