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Fixed. Thanks.

Finishing my previous thought, I need to jump ahead a bit to pp119-120 where Austin talks about entailment. If the equivalence I set up were so, then ...

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That one ought not kick puppies for fun is a moral statement. It is a true statement that one ought not kick puppies for fun. Facts are true statement...

Plagiarising myself again, here is the part of Davidson's argument that addresses the division between scheme and content. Davidson makes an interesti...

I mustn't have understood what you are suggesting here. Davidson's argument is a reductio, beginning by assuming that there is a clear distinction bet...

Musician Peter Gabriel has been funding research into animal communication. There'sa. curious lecture at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z_vSbsUaZ4 B...

Yeah, I'll rescind that. Needs more work.

X continued... The next part, pp. 106..., concerns the two languages theory, which according to Austin is supported only disingenuously by Ayer. Now I...

Anyway, in that thread I suggested that we dispose of the notion of concepts and replace it with the notion of beliefs. And this is part of what I sus...

Four years ago. Isaac In that thread, I had an extended, interesting and intelligent discussion with @"Isaac". Over the length of the thread we worked...

1. You ought make whatever the Godfather says should be true, true. 2. The godfather says “today is Tom’s last day on earth" 3. You ought make “today ...

See Searle's reply tot he second objection, p.50 in the article linked above.

I'm still not too sure of your point. Even if this is so, the issue is that the fact of the utterance implies the obligation.

, it appears is not interested in replying to your point about Christianity looking very derivative, and my point about Islam appearing a more suitabl...

If you don't say how it might disagree, then that doesn't much help.

Given the baggage, you'd have to set that out in more detail. Are you saying that one ought keep one's promises? But that is what a promise is, so of ...

, , its pleasing to see some serious objections being raised to Davidson. I've always harboured a doubt as to the argument, but have found it quite re...

Searle might have a clearer example. The "Is" is the utterance of the words, a fact. The "Ought" is the obligation. The usual response from those who ...

Meta is notable for apparently not having even mentioned Austin on a thread about Austin.

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Incorrigibly, it already applies to all my posts.

Indeed, you have. I am confident that you turn off the gas and lock the door before bed, just in case untoward things happen while you are asleep. In ...

Go back and look again. The Earth has been shown to rotate even when you are asleep. Therefore the earth exists even when you are asleep. Frankly this...

The pendulum is evidence.Yes I introduced it. Are you now demanding that no one introduce anything novel into the conversation? You are not paying att...

As I pointed out, your philosophy protects itself against counter examples. But we can trace back the thread of this conversation. You said: and: The ...

X Ayer's word, "incorrigible', can be taken as either "so good that it cannot be improved" or as "that cannot be proved false." As mentioned earlier i...

Again, you decide your philosophy and then force everything else to conform. You use your philosophy to protect itself against any possible refutation...

I often feel much the same way.

Yeah, you can, from anywhere within sight of a Foucault pendulum. See, trouble is, you are not paying attention. You do your philosophy then try to sq...

Yep. But there is so much to unpack here. I laughed out loud. He's certainly succinct. In truth, I'm somewhat surprised, and very pleased, at how oppo...

Ah - I like that.

The post in which I invoked @"RussellA" was a reply to , where he had in turn replied to my post concerning Austin's point that the Ayer had been some...

Yes - in Tolkien's words, the tale grew in the telling. And still does.

So we can read as continuing a fine tradition of appropriation? Or is it plagiarism? It's interesting that he includes Confucianism, Buddhism, and Tao...

"It" was a dog's breakfast of conflicting views and accounts that needed hundreds of years and much violence to even begin to appear consistent. "It" ...

Indeed, ...looks to be an idea borrowed from Islam, with the Prophets "preannouncing the message of" Mohamed.

Reading Lecture X, I'm struck by how much of the argument is dependent on a view of the structure of language that I have taken as a given, but that m...

Eat.

Cheers. Davidson has some powerful ideas. This is not one of his more central papers, but part of a program he instigated intent on showing how to int...

https://hartzog.org/j/davidsonmetaphor.pdf it's a good read, showing that understanding a metaphor involves understanding its literal meaning. But yes...

She was kicked by Yuen Kuan Moon. Dow nunder men bluster it out but women carry the can. But they tend to land on their feet.

Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin resigns. Bets on her golden parachute?

Which raises the question, who is actually doing the reading?

I'll agree, perhaps with some reservations about "interpretation". There was a recent, very odd discussion in the Case for Transcendental Idealism thr...

That is why Ayer invents sense data, and it is what Austin shows to be misguided. Yep, but it is perhaps a minimum achievement for an interpretation o...

It's so close to meaning as use, that what we say is so much more contextual than had been previously supposed - and is still supposed by many today, ...

Supose someone were to say that the cake you are about to make can't exist because they can't measure it.

Simply that moral statements are not intended to tell us how things are. They are intended to tell us how things ought be.

Of course. Yet Ayer has to maintain some sort of equivalence in truth value between sense data language and material object language if he is going to...