I think overcoming the situation is outside of the scope of the quote. It's just a description of the situation. You can try to overcome the situation...
ThaMadFool's interpretation works for me. This, too: But I'd say I'd shift the focus onto the cage. This being Kafka, there's no guarantee the cage wi...
It's not that everything is socially constructed; it's that all meaning is socially constructed, but there is a difference in what ways that matters. ...
That's a question I'm not confident on. It's really a philosophyical question, and I'm not sure how far you have to answer that question to use the th...
And yet people do it all the time. People "create" sense. Whether you think it's silly or not, it's part of social reality in some way or another. It'...
I think the problem here is that it's not clear what it means to have "traits". Phenomenological constructivism says people construct a world view, an...
I'm unlikely to make a thread, as I'm a slow reader and thinker, and if something's my thread I'd feel compelled to reply to everyone who replies to m...
I'm not sure how got this from Pfhorrest's post. The social roles in questions aren't occupational; they're gender roles. male/female is the distincti...
Ah, so the right is empirical to some extent. I'm slowly getting there, I think (your reply to creativesoul about imperatives is helpful as well). ***...
Sort of. I still feel it's a little awkward; starting in the middle, so to speak, and then figuring out the meaning of words and texts both on the bas...
I do think I get that much, and I also get: The problem I have is a different one: There are many different possible sentences that contain "soup latr...
As far as I can tell, Davidson wasn't very influential when it comes to developing pragmatics as a field, even though this article would have fit to s...
Yes. Look at peeving culture. People often put forward pet-peeves unaware that they're guilty of the same "sins". I remember an anecdote of linguist D...
This looks like a pretty good summary to me. Here's a key question: What's the relationship between "first/literal meaning" and "lexical meaning"? Dav...
I think that's wrong. Preserving the distinction merely means to preserve the analytical category. If you do that, you can say that what the speaker m...
I'm not really from a linguistic background; I just come at the issue from a linguistic perspective. I do have a university degree, but it's in sociol...
"Summoning up a passing theory" facilitates understanding, not necessarily agreement, not even necessarily provisory acting-as-if. And classifying the...
How do you get the truth condition without reference to a convention? I agree with the drive of RussellA's argument, but there's something I think is ...
I'm not sure I agree here. The "informational catalogue" is intricately tied up with "the way we think". I think it's two sides of the same coin, real...
Probability that O is real: 90 % Probability that O is not real: 10 % If all three observe O, the probability that O is not real is 10%*10%*10% = 0.1%...
You haven't quite made clear what "observation O is real/not real" means. Let's say you see a unicorn, and you ask others if they can see it, too. How...
Then you should choose a mathematical model that's up to the task. An independent random variable with the sample space of {Real, Unreal] isn't it. No...
The bell curve isn't very relevant to my point. It's about distributions. And you'd first have to clearly define the variable that's distributed (the ...
The problem is that you're defining O as constant, but then treat it as a variable during the calculations. Basically, you're saying that O can either...
Japanese have plenty of personal pronouns, or none, depending on how your linguistic theories define the terms. All the Japanese pronouns are structur...
Thanks for the pointer. I'll check it out when I have the time and inclination. I'd agree to this. Just to be sure: I don't think of "society vs. pers...
Okay, after around 1 1/2 hours of trying to puzzle out this paragraph, I think I might actually start to understand where you come from. Is you take o...
This isn't a beetle-in-the-box situation. We do different things with morals than with language. which was my first post in this thread was meant to d...
Easy things first. I'm talking about the distinction between being wrong about language, and being wrong about morals. I can't figure out how to read ...
I didn't even notice the typo (so much for careful reading...). And I'm still not sure what you're saying here. "Morally bad" represents a "negative m...
I didn't anser that question, because that's not what I intended to say, and - to be honest - I don't think I I did. I called it a linguistic failure....
Well, he's certainly flat out wrong. Whether or not he, in addition, disagrees is an empirical question. Personally, decontextualised like in this thr...
If a foreign language student sees someone hitting an old lady, intervenes, and says "No, no. Morally good," we have a likely a language problem. - A ...
Have you tried out social relativism? A social relativist would say there are "objective moral facts", but they're probably not what you think of when...
Eh, I'm not sure that's quite right. I'm having second thoughts. It's mostly a terminology problem, but I'm pretty sure priviledge is attached to a fa...
I'm not sure how to deal with that example, though. Sharing the cash is a stop-gap measure at best, and flaunting your priviledge at worst. A few othe...
So, you, a slow runner, keep track of the guy who does not have your advantage but still almost beats you, and give him $ 50,-- you wouldn't have had ...
It's... difficult. I'm not a philosopher actually, but music theory has always reminded me somewhat of linguistic theory (something I know a little be...
For me, the puzzle is why this is a puzzle, but then I haven't read Moore and know little about him and the context of this puzzle. Here's the thing: ...
"World War II" is a valid value for "occurring". Even if we had no evidence, the meaning is fairly straightforward. "God", the creator god of the mono...
My entire point, though, is that so far, no-one's been able to convince me that "God" is a valid value for X in that instance. Language isn't that log...
? This isn't about the burden of proof. It's a negative statement, because it negates a positive statement. I brought this up precisely because the re...
A: God exists. B: God doesn't exist. C: God may or may not exist. Some people believe neither A nor B, because they believe C. For me the concept of G...
That's not what I'm saying, though. I'm saying that my hunch is that it's possible to be fooled by the grammatical structure of sentence. Just because...
Hm, maybe. It's entirely practical, though. I definitively behave as if there are no gods. Now, I'm a rather cautious person, and I even have a tenden...
Yes. It's a framing issue. When you see a thing and part of its aspects surprise you, you'll want to integrate it into your worldview. It changes via ...
The easiness is something I experienced. Trial and error. It would have been different for Huxely. For example, not believing in God, it seems to me, ...
In this paragraph, I was using the "atheist" definition that says you need to believe that God doesn't exist. If I don't know what "God" is supposed t...
That's me. Or at leat that's my self-perception; I'm not sure you'd agree. I definitely think that "God exists," and "God doesn't exist," have the sam...
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