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I know, and (1) doesn't have the word "mean" in it, and I was trying to figure out what words meant, not what caused certain things. And that's the pr...

This nails your mistake exactly. 1. John says "I feel hot" because John is hot is not equivalent to 2. John says 'I feel hot' means John is hot. I fee...

This seems the crux of the problem, where cause is summoned to determine meaning. Cause can be admitted without attaching it to meaning.

I don't have a problem with your using the modifier "real" to describe certain voices and "fake" other voices, but those words, like all others, gain ...

I think objectivity isn't ever acheivable, even in a purely philsophical inquiry. The question is whether one can offer a balanced perspective, where ...

The category distinction between the political threads and the philosophical threads seems to revolve around the former being just constructing a fact...

I feel like no one has actually read what he's written, but they just memorize some archetype buzzwords and take the test on him in Intro to Psycholog...

I like the cat like honesty. Like when you pet your cat, it purrs, then you pet it one too many times and it bites you, no apologies, and full expecta...

Been reading Jung. Thoughts?

The Republicans believe the rule of law is being restored, with their fear it will be dismantled under a Democratic administration. The executive orde...

I do think it goes both ways depending upon whose ox is being gored. The right believes the rule of law is being disregarded from the historic lack of...

They closed the basketball court at my gym. Said that's where all the fights break out and that's where all the non-members sneak in. Not that basketb...

And so you've not pointed out anything that has to do with what it means to say "ship." You've just told me about the hopeless difficulty in distingui...

Alright, consider this statement, "One should eat his vegetables should he wish to stay healthy." I would expect you would reject naive referentialism...

I was just running through the consequences of your position, not offering mine. I'm pretty sure I've not attached meaning to either the phenomenal st...

So we have sensory data that is defined with the single quality as having the ability to create a qualitative state, which is the phenomenal state. So...

Looked that up. In 2024 and 2025 she wrote over a dozen forced trans themed books (themes like from frat to femme, quarterback to cheerleader). Has an...

I'd cite to PI 1 to I don't know 20 or so for that not being right. Grammar means something different to Wittgenstein. Under that definition, it is a ...

More to that, I'd say the various ways to describe the ship are all correct, with none getting priority as more accurate than the other, just using di...

These issues are actually specifically addressed by Wittgenstein. Innate syntactical limitations and even an innate semantical recognition would not c...

That's X and Y, but you didn't tell me what Z was. I need to know what the pixels really look like so I compare them to how they look to you, so I can...

Then let's reason, using indirect realism, about the world. X is the veridical ship. Y is the phenomenal perception of the ship. Z is X minus Y, the d...

I'm saying their meaning, insofar as the terms are usable in public discourse (and do understand that you can have an internal language that does not ...

Do you think that is my argument though? Do you think with that hammer, you've just defeated the entirety of what Wittgenstein was getting at, as if t...

An indirect realist speaks of the thing out there X and the thing in your head Y. If you are not committed to X resembling Y in any way (having no pri...

That's not what I've said. I said reference to mental states does not provide a method to determine meaning because they are not publicaly confirmable...

The point of Austin and Wittgenstein is to challenge specifically what you have just said, which is what should be the proper account of language.

That summarizes what I just said.

Yeah, more than half is dedicated to showing why Ayer got it all wrong. It's interesting because he doesn't attack the Ayer tradition as much a Ayer s...

This comment inadvertently makes my point. Wittgenstein and Austin are fairly clear that their object is to delineate the scope of philosophical inqui...

I've not, for I fear my pseudo-bread will not survive the pop up mechanism. I feel it's best use lies in becoming a vehicle for French toast or a stew...

My bed has a heater on the mattress and the cat now befriends me. I respect her honesty.

So then "pain" has a referent, which is the internal state of pain. I don't follow why "red" isn't similar to "ship," unless you buy into primary and ...

It wasn't dessert like because it had no sugar. It also partially set into a bread like appearance, but bread it was not. The almond does not create f...

I made some "bread" out of almond flour, eggs, and yogurt. While reminiscent of bread, it was closer to a custard loaf oddity. It didn't taste bad, bu...

So you are a direct realist with regard to ships? Are you arguing every word has a referent?

How can you not understand them? They go to the heart of the issue of whether a claim the ship varies from the perception offers us any added explanat...

What I'm saying is that indirect realism is the view that there is a ship at sea that is a real ship, but what you perceive in your head is a represen...

Of course. But we"re equivocating here on what we mean by representation. In the context of the thread, representationalism draws a distinction betwee...

So you're acknowledging rampant equivocation, where we call objects and representations the exact word in all cases outside philosophical circles. The...

I don't disagree with your Wittgensteinian analysis as to what forms meaning. I just don't see Wittgenstein as offering a methodology for creating def...

But you just told me something different. You told me light bounced off a Trump object and a series of fortunate events left you with a phenomenal ima...

I wonder if this suggestion is Wittgensteinian at heart or whether it just seeks an agreed upon justification methodology. That is, would it be incomp...

Aren't you asking what difference any of this makes? As in, if I think even to another extreme that we live in the matrix and we're all hooked up in p...

Jung's Man and his Symbols. So far some horseshit about dream interpretation. Fascinating how unscientific it is. I'll keep reading. What makes it dif...

Why"d you go to that whole rigamarole and not just tell me that when you looked right you saw a tree and when you looked left you saw a bush and then ...

I know that's what you want to conclude, but your thought experiment doesn't show that. What it shows is you've figured out how to change what people ...

I'm not denying the beetle may be doing work. The argument isn't eliminituve ontologically. It's eliminitive epistemically. Your discussion of changin...

So I went back and read your referenced argument. What that proves is that certain neuronal firings result in certain utterances, but how does it prov...

I spoke more precisely than that though. I said Wittgenstein doesn't deny the phenomenonal. He denies it's relevance for communication and meaning. Wi...