But don't you think that those pains were private prior to you describing them to the physio? And, that it was your capacity to refer to these private...
How would you interpret a situation when a word is being used to refer to a private concept, a mental furnishing? You might say that the word is being...
This is the point I took up with creativesoul. I don't believe that the claim that any actions other than those such as statements of claim and propos...
No. that's not what I said. I said that anxiety gets directed toward particular beliefs, so the anxious person can, with conscious effort, direct the ...
I would not agree with this. I would think that anxiety is deeper seated than beliefs. Having an anxious condition, or disposition, leads one to feel ...
I think that there is evidence which is significant to evolutionary theory, which demonstrates that "in-group" "out-group" discretions are deep, to th...
The subject is epistemology. So our goal ought to be to limit the object of inquiry to that which is relevant to the subject. If we were discussing me...
The here and now is always gone and past, by the time you say it's here and now. And when we reflect on the past, how would one really know whether it...
Yes, I'm concerned with mental ongoings as well. The position I'm taking is that we need to distinguish what type of mental ongings constitute belief,...
I'd agree with Harry, that hate speech is generally the result of hate. Where that hate comes from, and whether it is the result of other hate speech ...
Belief is definitely shown by behaviour, I think that's beyond question. I can't think of any other way to show anything other than through behaviour....
Ever consider the possibility that Jack is not capable of believing? Perhaps your description of what is going on with Jack is wrong. You describe jac...
"State" here, signifies unchanging, static, passive. You have designated a static turbulence, like in my post I said that repetition without change co...
States of the brain, mental states, cannot reasonably explain behaviour, because the former is passive and the latter is active. So this belief is lac...
It's not likely that I equivocated, when what I was doing was explaining to you the difference between these two ways which the same word is used. To ...
You can't really say that there is no issue, because you've just used "believe" in the common way. Rather than maintaining consistency with "belief" a...
There is a consequence here. The explanation can only be directly related to the action, as the reason for the action, and therefore the belief, as Ba...
There's one significant problem here. This conclusion requires that the speaker is sincere, and speakers are not always sincere. As we see when someon...
I don't think the inquiry is a dead end per se, but I think it's rather pointless and misdirected. Ask yourself what kind of question are you asking w...
What's even worse, is having discussion with someone who denies saying what was said, and replaces it with something else, as if the something else is...
What question does simple curiosity express? To see something unusual and wonder about it doesn't necessarily imply any particular question. There is ...
Actually I'm with you here, I don't agree with either either. That's why I'm pointing to the inconsistencies. Banno's stated arguments can direct us i...
I told you, we can use "rules" to refer to the written rules. I have no problem with that. And, they do not need to be interpreted by me to become rul...
I think the issue here is whether the belief is the behaviour itself, or the description of the behaviour. Remember Sam26's categorization is to place...
Isn't "how many?" very similar to "how much?", which is what we commonly ask for the cost or price of something. The fact that we say it as two words ...
Sam26 seems to imply that any language would necessarily have propositions, though this may not be what is meant by sam26. Now consider this: Sam26 ha...
Yes, it is possible to break rules. I don't see the problem. One can hold in one's mind a rule to follow, yet still not follow it. Some other conflict...
Hi Sam26, that's all pretty agreeable for me, except one important part. If you're interested I'll explain it to you. What you appear to do here is to...
Hi Luke, Can you just confirm for me that I properly understand what you arguing with respect to the "actual rules". Let's start with the assumption t...
I don't see any problem with this, no self-contradiction. It's like the statement "any statement may be doubted". That statement may be doubted too. B...
I don't see what speaking gibberish has to do with anything. I don't think you have a point here at all. It seems totally irrelevant. If one judges wh...
The last time I tried to make up my own rules in a game I got kicked out of the game. No one yet has denied me the right to use language, though Sam26...
We're pretty much going around in circles but we are at a slightly different point, because now you mention truth. I don't believe that the implicit/e...
I think you misunderstood what I said. I didn't mean to say that board games do not exist. I meant, that if "game" refers to something which consists ...
I agree that this is a problem. A brain is always active. To say that there is such a thing as a "brain state" is a misleading claim because "state" i...
Consider that we have two things, the particular, and the universal form, which is the class, or genus. The particular has a unique form, what it is, ...
Let me see if I understand what you're saying. The universal becomes a particular, as per my arguments, and is represented as (1). Now this particular...
I don't think so, I think that this is how we resolve issues, by going over them again and again and again. Most of the things you have said make sens...
The problem seems to be that you think you can use terms like "hinge-proposition", which have no real referent because there is no such thing as a hin...
If it is gibberish, this means that it is unintelligible, meaningless, nonsense. If it is meaningless, unintelligible, nonsense, then people would not...
BA Hons, plus some post grad courses, and lots of reading. I may have idiosyncratic interpretations of the work I read, but I don't think you can say ...
As I said, we have very distinct models, and I think yours is deficient. How could a person learn the first word? The capacity to learn is useless wit...
Are you serious Sam26? Must I reprint your entire post? So you produce all this talk about "basic, foundational, or bedrock" propositions, which it wo...
This is what you said: To which I replied that to avoid Platonic Realism you would have to be using "necessarily" in the sense of "needed for some pur...
As I said, I don't understand your usage of terminology. "Physics" refers to a field of study. You claim that you use it to refer to the phenomena stu...
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