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How's this ? What we believe just is reality for us,... and what you believe just is reality for you. We construct what we believe from sifting and re...

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We co-inhabit (only) the shared part. But I think that's what you meant. It's that unshared part that makes the seems operator useful. We are constant...

So do you believe in a thing-in-itself (atoms and void) or just a relatively 'material' side of a continuum ?

Stirner is absurd in many ways, but his work excavates, more of less explicitly, the minimal normative X...that in which one agent can claim precedenc...

Found a thread-relevant quote in a strange source. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34580/34580-h/34580-h.htm#Page_3

That actuality in its 'nudity' is hard to make sense of. The actuality of the cat being on the mat is that the cat is on the mat. Redundant, it seems ...

Husserl has its virtues, but my non-Husserl-expert impression is that he's too Cartesian. --God is real. He talked to me last night. --No, he didn't. ...

I can relate to the ideas like the coherent version relativism, which might be described as absolute pragmatism. It's all 'just' speech acts, suggesti...

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:up: Are you also a deflationist about truth ? If we focus only on the true asserts in the concept system, that'd seem to be the world itself. Any act...

Does it make sense to take as a fact that there are no independent facts of the world to fix our concepts to ? Seemingly not, right ? And this approac...

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I think Robert Brandom does a good job of adding meat to the bones of 'meaning is use.' We perform concepts. Rather than concepts gripping the world d...

To me the terminology is not that important. I would like us to do more with less, so I am defending an approach that uses the string-of-words (signif...

A deflationist would talk about beliefs. A history of the development of the concepts and snow could be presented. What kinds of light/objects tends t...

Is that a fact about the world ? But it's 'just' concepts right ? Note that there's a difference between the string-of-letters 'stone' and the concept...

It's perhaps as if a crystalline web of concepts sits in a bath of ineffable of sensation and emotion.

:up: I suppose it's just the articulation of a personal (anti-)project that sounds pretty good. I guess it's 'iterable' or 'legible' in that someone e...

:up: It's only when we theorize and slow down that we infer that we must be 'automatically' synthesizing objects from light hitting our retina, but su...

All of these but the last seem to have aged pretty well. This is green, but let's try. Beliefs articulate the world's possibilities. True beliefs are ...

Good question, intricate issue. Disclaimers: I haven't studied Davidson directly (just mostly read Rorty's use him, and I'm not eager to add the adjec...

:up: Indeed. I'd just include it among other worthwhile inquiries.

Why wouldn't 'snow' refer that way ? Isn't what you say about snow true ?

Hold on, sir. You misleadingly quote me, removing a vital conditional phrase. I'm not saying it was intentional or nefarious, just setting the record ...

In case it's helpful or just a fun thing to talk about, we can switch to a related theme. How does the acolyte understand the guru ? Or a mediocrity a...

I can't really object. Getting the life back into life sounds good. It is still a project, an individual vision anyway of the Better Thing to do, some...

As I see it, 'snow is white' expresses a belief. If true, that belief is a fact. If possible, it'd be great to make due with just the string of words ...

:up: That seems right. If I am extremely vague about the alien conceptual scheme, it's only a negation of my own and basically ineffable. The more I s...

No. I don't think they are really questions. I think these pseudo-questions are fascinating and perhaps where philosophy bumps into its repressed past...

To wonder at a tautology... https://twren.sites.luc.edu/phil120/ch10/nausea.htm

:up: This makes truth (the real) a nonlinguistic and ineffable clump, which I think is subject the Hegelian critique above. :up:

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Those are reasonable answers, but they don't scratch the itch. I'm sure you've seen this, but ... Seems like Witt and Heidi both stumbled upon somethi...

You raise some classic points. I take you to be discussing what Davidson calls conceptual schemes. I also connect this to the position I'm abbreviatin...

:up: This seems to apply to what many want from philosophy. Other issues seem drier to me, more like a mathematics with concepts which is aestheticall...

:up: I think that those who share our attitude want to come together as patricidal siblings, which is to say as equals, meeting in the middle. The 'fa...

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Assume 'statements have truthmakers.' What would a truthmaker for that statement look like ?

What might tempt us toward the ineffable is some darker issue. What is it to assert ? What does it mean for something to be ? This feels Heideggarian,...

Inspired by some of your other posts, I say it can play a useful expressive role. It's the North on our map. Assume P. Now we can conveniently ignore ...

:up: I can't ignore the anxiety of influence here. If the trend is anti-systematic, then one might try to be more and/or differently anti-systematic. ...

I'm going to justify this detour in terms of the jesting Pilate. @"Tom Storm" got me thinking about Rorty and irony and Romanticism, inspiring me to d...

Just so you can see what Rorty's systematic 'son' is up to,...

I think that's fair. I was criticized for waxing Heidegger earlier (gently), but one might mention the 'significance' of a familiar and articulated wo...

We might say that Hitler applied something like instrumental reason. Sure. If understood in a 'thin' way, then I agree that the same reason/logic appl...

One ought not discuss norms ? Or one ought not bother with glib incoherence, from an officer of the local thought police ?

So we use the word to mean the world ?

:up: It can come to look obvious even. Of course!

I agree with that of course. 'P' is letters or sounds. P, as I intend it, is the meaning of 'P.' We mean the world.