OK. A little off-topic. I don't think anyone's talking about "an inner process of solipsistic self-confirmation." What confirmation may be available i...
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I was saying the opposite: Self-reflexivity is virtually definitive of philosophy. I was contrasting this with what I took @"...
Yes, so would I, but I'm also doubtful about the corrective narrative you offer. I'm not sure what domain you're quantifying over :smile: , and who th...
Your entire quote from the Tractatus is very apropos to the question of an Absolute Conception. We could make this substitution: "In the world everyth...
Yes, but other hypotheses allow a basis for discussion about how you'd tell. Typing mistake here, I assume? Or else you're getting super woo-woo. :smi...
"Just" a matter of agreeing! Would that it were so simple. I'm not holding out for some radical relativism that would make sensible conversation about...
But what can now be said about it? It's either true or it isn't, and we don't have any way of evaluating which. Moreover, if everything is consciousne...
Compare: "The idea is that there is no non-matter. Everything is material." The interesting thing about both these positions is that they can't be arg...
I just want to understand it, before contributing anything. Mainly the use of "experience." You write: Does a dead human experience being a dead human...
The "we" here is understood as referring to those within Williams' hypothesis -- the proponents of the "absolute conception" who might be understood a...
I figured this was your method. No reason an OP has to cover the entire ground all at once. It's only worth pointing out that, when "purpose" or "mean...
Well, I agree, but I didn't see you arguing for that. I thought you were contending that any sort of biological purposiveness was good enough to answe...
I think we're just trying to get straight on terminology. You seem to want any occurrence of a sentence to be an assertion of what it says (just as a ...
Yes, I'm not meaning to deny this. Without some such stipulation, we could hardly begin to create a workable structure. Nor could we fit the idea of "...
Yes, we could agree as to that. And that's usually what we do: We read "P" as something that can be asserted by someone -- a performance that someone ...
Good. Now take it a step further. Call this statement Q: "'S' is an example of P"; and this statement R: "It is true that 'S' is an example of P" ("It...
Interesting metaphor. I'm assuming you mean balls of the testicular variety? Is it a good thing to have that kind, when it comes to deciding what to a...
Excellent, thank you. I hope Nagel's take on this will be increasingly shared both within and without the scientific community. I have some minor quib...
Referring back to Rödl again. He insists we acknowledge that, fundamentally, we don't know what we're talking about when we talk about P. Even somethi...
Good stuff. We can't box up "philosophy" and say either that it was only done one way, or that it should be. Thus, what I meant by wasn't the entire W...
Snake swallows tail again . . . but you're right. I feel bad about this, and will try to think of other ways to clarify what we're talking about. For ...
(* the claim is: "as long as I don't claim knowledge about what the conception is, my talk about it can remain "local.") I was with you all the way, u...
This may be helpful: So yes, this is spinning off from Descartes' project, and we see this particularly when Williams first names "secondary qualities...
But how does this fit with "Derain is a great artist and Banksy is not"? That's what I meant about an aesthetic judgment "cashing out" as merely a mat...
Sure. Williams assumes that the "absolute knowledge" problem is real. If one has already settled that satisfactorily for oneself, then this is merely ...
Very close. I bolded in an absolute sense to make it even clearer. Philosophy is going to talk about some other inquiry's absolute conception, and tal...
I know! It's a perfectly valid and interesting topic -- what to make of science and its defenders as an absolute conception -- but not the one I was h...
Does it seem less redundant if it read, "I assert that I've made the judgment that the cat is on the mat"? This formulation tries to bring in "making ...
Good. That sets out the issue quite clearly and simply. Some of us around here, following Kimhi and Rödl, want to make "thought" more complicated, but...
:smile: You know the answer to that. But for the record: I seriously doubt if your use of the sentence "The cat is on the mat", above, genuinely asser...
"My thought of judging that things are so is a different act of the mind from my judging that they are so." - J Just to be clear, that's Rödl, not me,...
Sorry, just saw this. I love that story. Do you mean that the physical thing, the paper and crayon, just happened to be the vehicle chosen to deliver ...
Good. That's how I read Williams' position as well. But the question remains: Does the move he makes in the material quoted from p. 303 suffice to sho...
I kinda wish Williams had left natural science out of his argument about the absolute conception, because I can see it's distracting several posters. ...
I believe the story's true. But I think Lennon was the one who realized he wanted to splice them. As you say, technique-wise, he didn't know how, but ...
OK, I don't mean to be imposing a terminology on you. I'm trying to circle back to your example of knowing without question that the Derain is great a...
Right, that is one promising way to challenge Danto's conception: We have to include some kind of origin story as part of the work of art. This leads ...
I see. Yes, we can certainly just reject his premises and standpoint. I wonder, though, whether you're able to accept them for the sake of argument, a...
You can certainly make that analogy to the wasp sting, and claim that aesthetic appreciation can't be either taught or debated. But which of these pos...
Well, this is a whole other approach. I'd begin by questioning how "painting" constitutes a tradition, but since you wind up with a purely subjective ...
No, sorry. You seem to be simply restating your position. I suggested an example -- the battle of the bands -- in which we don't appear to need a cons...
Comments