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Looking at the words used here, it is, however, interesting that you use the first person plural. You don't refer to 'my' own skin but 'our'. You refe...

I've had meetings with therapists where I've pretended to accept I have depression but I'm always unconvincing, I feel. In the long run I've just conc...

I am fascinated by the philosophy of language and at an advanced age am in the middle of a Master's where I am covering lots of topics but focused on ...

Two points here. 1, you mean, in the United States. It's something Americans on the forum are often careless about and means something: about whether ...

Thanks, the quotes about Peirce are very illuminating. There are many strains of analytic philosophy that go on a lot about 'belief'. I've been readin...

Non-formal languages are languages of communication. There was a notion from Frege onwards that somehow a more 'scientific' language might be develope...

I confess I feel rather the opposite. Why should texts obey some principle of non-contradiction? This would be the dream of an authoritarian, surely? ...

I'm not a Christian but, or and, I don't understand the Bible as a consistent body of work that preaches one thing rather than another. Actually I fin...

My reading of Collingwood is that it's about questioning and absolute presuppositions. When you study a philosopher you come up with questions met wit...

\I'm interested in inference, which is conventionally described as something inside logic, a step of reasoning. To my mind logic is a human construct....

What art or skill are we using when we unpick assumptions or presuppositions? When we question, say, why a rule is a rule? I think it’s fair to say th...

There's a paper online by Eric Steinhart in which he discusses one of the implications of this view. For Nietzsche 'sameness' or 'identity' is only an...

My own experience is that a certain amount of dis-content motivates me, and oddly enough, contentedness is quite bad for me in the medium-term. A chal...

I don't know if this is a counter-example or a variant on your view. The analytic philosophy of language is replete with papers that sound mathematica...

But Malinowski still makes a lot of sense :)

There came a point in my present studies where I genuinely needed to take out of the library the 1923 book of this title by Ogden and Richards. I felt...

Many decades ago I was between homes and only had an old black-and-white tv set on which to watch snooker which has multi-coloured balls. I came to le...

All this being said, though, we return to your original question: It feels as if the premisses count a lot, but only given that we have some kind of m...

There's an odd bunch of academics who've formed the Serendipity Society and they're particularly interested in exaptation. You might like this quote f...

Count me in, I have a relaxing summer ahead of me I hope.

To me life is not fulfilling. It is bleak and pointless. People who make suggestions to try and cheer you up usually mean well. They are not doing a b...

I only meant the steps in some sort of process of inference. I do think that in say bike-riding we learn a series of steps, until by repetition we don...

The tragedy of the case is though that many of the tenants fleeing had more knowledge about the fire than the fire officers who advised them. But they...

As bc implies, the prior assumption of a single capitalizable (g)od is quite a leap. I love to talk about gods but God is a rather more specific pheno...

I am interested in this question. One interesting factor to me is the relation between ancient and modern. Aristotle considers an ethical education to...

I'm sorry I'm very busy at the moment so am posting erratically, especially as I am interested in this subject. I am with Dreyfus's Heidegger that the...

I don't agree they're mindless. We talk about know-how and 'knowing how' because we move about the world with embodied knowledge, inculcated in us by ...

I completely agree. But that might be Chomsky-as-scientist type understanding: logical form might somehow underlie how our minds work.It might however...

I wonder where the binary thing about dualism comes from though. For me worlds are plural not dual. Nelson Goodman proposed what to me is a plausible ...

Banno, I keep thinking about examples like this. I wrote dialogue all my working life as a scriptwriter so I have a certain take on it. I won't be off...

It's interesting to me, and I keep puzzling over it, how we completely disagree, you and I, and yet utterly agree, at the same time. That's philosophy...

I hope you won't mind my drawing attention to this inadvertent pun. I've just been reading Victoria Welby, a neglected philosopher of the turn of the ...

I'm with BC, but this may be because I'm almost as old a git as him/ I'm from Leeds where Louis le Prince shot this little bit of film, the second old...

A human is as they are with other humans. The Crusoe myth is as wrong as the early Wittgenstein solipsist myth. When I wake I find my mother is there....

You move here from a million heads being 'highly improbable', to 'not impossible', to 'all' inferences being 'highly improbable'. That's a magic trick...

Well my understanding of the debate is pretty limited, but I think it was a major point of difference between Sartre and Levinas. They are both studen...

In 'Totality and Infinity' Levinas eloquently argues that the first-person encounter with the Other, the subjective experience, always exceeds mere (s...

I do think this is a bit 'apples and oranges' - if Sartre's fictions don't persuade you of something, I'm not clear that that diminishes Moliere's cla...

Sorry to hear about the accident - and quite appreciate this point above. I hope it doesn't sound trivialising to cite the example of John Cleese, who...

Well, it sounds like a panic disorder. If I were you I'd see a doctor. Personally I think Beckett is a good read too in such circumstances. But maybe ...

:) Good man. But do get some rest! Sorry I'm busy so am having to dip in and out of paying attention.

I agree :)

Dammit, I knew my mother didn't belong there. Always poking her nose in where she's best forgotten.

Jaegwon Kim is the man. 'Philosophy of Mind' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaegwon_Kim

I'm just saying that the present-day 'materialist' or physicalist argument is more sophisticated than this. Their argument is that there is a set of e...

Personally I'm not a 'materialist'. But the article you quote can be easily accommodated within a materialist/physicalist account. Either 'conscious a...

My proposal is just an emotional equivalent to the logical argument: that there are many situations in life where one holds two possibilities to have ...

If that's the answer, then the question is the wrong question. Sadly brilliant scientists like Robert Lanza often go off the deep end and believe they...

OK, no fancy schmancy tea then. Just regular tea.

I went to a play last week about a long-missing man and the family's reactions. The programme featured an interesting article about how people cope wi...