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Yes, all rainbows are fuzzy going from colour to next colour. But funnily enough (as you may have noticed) each colour can act as a buffer making its ...

Alas, that article isn't about innateness at all, in what I took to be the implied respect of its possible role in determining the extension of 'red' ...

:cool:

Ok.

One at a time, please.

Interesting theory. Do you mean that those people innately respond to (or otherwise experience) in a distinct manner roughly the same set of external ...

I'm somewhat sympathetic to Goodman's analysis, in which this figure and its various relatives are seen as suggesting dramatic recalibrations of the o...

Slight hiccup...

... That would be a cheek, indeed. Ah but they aren't necessarily abstract, they are roughly like general terms, concrete syntactic elements (words) s...

Wow, thanks for that definition, as well.

Oh, I never thought of that.

I agree. Witty's certainty = Quine's centrality. Two Dogmas: Jan '51. So, great minds. And then obviously his agenda has nothing to do with Moore's. T...

Except wasn't the allusion to Christian virtue always tongue in cheek; the principle being more a computational (or analytical) strategy? I sometimes ...

If you say so.

Not to trivialise many people's seriously deluded thought patterns. Just to question, e.g. ... if the latter would lead people towards an unnecessary ...

Because. Mornington Crescent.

:100: And when I read your post I "imagine your voice", or so shiver my brain as to invite that modern rationalisation. Any rationalising is potential...

Nah, only rather that when in Rome (i.e. ordinarily) I can play their language games, regardless their philosophy of games and rules. Not sure why you...

That you have realised that there is no fact about that kind of matter? The hand proposition is the big fat fact.

But do you see the difference I just pointed out? No, the sorites doesn't directly address that. I'm willing to learn more about Peirce's and/or your ...

Create a quote in the normal way from the post in the other thread. Copy or cut it from the text box in that thread, return to your thread and paste.

Yes, but as I say, a nice feature of the sorites is how it shows that the vague and non-technical usage "everything is on a spectrum" can be interroga...

I suppose "spectrum" ought to have come with a health warning: it alludes only to the vague non-technical attitude of mind that "everything is on a sp...

So not real enough?

... You mean, no corresponding light beam with a clear, single spectral peak? Each point (or strip) along the length of a rainbow produced by a glass ...

... and then, spectrum, spectrum, spectrum. You might at least now see how that is your position. Sure, a spectrum has extremes. What the puzzle often...

But is it too pernickety to insist that a single grain is absolutely and obviously not a heap? That's what I was trying to get at. Well, So if push co...

Don't you think it would seize up for the opposite reason, too? If it didn't have a syntax, and in many cases a semantics, based on clarity and the co...

Predicament (G): The spontaneous correction reported in (F) has, pleasingly, become voluntary; or has, at least, coincided with a marked improvement i...

Yeppity. So you say. But this is more about your proposed solution of the puzzle than about the problems actually created or revealed by the puzzle. F...

... Apparently not.

Conceiving of philosophical zombies appears to require it being obvious that we are each two things instead of one.

I'm sorry you're upset. I don't suppose you could clarify whether you hold this notion, to be itself mistaken? Maybe I jumped to the conclusion that y...

That, er, needs developing. I suppose I can understand if you would rather not.

is no kind of an argument that winged horses exist in some related sense of the word.

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You are using the phrase "domain of discourse" to confuse use and mention. (See above.) Which is a bad habit. Which is hooking it to your veins.

Dictionaries are definition porn. You'll have seen plenty of that?

Might the comic possibilities of that line maybe explain our willingness to indulge such a brilliantly bonkers theory? Language gave us imagination, b...

But is there, in all of Heaven and Earth, a domain of Lord of the Rings, containing hobbits?

Fine... You are authorised to verify the match between your internal image of you humming and a similar real sound event, by your proven competence in...

You are authorised to verify the match between the two internal images, one perceptual and one not, by your proven competence in verifying the match b...

But of course you probably wouldn't ever check the frequency of an external sound, as such. You would check that it matched in pitch with another soun...

Only by being (or making the clause) literally false. Only if they think the story is literally true.

Uncanny... https://youtu.be/wm6JorvrVCU

Interesting theory. Likewise. (But a rather antiquated theory.) Each other. The social divide is between those who can and those who can't reliably co...

In the kind of imagery talk that I think the PLA isn't designed to attack: by comparing them for pitch just like a pair of externals, or like an inter...

The problem inherent in the private-language scenario is (I think I gather from Witty) the lack of criteria for identifying and classifying internal e...

Far as I can tell, no... or, not so as the ear beetles would matter, or cause an unacceptable philosophical scene, by refusing to 'drop out of the equ...