bongo fury

Ahem, we of the sorites appreciation society are not amused :meh: Try bald vs. hairy, black vs. white etc. Chair vs. settee.

The puzzle doesn't require us to guess, nor to fail to guess, the numerical size of a heap. It tells us the size, at each step. Whether we can reliabl...

Your brain might be persuaded, grain by grain, to the position of pointing a heap-word or a heap-picture at a single grain. That doesn't solve the puz...

Fair enough. I expect all of you assume some sort of correlation between a variety of internal qualia in any sensory modality and some corresponding v...

Ah, shame, maybe. Not an opportunity to agree roughly where it is we disagree. I was reminded of Goodman's argument that colours often function symbol...

Isn't carving up the world a good rough definition of language, in the wider sense of symbolism or reference? So perhaps you just mean, without specif...

Day 101, ...Trust restored (above) in the Ravel/GS-centred repertoire as a reliable test of other mental images if not sounding ones, I reneged on the...

But that direction not, presumably, towards just maximum possible approximation to infinite information and complete truth? That doesn't seem to be wh...

Some philosophers think human colour experience is composed of internal colour elements which may or may not correspond to physical properties of exte...

Day 99, 09.25: Surprised to find a crystal clear Madonna ear worm to be a fourth flat, upon fitting the Ravel. Very tempted to regret wasting several ...

Ok. Relational in the sense of inviting description by means of many-place predicates (transitive verbs etc), or in the sense of being true relative t...

I assumed "modes of activity" was a thing, with which I was unacquainted. Nvm. Just "activity is relational"?

:chin: Google not much help... de Beauvoir?

Exactly. Although it's hardly a big deal if the different ways are in no kind of conflict or competition. (E.g. if they are, at least, all accurate.) ...

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I think what he is saying is that good analysis of intersubjective representations on a non-cosmic scale is always hobbled by reasoning about their po...

:ok: Rules... conventions... traditions... customs...

So, ?

It's not even the way the world (or even a manageable portion of it) looks from a particular perspective (e.g. the lens of a security camera). It's ju...

Agree, but beware also the profundity of "as it is":

Day 96, 11.05: Borderline (Madonna) after calibrating last night... Just checked the image that happened to be present as ear worm... didn't gel well ...

Likewise any object.

Yes and your point no. 1 is great but then you get carried away, and no. 5 is silliness you probably didn't mean, like

Yes, :ok: if we can address it without slipping back into the Cartesian version, as possibly here, ... as though (on one reading) the problem (slash n...

Not some clearly defined set from which to reason deductively, no.

Contra Duhem and Quine?

Day 93, 11.25: Not impressed with a particularly vivid GS image immediately upon its consideration. So tried to launch a search, by way of passive wai...

Luckily, analysis of "right thing" and "evolutionarily advantageous" causes them to be distinguished clearly more often than confused.

Well put, but it suggests an answer, which is "overcoming differences of perspective". So it's useful, because it succinctly forestalls the unnecessar...

Day 91, 13.15: Good. 17.55: Good. 20.50: Decided to find a fourth stimulus to try and perceive non-relationally. Well, another Stones clip that the al...

Option (b) because prescription is basically description: you ought to do the thing, inasmuch as its true description is "right thing". But option (c)...

Day 86, 13.50: Good. 16.30: Good. 19.05: Flat. 22.41: Flat. Day 87, 11.35: Flat. 13.55: Good. 18.08: Good. 21.05: Good. 23.05: Good. Day 88, 14.00: Fl...

A week or two ago I thought it might be time to conclude almost complete failure. Except where allowed a minute's (or more) silence. Thereby excluding...

Haha, count me as one of 'em (if you didn't already) :rofl:

:party: ... well, not to the extent that anyone would (that I can see) benefit from searching for definitions of that ism. If you say so... very keen ...

See edition of Commentary :rofl: https://youtu.be/blOUfHFaNvs

Why do linguistic animals think they are each two things instead of one?

I thought "did you mean 'homely'?", while Google thought "did you mean 'homie'?".

... a correlation? Or is it already the content? Of a belief? Or is it the belief?

Blimey. Has @"Michael" written some code to cure the internet? :up:

Or something else? Or is it only another way of saying having of beliefs? Which are? Irreducible mental stuff?

Everything in "How to do things with words", for starters? (I presume.) Which is of course laudable. Why ever assume that thought is all in declarativ...

Yep. Well, maybe not unique but characteristic. Mention of use incites, in many, insurrection against pointing (naming, denoting, describing) as the p...

I do.

I take it you mean the object language considered as a whole domain of symbols plus its own semantic world of denoted objects comprises the semantic w...

Fair enough. Even Goodman explored in that direction early on. But Catherine Elgin (chapter 8 here, but no pdf or preview) argues that his mature theo...

Yes, sorry. :ok: @"Banno" is doing it again.

Now you're doing it. The statement is a disquotation (of its quotation). Qué?

Fine, add that to the parenthetical varieties of "alleged referent" above.

As the difference between using a word or phrase to mention (refer to, denote, describe, point at) an object and using a quotation or other word or ph...