Isaac

But you said... It seemed (not unreasonably) that the question of how one discriminates was exactly crucial to your OP.

Firstly, you can't arrive at a near infinite number of different conclusions by arranging facts differently. That matters because it's means that ther...

Yes. I tend to go further to say that we need know how we would behave if it were the case. I can't form a belief about whether it is the case that "t...

What is it that motivates them to do so?

Yeah. As has been said - more authoritatively than I put it, the ability to evaluate the truth value of a proposition seems to depend on the nature of...

So what does it mean when I say my friend Jack is a 'true gentleman'?. What am I seeking if I seek the 'truth'? How is the 'true cost' of something di...

So is a token the sort of thing that can be 'true'?

But in the Liar, the sentence is about the sentence, so if it were to act as a token it could only be for some kind of assertion or proposition. There...

Thanks. So if the sentence is a token for the proposition, then is the proposition about the sentence (token) or itself?

Not following you at all I'm afraid. Any chance of an expansion?

Something I'm missing about the Liar... "(Li) is happy" doesn't cause any such issue. We don't spend hours working out what "This sentence is happy" c...

I think you've hit the nail on the head here. There is a way of salvaging some of the merit though, without losing this ground, I think. None of our e...

There's two elements to your summary which I feel I need to clarify. 1) Moore's paradox rests on the understanding of two processes - the selection of...

The pair of statements "I believe it's raining" and "It's raining" have different meanings in different contexts, we agree on that much I think. Each ...

I don't see how they do. Within the model (where we talk about certain well-accepted shared beliefs as real objects fo the world), when I'm getting we...

I completely agree with you, but this is exactly what I've been trying to argue all this time, sentences which cross worlds can only really be made se...

No, they don't and I've already given the sense in which they don't (someone reading their own super-advanced fMRI scan). Another might be a schizophr...

Much as I said to Luke above. If we want to talk about the object of our sentences, to answer questions such as "What are you talking about", we only ...

It's not about idealism. recognising that the access we have to the real world is indirect does not entail idealism. All I'm saying here is that if yo...

That last bit of writing was really confused and I've edited it too many times already. What I mean to say is that I think the word 'true', or 'truth'...

Yes. No. I don't see the results as propositions, just 'tendencies to act as if...'. A proposition is a speech act. It could be done for all sorts of ...

To be clear, you said... And also You're clearly here implying that lack of strict rigourously controlled replicability casts doubt on the findings ar...

I understand these reasons, they're beside the point. The replication crisis was not raised in support of the above argument (it would be irrelevant t...

Yes, absolutely. I think a lot of confusion about much of what I write here results from the fact that we can at times treat ourselves as objects abou...

The idea you were attempting to refute is irrelevant. The point is simply that the level of replicability you were criticising neuroscience for lackin...

We're equivocating on the meaning of 'belief'. A belief in the sense I'm talking about, is an inference about the state of the world. It already (in i...

But we've just established that the single issue is that you might be wrong about something and not correct that error. That is, you agreed, the only ...

Then stop making claims which are within the remit of neuroscience. Yet... This is a direct claim about why people do things. It is of the form "peopl...

Such duplicity! Not less than a few days ago, in a post to me, you were discarding the whole of neuroscience because it's results could not be exactly...

So how does the fact that you're open to them being questioned alter the issue? We've just agreed that the problem is related to whether you actually ...

I haven't read a single refutation of the fact the someone might choose a course of action because it makes them feel good, or because their society d...

Why do you persist in pretending this false dichotomy when it has been made clear a dozen times by several different people that these are not the onl...

How is it a problem? The only problem with fideism that I can see is that one might be wrong about some belief and because one does not question it, o...

That just seems to beg the question. If we're going to assume the object of propositions from the outset, then we're only going to get limited range o...

No, most people are persuaded to act in one way or another by laws, social rules, peer-pressure and upbringing, all of which are ways societies can ma...

No it isn't. If you do not question a rule then you are following it blindly. The fact that you might theoretically be open to questioning it sometime...

Your ad infinitum is impossible. You must simply accept one set of rules, you do not have infinite mental resources to devote to actually questioning ...

Well, yes, but that does indeed seem to be what people broadly think. They think it best not to break the law most of the time, they are persuaded by ...

That's right, but the theory is that it's enough to make a difference. It's hard to explain the importance of synaptic pruning in child development wi...

Really? Happens to me all the time.

Just that getting a kick out of something is a feeling we already have terms for and those terms are not 'moral duty' or anything similar. It's simply...

And how do you carry out this criticism and effort? By following rules.

One can pay attention to the result (which are made available to the conscious), without paying attention to the process by which they're derived. Not...

Interesting article, thanks. Is it anywhere explained why? I've read the article, but not with any great depth. I can't find an explanation for this a...

I've no idea why you keep framing it like this when you've been presented with several alternatives just in this thread. Democracy, tolerance, diversi...

Of course we all know that. The problem is when we try to explain why. Ramsey's solution is simple, it's because 'I believe that P', 'P is true' and '...

Yes, but under traditional correspondence theory, that has no relevance. The first part has its truthmaker in the state of the world, the second in th...

Yes. Unfortunately we can only gather very little of Moore's meaning from that one letter which is why I quoted from PI. It seems clear, at least to m...

Yes. I didn't mean to imply they were all in agreement about the cause of the dissonance, that's why I tacked on "according to Moore" at the end of th...

Yes. Unless I've missed something in your grammar the construction of your proposition is - It seems as if claims are about X, therefore X Where X her...