With the shape of the earth, we don't run into challenges to determining its shape. With the long-range impact of AGW, there are challenges. Unfortuna...
If I say I want an apple, I don't mean that I want a mental state (which is usually what we mean by experience.) If you mean something other than that...
You aren't the only person who thinks correspondence is fundamental. It's assumed in the representational theory of mind (RTM). To understand why peop...
I know. In some ways Chomsky is and was naive. So was Rand. Bottom line is that the way forward is presently unknown. We'll work it out when the next ...
Ok, so I'm experimenting with this notion.. that I could put my icons in a gallery. Because even though they're somewhat derivative, it's the emotion ...
Yes, but it also makes it harder to conceive a path from here to self-organization of the workplace. The world has changed in far-reaching ways since ...
Nagase (the excellent dude from the other forum) explained that Tarski's goals were not clear. He may have wanted to somehow redeem Correspondence, bu...
If you find yourself painting lots of Greek Orthodox icons, just remember: nobody wants an icon that was painted by an atheist, so just deposit them a...
In that speech, he was suggesting a proletariat revolution. He didn't foresee the de-industrialization of the US that started in the 70's and proceede...
That's the coolest way to put it I've ever heard. I'll have to keep that one. So one form of American exceptionalism is the attitude that the US ought...
That's true. A government employee can be like a fairy god-mother to a hapless citizen. I've experienced that. I think Chomsky's gripe is that people ...
He is great on diagnosis. I agree with most of what he says. He has stated that he does offer a solution: "Stop being immoral." I think that's just re...
You're expressing some ambivalence. What I'll say is that if you accept that the proper way to think of truth is as a property of statements, then Fre...
So let's cut to the chase, Aaron. Do you adhere to Correspondence Theory? What we can do is just credit one another with some familiarity with the top...
So.... why don't we all just go back to the other forum? My objection to doing that is that I'm still suspicious of the reasons the new owners bought ...
19th Century liberalism was opposed to aristocracy. What is neo-liberalism opposed to? Government? Noam Chomsky agrees. All governments are corrupt, h...
Most common among philosophers? Yea. Most common in everyday speech? I don't know. When you speak of truth outside a philosophical discussion are you ...
I think you're illustrating why truth as a property of statements is a confusing way to think of it. The actuality is that a story is told involving a...
I wasn't building an edifice here. I just meant to suggest that thinking of truth as a property of statements is a recipe for confusion. The fact that...
A world contains things. We reside in the actual world, as opposed to the one in which Christianity never came into being, for example There's somethi...
The Jekyll/Hyde story does it justice. Woody Allen has demonstrated himself to be an amoral figure with his statement (now a fixture of American Engli...
Interesting. I got interested in AP for wanting to know how their answers to questions would vary from H's. So.... I would love to hear from you after...
As my lately adopted mense on issues of mental health, I pay close attention to what you say. But I wasn't saying that truth is empirical or intuitive...
I think Yaha was thinking that I've dug myself a ditch for no reason. Not very charitable of him. I wasn't digging a ditch. I expressed something that...
Could you explain how I'm reifying it? My thinking is that it's a word. I'm defining it. This is AP heresy because of Frege's proof that it's unanalyz...
I understand. I would appeal to you to post more stuff here, though. My conception of things may be at variance with the goals of the forum administra...
This thread was mainly directed at Ciceronianus.. because I know he isn't a moral realist. At baseline, I am, though it's not that I think God has dec...
This is the kicker, really. It's enough to swallow knowledge of man's inhumanity in cases like the Soviet Union or Rwanda. I had some Nietzsche moment...
Yea.. money is confidence. A drop in stock prices reflects worries... known as the Bear. A crash means the bottom has dropped out of confidence in the...
For anybody who's interested: Correspondence theory didn't fall out of favor because somebody thought disquotationalism was a better idea. It was beca...
You aren't a moral realist and you aren't a utilitarian. You lean toward saying that mastery of the passions is a virtue. Very Roman of you. Do you kn...
I think you're overlooking the fact that if the superwealthy catch cold, the poor die of pneumonia. A stock market crash triggers a series of events t...
What does "murder is bad" mean to you? Is it just true instinctively? Is it true because a lot of people agree that it is? Is it empathy that makes it...
Never mind my mental problems, mcdoodle. I actually do know that people are people no matter where they are. It's been my practice to withhold respect...
That's a case of picturing truth as a property of statements, and it works well in managing necessary truths. The question I have there is: necessary ...
This is a common view, although it was rejected by philosophers post Frege. In spite of that, it persists as a common view. Some philosophers point ou...
You could say that, yea. Truth is the object of knowledge. It's actuality... what is, as opposed to what could be. Frege's proof that truth is unanaly...
Gettier problem. Theories of knowledge are in flux at present. The problem is central to philosophy of mind. In an external sense, yea, all the parts ...
It's not the job of philosophers to dictate the words people use. For an extended period, philosophers have thought of truth as a property of statemen...
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