Boiled down my notes on sections 1-2. 1. Two tasks in the essay attack sense-datum theories as a special case criticize the whole framework of givenne...
Surely we can leave it aside for just a moment, as I did, to consider a question like "could it be a convincing simulation of knowledge"? So far as I ...
In this case, yes. Type-identity, not token-identity; isn't that how it's said? Or we might say, a one-to-one correspondence of molecules and relation...
Don't the AI geeks still talk about neural networks, and programs programming themselves ad infinitum, and all that jazz? I don't see any reason to do...
Continued reflections on sections 1-2. The most arcane thing in the essay so far is the introduction of the term “sense content” in the last two parag...
Some reflections on sections 1-2. By the end of section I.2, it seems the object is not counted as "part” of the act, at least in the logician's noteb...
Who are those who speak in each way indicated? Good point. Notice how the point is developed in terms of the act-object conception: do the varieties o...
I suppose "being a sense datum" is the same as "being the object of an act of sensing". It's a relational property, according to which an object is as...
This must be the "act-object conception" that Shoemaker loves to wrestle with. I always got the feeling he never quite shakes himself free of it. An "...
I'm not sure "molecular identity" in the sense intended exhausts the concept of logical identity. (Incidentally, are you suggesting that all there is ...
This was an unexpected turn in the essay. How does the specter of nihilism slip in? Same as in Nietzsche I guess, as the dark side of inflated moral e...
I'm not sure what you mean to say here. Do you say that a "vague concept" is an "inconceivable concept", or is perhaps no concept at all? So if someon...
Isn't there an important difference between "tending to be evenly distributed" and "necessarily being evenly distributed"? It sounds as if you've take...
To judge by the balance of appearances, it seems I am a human animal, much like the others I encounter in the world, or more generally a living sentie...
Suppose you and I have a hunch we're thinking of the same grocery store in town, but we're not sure. We might go there together and look. When each of...
Do you have a particular sense of "conceivability" in mind? In ordinary language the term "conceive" is often loosely used, in a manner equivalent to ...
Perhaps the best interpretation of the golden and platinum rules makes them identical at bottom. I believe that Polos wants what is good for him and w...
In the first paragraph Sellars positions himself in the conversation of contemporary epistemologists, and seems perhaps to align himself with Hegel. H...
Do any of us here deny that there is a difference between inferring and seeing that something is the case? Or more generally, between inferential know...
I'm struck by the resemblance between Sellars's first sentence, and Hume's first sentence in the the second section of the Enquiry. Each begins by loc...
Happy to stumble into this reading group today. It sounds like the group kicked off with something like a plan to close-read two sections per week? Wh...
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