So do you think low quality posts should not be moderated? Every time a low quality post is moderated are you going to come along and try to make an a...
No offense to the OP, but I am glad to see the bar being raised and the lounge being utilized. I think this will improve the quality of the site in th...
That's propaganda, not an argument. It does not help you that the emotional post you dredged up from six years ago contains propaganda, nor is it surp...
- Okay, and to be clear, Socrates proposes "recollection" and a form of reincarnation to respond to the dilemma. Aristotle proposes logic: that we can...
I suppose their scarcity presupposes investment in a single kind. They are not scarce in their genus, for there are many species of cryptocurrency. Bu...
Right. :up: Einstein? The more you post the more evangelistic your approach becomes. This is a site for philosophical argument. Evangelism is literall...
@"J" might not object. "It doesn't taste good, but it is healthy!" :grin: Well, I don't think this Fregian move can plausibly present itself as someth...
Virtue is a kind of habit of or a use of a kind of habit; it is not habit per se. I drew the parallel between culture and habit, not culture and virtu...
Those who only agree to come after the kimchi has already been served. :lol: Well if language is essentially for communication then the answer to the ...
Have you actually put any effort into Martin's paper? Have you tried to understand any of this on its own terms, as fdrake invited you to do? In secti...
Yes, very helpful. Right, and that is the difficulty. I’m not sure (2) can be formulated neutrally as a claim. Probably it can only be approached neut...
Short response before I head out for the evening... For Aristotle habit is the basis of both vice and virtue. Sure, and that's why the caution I spoke...
I tend to blame Rawls for this sort of cultural relativism. When you can't figure out how to ground morality objectively, then you just stop at the le...
If I am right in saying that culture is a kind of societal habit, then I would say that a non-cultural cause is anything which does not flow from that...
Okay, good. Gangs might be a consequence of culture going back to "Southern white Redneck culture," or they could be a consequence of the the disenfra...
No? Look at this sentence: Now if we tighten up the logic, then the second clause would read, "...and therefore we must not think we are saying anythi...
What do you mean by culture? On my view economics and politics are downstream of culture, and so it is difficult to separate such things from culture....
I will be out for the rest of the day, so I want to try to offer at least a short response: We have circled around this problem a number of times in t...
When I said that we are doing speech act theory rather than logic what I meant is that the content/force distinction is not the same for each. Speech ...
Good post. I agree with almost all of that, and although we may disagree on some of the implications, let me just break off a piece to try to disagree...
And of course this tired claim has been shown to be unsupportable any number of times in the recent thread, Perception. These blind appeals to "The Sc...
I'll drink to that. --- Yes. As I argued elsewhere, I think the quick adoption is short-sighted. --- I want to say that the cultural morality of the W...
Frege certainly thought so. Yes, but I am not sure that in everyday language the content really stands apart from the force, at least in the sort of e...
When I began reading I was thinking, "Wow, this guy really takes the full context principle to the limit!" But after awhile it starts to feel like a c...
The key is that a declarative sentence is an assertion secundum quid, a kind of privative reality. In 's language, it is not "in the wild." It is in s...
- Thanks, that helps connect some dots. Earlier in the thread I posited that assertoric force was merely one kind of illocutionary force, but I now se...
Sure. Could be. Martin racks up a lot of different folks who have claimed that there is something wrong with the way Frege separates out assertoric fo...
and spoke to this, but the problem with phrasing it that way is that it closes the question that is supposed to remain open. The question is, "Is it p...
(Note too that Martin uses the same language of "declarative sentences" vs. "assertions" that Srap and I developed earlier in the thread. This is much...
- Yep, good, and this is why I wasn't finding it useful to try to gain perfect precision on Frege's sense of proposition (even in the unlikely event t...
I was hoping this would help, "In my own words: the integrity of a proposition is bound up with assertoric force and the veridical use/sense of the ve...
- Kimhi refers to TLP 4.063 at least three times in his book, and that is the key to understanding these sorts of claims. Rombout looks at that exact ...
I don't see it. <Frege/Geach's adoption of the force / content distinction allowed them to construe a 'proposition' as having its own existence indepe...
Here are some places where you got close: - Yes, and this is where it gets tricky. For example: Without wading into this too far, the word "displays" ...
I can't help but wonder if you are reading things into Kimhi with this "proposition skepticism." To take one example, where does Kimhi say that, "the ...
I guess the response here is that Frege and Kimhi are interested in speculative knowledge, not practical knowledge, and classically speculative knowle...
There are a number of different issues at play in such a post. I think they are better fit for a new thread because they are topics of general interes...
That syllogism represents the standard sort of case that the objector is appealing to. The essence of 'animal' is operative in both premises (and is t...
It sounds like it, but of course it would require more research into Frege to know for sure. Along the lines of my other response, realists arguing ab...
- Well, is Kimhi going to disagree with you that Frege's approach is useful? I don't think the "modeling mindset" is an improvement, and I think the m...
I will revisit that section when I get a chance, but in this area there is an inherent danger. Kimhi is right to say that thinking is unique. It is al...
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