Whatever narrower psychological sense of "perform" or "assert" makes us disqualify an otherwise appropriate sound event from being a performance, or a...
Yes, we have many performances of the same song (from copies of the same score). Let's reify tokens vs type. But no, they aren't later on disqualified...
Why not performed that performance, acted that act, etc... Human linguistic behaviour is no doubt infinitely varied, but let's look for system where t...
I'm trying to see why you think this. Have you considered referring to the "string of words"? Thus casting it as a linguistic entity of (speaking loos...
I would say, the mere occurrence of an assertion (claim, statement etc) doesn't amount to an assertion (claim, statement etc) of or about that asserti...
And 1. is no less a claim (or assertion) for lacking a personal endorsement (or other assertion sign). And the string "the cat is on the mat" is no le...
Rather, I think that, if you say: "an example of a proposition (assertion etc) is: 'The cat is on the mat.'" you are saying something like: "it is tru...
What is? I don't follow. My "it" wasn't a name, and it wasn't about a name. It was your example token of the assertion "the cat is on the mat". You ha...
There are so many points people have made that I'm highly disposed to agreeing or disagreeing with at length. In the end, I prefer one move of chess (...
Agreed. Agreed, e.g. (There is a winner in each play of the game, there is a richest man in each world, there is always a number greater than 7, or et...
Isn't that what Quine doubts? Is he wrong? How? How does possible world semantics restore coherence in the face of referential opacity? Asking for a f...
Agreed. Not necessarily, but the claim wants explaining. What is meant to be wrong with the slogan, and what has the doctrine of quantifiers being sec...
No, just the doctrine received from Frege regarding quantifiers as second-order predicates, that is, as attaching to first order predicates in the man...
I assume chatbots and chromosomes are all syntax. Like Chinese rooms. And semantics is the interpretations that we (and future machines conceivably mi...
A splendid proposal, I say, but improvable. In a spirit of extensionalism, we may remove the thinker from the analysis, and instead form a suitable wo...
Another cause might be the evident separation of convention and pretence (i.e. semantics) from syntax, in many cases. We are ready to add an interpret...
He means a) the relation of reference not happening to be a physical relation, but instead mere convention, or pretence; and b) the possibility of det...
Logic is the essence of philosophy. Compare: Philosophy of science isn't science of philosophy. Philosophy of art isn't art of science. Whereas, philo...
Again, nominalism isn't a tendency to proliferate labels. Nominalisation is closer to being that. Nominalism agrees that nominalisation tends to reify...
And Hypostatic Abstraction of the Haphazard kind is exacerbated by nominalists who hypocritically hypostatize the very process they like to oppose? Co...
But has my thought been influenced by nominalism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominalism?wprov=sfla1 Or has it been influenced by nominalisation? ht...
Ah! I've solved it :rofl: @"Mapping the Medium", you think that nominalists are people who nominalise (or nominalize), in the grammatical sense which ...
Go on? (Edit: this was when Mapping the Medium had said "he" instead of "Banno" and I thought she (MtM) was addressing the question of mine which she ...
Right, so we're curious (I think someone asked at some point) whence the anti-nominalism? If Goodman says, Shouldn't that align with your objection to...
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