Terrapin Station

It's frustrating when you're the lone loon who disagrees with something, though.

"So those things do not work as counterarguments" is not argumentative towards you.

Is there any way to specify on the Kahneman video just where--just in the ballpark of where it begins--he presents something you count as evidence of ...

Not that I agree with the following view, but if determinism is the case, then any goal that someone has, any appearance of weighing of choices are no...

None of them were (officially) published during his lifetime.

As I pointed out way back, if by "learning" we don't mean that odd notion that has it that one is given something wholesale where the person receiving...

Definitely do not have to limit your comments to individuals, but when you specifically address and/or quote someone, when you've been going back and ...

"Oh dear" is one thing we can agree on. ;-)

So, with this, just to give an example of the many problems that are occurring with each statement: All meaning is from a particular space and time pe...

Well via a lot of other comments that were obviously wrong (hence my "as many other things you said and that you quoted from Wittgenstein"). I prefer ...

Yeah, that's what I was asking you. The problem is that "ostension is inseparable from generality" seems very obviously wrong (as do many other things...

?? You started a long thing about why we're "patriotic," and commenting on whether we're patriotic out of self interest. Unless you're saying that's s...

But arguing that it's wrong where it turns out that you're simply misunderstanding the conventional connotations of the term? It would be up to you to...

I'm asking about your comment there re "inseparable from generality." You said x is an instance, presumably in the sense of an instantiation, a token ...

Sure, so re generality and its complement you weren't making a type/token distinction? Wouldn't it have been easier to just answer that?

Yeah, it does, because ALL of the evidence we have is that mentality is brain states. There is zero evidence that it's anything else.

What does anything in your post starting with the following have to do with what I had said or what we were talking about, though?

Well, so if we're just going with "unpleasant sensation" isn't that ridiculously broad? For example, I find it an unpleasant sensation to smell someon...

So re generality and its complement you weren't making a type/token distinction?

What does that have to do with proper name ostension and the comment you made about generality? (Again not that I agree with Wittgenstein there, but t...

Are you getting me confused with Devans99? I didn't forward anything about "self-interest"

I thought you were suggesting that seeing played some causal role in the belief. Anyway, we have tons of data from neuroscience (both modern and histo...

I'm not sure what the difference is supposed to be there.

I don't know, because I don't really have any idea what you're asking there.

How are you connecting "employ that proper name in a role" (not to suggest that I'm agreeing with that--we'd have to define it better) with "inseparab...

Whatever you want to call it, just swap out the words.

Yeah, just crank up the patronization. That's a good look. . . . As if one can't disagree with conventional wisdom in the sciences.

If I were to give you a counterexample, such as "Joe added crimson red to his painting because Joe dislikes crimson red," then you'd interpret it so t...

Okay, but then what you're saying isn't very clear, starting with the fact that proper names for particulars are separable from generalities. Re "demo...

Obviously I don't agree with that. So repeating the idea, or acting as if I must not be familiar with conventional views (that followed what I'm quoti...

That's basically asking if I think that you'd not be able to forward an interpretation of any arbitrary phenomenon in that framework, which is unfalsi...

I don't think there's any assumption to it. It couldn't be clearer/more obvious. I don't know why you were assuming I was necessarily talking about me...

It's not difficult to define "run": "Move at a speed faster than a walk, never having both or all the feet on the ground at the same time." The reason...

That was the second time I used the phrase by the way. I didn't use it to indicate that I was quoting anyone. It was in quotation marks because I woul...

Some reasons--not an exhaustive list: I naturally think in a philosophical way. I'm intrigued/amused by the often ridiculous (in my opinion) things th...

And pain is "physical suffering or discomfort caused by illness or injury"? "Suffering" being in that definition is problematic if we're wondering wha...

How you feel is always a factor of how your brain is functioning. No one is saying that the environment doesn't have an impact on that, but that doesn...

Are you saying that that is empirically the case, or are you basically just announcing how you're going to use particular terms?

If we're not allowed to try to pin down just what we're referring to with "suffering" or just how we're attempting some overarching calculus of it, it...

Why would you think that I'm doing anything like searching for what I ought to do? Re critical thinking, I simply see philosophy as a gobbledygooky wa...

I think that anxiety, at least of the sort that someone might need treatment for, is a brain chemistry/brain function issue. It often manifests as jus...

It's only about that for a given individual if they think about it that way. I don't think about it that way, for example. You must buy the idea of un...

I agree that Augustine wouldn't say that learning implies being given something wholesale where the person receiving what was learned is entirely pass...

I don't know what I could do to make it clearer that in my view, morality is purely an individual mental phenomenon. It's not something that one can b...

It seems like we're having a very difficult time communicating with each other, by the way. So then it would seem that if you're talking about conferr...

How do you confer rights non-legally?

First, I'm not saying that ostensive learning of language would amount to "correctly identifying" anything. The learner might think about what's being...

"Personal preference" refers to something being a preference that a person has. The fact that every person happens to have the same preference (just i...

Is that basically your default--everything should be illegal unless there's a good reason to make it legal?

I didn't get there yet (I think I only went through 25 above), but I don't agree that ostensive language-learning would involve anything like "correct...