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:up: I agree. I think I was not right to call it a metaphor. I like the idea that language discloses or unveils phenomena. Adorno did that.

Excellent question ! Hegel wrote about this. Brandom's interpretation is very clean and updated for people with AP leanings and background. You might ...

Just to be clear, no rudeness intended in that last post. The point is that semantic norms are what link us in a 'space of meaning.' Our brains store ...

:up: A stop sign is treated a certain way. One stops at a stop sign. One is the personified form of life, what Everybody knows performs.

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If you have any thoughts on the Chinese Room, I'd be glad to hear them. How is understanding Chinese 'more' than (in this context) reliably translatin...

I don't see how you are getting that. Perhaps you can quote and I will explain.

What about the virus metaphor then ? AI tempts us to make more of it. Of course I'm tempted to say of course, but there's something elusive about mean...

So the issue is what is it in us and not in them (if anything) that needs or is addressed by Zizek's Lacan ? Are the bots the self-ignorant ? What hap...

There are no private concepts. But I think I know what you are trying to say. We give a damn. We're alive. We feel things in some elusive sense. So we...

First things first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpWh2lA1m-c

I guess, if one is careful (we are verging on the ghost here.) Perhaps a colorblind person would use a detector to answer the question or answer 'gray...

You might find this interesting. https://sites.pitt.edu/~rbrandom/Texts/Inferentialism_Normative_Pragmatism_and.pdf

Very kind!

You are appealing to inferential norms. I'm not talking about formal logic. I'm talking about largely tacit norms that govern what follows from what a...

I don't find something like replacement impossible. It's not that computers are so great. It's that we are not so wonderful as we wanted to believe. I...

. Would this be easy to see ? I can imagine some analogue of evolution. We clone (with modification) the ones we like as if they were dogs or sweet sw...

I agree that such terms aim at personal experience, but their meaning is public. What do we make of inverted color spectrums ? I reject the Chinese ro...

Yes, within inferential limits. Stop signs and firetrucks and blood are red. 'I can't make out that sign, but it's not red, so it isn't a stop sign.' ...

It's like toy blocks that we are only allowed to stack in certain ways. It's like a hyperdimensional game of inferential chess. Words can intend priva...

Yes, I think you can intend my private experience (manifest image talk). You can speculate about my concealed feelings. Such concealed feelings make s...

Yes, though the last part is tricky.

The point is that the norms for applying concepts are impersonal, public. 'I fucking hate getting wet, so I ran naked into the rain' does not make sen...

I never denied this. Of course. I can talk about the dark side of the moon. I'd just say that I don't think we can talk sensibly about anything infere...

I didn't mean to accuse you of the fallacy. I just wanted to use the metaphor system, which was linked a fallacy.

This is what I mean by Motte and Bailey. Ryle doesn't use that metaphor, but he covers the confusing shift between casual mentalist talk and the metap...

I'm familiar. That's where he shows those with eyes to see that meaning is public, concepts are norms. Beetles don't supply meaning. Back then, it mad...

I don't see atoms with the naked eye either, but I reason about them. For context, I lean toward inferentialism. I think concepts get their meanings f...

I get that we are tempted to talk about qualia, the raw feels, the utterly subconceptual thereness of sensation.... It's not how but that the world co...

:up: Yes. It's in his body. It's 'material.' It is a disposition. It's all connected to the rest of the world, not hidden away in some box which is ca...

That doesn't sound right. I claim that it's better to talk of seeing cats than to talk of seeing internal images of cats. I see the cat and not an ima...

:up: That's the point. Anger is caught up in the inferential nexus.

You don't see the cat at all. Yes you can refer to it, thought you cannot see it. We are referring to it now, though it is only a fictional entity.

A surgeon uses his hands, wields a scalpel. A metaphysician 'introspects' and talks about 'Experience' and 'Representation,' which are understood to b...

He's uneven but really great at times. A happy, horny, humanist. Here's a little sampler. ============================================================...

:up: Exactly, which is a true exaggeration itself !

:up: Right. And probably the terms would be better defined as the case was made.

Yes, the failed definition is also a success. It's a metaphor. As a matter of style, it's offered exclusively. But perhaps the speech act should be in...

I also find it hard to make sense of 'supernatural.' I have a model of reality, of my self in relation to the world. If weird stuff happens, I update ...

Recalling my youth and those around me then, I'd say that the supernatural mind tends (I'm not denying clever exceptions or exquisite sublimations) to...

Right. So what I mean is finding the right grip on our language. We 'are' language in the sense that we often take our 'host' for granted. Philosopher...

It does seem vague.Yet language is our killer app. So perhaps it's a matter of finding the right grip. Timebinding looks central to me, and it's not j...

:up: Bones of saints.

You might like Feuerbach on this issue.

:up: How about semantic norms? Used properly. Is he holding that fork right ? I don't just expect Americans to drive on the right side of the road. On...

Isn't English crammed with imports though ? Personally I wouldn't mind if we used 'existence' for 'Dasein,' or something like that. The French used so...

Yes. You'll perhaps agree that everything can be disputed throughout. De Man writes some good stuff on irony pervading an entire text, without being c...

Heidegger himself might contrast gossip with attending to the matter itself. It's primate-all-too-primate of us to love and hate and (anti-)identity w...

What do you think ? And do you have a view on Dennett's later work ( From Bacteria to Bach... )

Correct me if I'm wrong. Folks can't say what p-zombies are supposed to lack. The consciousness we can talk about is 'material' in the sense that we h...