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What is at stake here is the nature of implication, not the meaning of material implication. We are questioning whether material implication is an ade...

Here's an introduction:

This seems like a general problem with the truth functional approach, in this case the truth functional approach to entailment. Teleology crops up lik...

The argument could also be read syllogistically, in which case 'anything' makes more sense: All appearances are known mediately No first-person action...

Right! "Queer as folk," as the old saying goes. But I only interjected to take exception to an unfair characterization of Wayfarer's claim. It went ab...

Well when you or Searle say that, "A is a better X than B," you could either be stipulating that it is better or asserting that it is better. If you a...

I'm glad we're on the same page. Everyone can claim they are engaging in good faith, especially those who aren't. What we have, I believe, is not good...

Why don't you go ahead and try to actually define what you mean by these terms, and in the process show us that the various claims you are making are ...

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In general I am doubtful of whether your views on this subject are particularly rigorous, and this is because you are uncritically shifting between al...

To round off my thoughts, difficulties of epistemology lead people to fall back from talking about knowledge to talking about intersubjective agreemen...

No, they are not equal, but they are equally intersubjective. We have been talking about intersubjectivity, not knowledge, and I suspect that is becau...

Ah, well that is helpful to know. Sorry, I must have misunderstood you.

No problem! This is such a recurring difficulty in our scientific culture that I was sure I would get pulled into these sorts of discussions eventuall...

Yes, I think that's right, and I think that idea is at the bottom of a lot of the back-and-forths in this thread. It's an important point that probabl...

Regardless, usually when someone claims that the object of a science does not exist they have invalidated the science. This is how pseudo-sciences suc...

Didn't you coin the term in this thread? (See: )

Yes, I agree. You continue to make that assumption, though at this point I cannot fathom why. You seem to think that when I use the term "first philos...

I think 's post was accurate. You seem to be taking a least-common-denominator approach. "If the hoi polloi cannot verify a claim, then it doesn't pos...

But if positivism replaces metaphysics and then "denies that there is metaphysics," hasn't it invalidated metaphysics? I agree that not all positivism...

, thanks for setting out the shape of your thought in this area. My general approach, coming from Christianity, is wary of utopianism and scapegoating...

Good points. Comte was an important historical stage towards positivism. --- Are you of the opinion that Comte ignored metaphysics but did not attempt...

Hello BC, So is the idea basically that Democratic Socialism proffers a welfare state with higher taxes, along with a non-profit government? I am tryi...

I think philosophy erred in taking Hume too seriously, and this had a big impact on Kant and (apparently) Wittgenstein. A related problem is that such...

If it does, then I think my point about the usage in (3) being metaphorical would hold. Are you thinking that if it does not entail intentionality, th...

But do not those rubrics presuppose first philosophy? And does not asking that question presuppose that there is an answer? I would want to say that t...

That sounds fair to me. But then suppose Moore said, "Because it makes sense to ask whether 'fitting object of a pro attitude' is good, therefore it m...

Yes, of course all material definitions are nominal. But if you don't admit the existence of real definitions (or at least essences) then you cannot s...

Two quotes that may be helpful: And the extended quote from Thomas Aquinas: Looking at your categorization: It seems to me that (2) is primary, and th...

Cool, thanks for the recommendations. :up:

Okay, thanks, that makes sense. I have had only limited exposure to Husserl, but maybe I will try to find an entry point when I have some extra time.

Good thoughts, Judaka. I think we are on the same page here. :up:

I agree with the spirit of your OP, but then what do you make of the all too common opposition to correspondence theories of truth? Do you think the o...

No worries, I don't mind a slower conversation. Determinism will itself utilize a model, but that is not what we were talking about. You spoke of an i...

Have you ever seen John Mulaney's bit about "A horse loose in the hospital?" (link)

Maybe we should turn to the gods:

Edit: I am now seeing that there are other threads on this topic, including a somewhat recent thread by Jamal. Perhaps I am just touching on something...

Exactly. Interesting quote!

I have been out of philosophical circles for some years now, but it seems to me that the confrontation between Hume and Kant dominates the philosophy ...

Interesting thoughts, thank you. I will have to think more about this. :smile: I am going to have a closer look at Philebus. --- Okay, interesting, so...

That was an interesting and clarifying post. --- It seems to me that those who attempt to reject the old-school Aristotelian approach are often alread...

But the difficulty is that you appear to be vacillating. Elsewhere you seem to want to claim that beliefs just are actions: ("Things minds do that can...

Okay, that's a good definition. Ideologies and religions are things with "specific, shared characteristics," are they not? I think that once we know w...

But your analysis betrays you. You are inferring a cause (<Mary believes there is a chair available to sit in>) from an effect (<Mary sits in a chair>...

But Searle isn't only saying, "That's bad." He is also saying, "This is better." Therein lies the trouble. Then belief has a nature. From Jonathan Bar...

If there is no essence, then what does it show better? Remember your quote from Searle:

I think that's right. Good posts. :up:

Thanks - Right, and in the Posterior Analytics Aristotle would go that route directly and point to the intermediate, where learning involves a particu...

Yes, but this also implies something about the propositionality of the belief. When the certainty is less than complete or the evidence is less than c...

I think this is right. I think @"Sam26" has confused an effect with a cause (link). I'm going to let @"Ludwig V" take up your question about referenti...