Yes, and I think that's what's being missed here. @"schopenhauer1" is arguing entirely on the basis that some interlocutor might dislike the consequen...
Which would just be another first principle, of course. Is this just another first principle, or are you claiming this to be objectively the case? I s...
My feeling with all these antinatalist arguments is that they're putting the cart before the horse. They name some ethical principle which (unless you...
I'm getting that. What seems odd about his approach, which is what I'm trying to draw out, is that he wants to question the ethical axioms of others, ...
I just asked if you felt an individual has a duty to alleviate suffering. I'm aware that you also think individuals should not force others to do stuf...
Clever. I thought I had you there. I'll have to appeal to selective black-band-blindness the refusal to accept that rabbits can wear black bands, but ...
Not if you're 'black-band-blind'. When was the last time you saw your own nose? It's constantly in your field of vision, your brain just refuses to se...
This sounds very promising (in that it gives a model of Tarski in terms that Davidson could use) but I'm concerned about the reification of' propositi...
Basically, if it's not impossible we've no grounds to say there aren't incommensurable conceptual schemes, only that there don't seem to be any, which...
What if they're not 'defeater' contexts, but just indeterminable alternative contexts. That matters I think, because we'd have no reason to revise our...
Yes, I think so. I sense there's a commitment resulting from this that I'm not going to like, so I'm wary of the fact that it's not exactly how I woul...
Does it? If I own a car and just let it crumble into a pile of dust, do I not still own it? I suppose once it's completely disintegrated, it's no long...
I agree with you here so I'm not sure I picked up on the point you were making before correctly. The probability I'm suggesting you have is in your di...
That seems to be putting the cart before the horse. Hadn't we better establish if there was such a concept prior to all written law? I can see how, lo...
Do you have any examples of 'ownership' being used prior to written law? My etymological dictionary has it as being from ""one who owns, one who has l...
I don't think we'll ever see eye to eye on this (unfortunately!). We seem to keep coming back to the same disagreements. In my view, something causes ...
If I say "I own that", I'm most of the time talking about legal ownership. There's no 'heart' of what ownership means. It means whatever it is used fo...
But the question was "what makes something yours" not "how is your claim currently protected". We're looking for a property attached to the object you...
Nor doe the truth theory imply this. Only that truth must, in some cases, be a property of beliefs, not that being believed is the same as being true....
Not quite. The issue that originally drew me into this conversation was one about the model-dependant nature of perception. It is well-evidenced that ...
Exactly. As stands now (and always did stand) as a complete summary of your posts Your argument here is only valid if you agree that your particular n...
Exactly. So this adds nothing to the very simple proposition that "if you believe all of my ethical positions you will also believe my conclusions as ...
What is 'society' other than 'many individuals'? I'm pointing out that this new tack of 'experimentation' does not add anything new to your previous a...
Good point - 'experimentation' suggests raising happy (as opposed to distressed) children is an unknown quantity. We know plenty about how to raise ha...
So you have duties to another single individual, but not duties to a number of individuals collectively. That seems like rather an odd ethical positio...
In common with all your other antinatalist threads (and I'm slightly inclined to agree with @"DingoJones" about the proselytising) you're simply assum...
OK - here's my interpretation of Ramsey's answer to that problem. Firstly, it's important to note the way Ramsey opens the section on logical consiste...
If you don't mind, I've tried to deal with the truth/belief issues in my reply to @"fdrake" below, so hopefully I respond to this there are it will sa...
I agree, Jenny has no beliefs about the minds of other people, she doesn't even have the concept 'minds of other people' her world is one of freely ac...
Yes, I'm aware of that claim. That's the reason I brought up Kuhn and Quine as Davidson's targets. They certainly didn't think that way. Kuhn actually...
Edit - I take it all back. I've just had a look at one other philosophy forum and some of the stuff on reddit and twitter... Good God! I'll just keep ...
Why not? I mean, I'm all for philosophy done with passion, but done badly - just to be obnoxious... I don't get why these people are allowed to remain...
I understand that, but Davidson's targets are Quine and Kuhn (and your target earlier was model-dependant realism). The problem is that these targets ...
I'm going to try to re-frame the problem and I hope respond to some of the points you've both made in doing so. Apologies if this totally misses the m...
@"Banno" I should add, just to be clear - I'm not 100% sure that Davidson even does use Tarski to dispose of the Fit-Reality option. He definitely doe...
OK, I'll try again. One of Davidson's conceptual scheme possibilities is the Fit-Reality combination, right? He argues that alternative conceptual sch...
Cool. Also, as a companion, if you have access to any academic journals you could tack down the snappily titled "Children's Understanding of Represent...
Yes. I'm particularly concerned with the way Davidson says that I'm not sure it is, but I too will have to go back to Kuhn to see if my feeling is rig...
Can't remember what I linked to, possibly the Friston paper, on the way expectation models affect perception? If that's not it, come back to me, I'll ...
Wierd timing. I think that's more or less what I just suggested to Banno, whilst you must have been writing your post. Let me know if I've missed the ...
This is very much the conclusion I'm coming to as well. The only exception to that is Kuhn. The article specifically 'attacks' Kuhn and yet it feels l...
That's as may be, but all that shows is some translatability, not the complete absence of genuine difference. The fact that you can translate the outc...
Davidson says "...something is an acceptable conceptual scheme or theory if it is true" I thought it a simplification to allow a wider view, but since...
That's just your own conclusion about the same subject matter. You implied I hadn't actually understood the article, so I was asking where I'd gone wr...
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