A different approach! In the most direct behaviourist account, a behaviour is rewarded and so reinforced. Am I correct that in IRL the reward is used ...
Perhaps the nature of language and its relationship to reality is not as uncertain as it might seem. Again, there is a presumption that the division b...
Here's an uncomfortable read... this article about Paxton's book on the Vichy regime. I noted this: Australia has a long history of collaboration with...
Well worth another look at Paxton's list, given the recent coronation in Washington. https://images.newrepublic.com/a6814c6c0ea7b2af8623e080ca698f9507...
Yes, I'll agree with that. Sellars might well caution that access to or articulation of this division is mediated by our frameworks, this doesn’t nece...
How do you know? Take the question literally - what information do you have tat hand that shows that you and I are speaking the same language? The sug...
And how will you be able to tell that you and your companion are indeed "speaking the same language"? Indeed, what is "speaking the same language" apa...
Do you think Quine somehow posited this? In simple terms, there is an "explanatory connection between how we believe the world to be divided up into o...
How familiar are you with the notion of a family resemblance? Is there an "essence", common to all and only the members of a family, that makes it wha...
Again, there's a presumption that if there is a name then there has to be a something named. After all, it has a noun; and nouns name things, so there...
Harking back to General Semantics, again? It's "The map is not the territory", and reminds us that any map is incomplete. Sound advice. The map may be...
It's clear that someone can show us a lead weight, but not a kilogram. Mass is not directly observable. But this is not to say that there is no such t...
By trying to make sense of your post. For instance, I didn't say that you said that essences is "what it is to understand something", rather that unde...
The Earth doesn't orbit around the sun, nor the sun around the earth, but both orbit around a common centre of mass, under the influence of the other ...
I quite agree, indeed it seems we all agree, that relativism is inconsistent. It remains unclear who, if anyone, is being outed as a relativist. I sup...
Oh, very much so. Nothing here should be construed as suggesting that there are no such thing as beliefs. And I'd even go along with reifying them, wh...
Well, what exactly is a concept? You won't find one by dissecting a brain. It's the way we use the associated language, the things we do in the world,...
There's a presumption that it has to be a something. After all, it has a noun; and nouns name things, so there must be a thing that "belief" names. Wh...
Lovely. But not quite right. It's rather that tools are for using than that used things are all tools. And I do Consider Quine a rather fine philosoph...
Presumably the process of recognising a tiger takes place in the neural web in one's head, and recognising patterns is what neural webs do. Attaching ...
My approach to answering this is quite different to , but that should not be taken as implying that he is mistaken. Would that I had the text, so I co...
"A believes that P" is not a restriction on what one might do, think or feel. It is a stipulations as to which of those things might be best called a ...
So if McDowell has a good argument, set it out for us. What is it that you understand from the lecture? Anscombe's discussion of intentionality is exc...
Does the pro-Israel vote outweigh the pro-palestine vote? More Australians are in favour than in opposition of recognising Palestine as an independent...
Of course they can. That's one of the things they do - explaining our actions. An example from my Bio But if some posited "belief" cannot be put into ...
It was a proposal for addressing reference, rather than universals. Nor was it offered as a complete solution. Though it could also work for universal...
Now you're getting it. One pertinent thing about a tool is that it is used to do something. We do things with words. Watching what philosophers do wit...
It isn't? Ok, then that's about your use of the word "tool", such that you do not use it to talk about words... :wink: there's that semantic ascent ag...
And then... But... Well, yes, interesting. So what is the mistake here? Not grasping the essence, if grasping the essence is just using the word; not ...
The premiss of this thread - that for Quine, scepticism is "the first principle of philosophy", is both unsupported and incorrect. A better instance m...
:blush: You say that like it was a bad thing... But this is a mischaracterisation. There is a problem with utterances such as <Paris is a city in Fran...
I quite agree! But what will these be like? One solution is that they will involve some sort of stipulation; that this counts as an "a". That's the po...
Another ambiguously attributed post - did I say that? I do make use of Quine's joke, "To be is to be the value of a bound variable". It's another usef...
An odd interpretation of what I said: Quine accepted naturalism, but is not much considered not part of the "linguistic turn" - although Semantic Asce...
Back to this. Cool. For Quine, a belief was a propositional attitude. So for Quine, yes, beliefs are attitudes towards propositions. And any propositi...
The general form of the contingency argument is: Here is a series That series has some prime item on which it is based And this we call god. Now I don...
Ok, so why did Quine object to essences? He rejected Aristotelian metaphysics. In general, he rejected the idea that objects have an intrinsic nature,...
Isn't learning about tigers doing something? Dragging this thread again back to Quine, it's building a common web of belief. I gather this is some bli...
Being of the linguistic persuasion, I again can't help but ask how "how to recognise a tiger" and "what constitutes a tiger" are anything more than qu...
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