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On the idea of conceptual schemes, but I believe I more-or-less agree on things in there iirc. Yes, I think these are some good points.

Yes, you could say that, but I think upon deeper examination it is more complicated. Its your perogative I guess to just say that we don't need to wor...

Hmm, thought provoking statement, very interesting.

But I would say that the chair concept is in itself fuzzy, vague, indeterminate. If I bring a specific chair to mind then that is only an exemplar. Th...

Would these meet the criteria for conceptual scheme under Davidson though? I believe Davidson's main target is some kind of claim that there are diffe...

Yes, this would be the case in that Quine 'two men' passage I think. Sure, but I am not sure I need an account of this which appeals above and beyond ...

I would say that these meanings and ideas are imposed on the patterns of verbal behavior by an observer. You don't need these extraneous interpretatio...

Well I guess if they have the same verbal dispositions then there would be no possibility of some event which would lead them to think they are talkin...

That just seems to be implied when you read him or about him. We generally don't have huge problems communicating either, so it would be strange for h...

Quine clearly thinks that inscrutability of reference is not a barrier to communication, so I am just curious as to what you think Quine was saying in...

So where is Quine going wrong?

Like democracy, ending of slavery, workers rights, womens rights, the condemnation of racism and xenophobia, the welfare state, animal rights, positiv...

So are you saying that there has been no kind of ethical or socio-political thought or advancement since the renaisance? Seems to me this is almost ak...

I don't think this is strictly true. The brain works on various different scales so you have to study it on various different scales, whilst bottom up...

What kind of benefit do you think they would get from not impugning it? If it is just saying that there are statistical structures and regularities in...

Absolutely mind boggling some people think Timothy Chalamet's Bob Dylan performance is good. Borderline kafjaesque in some respects.

I'm not sure I see where you're going with this.

But are "parts" really any different from the "part" that contains those "parts"? Does this question really need an answer? Is there even any definiti...

All these things are equally valid; but replace philosophy with knowledge. It applies to all knowledge whether science, philosophy, folk psychology, s...

Hmm, interesting observation possibly.

Many people here have views here that directly contest mine which may be what you call "deflationary style" (but tell you the truth I read this and "d...

I'm not so sure what I think about Many Worlds here actually. But - where in the Bohmian interpretation are particles in many states at the same time?...

There are several interpretations which disagree with this though, including Bohmian and Many Worlds.

Woops, I mean't indeterminism!

It isn't compatible with determinism, I don't think. I just meant that it is possibly meaningful for the name to point out that the mechanism isn't in...

Not sure I agree that "superdeterminism" is a type of determinism. It is just a mechanism for Bell violations which has a silly name because of how fa...

Aha I wasn't responding to the OP - I was just puttung down thoughts. I think most people probably don't disagree with the OP at its core, but some pe...

There is no scientific evidence for dualism - verifiable separability of mental stuff and physical stuff. It is also not metaphysically parsimonious a...

Its very simple. Science is about solving problems, regardless of whether you want to talk about it in terms of "truth", "understanding", "mathematica...

I don't understand what you mean. We are talking about science here. The whole point is to construct a picture if the world that makes sense and fits ...

Well yes but I mean in terms of a consensus on some kind of interpretation which makes sense to people within a scientific context.

Seems, from my perspective, that part of Michael's idiosyncratic views is the idea that the word "truth" cannot be about something in the same way tha...

Not sure I agree. Someone might only think that because there is no consensus on quantum interpretation, but that doesn't necessarily mean a reasonabl...

I actually should add that my picture makes it look less weird than it is. Non-local correlations of particles also depend on measurement settings at ...

In superdeterminism, you get non-local correlations because a common cause in the past affecting both particles through chains of local events tracing...

Yes, definitely true; but I guess the exact ways people say the microworld is strange depense on their interpretation of quantun mechanics.

What do you mean?

They just mean surreal as not typically compatible with classicality. Maybe! Who knows, maybr someone else will!

They are actually closely related. The kind of non-realism Gnomon expresses about position and momentum is the same kind of non-realism as in the non-...

Just realized I forgot to link paper showing the actual hydrodynamic pilot-wave model: https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?cluster=913411704190726485...

I have no idea. I am not familar at all with those philosophies.

You may wanna check out this: https://youtu.be/7oWip00iXbo?si=pCYTAwbfBG7aNN4m (and in the description it gives titled links to particular sections of...

Its actually what the math seems to say (at least to probably most people) but at the same time, this is very strongly interpretation dependent so not...

Truth is an adjective applied to a sentence but it brings unintuitive consequences if you don't further dissect what a sentence is - that there is sen...

I would say though that it is not the sentence itself as an object that is true or false - it is not the sequence of symbols that is somehow true. It ...

Something that is true is something that is the case. That something is the case is not just a property of a sentence. It is referring to things in th...

Truth is about what is the case. The fact you need sentences to assert what is the case is incidental to what actually is the case in the world. A tru...

The use of the phrase "correct description" may seem to remedy the situation somewhat from what I see but I am not sure it replaces "truth" or gives a...

It does make sense given that I described what I mean to say something is true in the same sentence. It also seems to follow from what I said that: to...

Yes, it just requires the property of rain existing. To say something is true simply asserts this, and the non-existence of a sentence doesn't affect ...