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You just restated more verbosely. Do you agree the correlation I describe exists?

Oh? Great. Why don't you elaborate?

https://www.khaleejtimes.com/business/miracle-girl-nandana-has-access-to-mothers-memory I have heard of this case several times before, it is supposed...

Consider this evidence: The relationship of extreme power between parent and child is more prevalent in more conservative societies and households, an...

I wrote a similar post a few months back. I would add that a (typically) a parent occupies a overwhelming position of power in relation to their child...

I think what is missing from this discussion is context. Given a context, there are of course numbers which you can consider effectively infinite: c f...

Another way to think about truth is in terms of possible worlds. First, it must be acknowledged that truth is a continuum, it is non-binary (If you do...

I think it boils down to this. There is a concept of agenthood. Like most concepts it is not binary, it is a continuum. Humans are highly agent, thoug...

I wouldn't put it that way. It is about our concepts. "Meaning" is a word for a concept. What is it? Specifically here, does it include features of ob...

I just did it. It is conflation. In this case, yes we would be wrong, at least legally. Nonetheless we (by "we" I emphatically exclude batshit Trumpie...

If this is true, then meaning is divorced from extension. Names have extension, but according to this no corresponding intension. must be wrong. Two n...

Yes, this is why I disagree with Putnam. Putnam believes that differences in the thing in itself, differences which we have no access to, can impose c...

This is grounded in community usage, as well as in this case legalisms. My argument is that meaning derives from community usage, not objective realit...

Suppose this change happened in 2000BC? Would everyone suddenly be wrong when they said "this is a cup of water" in their language?

What is a proper name if not a word that means a particular thing? The same example can be made without using a proper name. Suppose all the world's w...

Imagine you were killed and replaced by an evil doppelganger. Your friend George, unaware of this, says "Hi Michael". George doesn't mean the doppelga...

I think I agree, and I think you hit on the mistake of my op. The full meaning of a sentence can only be gotten with it's context. The context free pa...

Hmm, good point. I think you're right. My current thinking: From our omniscient perspective of the posers of the thought experiment, "water" and twin ...

Compare the four sentences: S1: The water is cold. Meaning known, referent unknown S2: ????????????? Meaning unknown (unless you are Cambodian), refer...

You got the argument totally wrong, nothing to do with my preference. It would be silly to suggest that someone like Putnam would be naive to the dist...

The use of the definite article means that S refers to a specific bit of water, not water in general. If meaning and referent were interchangeable it ...

Similarly, philosophers in Flatland will conclude that there can be no third dimension. Every point in their experience has only a left and right, for...

Here is another example: S2: "The point on the ground two feet in front of you" This has the same meaning for everyone who reads it. I would translate...

Putnam is setting up an artificial scenario where two people's mental states are identical when they use a term, and yet the term is referring to diff...

I'm not using any philosophical jargon here. Simply, we English speakers all know what S means. It is basic English. But we don't know to what it refe...

Trouble is, this just isn't what Putnam says. From the paper:

No, meaning is social. It is stable whatever or whether we think of it. Interpretation is what is in the head.

The two claims are not contradictory, so no.

1) Are you speaking of the difference between the physical markings and their interpretation as letters or phonemes? I agree, this should be distingui...

Not inconsistent, I didn't recant. Sentences, whose meanings are something like social realities, are tools used to induce thoughts in others.

Another tack: Sentences are just tools used to induce thoughts in others (or represent thoughts to ourselves, when thinking). It is the thoughts thems...

I agree. But meaning then must be distinguished from interpretation, which is in the head. I see four distinct components to a sentence: 1: The symbol...

If I imagine that there is a dragon on Neptune, that imagining is in my head, not Neptune. Are you claiming that meaning is something like a social re...

So meaning is both purely imaginary and not in the head, an imaginary lightning bolt from symbol to object which is also the object? This does not str...

Then where is it located?

The meaning of "the water is cold" is not about chemical composition. It is certainly not about some covert inaccessible property of water. It is abou...

I'd come across this at some point before, I found it very unconvincing, then and now. I would say that Putnam is conflating meaning and referent. The...

Interpretations are the meanings we construe from sentences. Meaning is what the sentence points to, not the sentence itself. It is the signified, not...

My feeling is that it is a mainly a combination of this and 5. Where a civilization would have slipped through the cracks of one, the other snuffs it ...

I believe that understanding is always liberating. Ignorance is not bliss, false concepts can only lead to disappointment and depression. Life may hav...

This is just not true. P paints a propositional picture. By stating P, in some languages and contexts, it might be assumed that the same speech act is...

Three things must be distinguished: 1. The spoken/written sentence 2. The proposition the listener/reader derives from 1 3. The state of affairs relev...

From the perspective of our point in history this possibility has a huge appeal. Especially when you consider that it can be argued that prior civiliz...

WTF was up with people heaping praise on this PILE OF DOGSHIT??? It's very disheartening. If this... thing, is enough to garner such effusiveness, the...

Not sure what this formulation is supposed to mean. Whew, glad I never once hinted at suggesting that.

Sure, in some contexts, propositional logic for instance, truth is binary. So it cannot be the state of affairs that truth has degrees, because if it ...

If truth can admit to degrees, which it does, then it must be a property. There is not one definite semantic payload corresponding to a given sentence...

What's special about our confident beliefs? Language is nothing if not ambiguous. Statements may be true, within a temporal window. They may be true, ...

But truth, like most things, is not binary. Sentences have degrees of truth. Absolute truth is an edge case. Therefore, P cannot be the same thing as ...

I wanted to present a stereotypical hero who has been living in this stereotypical simulation for years and years, and was bored and unhappy with, eve...