Nope. No ostension involved in awareness of that which is directly experienced. Not to oneself and not to others. First awareness of and then, maybe, ...
Do you find a metaphysical divide between humans and lesser animals? I don't, and, as such, I see no reason to deny generalized innate behaviors, such...
Examples were give in the statement you quoted. Some of the most complex kinds of adult human interaction are in large part built upon them: perceptio...
I can understand that it can be problematic. I think this is primarily because it is a rather vague and thereby ambiguous term. We’re accustomed to ab...
I grant the explanation, but it leaves me, personally, far from convinced. We are by far the most behaviorally plastic species that we know of. Yes. B...
Haven't read much of these alternative accounts in relation to language. Can these alternative accounts reasonably explain why humans which were not e...
TMK, a belief is primarily understood as either a mental acceptance of a claim as true or, else, faith or trust in the reality of something. Add to th...
Right, we can use knowledge by acquaintance to justify our beliefs, but that which we know by acquaintance is not of itself a belief - that in turn ne...
There is such a thing as knowledge by acquaintance: knowledge of what one is familiar with strictly via direct experience. Others can doubt your knowl...
Such an astute observation … like point out that water is not dry. And what does this have to do with what I've written? But for the record, nor have ...
Unless the tattoo is brand new, it has faded a bit over time, hasn't it? Hence, it has changed. You may be referring to the tattoos overall form, but ...
A convoluted topic. There is good reason to affirm that anatta does not deny the self, at the very least in early Buddhism. But, maybe more importantl...
I think one can stipulate that love is even more real than genitalia. Haven’t fully thought this through yet, but, as an example, in a BIV scenario th...
Getting racy around these parts. :blush: Real love of the amorous kind. To trade notes, I liken it to a dance driven by a common ethos between two sel...
When it comes to the heuristics of biological evolution there are in large two strategies that apply to most species consisting of sexes. When viewed ...
First off, I am sympathetic to your views. In entering into the realms of primacy, which is a metaphysical issue, I do hold a non-materialist slant on...
I think I may be able to boil this down to a single question: Are what we linguistically call “the basic laws of thought”, thinking here primarily of ...
Thank you for addressing the example I gave. Since you claim it to be plausible, you didn’t give me much to argue against, for I too find it quite pla...
Yea, true, but only when it consists of following infallible folk. At any rate, doubt that Wittgenstein took himself to be such, though I can't say as...
No worries, but to evade the circularity that could manifest in arguments, I did give two examples regarding the meaning of color that could be addres...
In case it's pertinent, I browsed through the thread and read it. Your discussion with Cheshire centers on what color the term of a color references: ...
OK, not fully, just the latter parts regarding French grey. Should I have? But I'm still interested to hear about how you reply to the two examples I ...
Well ... a per my initial post to you, in equating meaning to what an agent intends by a symbol, this being (intra-)subjective, I then also find that ...
Usually, but not necessarily. Suppose someone intends the generalized idea of cat by the use of "tree". We'd likely call them other than perfectly san...
Can there be use devoid of intention? I find that to mean X is to intend X. The meaning of "tree" I cognize at any given time is what I intend via the...
I get what you're saying, but unless one assumes that all life is endowed with language, then language appeared at some point in time after life appea...
You're looking at things from the perspective of one who is birthed into and thereby embedded within, at the very least, one language, and from this v...
Going by the Humpty Dumpty quote ( :up: , btw), shouldn't this be: What came first: use of pre-established symbols or the intentional creation of symb...
If we change "perceptions" to "experiences", and if we understand experiences to be strongly entwined with all manner of conceptualizations which over...
:grin: I agree with your thoughts on Sparky (and kin). As to logos and reason, to add some further comments, we moderners have lost the likely animist...
Think of the movie "Rain Man", a movie based on real cases of autistic savants. The guy could instantly visually discern complex numbers. Though I'm n...
Very much in agreement here. I like to think of it as there being no metaphysical division between human cognition and that of lesser beings ... only ...
Thanks for the reply. Yes, what you term "conscious judgement" I would term "conscious discernment". To me a discernment can be automatic from the pov...
Do you mean by this “knowledge by acquaintance of abstract ideas” or “propositional knowledge”. I of course agree they don’t have the latter. But, in ...
How then do you explain a dog's ability to recognize the names of 1022 items, replete with a capacity to "categorize them according to function and sh...
Forgot to address this part: Do you then not find this slowing and speeding up of time to be experiential in nature? What is commonly termed "time per...
Awareness can greatly differ between individuals, yet I still take this quote with a grain of salt. Maybe we're using words differently? By "conscious...
Not sure how to proceed. An event is not eternal but has a beginning and an end, with the former preceding the latter; otherwise expressed, with the b...
As to "true agency", in a slip of the tongue where the conscious mind intends X and the subconscious mind intends Y, which of the two if any hold the ...
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