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Generally, a noun and a predicate, but there are complications in the syntax. Your account is that we only have beliefs, that the world is what Astrop...

Hmm. One recognises novelty from a base of familiarity. If that is what you are trying to say, then yes. But the world need not be bound by what you a...

More that it sets the issue out clearly. Yep, saying and showing and so on. It's not a complete answer, but not a denial Yep. It's as if their argumen...

An agent is you or I, not a proposition. A judgement might be put in propositional terms, if that is what you mean. I do not follow what this says. In...

truth has other senses, with other logics The individuals being considered here are propositions. “This angle” is not a proposition. Why? The point it...

That might come down to a difference in grammar, whether one wants to accept a bivalent logic and realism, or some alternative logic and antirealism. ...

Truth is analysable in terms of T-sentences. "The cup has a handle" is true if and only if the cup has a handle. A few things are important here. Firs...

Statements are combinations of nouns and verbs and such like; Some statements are either true or false, and we can call these propositions. "The cup h...

I haven't claimed anything of the sort. Again, "the cow is over there" is a construct. It's presumably used in a speech act making a statement. But ra...

Yes, the sentence is a construct, the cow, not so much. And..?

So are you saying that the cows are only over there when acknowledged? That gives a vast power to acknowledgement. I suggest that the cows are over th...

Yep, that's common, or garden, antirealism. It follows from Fitch that you know everything that is true. So you can't say anything without using words...

Of course not. But they won't listen... :smirk:

Pretty much. As I put, a ways back,

There are no unknown truths? Then I will bow to your omniscience, since you know everything that is true. Indeed, but knowledge is a relation between ...

That does not look right. A sentence's being true is very different to it being justified. A sentence might be true, yet unjustified. Being true is di...

SO more than one, then? :wink:

See the "known"? That implies an attitude, and hence someone having the attitude. Yep, if something is known, then there is someone who knows. There a...

, . Scientism sees only scientific explanations as cogent. Scientific explanations are understood as inferences from the evidence. So scientism might ...

There's a very odd use of "inference" in @"Michael"'s account.

Not sure what to make of this. Properties are set out in single placed predicates - f(a). "f" is the predicate, "a" an individual - that is, a thing o...

Yep. What we see is not an upside-down sense-impression created by the brain, but the things in the world. But Michael now thinks there isn't an upsid...

So could there be a species in which half the population see the world upside down? Wouldn't they "flip" the image in the way your paper describes, se...

Yep. Thanks.

Righto. This is getting nowhere. I tried.

Yep. What does this tell us?

Yeah, that sort of response why these threads are unceasing. Again, there is no disagreement as to the science. Have you noticed how little of the SEP...

Philosophy is mostly grammatical issues. Funny, that. Yep, what I call direct realism is unlikely to be what you call direct realism. The indirect rea...

Direct and indirect realists agree as to the physics and physiology. Their disagreement is not about the science. That's one of the main issues - that...

I supose I'd best add a bit of content. The recent New Scientist has an article about AI empathy. I find that somewhat surprising. And this: The AI's ...

Sperm in the gutter, so to speak. I wonder who we left behind, and who else is cultured.

Your word's but a whisper, anyway.

My guess is that relates to I'm guessing that the issue is how, for example, the leaf being green-in-itself parallels salt being soluble-in-itself; an...

Yes! The reply will be that we don't know things as they are, we only know our sense data or whatever, and have to infer the state of the world from t...

And hot oil dissolves naphthalene faster than cold - not sure about quantity. But I wasn't able to relate this discussion to the thread's topic.

Hmm. It's an interesting case. I'd say Moving the negation. This has a different sense to @"Michael"'s bringing out your Perception sometimes distorts...

Not so much. If the smell is only a thing constructed by the mind, then there is no reasons that lemons might not on occasion smell like mint. The rea...

Nice. Well, no. They both see the same thing - the world. They both see the snake coming to have one of them for dinner. They both see the competing m...

Good. As Austin showed, the framing of the argument in those terms is muddled. Again, that lemons smell like lemons, and not like (say) mint. You seem...

Yeah, like me you need your 'fix'. We are not dissimilar to poor old Russ...

Are you suggesting @"RussellA" is on psychedelics? :wink: Maybe. The arguments in this thread are all about "merely using a word incorrectly". Isn't t...

Seven. You and I both know the number written at the start of this post - "you know what is in my mind" seems to think that this implies telepathy... ...

Solubility is not a property of salt but a relation between salt and water. Confusion will occur if folk treat two-places predicates as one-place pred...

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Well, you might excuse me since it remains unclear to me what it is you are claiming. It seems to be something like that, since lemons sometimes smell...

I had a lemon the other day that smelled of mould. :grimace: But overwhelmingly, lemons smell like lemons. Seems some folk are perplexed by this.

That'll be the article which ends:

Sure. You interpret it the way you want. :wink: It'll save you thinking.

How did you get to that? Sometimes - mostly - things smell as they should (or even as they do) - ozone like ozone, lemon like lemon; If ozone smelt li...

Some saw gold, some saw blue. Regardless, everyone saw a dress; on this there was agreement. The dress is black and blue. The manufacturer and the pho...