Self-reported beliefs bear greatly on issues pertaining to the problems of private language, since in many cases a person's self-reported beliefs are ...
Both Quine, Wittgenstein and Lewis Carroll have each denied that any statement is necessarily implied by any other. To paraphrase, any explicit repres...
It doesn't make sense to refer to the semantics of expressions as being equivalent unless we can define what we mean by "equivalent semantic use" of e...
I'm saying that in ordinary language, physics and in mathematics, to determine something is to make a comparison. So it only makes sense to employ the...
But causal necessity is neither empirically meaningful nor true by definition. There is no physical justification for causal necessity, and science ha...
Sort of. i am saying that the grammar of determination involves a relation between two designated roles - the determiner and the thing determined. Det...
well, what exactly do you mean by "the same"? When we ordinarily say that two things are the same, aren't we merely implying that we can substitute ea...
Don't you mean to say that the very assumption that a code is representative of, or is generated by, a particular underlying function is what determin...
Yes, provided they understand the use of "unbounded" in a given situation to mean " a closed range of quantities cannot be specified here to satisfy o...
It is because what we do and think partly 'determines' what we mean by something 'being determined'. To see this, consider the following string, and i...
A psychological problem for non-beliefism: is it psychologically plausible that one can pragmatically adopt unwarranted assumptions for sake of compet...
Well, firstly nobody seems to agree on what Hume's arguments establish, but in my opinion: Hume's argument against a logical justification for inducti...
The definition you've quoted is more or less the same, as is the psychological conception of belief as a behavioural disposition towards evidence, whi...
If beliefs are defined as the assignment of probabilities to outcomes conditioned on one's partial knowledge, and if it is impossible to decide upon a...
I think you are confusing the idea of practical belief with religious faith in scenarios pertaining to prediction and control. You've jumped the shark...
To my mind, the only problem with not attributing consciousness as a metaphysical substance to 'suitable' forms, is that there no longer seems to be a...
isn't trying to change one's own beliefs a bit like trying to tickle oneself? One somehow needs to present evidence to oneself that reinforces the tar...
I don't quite follow that argument, because in practice no proposition is applied exactly with infinite precision, hence even the meaning of a 'precis...
That is the price you pay for holding substance views of space-time, as if space and time were transcendental tape-measures being aligned to a table-u...
The idea that ethical interventions shouldn't interfere with "destiny" undermines the very idea of ethics. And why shouldn't a Jury consider it "desti...
Supposing I insisted " Having seen five white swans, it has been determined that all swans are white". Clearly this statement only expresses my behavi...
I think confusion arises because the sentence "consciousness is a product of the brain because one get can knocked out" looks on the surface as if it ...
The meaning of determinism is akin to an "infinite for-loop" running inside a computer program that executes the same instruction repeatedly until the...
Can you explain this transcendental notion of "determination" that is over and above our practical judgements that something is determined? What does ...
Those who don't believe in Compatibilism mistake the principle of necessity for an empirical fact. Remember, Hume was a compatibilist - and this wasn'...
Your argument seems to boil down to the observation that the experience of contemplating two things together, whether simultaneously or in quick succe...
I am saying that they are not dichotomous domains, but inseparable aspects of a single cognition or application of language, for Wittgenstein did not ...
The "Truth" of all of Wittgenstein's philosophical works was in terms of their aesthetic or therapeutic value. This is why the Tractatus's self-refuti...
But we don't experience consciousness, we experience the world, and all of our ordinary non-philosophical questioning are empirical and are said in re...
Yes, in part. As a recently converted pragmatist, I assess the "truth" of a philosophical statement, whether metaphysical, epistemological or ethical,...
yes, in the same sense that art and works of fiction are persuasive - or perhaps i should say, "inspiring" or "therapeutic", since the word "persuasio...
I think the question of truth-aptness in relation to philosophy dissolves once we understand statements of philosophy as not so much constituting prop...
that looks to me like a grammatical proposition that is true by definition and hence amounts to as much as saying "I like what I like". i.e. our langu...
your argument is correct, but only if it is assumed that 'physical time' is metaphysically independent of the stream of consciousness. Only under this...
I don't think the notions of either determinism or randomness amounts to anything meaningful when describing 'nature in itself', because the 'necessar...
I would first suggest untangling the grammar of psychological predicates when used to directly express oneself in the first-person, from the grammar o...
I notice the screen is still moving as my eyes are wandering, and when I prevent them from moving my vision plays tricks. Are you implying that I shou...
Wouldn't it be better in the long run to replace the "proof of work" performed in the creation of blocks with a social or economically useful task? Th...
A Logical Behaviourist would dispute that minds aren't observable. After all, we didn't learn the concept of 'other minds' by being shown the private ...
A toddler puts their hand into a fire and get burnt. Their mother says: "Fire is always hot" Which is another way of saying "It is a fact that fire is...
Suppose someone insisted that they didn't believe in the existence of facts. What would they be missing? I imagine objections "it is a fact that the E...
Is stillness something we can even imagine or perceive? To my mind 'constancy' or 'stillness' is never present in sensation nor in the imagination sin...
I would say that reasoning is merely habits of thought, trained partially under external supervision, that have been found to lead to survival advanta...
So how can the present be ambiguous if it is not a concept of perspectival experience, while having no definition in physical theory, except as an arb...
"Esssence is expressed by grammar." "Grammar tells us what kind of object anything is" I think Wittgenstein's central point here was deflationary in t...
is to talk of 'the present' necessarily to speak of a concept? e.g "I call all of what I see around me the 'present' " Isn't our concept of the presen...
The word "concept" is ambiguous, as are "relations among ideas" and "matters of fact". Must the content of a concept be thinkable, or are concepts onl...
Right, although judging by how many people wrongly equivocate Hume's skeptical conclusion with "correlation doesn't equal causation", we should be car...
The use of the word "explanation" sounds misleading, since Hume accepted the skeptical premise that the concept of causal necessity isn't reducible to...
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