Hi , thanks for your response. Me too! ... Or does it? Maybe those issues will sort themselves out if we deal with meaning first? I guess that nicely ...
Talking of language... Some people (i.e. Searle) associate consciousness, in particular, with a linguistic capability having an irreducibly semantic c...
This would be how a "falsificationist" is an "anti-inductivist", I dare say? The only kind of links, by which it makes sense (on this view) to connect...
I think (but could be wrong again of course) that you've got your choice of tick/cross on your final scenario wrong in each frame? I'm reading that fi...
Haha, no worries. Clearly, I'm barking up the wrong tree trying to sell my favourite theory to you as a paragon of scientific systemization and simpli...
Thanks for your continued indulgence in this matter. I will be keen, I assure you, to know of the theoretical possibilities from your perspective as w...
Hey, perhaps I should have said "No I don't think so, assuming that we're using a Venn diagram to illustrate FOPL, like Snakes' - not Aristotle". ... ...
Agreed. No, only this: ~{~Ex} Which can't equate to (~~Ex) = ~~Ex = Ex as you hope, unless it is ruled out that there are no people. Because after all...
Haha, but "non sequitur". My analogy was: if you reduce your pre-systematic notions of momentum to mass times velocity, at the obvious cost of sidelin...
Finally! We can get down to business. See if we can trade any ideas despite our (apparently) very different views on "use". Agreed. ... or at least re...
Ha ha, I like the philosophical dog, but I don't think we are on the same page here. I meant the alleged appropriateness (complete and utter) of some ...
It justifies our provisional (falsifiable) theories, yes. Seems to work. Eh?? You don't choose to adopt such habits of association, then, in your dail...
Habit, custom. Why not? Do you not advocate science, on the grounds of its success? He doesn't put doubts on the process. Like I said, he only wants t...
And that is the only kind of justification which Hume is seeking to deny to induction. He isn't trying to discredit induction as an enterprise, he is ...
So... you do understand how I might see your example (of how you use the words to point at different things) as a game of 'pretend', but it surprises ...
Agreement (about just where it is we disagree) looming in sight? No, I don't kid myself, but anyway... You say, Exactly! As though there were some fac...
... about, specifically, which words (or pictures or sunsets) are pointed (already or eventually) at which things. I was aware that as a description o...
Fair, if snooty, point. If my last post above is in any way to blame for your sense of dislocation then I should admit that I didn't explain how I mig...
... about, specifically, which words (or pictures or sunsets) are pointed (already or eventually) at which things. I was aware that as a description o...
What my examples suggest is that, by any definitions plausibly grounded in common usage, Awareness and Attention fail, by themselves, to distinguish c...
As expected, very different views on "use". Thanks for going over yours once more. Anyway, I remain a fan of your previous diatribe against (other peo...
... and helpful, I think. How about the following refinement? - Does consciousness = conscious awareness ? - Does consciousness = conscious attention ...
Thanks for the further clarification. I'm guessing you can't mean "there is no such thing as 'using something' in a general sense because each instanc...
Happily? Only, I would say, in those lucky cases where we can agree about what we are disagreeing about (in my book, agree about what each of us were ...
:up: :up: :up: She is doing what we all have to do all the time, to a greater or lesser extent. Play the game of pointing the words (or pictures or su...
Ha ha, I have wondered if I am transitioning into a consciousness-denier! I don't think so. I think I'm learning to recognise some wrong descriptions....
That's ok! Thanks for trying. No, I get that! I'm one too, I think... as long as I'm allowed to see plenty of the knowledge we get about the things ou...
I was just curious to know whether you wanted mental pictures in the picture, at all. Evidently you did. It would be great not to get pigeonholed... f...
All of those, then? But, like a photograph, it (the perception/mental picture) is a more or less direct trace of physical events, and the opposition a...
Is it (is perceiving the tree) experiencing a mental picture of the tree? Just wondering. Not planning any traps. Not that I could possibly hope to ca...
Hooray! Boo! But bear in mind I was suggesting (first, in the bit you quoted, an alternative coming the paragraph after) that we interpret his "delici...
To be fair, if your Inuit says "delicious" while throwing up, you will object along the same lines as when he calls "blue" what we call "green". So yo...
Well I was definitely talking about usage, and aware that you weren't, directly. Nonetheless I thought our views might be commensurable :wink: Maybe n...
So near, and yet so far. With your admirable aversion to correlation 2 (reforming a perfectly good vague predicate according to an arbitrary bi-partit...
No second hooray, then: you think usage of heap should be kept separate from the naturals. But still hooray! Yes, I said that too. I'm saying it's an ...
Not sure I understand. I'm correlating two systems (both apparently in working order) of grain-collection labels: one is the system of two labels, hea...
Yes, the arbitrary threshold solution: correlation 2, above. I'm glad you chose so as to give some breathing space to non-heap, this time! Going for 4...
Agreed. (Assuming that by "its definition" you mean any reasonable characterisation of its usage...) Yes, there is a range of related aspects that hel...
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