If I were watching a computer play another, which part is physical? Just the part I see, or would it also include the most significant part, the compu...
To be specific, I'd say Witt doesn't suggest no internal, mental referent, but argues it is incorrect to seek that referent because meaning isn't deri...
Well yes, that's the crux of this. I'm challenging the Wittgensteinian model that dispenses with the referent and relies upon use by suggesting that w...
Whatever super secure brickwall firewall interceptor iron curtain program you make is fine, but the real question is what to name your software. I wen...
No doubt burj is a word when it is publicly used. No doubt it's not when it's not. My test case was what about after it's not but while it's not? Maki...
You're muteness isn't necessary. You may speak. I just made you quiet because I prefer people not talking. It's my story, so I made it more pleasant. ...
Scenario #1: T-1 So, I'm walking through the woods, and I get this feeling I fully identity with personally. It reminds me of my youthful walks in the...
This does not follow. Wittgensteinian linguistics is metaphysically agnostic because it refuses to speak of it. It does not hint one way or the other ...
The meaning underlying the mutterings are the references to qualia. That's the point of the thought experiment. They were non-linguistic and therefore...
I question whether the integrity of their exoskeleton could support them. I also question whether they could sustain oxymoronic challenges to their ju...
"In 1963, a sixteen-year-old San Diego high school student named Bruce McAllister sent a four-question mimeographed survey to 150 well-known authors o...
@"Banno" Thoughts on Private Language: And I could be wrong, so feel free to say so because I don't just speak this for myself, but I do so to underst...
Two reasons: The Wittgensteinian one and the non-Wittgensteinian one. The Wittgensteinian one: Words have varying uses and they are rarely truly synon...
I will say that if there is no private language, then what Wittgenstein states related to the limits of language follows. And this should be obvious a...
Cats have no language (thus "in a universe only of cats"), the cat would still have pain regardless of whether anyone could talk about it ("the cat's ...
In a universe only of cats, the cat's pain is qualia, but not his "pain," unless you say pain and "pain" are inseparable, in which case there's no pai...
So, should I adhere to a textual Constitutional interpretation and you a historical evolutionary view, we might otherwise share a general worldview, p...
But I think this plays into my all language is poetry theory, with varying degrees of metaphor and description of the shadows on the walls. How I perc...
How do you seperate ideology and worldview from hermaneitic in the sense that wouldn't one expect a different worldview to inform the way I interpret ...
I'll have everyone stand in a long line with their metal lunch boxes and then clock in. They can later eat their lunch on a swinging girder overlookin...
So I thought about this, and I asked myself why a particular mode of meta-thinking would correlate with a political or social philosophy. I didn't lis...
I have dozens of clocks, many mechanical. I find the tick tocking relaxing until interrupted by the chimes and cuckoo. This is the time card clock tha...
The Amish are not permitted to be connected to the greater community, which includes prohibitions against sharing the same power grid, water, or natur...
I was referencing the implication of your question as to whether Hanover really liked coffee. What was your use of "really" meant to convey other than...
Had air or steam power become standardized as opposed to electricity, things have been much better. Steampunk fashion is also much cooler. /uploads/re...
When I was a kid, there was a phone number you could call and it would tell you the exact time to the second and then it would beep. That's how we set...
This seems a more complex question, which is under what circumstances does an ethical obligation arise. If we can hypothesize a non-living conscious e...
This approach doesn't seem right. It admits to an internal referent (Hanover hates coffee), but then it asserts the referent is falsified by the exter...
I'd begin by saying you seem overly eliminative. My liking coffee is in fact mental furniture because it's either there or its not in whatever way thi...
I see no reason to assume we can't create conscious beings one day. We do, after all, create them daily through reproduction, and it's just a matter o...
This is incorrect. Torsion pendulum clocks make no reference to gravity like ordinary pendulum clocks do. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion_spri...
Did you know that it's called an anniversary clock because it must be wound just once per year? My understanding though is that they are mechanically ...
Long guns are a different conversation from handguns, but you might be overstating the danger of getting eaten by a bear in Alaska. There is an averag...
If I'm following, you're offering a Beyesian method for determining how to ascribe (Davidson's term) a post hoc internal state on behavior. For exampl...
My law firm does work for large corporations, and one application seeking that work required a very detailed break down of the number of each gender (...
I asked ChatGpt what question it couldn't answer, and it gave the example "what color is Tuesday," so I asked it that and it said Tuesday has no color...
Farmers are right wing because they have traditional religious values, they don't trust the intellectual elite, they are generally self sufficient, an...
Came upon this word in Japanese that has no English equivalent: "Tsundoku (???) is a Japanese word that describes the act of buying books and letting ...
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