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I for one would say that assessing the data is an important function of rationality. But does that mean we are only rational if we critically assess e...
October 08, 2024 at 13:11
OK. So believing what they saw and reporting that when asked doesn't involve reasoning. But reasoning can come into it when they are asked to justify ...
October 08, 2024 at 11:12
Perhaps I should re-phrase my answer. Are you saying that when someone says that they saw X get out of the car, even though they may not have articula...
October 07, 2024 at 18:06
That seems a bit hasty to me. The lion's attitude to non-lion creatures is certainly not based on a rational evaluation of them. But saying that it is...
October 07, 2024 at 12:05
I'm afraid I may have forgotten the context of this. But if you are saying that when someone says that they saw X get out of the car, even though they...
October 07, 2024 at 09:29
Fair enough. Point taken. Absolutely Not sure what you are getting at here. If you think I'm just playing games here, better tell me. So will I. But I...
October 06, 2024 at 21:37
I agree. People admired the dog's loyalty, but I'm not sure that loyalty is entirely rational. There has to be some doubt about what motivated him.
October 06, 2024 at 14:47
Oh, dear. I'm sorry. We are getting a bit heated. I'll sign off and go away and cool down.
October 06, 2024 at 14:44
That's very plausible. But if the dog understands what it is allowed to do and what it is not allowed to do, how is that not a simplistic moral sense?...
October 06, 2024 at 14:43
Exactly. It was the balloon that he named - our description, our concept, not his. Does the dog believe that no train arrives at 5 o'clock? Let's see....
October 06, 2024 at 14:18
Why don't you call it learning? It is after all, what one must be able to do before one can join in. The rower who is "conditioned" to that particular...
October 06, 2024 at 09:09
Oh, Yes. Philosophers are so obsessed with belief in the first person - "I believe.." that they don't seriously think about 2nd or 3rd person attribut...
October 05, 2024 at 20:25
It's the result of the peculiar condition of the philosopher. But it is perfectly true that there are many experiences that we have that seem more or ...
October 05, 2024 at 15:13
You didn't quite say that. On the other hand, you could be talking about the case when I attribute knowledge to someone else. That is indeed a bit dif...
October 05, 2024 at 14:56
I also thought it was fascinating. Being thought-provoking is just as valuable as being right, in my book. I was thinking of the belief that their hum...
October 05, 2024 at 09:34
You are distinguishing between thought that the thinker is able to articulate in language and critically evaluate and thought that the thinker is not ...
October 04, 2024 at 15:18
If you say so. If being awareness of my belief is thinking about belief, then surely the two are simultaneous, since the one follows logically from th...
October 04, 2024 at 14:54
This world is not simply composed of entities arranged before us, waiting to be picked out. ('m assuming that you mean something like "focussed on" or...
October 04, 2024 at 09:54
Oh, yes, well, that makes a lot of difference. People mostly seem very reluctant to deal with that. I think the reason is that they think that knowled...
October 03, 2024 at 15:38
Sorry to be dense, but what have I noticed? So you know that it is autumn because you can see the falling leaves. You don't know because you have said...
October 03, 2024 at 12:09
OK. "Myths and metaphysical speculations and religions" all belong in a very special category. I'll express this by saying that they are pre-rational ...
October 03, 2024 at 09:10
Well, your criterion is clear. It's also clear because it justifies saying of a person that they are rational or not - because it relies on a capacity...
October 01, 2024 at 19:49
In one way, you are not wrong. I think "emotional state" is not the whole story. But I want to ask whether, given that you believe in a myth, working ...
October 01, 2024 at 15:24
Yes. I just like details - but not so many I get confused. . That makes sense, and I didn't mean to imply that it couldn't be called a science at all....
October 01, 2024 at 09:16
This point is a very good one, and suggests that the biggest loser when AIs are misused is the misuser. Socrates would be very gratified. When I was t...
October 01, 2024 at 05:42
That is my understanding. Well, the Husserl's crucial idea was the epoche or "bracketing" of external reality to exclude it from consideration. The "f...
September 30, 2024 at 22:04
Yes. A qualification. Even in those cases, we can recommend to people that this or that course of action would be better prudentially or morally.
September 30, 2024 at 20:18
The answer to the general question is that it is rational to believe anything that you have good evidence for. Sometimes good evidence is misleading, ...
September 30, 2024 at 20:14
OK. I can make some sense of that. To be rational is to rationalise. 1. So do you think that the people who built the pyramids were rational or not? (...
September 30, 2024 at 15:54
That's the great mistake that Socrates made. Articulating one's reasons is a different skill not the same as having them. Even if you can't define cou...
September 30, 2024 at 15:09
No. For a number of reasons. The OLP advocated that philosophy should analyze, but wanted to analyze in a different way- in Ryle's terms, informal log...
September 30, 2024 at 15:03
I was talking about a certain kind of concept, so I didn't have an actual analogy in mind. Caterpillar and egg were examples rather than analogies. Ye...
September 30, 2024 at 14:22
That's true. I was placing Husserl a bit earlier than I should have done. I just wanted to point out that their characterization of what they were doi...
September 30, 2024 at 13:48
Yes. I have read the Wittgenstein biography, but not the Russell one. As I remember it, the Wittgenstein book rather stole a march on Brain McGuiness ...
September 30, 2024 at 09:51
I can recognize that I should not lump him in with the materialist mainstream - nor Chalmers. At present, I'm inclined to think that he is not disside...
September 30, 2024 at 08:17
I'm surprised that you think that is a point so obvious and simple that one can simply remind me of it and pass on. There are profoundly different vie...
September 30, 2024 at 07:42
Yes, it is exactly the kind of thing Plato had in mind. But, to be fair, those effects are not always being consciously manipulated. Perhaps it's not ...
September 29, 2024 at 22:41
OK. The PZs are supposed to be indistinguishable from normal humans, so that case is not relevant. You get much closer to that with your planet. I don...
September 29, 2024 at 17:24
Yes. Yes. But these descriptions involve both facts and values, and that makes for an argument in which it is easy to get confused.
September 29, 2024 at 17:02
If I was a dictator - which God forbid! - I would legislate that a foetus is a foetus until live birth occurs, after which it is a baby. I don't know ...
September 29, 2024 at 15:15
The most annoying tendency is for people to append very long lists with no comment whatever. Very unhelpful. They give the appearance of being the res...
September 29, 2024 at 12:27
Hold on! I thought we were talking about Chalmers. But perhaps that's not important. I suppose I'll have to Nagel's book on my ever-lengthening readin...
September 29, 2024 at 10:59
I'm waiting on the platform for the 5 pm train; it is 4.58; I expect (believe) that the train will arrive shortly. It doesn't. I am disappointed. Is i...
September 29, 2024 at 08:46
Very true. All I asked was what the differences are that make the difference. I didn't think that was a particularly vicious question. Let me try agai...
September 29, 2024 at 07:57
I did notice what was going on. But were going off on a discussion of epiphenomenalism and walking. I didn't feel I had much to contribute to that - a...
September 28, 2024 at 22:24
I must be missing something. What are the differences that need to be recognized? Though I suspect that the terms may be being used, shall we say, mor...
September 28, 2024 at 21:43
You give me too much credit - or maybe you thought I was patronizing. I was, selfishly, trying to work out a space in which we might have a constructi...
September 28, 2024 at 20:06
That's a very good starting-point for developing policy. But, of course, those are lines drawn in a continuous developmental process. The argument aga...
September 28, 2024 at 19:47
That was a very helpful dialogue. The most interesting feature was that it turns out that you agree on a great deal. So I'm going to try and identify ...
September 28, 2024 at 09:11
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September 27, 2024 at 21:31