:up: I also think it'd be best to avoid this notion, precisely because it's so unclear. The world is (or perhaps ought to be described in terms of ) a...
This might be more relevant to the latest discussion, from the same source: He goes on to endorse the prosentential account. This is an appealing appr...
Here's another theme, appropriate to Pilate not staying for an answer. Is truth important ? Or do we really (only) care about warrant and justificatio...
But this is back to the ghost story ! Sensations aren't the inputs of inferences. We need claims. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/#BasiStatF...
Does this mean there exists f : \mathbb{E} \to \mathbb{N} such that f('the cat is on the mat') = the cat's being on the mat ? I take \mathbb{E} to be ...
But surely we don't intend P as 'P.' Else why invent the notation for mention rather than use ? Nor is 2 + 2 = 4 intended as a fact about numerals rat...
But that is merely to assume the CT, and to therefore think there's only void and darkness without it. Qui ? I do not suggest that nothing is true...o...
This also takes us into the ineffable, the gestural. I grant that it's probably the intuitive source of the CT. It deserves credit for what it gets ri...
I agree that you pick a case where correspondence is more plausible, but this is like choosing the little pieces of language that conform to the other...
I really am open to what you say, but my theme lately is that...here we are public with only words to trade. I don't know how else to settle belief ra...
My issue with this is ....to what does it correspond...if not the reiteration of that which it is supposed to make true ? "The cat on the mat" is true...
I think I am using 'fact' in a biased way (accidentally taking for granted a point of view which is not yet established.) I would 'like' to understand...
In my view, there's some truth in this. I'm reluctant to say that there is truth without assertions. Ignoring rational aliens, it seems that truth is ...
I'm not 100% comfortable with the move from English to symbolic logic, but your using 'means' looks pretty good. "P is true" basically means "P" (the ...
You mention one of my concerns, truth-makers, which seem like unnecessary entities. You probably know that I agree. I want things public. Enough with ...
He hasn't lasted though. We owe the model T our respect perhaps, but we don't drive one today. Even in his own time he had his critics, as documented ...
Like you perhaps ? Or me ? We present the claims that seem most reasonable to us for criticism. The individual has a role to play. We settle which bel...
Which Tarot card features my portrait today ? Is it grizzly Scientism or spooky Mysticism ? The gist of my plaint was what I saw as a knee-jerk Kantia...
Only in the sense that they have so many exact, formal systems that successfully employ zero that you'd want to know which successful specification of...
It seems pointless to guess at what-it's-really-like-for-a-crow. If a model agrees with the data (I don't know the details), that seems like progress....
What if selves are thought of as being constituted by their doings and sayings ? Above you suggest a box that cannot be looked into by others, an appr...
I'm teasing all you quasi-Cartesians for not seeing the logical disaster, despite it's having been pointed out long before me. Concepts, koncepts, kha...
I add what I consider backgrounding of the OP, from, as might be expected, the philosopher who got me thinking about our minimal situation, along with...
. I see. So is that an absolute truth ? Or just a guess ? Just 'appearance' or 'phenomenon' ? Does the person a in private dream somehow figure it out...
:up: I dabbled in nonstandard analysis for a week or two, but induction on hyperreal integers was so unintuitive that it felt like cheating. In case y...
This is a bit sentimental. Is it not a triviality that justice is one of the broader and more ambiguous concepts ? Yet rationality is also broad. Is i...
There's no need to deny private thought...or the necessity of brains and hearts. The point is just that public 'koncepts' are a sine qua non in a way ...
Representation isn't the only possible metaphor here, and we don't have to have to accept an entity for a noun. In lower level math, students are taug...
I just mean that humans slowly extended their concept system and that individuals do the same. I don't think humans are born with all the concepts tha...
I think this supports my case that the lack of formalization of real analysis was part of the problem. Of course we can't divide by zero, but we can t...
I think we are stuck on this particular issue for now, but I have enjoyed the battle so far, and I hope to break a lance on some other issue at some p...
Wrong in terms of what ? Your own opinion ? Or something that exceeds and compels us both ? If the latter, you support my point that philosophers as s...
Are you really asking me how I'd apply a concept ? And that's supposed to prove some kind of Platonism ? No one is denying the existence or the applic...
That non-subjective is the language we are sharing right now. Even our secret monologues occur in a public language. I'll grant the possibility that y...
:up: This was basically the insight that inspired me to define the world (minimally) as that which a self can be wrong about. The concept of a self is...
Of course. Clearly the box is extended by intellectual pioneers...and more literal pioneers who bring back moon rocks or deepsea lifeforms. Clearly co...
Is that an empirical claim ? Or a metaphysical claim ? If it's a metaphysical claim, it's a claim about the concepts knowledge and future, it seems to...
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