Ah, yes. My comment was directed specifically at your response to critiques/misunderstandings, not your prior exegesis which, I think I had already co...
Struggling to see how those two propositions don't add up to exactly the idea that we cannot have differing conceptual schemes because that would requ...
Conceptual schemes arise from organising content (phenomena). It doesn't matter how the content is obtained. Incommensurable schemes are nonetheless t...
Yes, I'd certainly disagree with any notion that we actually perceive the same objects, unaffected by our beliefs and states of mind, I just wasn't at...
You said... Which is what my initial comment to you was aimed at. That some material risk was being taken by businessmen, like those who built Microso...
OK, so all physiological sensory perception. Who has suggested (or who do you think might suggest and so need correction) that the physiology of these...
If you believe this, then I have to question your sincerity here. Read them aloud and see for yourself. Red herring. Non sequitur. Invalid objection. ...
I have no idea what any of that has to do with my comment. You said It was that to which I was responding. The business entrepreneur risks bankruptcy ...
In opposition to what? It sounds like you've just stated the equivalent of "perception is unaffected by the price of bread", no one ever thought it wa...
But hey, what's losing your home compared to the risk you might lose someone else's money and then declare yourself bankrupt with no liability at all ...
I'll see where this goes, but want to get in here that I don't see something being 'true' in one scheme but not 'true' in another as necessarily the d...
Some approaches here are more exegetical than discursive. They can still be quite interesting but, often not being clearly labelled as such, one can o...
Yes, that's exactly what I'm trying to say. The proposition "The sun is settling" is true if the sun is setting. It's entirely linguistic and to say "...
I don't have a lot of knowledge about Davidson either. I mainly object to being told that Davidson has "killed off", or, "done away with" anything. No...
Not sure what the terms of the schema being 'wrong' would mean here. Do you mean that they fail to refer, or that they refer, but in a contradictory m...
Their truth would be dependent on what was said no less than in any other scheme. The point is simply that it would be relative to what the terms refe...
You keep getting almost there but then fall back on the same absolutism at the end. What possible reasons could anyone give you in answer to the quest...
A principle not everyone agrees with, without exceptions. Again, an assumtion many are happy to make. Of course you don't, because the 'goodness' of a...
But on what could we possibly base such an investigation? Having just established that what is important for humans is a mixed bag, and you having pre...
This is the crux of the problem. Nothing at the level of rhetoric, where we now are, is important 'to humans'. Some things are important to some human...
It sounded like you were asking why people thought positive rather than negative ethics should have primacy, as if you already knew what kind of state...
Absolutely. It's horses for courses with your chosen scheme (although I don't think we have so much free choice over them as we'd like to think). I'm ...
How are you determining that the primacy of positive ethics isn't itself an ethical first principle? Do ethical first principles have labels attached ...
The claim being made is that translatability equates to commensurability. I'm completely in agreement that the expressions translate in such a way tha...
Everyone seems to be conflating commensurability with translatability as if the two were equal. 'Sun setting' talk may well be translatable to 'earth ...
Maybe so, but if that's the case then the comment which drew me to this discussion in the first place is off mark. You claimed that "The idea of model...
Yes, this is exactly what we found, initial states are largely irrelevant. What I really want to do some day (but semi-retirement makes it an increasi...
Probably only tangentially related (but then isn't everything we've been discussing - what was the actual thread topic again?). I did some work many y...
Just reminded me of a paper by Peggy Series (I think) about nested Markov blankets and how they can be used to create wider network models - something...
Ahh. So the idea is that we might be able to construct linear-functionally related models (with or without noise?) of hidden states which bypass the f...
I'm full of the most awful cold at the moment so that might be to blame for my mental fog, but, if you've time, I think I might need you to lay out (C...
Not entirely, you'd need to read the Friston paper to get a full idea, but I understand it's not everyone's cup of tea, so I'll try to summarise. It's...
Everyone wants to limit centralised power. Who in the world wants to give central government all the power it is possible for a government to have... ...
Hidden states just refers to the fact that we don't have direct access to the causes of our sensations, they are caused by some hidden states of the w...
Yes, that's his conclusion, but his route there is via what he considers the relativist would have to say about the different schemes by reference to ...
Davidson's point is that we couldn't possibly know they were different without some kind of translatability. To have "a sees p as x, whereas b sees p ...
Yes, that's how I see it. I cited a paper earlier in the thread all about it. Ideas about perception and models of reality based on inference from it ...
It does, but what we call real and the concept that there might be hidden states of affairs are two slightly different things. One is the actual conte...
Pragmatically perhaps, but not theoretically, which is what Davidson is claiming. You're presuming there's only the possibility of a binary distinctio...
We do though, to some extent. If a car is racing toward me at great speed, my whole experience of the event might be a blur, and my body moving, littl...
@"Baden". This guy's been skirting around the edge of some pretty unpleasant stuff for some time, but this is open support for honor killing - enough ...
There's a distinction which I either keep failing to explain properly, or people don't generally seem to think useful, but it's crucially important to...
Thanks, I'm not sure whether to be reassured that some sub par posts are being caught before I read them or concerned that what remains is the activel...
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