Dawnstorm

And you never appreciate it as much as when it comes hard and goes easy... I've registered on the other site now, so I just have to wait to get home t...

That's certainly an option. I work odd hours, irregularly, though, so I tend to only go out for necessaries as it cuts into sleeping time. Not a biggi...

I'm male for those who care (I don't). Yeah, it seems Win7 is outdated. I've been waiting for something like that to happen. It's infrequent as of yet...

I'm using 64-bit Firefox, but the link tells me my browser's not supported. I'm not tech wizard. What's going on? Virus program or Add-blocker interfe...

When you know that the water in this tub is 36° Celsius, then that knowledge has no influence at all on the temperature. When you know the word "beetl...

Thanks. It took me a while to figure out what I was missing, but I get it now. If there's a new language game in town, you'll discover the grammar fir...

I'll say thanks here for the grammar section in particular. I've never quite understood what Wittgenstein meant by this - not when reading Wittgenstei...

And then there's CorelDRAW. I made association because the OP post was interested in what distinguishes painting from drawing. If we go by digital met...

That seems just about right. I'm a little careful about this: I don't deny that language plays an important role. I'm not sure, though, when we're goi...

That's part of it. An object can't exist outside a subject-object relationship. But a thing persists when no subject is around. When we want wood from...

Well, I haven't been talking about mistakes. We could be wrong about common ancestors, anyway. The question is: "What are the joints we're carving at?...

But it might be instructive. The common example is "Fish", and the joke among zoologists is "Either fish don't exist, or we're all fish." If you had a...

Thanks. Life should calm down a little now. I take things out of order, because I think this might provide a quick way to lay open bias. My point of v...

First, sorry for the absence: stress at work, holidays and illness all got together. could have found time, but wasn't in a state of mind to think... ...

In my view that's just climbing up and down the abstraction ladder: an anthropocentric view is a version of mammal-centered view. When we go up the ab...

I must admit I've not been reading this thread lately. Work's been very taxing and I couldn't muster the concentration. I've yet to catch up with this...

Yes. Yes. Almost. To eliminate any ambiguities (which I should have done much earlier), I'd suggest a minor re-wording: "is a nominative-accusative la...

This is a complex topic, and I'm not sure I can give a comprehensive answer here. I've got a degree in sociology, so that's my bias here. I think ther...

I'm not much of a philosopher either, so I'm not that knowledgeable about the labels, but, well, I've pretty much always considered myself some kind o...

I do apologise for the confusion, but I don't really know how to do better. I'll try, but I'm not confident I'll succeed in being clear here. First, w...

Spuriousss Okay, the real guess is a letter included above: R

. I find this confusing. We do things. Among the things we do is speaking, writing, hearing, reading, thinking words. Language is a tool, which you us...

Sounds like the belief of the cat the mouse is behind the stove is as dependent on language as my belief that the milk is in the fridge is dependent o...

This wasn't there when I hit submit on my post above. I'm spent right now. I'll wait to see if something I said above helped make more sense of it. If...

Sure. To me that's just rephrasing the question. The logo-vampires have come and drained this proposition of all its meaning. Seriously, though: When ...

I don't disagree. The question, though, is to what degree language needs to be involved in belief formation. And it would definitely make sense to say...

Yes, that's the gist of it. I didn't actually think of "background beliefs" here. I'm not educated enough in philosophy to have that term at the fore ...

This sounds mostly fine. The thing is I don't have a clear grasp on what that means, so I can't sign this just yet. We have differences in, I think, t...

Ah, well, yes. I should have been more careful, I suppose. The problem here is that we might be having very differents of what a "belief" is. For exam...

Since it's about language again (my pet topic) I'll poke my head in again. Might even have more time going forth, who knows? In any case: When languag...

I'm not sure how to reply. After thinking this through, I'm not sure I understood you right. Are you talking about the results of a social justice mov...

Well, here's where differ: I do not think bathrooms are "divided by sex." I believe this is surface rhetoric. Bathrooms themselves are social construc...

That's the question, yes. But notice that bodily issues might go away with transition while the social problems won't go away. That is a trans person ...

This is... a difficult comparison to make. "Gender Dysphoria" and "being trans" are not one and same. It's perfectly possible to enjoy being homosexua...

Even if I were to ask a teacher how they typically teach that wouldn't really help me remember. Might even encourage false memories. But is it necessa...

Do you think I was questioning that 5+7 is 12 in this thread?

Yes, this is practically all stuff I took for granted when making my posts. I have no issues with anything you said in this post. Each and every post ...

I haven't read many of Ted Chiang's short stoies, but I've liked what I read so far. If I were to write this story, the narrator would fail.

First, I have to appologise. I'll likely not be writing much in the weeks to follow. We're transitioning from one piece of software to another and it'...

I'm saying that's one way to look at it. It's not actually my preferred way, but I think in a context of causation a more narrow concept of what const...

I think or at least thought so. I'm, of course, uncertain, even more so now that you brought it into question. The thing is, when I read 5 + 7 in your...

It's precisely what counts as a thought that is insuffienctly described for me to have much of an oppinion about it. Take "7+5". In what ways is that ...

I'm actually not ready to argue for anything yet. I'm still trying to find a way to describe what we're asking here. For example, if I were to stick w...

We can make sentences that have no clear-cut meaning until you figure out later what they might mean. I'm not even joking. I used to write SF stories,...

I haven't heard of that one; thanks for bringing it up. I was vaguely aware of research, but nothing drug related. I'd like to highlight the differenc...

I think that's how I presented it, but it's a simplification. There's a lot of overlap. Language that doesn't create an artifact (sound or scribbles o...

Well, I used the words "externalise" above in a context like "language externalises throught". Maybe I should use the World 2 & 3 model to give you so...

I come from sociology rather than philosophy, so my first impulse is always two things: (a) what's the theory, and (b) how do we operationalise it? Bu...

Before that, I think we're reading different versions of the essay. The online-version I linked above has been published in the New York Review on Oct...

Mentioning something and not something else is "putting one above the other"? Why? You write an essay and mention what comes to mind to fit the flow o...