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How could a philosophy not 'leave it out'. It can't be said. What would a philosophy do to 'leave it in'. Wink at it?
February 18, 2021 at 20:23
No, they are not sufficient causes, they are necessary causes. Another necessary cause is a human tea-maker, or a machine. It doesn't make them not ca...
February 18, 2021 at 19:44
Alright then. Without the 'jargon'. In order to make tea I must boil the kettle, add the tea leaves and add the milk. Each of those things cause tea t...
February 18, 2021 at 18:05
Do you really not know the difference between proximate and ultimate causes, between sufficient and necessary causes?
February 18, 2021 at 17:47
That's what those slew of reasons are there to do. Help you work that out. It's not a flat refusal, but we have to set the parameters first. If you as...
February 18, 2021 at 17:42
This is a repeated tactic in your thinking and I've not understood it from the outset. Simply saying that X is like Y does not make X like Y, yet this...
February 18, 2021 at 17:13
Priceless!
February 18, 2021 at 08:57
So? What has what you think is a matter of principle got to do with the laws of the democracy in which you happen to live? I agree, yet every time I m...
February 18, 2021 at 08:29
The argument against the sort of language that is being opposed it that it creates an environment in which the subjects of that language are less free...
February 18, 2021 at 07:56
Who said anything about being offended?
February 18, 2021 at 07:50
Because ensuring it clashes with many of the other liberties we want to ensure everyone has.
February 18, 2021 at 07:49
How do you propose to ensure equality of you don't? What would equality mean in an un-quantified variable?
February 18, 2021 at 07:43
I don't know where you'd get that from, it's literally in the quote "You'll believe what you want to believe for a whole slew of incredibly complex bi...
February 18, 2021 at 07:41
You're arguing that that there are two apples in one bag and two in another, therefore four apples altogether, and when I challenge that claim you dir...
February 18, 2021 at 07:22
...as is 'language'.
February 18, 2021 at 07:17
I agree. I used to take a behaviourist approach way back at the beginning of my academic career (methodological, not Skinner), and over the course of ...
February 18, 2021 at 07:16
If I give you the wrong directions to the pub, and you go that way, my words have caused you to do so. It's not that hard. It wasn't ridicule, it was ...
February 18, 2021 at 06:58
You said it was a balance of harms. How do you propose to establish harms if not empirically? Guesswork? Shall we do an augury? I'll get the sheep's e...
February 17, 2021 at 17:03
I don't have any trouble with the notion that words have effects, so it's not a difficulty for me. I'm not arguing that words are the sole cause of an...
February 17, 2021 at 17:01
...is what I was disputing. We can't, as my example shows. Same will be true of parsimony, elegance, explanatory power, or any other such system you c...
February 17, 2021 at 16:56
Right, but this is what you denied earlier, which is why I'm getting confused about your argument. You specifically said that moral language was not j...
February 17, 2021 at 16:35
I didn't say it was unreasonable of you to ask, I said I had no interest in answering. Which depends on the extent to which it restricts liberty...whi...
February 17, 2021 at 10:01
We've already been through this. Literally any theory at all can be made to match everyone's observations by the addition of another 'coupling' theory...
February 17, 2021 at 09:54
I'm not actually commenting with the intention of discussing the matter with you, you've shown yourself to be completely uninterested in any empirical...
February 17, 2021 at 08:56
Well then he ought rationally deliberate the opposite, it would be far less problematic. Unless, of course he couldn't, in which case the words would ...
February 17, 2021 at 07:15
So why the song and dance about free speech? The issue clearly has nothing to do with that. You think the speech in question does not cause sufficient...
February 17, 2021 at 07:13
That's fair enough, if those are the arguments you're making (It didn't seem to me that this is what you were arguing - your style is somewhat opaque ...
February 17, 2021 at 07:09
So there are limits to free speech. On what grounds?
February 16, 2021 at 21:20
Why would they have any fear? The new rules have only so far been communicated with speech and apparently speech has no effect whatsoever on other peo...
February 16, 2021 at 19:25
Isn't all that 'speech'? Wouldn't preventing it require some kind of restriction on free-speech?
February 16, 2021 at 19:21
That's then not speech act theory or meaning as use. It's claiming that the meaning of a word is the psychological state it somehow embodies. Just bec...
February 16, 2021 at 18:36
No. The act of definition would only be possible by inference and so be dependent on the last variable node inside our Markov blanket. This doesn't pr...
February 16, 2021 at 17:42
Opinions don't have meanings, their just not the sort of thing it would make any sense to ascribe a meaning to. Words have meanings. Art has meanings,...
February 15, 2021 at 13:38
Then it is not an external source of surprise. Variables outside the Markov blanket are defined by that property. Anything which is not independent of...
February 15, 2021 at 07:38
Right. But I didn't ask that. This and the following long-winded explanation of it have nothing whatsoever to do with my question, so either your read...
February 15, 2021 at 07:13
Absolutely. Well that's the matter in question. I'm not overly wedded to one position or the other on this, but from the WHO briefings alone, this is ...
February 15, 2021 at 06:56
Yes. In fact I'd add 'the self' itself. As in 'true to yourself, 'not being yourself'... As if there were some sacred fixed point from which certain f...
February 14, 2021 at 20:58
OK, so what do you think trust is, psychologically? We have this input (the words "Do X") and an output (an intent to do X). How does trust get us fro...
February 14, 2021 at 20:46
I'd probably have to agree with ...as the biggest. So the second biggest That the things people say actually reflect in one-to-one correspondence some...
February 14, 2021 at 13:28
How? That's the question I don't seem to be able to get a clear answer to. What is the neurological ( or psychological if you prefer) mechanism by whi...
February 14, 2021 at 12:39
I didn't claim there was no difference, only that the difference was not categorical, but one of degree, or of conveying additional information (such ...
February 14, 2021 at 09:41
Yes, I get that. My point was unless you're just making stuff u[ out of thin air you wouldn't be able to say that such speech acts exists without sayi...
February 14, 2021 at 09:29
Broadly, yes. I'm sure there are nuances of difference, bur Clarke references Barrett's work favourably, so I expect they're roughly in agreement. I'm...
February 14, 2021 at 08:33
Ah, I see. Everyone should stop using it because you personally don't happen to agree with one of its possible uses. Sounds about par for one of your ...
February 13, 2021 at 14:51
What could possibly be meant by 'justified' here. Justification is a human activity embedded in our relationship with our desires. Absent of that it s...
February 13, 2021 at 14:46
Then how would you ever know if someone were following a rule? Any observation that they appeared to be might at any future time be undermined by an o...
February 13, 2021 at 13:29
Yes, but have you tried the i-torch 8, with new splinter-free wood and lavender-scented oily rags (all emblazoned with your favourite Disney character...
February 13, 2021 at 12:41
Seems in contradiction to Claiming that there is a certain speech act is the same thing as making a claim about the meaning of a word. Speech acts are...
February 13, 2021 at 12:28
You should see some of the people mum sold me out to.
February 13, 2021 at 09:52