Of course not. We also need to change the meaning of the word 'stick'! Physical constraints apply to bishops too. We cannot, no matter our assignation...
Of course we can turn lead into gold just by deciding that it's gold. We only need say that the definition of gold is now anything with between 79 and...
I don't think I'd claim that it does follow. My claim (in total) only requires that it can, ie it's opposite doesn't follow either. Your claim that......
No, we're assigning an institutional grouping to the entire collection of sensory data the object has (the realism part - we're assuming there is defi...
But we're not obligated by God to group all the products of trees into one grouping are we? Maybe the material from Oak is not the same thing as the m...
It is the matter of the last that's in contention, so taking it as given would be begging the question. One need only look at the form you've had to p...
This is what I was getting at right back on the first page when I wrote... I gotb the impression @"Banno", that you were amenable to such an interpret...
Sorry, no. I meant Error and knowledge. Error is in hindsight "that went wrong", knowledge in foresight " I know the bridge will hold". The other way ...
Well, yeah. But you've yet to demonstrate that it doesn't represent what it models, you've only shown that it's possible to model language in other wa...
How so? I mean, it seems to me to intersect in the manner of christening of terms at the very least. You've not supported your assertion. Yes, you ass...
The sentences should make sense if 'I know X' can be treated as an empirical fact. The sentences don't make sense. So there seems to be a problem with...
But the idea of a ratio within a perfect circle is not external to the speaker. There are no perfect circles, the concept is entirely internal (but sh...
Yes. I'm talking about the language use and the meanings those expressions have, I'm not assuming logical entailment, not even sure how expressions ab...
Right. I'm off out now, so forgive my brevity, but following through the rest of my post with that conception of the difference should yield the same ...
By population that amounts to just over half the world abstaining. Funny how readily you forget the grossly disproportionate power Western countries h...
How does the statement "the grass is green", when uttered by me, have any different meaning to "I believe the grass is green" (or " I know the grass i...
Exactly. Yet your claim was that such assertions refer to objects in the external world. This one doesn't. Ratios in perfect circles don't exist in th...
Yeah, my lack of clarity. I mean to invoke the difference between something I merely could think and something I'm compelled to think. That there are ...
Those are two very different issues though. Error is something that can only be judged in hindsight, knowledge (distinct form belief) is about foresig...
No, you're absolutely right. I agree that 2+2=4 is true (as did Ramsey, so I'm still faithfully representing his position here - I think), I had simpl...
Again, you're just repeating back to me what your preferred theory of knowledge is ("yet, you do not know it, because the truth is..."). You've not de...
Here, the present tense references actual 'truth' (our past belief was false relative to the truth now), yet the past tense references only beliefs ('...
Again, all this use of the past tense shows is that "I know X" could be made true by the truth of X. Given that some very smart people have proposed t...
Between models, utility, within models, it depends on the model. Usually they have criteria for correctness within them. I find it useful, so no. I st...
But this, and ... ...this, only show to serve that "I know X" (probably) has a truthmaker, not what that truthmaker is. The presence of the apple in t...
@"hypericin" I mean this last quite seriously, by the way. Ramsey is the only philosopher I've made any significant study of and I'm something of a co...
Of course he's talking about language use in the world. I could classify my books by author, subject, publication date, or binding colour. The choice ...
No. This is basic English. No mention of truth in any of them. If you want to start a crusade against ordinary use, crack on, but don't try and claim ...
I'm afraid I don't see the relevance. Searle is not saying "this is how it must be", he's giving a (hopefully useful) account. A counterargument would...
Difference is I'm not claiming your account is factually wrong, you are mine, hence dogmatism. I don't know what this is supposed to be a counter-exam...
Makes sense, thanks. I see the distinction, but it's less clear with something like "the ratio of the diameter of a circle to it's circumference is ?"...
An inward declaration would make no sense in the same way a private rule would make no sense. A declaration is a public event, creates a public rule. ...
You're assuming (again) that there are only two options. It may well be better for Ukraine to be in the EU than, for example, to be part of Russia, bu...
Yeah, that was pretty much my starting point too. "It's true that the grass is green" adds nothing to "the grass is green". The 'it's true' bit is imp...
'Knew' is the past tense. We use the past tense differently to the present tense. 'I know' is a description of a relationship between one's mental sta...
Ah, I remember our conversation on this last time now. I think we got about as far. To be clear, I'm not looking for someone to clarify what the stand...
But you know what I mean when I say 'voiture' is not the correct word for a car in English, yes? It's not a falsehood. The four-wheeled personal trans...
I don't see what that's got to do with the 'correctness' of a word. If, instead of 'car' I said 'voiture', that's the 'wrong' word in English, but it'...
I mean a state we can imagine but which doesn't ever exist. Imagine a world where everyone was nice to each other all the time - an ideal. Here, I'm t...
As I said, it's trying to reference an ideal. If I'm way off base here is there some other meaning you'd use for what a 'correct' word is? If you hear...
It's not about your ability to understand. If I said "pass me the stapler" whilst pointing at the hole-punch, you'd understand me. I've still used the...
That's a good point, what we understand by 'I know' varies even within claims about states of affairs. If I wanted a lecture I'd visit the university....
I'm not 'confusing' them, I'm arguing that they amount to the same thing. That - "Is it true that 'I'm a woman'?" amounts to the same thing as - "have...
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