bongo fury

:100: Careful now... Are concepts and ideas and models any more harmlessly, less misleadingly identified as the referent of "water" than are phrases l...

How is that an answer to my question? This is a request for quite ordinary clarification, of which you showed yourself capable for the remainder of th...

What is? The string of four words opening your post? Sure. It's also a fact, then, because it's not only a sentence but true. Fine. What can? The stri...

Everywhere before "duckrabbits". After that, much improved.

Agreed. This is where you (always) confuse use and mention yourself. Or are out to subvert the distinction as it is commonly supposed. According to wh...

The world is the totality of things, not of facts. Not of true sentences: it doesn't need those. Nor of obtaining states: those are linguistic too.

Exactly. It was only a cataloguing thing. And our different preferred readings, and must, both, depend on more recent precedent, if any. As to my main...

I doubt it. Any examples of Greeks using 'meta' that way? I keep hearing that for a long time it only connected to 'physical' with reference to catalo...

Thanks Josh. If that's an is, and not an ought to be, then... is, since when? True, I was ruminating on an arguable ought. A normative gloss. To maxim...

What did 'speculative' add to 'metaphysics' before it was like adding 'infectious' to 'disease'? When it wasn't part of an insult? Who coined it? Kant...

That's one way of imposing a pattern, yes. But the imposition I'm talking about isn't the physical intervention. It's what you thereby facilitate, whi...

That reminds me, where's bartricks?

Brilliant corrective, thank you. Still... if, ... then how did the label become such a popular insult? Largely, one suspects the (indirect) influence ...

:lol:

haha, the theory might have been short-lived on wiki because it was that daft :rofl: I dunno. Btw, if it didn't go without saying, and I suppose it di...

It's googleable, and I don't see why it would deserve a different thread.

I was intrigued but I can't see it now on wiki.

Last time I looked at the wiki page I could have sworn there was a theory about smoke getting in the eyes of early hom sap at its funeral pyres. :roll...

If recognise means impose, then yes, preferably. Does it? ...Which is to ask: nominalist or platonist? Forgive me if I impose, haha.

No doubt :up: Not at all. Possibly it argues why physics is not enough, and we need a science of complex systems. Fine. But that science won't thank y...

Via footnote 4: As well as being a term that strictly speaking says all sorts of interesting things that can and should be stated perfectly well in te...

I didn't need politeness, only careful engagement with the linked wiki page, and the definitions used there.

I must have failed to make clear that I wanted to interrogate the alleged connection as laid out on the linked wiki page, and follow the definitions u...

Cool, where those states are assumed equiprobable, and in which case the analogy according to the linked Wikipedia page is that information is the _nu...

Ok.

Yippee, a physicist is going to help me dispell the woo... Oh jeez. Put it this way, is there any information-talk in physics that can't be (shouldn't...

I'd be hugely grateful to learn from @"Kenosha Kid" or other physicists precisely if and where it is, within modern science, that one is compelled to ...

Except that, done with flair, it can apparently add tons of energy, and the illusion of clarity. Do you never look at a sentence you've written and th...

AI no punctuate. Reassuring.

What is a good horse for a course (logic for a discourse)? Not, one might naively assume, one whose principles allow inference to exactly all the sent...

https://youtu.be/RUzbmIKVAHo?t=47 :wink:

The maths of the correspondence theory of truth is called model theory. Commitment to the correspondence theory means commitment to a model's actual e...

Still intrigued. All I get from Google is a jewellers in Tunbridge Wells.

Really? We can assume they are all monist, which I'm hoping will gloss as absolutist? I.e. not tolerant, or relativist, inasmuch as (not) regarding lo...

What are you calling "internalist"? Just curious. 2

3. Were you aware that in the 18thC your incredulity was famously supported by Bishop Berkeley in The Analyst? And that despite his religious motivati...

I don't yet get how all the positions are meant to depend on each other. Mine is that colours are out there, but as classes of visual stimuli, which a...

Hard to square the confidence about the mission with Like, er?? 3

I was about ready to back-peddle on that, reminded of this, So it's gratifying to find Kripke agreeing that, I'm not sure whether Kripke thinks that Q...

I request, not likes, or dislikes, but durations: of composition, and if software allowed it, of views. The first is easy enough. It might start and e...

I would much rather you had waited five hours anyway. Why people have to reply within five minutes I never understand. The result is rarely worth it. ...

Attached directly? Sure. So, Apparently not. Not in the model. Even in contexts of individual judgement, a speaker (game-player) may infer (model) the...

But to be fair, the OP quotes discussion of a "social version" in which I.e., cutting out, at least in part, the middle man in this too-universally-ac...

Yes, to offer one straight answer to your question. How so? So, contra Quine. As long as you see that. Okely. Of course. Cool stuff.

Then ignore what I said. Because the word is carrying too much baggage. Can't because it's hard to determine :down: , or can't because it's indetermin...

This sounds wrong. Not sure what you meant. I don't know what "that" is, but he was usually happy to rule out such notions. Are you surprised? Again, ...

Why would you be expecting Quine to be getting into our heads? Why would you be expecting Quine to regard this question as a matter of fact?

Fair enough. By justify I meant choose. If there were some fact of the matter of which symbols mapped to which things then behaviourism wouldn't be wr...