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Old joke: If someone who speaks two languages is bilingual, and someone who speaks three languages is trilingual, what do you call someone who speaks ...

Ask @"Sam26".

You don't seem to have said anything of substance with which I would disagree, so long as you agree that hinge propositions are true.

Not a good wording. If they are true, they have epistemic standing. "Here is a hand" justifies "There are hands". Hinges have truth values.

Wish we would get some rain. Stay warm.

"never quite rightly" becasue they differ from mere assertions. You at least agree here, but phrase it oddly. You suggest that they do not have a trut...

It's pretty unclear what this would amount to. The distinction is easy to display. "The grass is green" can be an assertion, a command or a question, ...

I'll go a step further and suggest that we have overwhelming agreement as to what is true and what is good. The stuff we focus on is the stuff about w...

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R. L. Franklin, not Jim. Very different fish. Long ago.

New? It's just (illocutionary force(predicate(subject)), what is done with the proposition, or Frege's judgement stroke. But it remains that we can co...

I was for a while at ANU with Passmore and Smart, but mostly influenced by Peter Herbst. Then UNE, and the eclectic mix of Franklin, Londey, Birchall ...

It's warmed up a bit, high thirties. Gentlemen may remove their jackets.

Hmm. I can think that I am thinking the Oak is dropping its leaves. Or I can think that the oak is dropping its leaves. Surely being able to either at...

No. Fifty posts a day is a lot. Make sure you take time to step away from the screen.

I'm not sure. To be sure, there are no thoughts that could not be prefixed by "I think..."; but that is a very different point to the suggestion that ...

Philosophy in Australia is not that simple.

Yep - that Pat is right. Is this in part a response to Davidson's argument against conceptual schema?

Yep. The way we do integers is such that there is no largest integer. Salient bit is that it's not a pretence that there is no largest integer, it's j...

That's an equivalence, not a reduction. The sort of reduction in question occurs when one language game is thought of as a part of anther. In this cas...

The 'solution' on offer not only agrees with this but explains how it comes about. "Counts as..." illocutions set up new games to play. If you decide ...

That by way of agreement? Can we cure @"Arcane Sandwich" of his reductionism? :wink:

So you are now saying that there are not infinity many integers? We can quantify over things that are not physical. You appeared to understand this, a...

Seems to me to entirely miss the most important bit; that ? is communal. We don't pretend that there are infinitely many integers, because there are i...

I'll repeat a simple argument against this. If ? is a brain process in your brain, and also a brain process in my brain, then it is two different thin...

Yep. Rather, to count "brown animals" requires seeing an animal as an organic whole, as a unit. That's a fair bit less than "knowing".

Is that a criticism or an explanation? It's not a poor description of Davidson's approach. But Davidson's explanation is not an assumption so much as ...

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Yep. And we do whatever we want, soon as we hear what that is from Washington.

Australia is an independent nation state. We only keep Charlie so that Sky News has something to write about when Trump is quite.

Yep. He was part of a general broadening of the philosophical understanding of language in the middle of the last century. Lots of good stuff followed...

Ok.

Did you think that somehow this is incompatible with the account I gave? How? Again, how would such an oddity follow from the account given? If someon...

There's more we might do with the OP. Might attract @"Michael" back from his holiday. Might even interest @"jgill". Michael chose infinitesimals with ...

That was an excellent thread. Yep, as you said there, it's not that conceptual schemes can't be relative, but that there can't be conceptual schemes. ...

Well, yes, in that to have the concept and the concept amount to the same thing... the actions performed. Again, it's not that someone can play variou...

Is that an objection to my proposal? I'll go over the first part of the argument, again, since it's a while it was addressed and it answers what you h...

Not sure I'm following you. So the Major is the root, third and fifth. It's that string, that string, and that string - and usually the root, again. T...

I studied De Anima in detail as an undergrad. I've forgotten most of it. To dismissive? Would it be surprising to find a Wittgensteinian interpretatio...

Seven only exists as part of an extended language game that includes one and two and a few other things. And a chord is dependent on the scale in whic...

Sure. What remains is that being a bishop is a way of treating that piece of wood, being a dollar coin is a way of treating that piece of metal and be...

You are making much the same point I made to @"Joshs" earlier. Yes, of course these acts take place and are limited by the circumstances around us. Sp...

Yeah, my error. i used "Commisive" for acts of commission, much as "declarative", now the term is used for acts of commitment. I'll fix it. Thanks.

You kinda learn who when you learn your first language, as you learn to use words like "one" and thereabouts. You are part of a community. Them.

What counts as one unit? We get to choose.

Sure.

Pretty much right. One can account for this by understanding commissive speech acts. These are speech acts that bring something about. An example woul...

It's that is problematic. Again, what might it be for a mind to grasp a number, apart from being able to count to it, add it, or halve it? If you can ...

I don't get that. What is it for a mind to grasp a number, apart from being able to count to it, add it, or halve it? Numbers are not things in the he...

The last three can be parsed as predications. The first is ambiguous, partly about placing something in the domain of discourse and hence making it su...