That's true. Though we can cling on to ideas because we want them to be true and/or can't bear the truth. Well, yes. To know the illusion for what it ...
I think you are missing Wittgenstein's point. Of course signs co-exist with their objects. The image of the man with a shovel is ahead of the roadwork...
Yes. It was/is a common complaint by analytic philosophers against their opponents. They were often identifying a problem with some philosophical idea...
@"Joshs", @"Paine", I agree with you. But I have some ideas about how to approach this. The bad news is that I shall be busy today, so I won't be able...
Forgive me, I'm a bit confused. Is the mistake that you say is made in the following quotation. That is, do you agree with W that it is a mistake to l...
Yes, I think that's right. When it comes to notations, we're inclined to think that one notation should take care of every position/attitude or perspe...
@"Antony Nickles" I agree with that. They can all be seen as alternative views of the same issues - temptations. Given that we (sort of) understand th...
Yes. Curiously enough, the vision of a purely rational being is very attractive in some ways - we so often find the emotional, value-laden sides of li...
But doesn't he also claim that what the solipsist want to say, or mean, is incoherent or perhaps just a question of notation. You make me realize that...
I can think of cases where a notation might recommend itself - for the most part on pragmatic grounds. Whether they are relevant to philosophy is not ...
Well, he is quite right. There is a territory that, so far as I know, he does not explore. I point at a bus, and say (in grammatical mode) “That’s a b...
No. But here's the catch. Once you have pointed that out, somebody will set out to imitate the doing of those things. We may say that the AI is not "r...
It's a question of balance. I didn't think that my observation would be a distraction in the sense of getting in the way of the reading. Yes, that's a...
I don't really understand 6.431. I can see that death is the limit (end) of life and consequently not an even in life (he says that somewhere in the b...
Yes. But it seems to me that there are some things you just cannot delegate. You can't delegate your own exercise to a car etc. You can't delegate the...
That's complicated. This argument is not like others - the length of a rod, say. It's about the limits of language. We have to explore them in devious...
I don't disagree. Actually, I don't think it is possible to prevent it being used. There's a lot of hype and over-enthusiasm around at the moment. I'm...
Not sure I understand the last sentence. There is a very tricky problem, though, in working out how one can state a philosophical thesis without relap...
Literally parroting is often a waste of time. But formulating existing ideas for oneself, discussing and debating them, playing with them are all part...
Selfish people no doubt experience the same reward when they perform acts of greed and meanness and bullying. The difference is not in the hormonal re...
Yes, of course there must be a connection. That's very tricky. One might have expected W to announce that he had changed his mind, or not, and here's ...
I think that the reference to the "source of the puzzle" here is a bit misleading. Because it suggests that the source is something different from the...
I remember Cliff Notes and the endless battle with plagiarism. It's not that AI actually invents anything; it's just that it makes things easier - for...
I don't know what peewee ting is. But I take your point. I put my point badly about the checking. I agree with you that fact-checking ought to be donk...
It amazes me that people seem to be so unworried about the thorough poisoning of the well. Though given the extent that the well of the entire interne...
That's bad enough. But I am told - or hear rumours - that AI actually gets things wrong. Of course, that makes it no worse than people. The problem is...
You miss the point where the distinction arises. If your vision is of peace and justice for everyone, it is altruistic. If your vision is of your own ...
Thanks for that. There's a case for considering generosity to one's children is a kind of selfishness. But that just reveals that what counts as selfi...
Well, we can all agree that every action has a motivation of some kind and that motivation "moves" the agent. To conclude from that that every action ...
Yes, the vocabulary must be really important. People usually identify schools by their shared doctrines, but actually, I think it is just as much abou...
The difference between empathy and sympathy comes up here. I've never been very clear about it. "Identifying with you" is a whole language game in it'...
It's based on my interpretation of references in Berkeley and Hume to "the academics" or "the schools" or "schoolmen". Aristotelianism as such is usua...
Of course it is. It's clearly a precursor. I'm not sure it's exactly our idea or Kant's idea. That quotation doesn't mention experience, which I think...
That is enough to tell me what I need to know. I don't read that as critical of Aristotle, so much as critical of "schoolteachers and orators". I was ...
Well, that just reinforces my opinion that there is no set way to distinguish between them. So your synonymy is not wrong. I'm usually very sceptical ...
I hope you don't mind looping back to this. No doubt you will ignore me if you do. It is clearly true that "warranted" and "justified" are closely rel...
I'm sorry I've taken so long to reply. Off-line life, which we choose to call real, intervened. I need to take more time to work through what you have...
That's right. Doesn't that mean that you have to recognize the plausibility of the "conspirator's" narrative? Which is a long way from attempting to "...
Here's a question I would like to put to you. I found the following in SEP - Kant That makes a lot of sense to me, and would resolve many of the objec...
I'm fairly typical of people educated in the 20th century English-speaking philosophical tradition. But with an emphasis on ordinary language philosop...
Space and time are big issues in philosophy, and I'm not an expert. But I do agree that we do not experience space as a phenomenon. I wouldn't say tha...
All right. That's very clear. So where does probabilistic reasoning fit? An example of a conclusion that can approach certainty in degree, but never b...
Yes, I understand that position. I won't pick it apart here. I wanted to point out that mathematical probability is mathematically certain. It has unc...
I meant that Hume does not question the idea of causation itself; he questions, and rejects, a particular account of what (efficient) causes are. I wa...
That's right. For Hume (by implication), association of ideas and impressions is the one piece of equipment built in to your minds. (Contrast Kant). T...
That's true and you have a point. But it is an argument from silence and as such falls short of being conclusive. There's a complication, though, that...
Yes, I knew that he explicitly criticised Berkeley somewhere. Thanks for the reference. I'm not sure, but I think the correct answer starts from the f...
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