Isaac

But isn't this just begging the question? If a belief is "an attitude to the world (or a mental state if you like) when rendered as a statement." then...

That may well be the case, but it would only stand as a counter argument if you're suggesting that it would be literally impossible to pull of such a ...

Really? That's the quality of discussion you want? You just espouse some dogmatic opinion and any contrary view is silenced with the standard cliche t...

A brick is not a cow because if I asked any for a cow to build a house with I would not get what I want. If I asked for a brick to milk I would not ge...

If someone took up the kerb and replaced it with a pile of books of similar size and shape, the blind man's conception of the object he detected would...

I think this is perhaps the crux of the problem, and the point that @"fdrake" was working towards. If the direct realist is going to say "we don't lit...

Yes, I'm gathering that very strongly from your repeated dogmatic dismissal of the idea. What I was actually asking for was any evidence or reasoning ...

Yes. I asked you for sources, you do realise you're espousing a theory about how the brain works (or in this case, doesn't) you're own incredulity doe...

How can this be so. The belief that the cat is in kitchen has merely been replaced with one that she is in the hall. That too might be mistaken. They ...

OK, that makes perfect sense, but you asked about the 'form' of a belief and that still confuses me. I understand your three ways in which a belief ca...

I think you're right here, and again, looking at the active inference stuff, I think that's quite well supported (for those unfamiliar with the idea t...

Not crucially important, but Friston approves of Gibson's theory of perception as it pertains to affordances, but he disagrees with the extent (contra...

A belief can be a particular neural network. It would function in exactly the same way - a tendency for some action to result from some circumstance. ...

I'm not seeing the problem with such a question, apart from you (and others of your opinion) declaring it to be. By 'problem' here I'm meaning somethi...

I couldn't agree more. What I'm enquiring about is this list of follies. What problems arise from speaking this way? I've listed a few problems I thin...

You previously said that the thing that emerged was "complex and novel", now you're claiming it's so fundamental and obvious it can't be ignored. Whic...

It's not about being 'strict' with language, it's about using it in a particular way. You're trying to enforce a use of 'see' where it is not normally...

Possibly, but the thing emerging is not complex and novel. The thing emerging is conciousness. The whole point of the hard problem is that conciousnes...

Why couldn't unexplained emergence be a brute fact? Are there some limits/preferences about what can and cannot be a brute fact?

I can't post images so I'll have to link to the whole document Here, but what I want to ask you is about the model of perception on page 18. Note the ...

This my not be what @"Graeme M" is getting at, if so I don't want to derail his thread with this, but - how exactly is spreading it out through everyt...

Coincidentally the same problem as on the other thread about direct/indirect realism. In removing the mental state of belief from discourse you remove...

This is only true in a very self-centred sense though. To ask the extent to which our perception resembles reality does not dissolve to a question abo...

I don't think it does. Take a person with no language at all, present them with a time machine (which works by reading your desires) and demonstrate i...

We say a record player produces the sound made by the record (yet the player's plastic cover actually plays no part in producing the sound), we say th...

Yeah, I think this could be a useful way to look at it, but I doubt much beyond basic reward for labour and ideas would pass muster. Agreed, but I don...

. Right, so your claim seems to be that the entire process 'just is' the experience (otherwise experience might be the result of neural activity). But...

So neuroscience should just give up. If someone has a serious brain lesion and it's affecting their experience of colour the neuroscientist should thr...

I'm somewhat reluctant to say it, but I think this was something like where I was going. Not to say the public in general are that bad, but that the v...

Does the opposite effect ever weaken the argument that seeks to validate the appeal to authority? An argument was posted on the coronavirus thread tha...

I refer you back to @"Pfhorrest" You're just begging the question. Why would we assume the money was acquired justly? Why would assume the transfer wa...

Thanks for the links. I'll have a read.

Indeed. Economic structures distribute resources. One of those structures is supply and demand (the basis of the OP). It's not even the most important...

No, because you say and are useful rephrasings, but neither apply to inherited money. If the amount of money being declared 'too much' is inherited, t...

What about inheritance? Plus No - so that rather undermines the whole project doesn't it?

Yeah, same applies, obviously.

But throughout our recent disagreement about the meaning of 'charitable interpretation' you have consistently referered to the alternatives under cons...

OK, so in what way did you think my choice of identifiers ('yours' and 'mine') meant that the clearest and most consistent interpretation of my view i...

I think you and I have very different ideas of what 'charitable' means. To me it refers to seeking the most agreeable interpretation of someone's expr...

I gathered that from your first post, what I was asking was what these other ways of using conditionals are, I can't really think of any. Indeed, but ...

Good. But he used the contingent "I wish you would have..." along with the conditional "Because then you want to hear my method, and you want me to he...

"I think it's unlikely that this coronavirus — because it's so readily transmissible — will disappear completely," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infe...

What happened to charitable interpretation? There are (at least) two methods in a conflict about how to help the homeless (my example). Your method an...

I'm not sure if you perhaps had this distinction in mind anyway, but this ideal surely only applies to quite a narrow (albeit important) range of diff...

That certainly overlaps with what I'm saying. There are two aspects to conflict resolution which interest me, one is the actual methods which can be u...

Good post. Only one small concern... Isn't this a bit circular? How do we establish that the claims are psuedoscientific without appealing to the same...

Yes, I think this is the case too, but (stop me if I'm getting too psychoanalytical) there's an advantage there - in terms of game theory - to a perso...

True, but little different from any other type of analysis, that was my point. Looking to underlying psychological precursors to holding a particular ...

I've made over 2,000 comments and not started a single thread. I think number 11 is my Achilles heel. Yeah, the problem, I think, is no matter what th...

Possibly, but if we were resisting it would others not notice this? Yet others accuse us of being the ones who are not abiding by the rules. So the ot...