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That definition doesn't even mention anything at all about mental phenomena. So no, I wouldn't say it's appropriate.
November 07, 2018 at 15:13
Another problem, by the way, is that you're doing that rather ignorant thing where you're assuming that atheism is some sort of worldview. All that "a...
November 07, 2018 at 15:09
So the main problem I have with arguments like this is pretty simple: The problem is that I see that as a ridiculous statement, because there's absolu...
November 07, 2018 at 15:01
Whenever I read Hegel it very quickly just starts to seem like a list of words to me. By that second paragraph it might as well just be "blah blah 'fa...
November 07, 2018 at 14:50
Well, and people say things like that as if there's a belief that I would have preferred to have Hillary in office. But I wouldn't. I honestly can't s...
November 07, 2018 at 14:35
Voted for Green and Libertarian candidates . . . which is usually what I do. I consider myself a "libertarian socialist," though my views are very idi...
November 07, 2018 at 14:19
That's only the case if one assumes that the person making the knowledge (or truth) claim in that case is saying that a knowledge or truth claims they...
November 07, 2018 at 14:02
Not literally the same, no.
November 07, 2018 at 13:53
Read the rest of the post: "Books can help us refine this type of thinking, and we can learn ways that other people think in this manner that we might...
November 07, 2018 at 13:52
Because some people have a belief that it works by literally sharing meanings. So I'm clarifying that I'm disagreeing with that. Some uses. Yes. That'...
November 07, 2018 at 13:48
I was just addressing what was brought up, though, and it was brought up by you. You had said, "Doesn't some some art stand out as not just clever, no...
November 07, 2018 at 13:42
I don't understand your answer at all. You brought up that how most people use language doesn't cohere with my stated view. I'm wondering why it matte...
November 07, 2018 at 13:35
So, in a nutshell, communication obtains when multiple parties interact (not necessarily in real time or directly, and when separated in time, the mul...
November 07, 2018 at 13:32
I don't believe it makes sense. There's a reason that Boole's text, for example, was called The Laws of Thought. Logic is a way that we think about th...
November 06, 2018 at 22:18
The first statement you quoted, the first thing I agreed with was about meaning. It wasn't about context re anything else. The phrase "only-contextual...
November 06, 2018 at 22:09
The response is only thought insofar as we're talking about things like "this is pleasurable"/"this is more than pleasurable" etc. I suppose you're ot...
November 06, 2018 at 22:04
By the fact that understanding and communication do not at all work via literally sharing meanings.
November 06, 2018 at 21:57
The sound/meaning relationship is very abstract, though, and there's no way for anyone else to check just what the correlations are.
November 06, 2018 at 21:56
Why do you think that it's important for philosophizing to be consistent with the way that most people talk about something? What if the way that thos...
November 06, 2018 at 21:53
Ideas are mental phenomena. As such, they occur "in persons' heads." They're literally brain states that the person has--it's what it's like to BE tha...
November 06, 2018 at 20:11
That's one of the small number of things Wittgenstein said that I agree with. ;-)'
November 06, 2018 at 19:58
Some people think that meaning is llterally "embedded" in objective stuff. I'd guess that you're familiar with Putnam's work on meaning, no? My views ...
November 06, 2018 at 19:55
Again, that's it's a terminological dispute is what Wittgenstein would probably say,but he's wrong. Meaning occurs only in individual's heads. It can'...
November 06, 2018 at 19:43
On my view there is ONLY private language. (I'm not a Wittgenstein fan. At all.)
November 06, 2018 at 19:40
You're never going to get everything you want, but your wants and needs are not independent of each other. They can't be. Rather, it would be that som...
November 06, 2018 at 19:39
Here's one implication for you. You said: So understanding that needs always hinge on wants, you'd have to conclude that you can never get what you ne...
November 06, 2018 at 19:32
"so what" doesn't seem to gel well with "important insight" haha "That's a very important insight............but so what?" :grin:
November 06, 2018 at 19:22
The contribution is that most folks don't realize that needs necessarily hinge on wants. The topic is usually treated/understood as if they're two ver...
November 06, 2018 at 19:18
And indeed I never said otherwise. I didn't say that they're not distinct. I said that all needs HINGE on wants. In other words, there is no need to (...
November 06, 2018 at 19:14
In other words, instead of talking about needs/wants in the conventional sense, you've switched to talking about this: "In order for effect x to obtai...
November 06, 2018 at 19:11
In the same sense that you have a non-want need to drink water, you have a non-want need to not drink water. Do you agree with that? If not, why do yo...
November 06, 2018 at 19:07
Not anything we could type. In my view, meanings are different than words, especially different than marks we can make on screens, sounds we can make ...
November 06, 2018 at 19:05
In the same sense that: (a) to stay alive, you are required to drink water, (b) to die of thirst/dehydration, you are required to NOT drink water. So,...
November 06, 2018 at 19:03
That's shifting the sense of "need" that we're talking about--in other words, it's equivocating two different senses of the term. In the sense you've ...
November 06, 2018 at 19:00
Well, I'd say that the meanings you assign are both influenced by the behavior of others, as well as other things in the environment, as well as influ...
November 06, 2018 at 18:57
Seems obvious to me. What would you propose as a counter-example?
November 06, 2018 at 18:56
That doesn't amount to a goal, or to anything intentional (as you mention in your response to (2)) No, that response is what's question-begging. You'r...
November 06, 2018 at 18:55
Oy--we're probably complete opposites on that. I'm a subjectivist on meaning. Meaning is something that happens in individual's heads. And each indivi...
November 06, 2018 at 18:44
Needs always hinge on wants. "I need food." "Why do you need food?" "Because I'll starve to death otherwise. I want to keep living." You don't have an...
November 06, 2018 at 18:40
I'm not speaking for most people. Most people believe that a God exists, too. Most people are wrong about some things. It might seem like a bold asser...
November 06, 2018 at 18:23
That would just be about different individuals having different reactions to, different ideas about, both the same and different works. For any partic...
November 06, 2018 at 17:45
Yes, ideas are particular brain states. Re saying something like "God doesn't exist," it's not denying ideas about God, it's denying that there's some...
November 06, 2018 at 17:41
I'm no expert on Kant or especially on Hegel, but a common view of Hegel's rejection of the phenomena/noumena distinction is that Hegel points out tha...
November 06, 2018 at 17:37
In my view, that part is a mistake. Insofar as It's the case that physics sees such things as somehow fundamental, it's an upshot of the instrumental,...
November 06, 2018 at 16:57
Most of that I understand at least as presented . . . I just don't agree with most of it. I agree with this: ". . . means something only in and with r...
November 06, 2018 at 16:51
Just wondering if something was accidentally left out of that last post of yours.
November 06, 2018 at 16:42
Yes, that's the way I'm using the term. Re "How or the way that something exists" I see as a different issue. The thing in question has to exist for u...
November 06, 2018 at 16:40
I don't at all agree with distinctions like that, though.
November 06, 2018 at 16:32
Seems glib, but it's the only correct answer in my view: depends on the artist. Different artists have different goals, sometimes different goals for ...
November 05, 2018 at 23:30
I haven't the faintest idea what you're saying in most of that, unforunately.
November 05, 2018 at 23:21