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But why should that stop us? :wink: Here I'll reach to my other pet philosopher, Austin. The concept "seven" just is being able to buy seven apples, a...

I'm somewhat familiar with Nozick's politics, which have not inspired me to read his wider philosophical work. Speaking from this ignorance, if we are...

Your reply deserves much more attention. You offered as a way forward for the different approaches adopted by @"Wayfarer" and I. offers the Aristoteli...

:wink: Quite the opposite. It's the clearest definition hereabouts. Your Cassius is being a prat. Edit: I should add, quantification is only one part ...

:wink: No. It is direct realism, in that there can be no gap between the talk and what we talk about. That's why i haven't participated in @"Srap Tasm...

Sure. That does not make the world only the result of those "acts of coordination and correlation between events and schemes which assimilate them". N...

Sure, we can make new use of antique arguments. But they are not in themselves authoritative; and there are reasons they are antique.

Then it becomes very unclear to me what you were saying way back here, where in rpely to my "? is not private thing in each of our heads, but a public...

How do you know that "There is no way" here? Overstretching yourself, again, it seems. The best you might conclude is that it hasn't been done yet; th...

And yet not just any "processes of transcendental consciousness" will do; the "processes of transcendental consciousness" is itself restricted by the ...

You talk as if there were a discrete entity that is the "meaning" of ?. That's the bit to which I am objecting. Whether you use ? to find the volume o...

Again, you express a tractatian view, that is not carried forward. Forgotten or bypassed? I remain unconvinced.

There's some value in Thomism. But recent posts have relied on appeals to Aristotle and Plato as if they were authoritative; as if that they said it w...

You've happened on the forums at a time when the fashion is towards mediaeval thinking.

Nice. That's Tractarian. Can you show that this view was maintained unmodified into the Later period? And if not, how was it modified? I'd suggest tha...

Yes, but also their logic is wanting. Peirce because he was prior to Frege, Husserl... perhaps just didn't get it.

I don't disagree. Although the way Husserl expresses it is unnecessarily obtuse. (Edit: and Peirce not much different.)

And my reply is that yes, saying (believing, doubting) that something exists does indeed require a mind. But not existing. There is gold in those hill...

"Hungry" isn't something stomaches do. Being hungry takes an organism.

@"Wayfarer" has a point - you will not find seven by dissecting a brain. One might conclude that there must be two sorts of things, the mental and the...

Both numbers and chairs exist. Where they differ is not in their existence, but in the other properties they have. The chair has a time and place, the...

"Mind is to brain as digestion is to stomach". Searle. Is digestion also lumpen materialism?

Sure. So what. I use ? to work out the volume of a water tank. You use it to lay out the design for your garden. We are not here making use of a diffe...

Things are not pragmatism and convention all the way down becasue at some point we must simply act; we make it so.

The extension of ?, what it refers to, is the ratio of a circle's diameter to it's circumference. The "sense" or "meaning" of ?? If we have what we do...

I don't find Heidegger of much use. Same goes for most of that school of Phenomenology. But that's not quite right - ? refers to the ratio of the diam...

There's a simple argument to show that this is not so. If ? is a brain process in your brain, and also a brain process in my brain, then it is two dif...

"A is at (x,y,x,t)". Therefore something is at (x,y,x,t). But ? is not at (x,y,x,t); are you willing to conclude that ? does not exist? There are genu...

Nice work. I'll go along with that. I baulk at your distinguishing "conceptual" from "terminological". Our terminology sets out our "conceptual framew...

Canberra. Only got to 30? yesterday. Stay out of the smoke.

What does that post say? Is it in some way a counterproposal? How?

Well, yes, but not in any grand sense of providing an understanding of the whole of life or such. More in a piecemeal, day-to-day way. More by showing...

, , my contribution to rebutting the centrality of a being/existing distinction is to point out the three translations of "is" in first order logic - ...

Not so much. Reminds me a bit of General Semantics. Happy new year.

Yep. I'd say that their beliefs differ, rather then their reality. When I worked with such folk one approach was to gently show them how their belief ...

Cheers. Suspected so. But I advocated none of those things you list. I'll go over what I said once again, with a slightly different approach. Hypostat...

Not quite following - the latter, so you prefer there be at most one reality; but which includes both subjective and objective realities? And this mak...

So... who is "he"?

Who's "he"?

Can you say how? But also, you now have two realities. Contrast that with the view that there is at most one reality. Which do you prefer?

I won't disagree with that.

A third alternative is that the notion of an objective reality can't be maintained. It's true that you are reading this screen. What more is said by "...

So wouldn't what you say provide reason for going in the other direction - for showing that rights and truth and justice do exist?

Ok. I'll leave you to it.

Quine? No, he isn't arguing against communication. More that he's pointing out that communication takes place despite such issues.

Seems to be much ado about not so much. Any many-placed predicate is reducible to a monadic predicate. "The cat is on the mat" can be parsed as a bina...

The IEP has an article on The Indeterminacy of Translation and Radical Interpretation., with much more background, but which is perhaps a bit too symp...

:wink: Thanks.

Ok, so by way of explaining what he was getting at, have you read the gavagai example? See, for example, https://medium.com/@ranjanrgia/thought-experi...

I came across this little bit of brilliance, which you might enjoy