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It's just how often the term appears in Google Books, as a percentage of total words. Indicative, rather than serious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

Comparative Ngrams...

Our conversation is now spread across two threads, this and my thread on Austin. Might have to choose one. It is not obvious what counts as an empiric...

I'm afraid I haven't been able to follow what you are saying here. I took this as a sideways swipe at Carnap, another logical positivist. Carnap does ...

:smile: The "broad church" metaphor was used by formed Prime Minister John Howard to describe his Liberal Party - an amalgam of progressive liberals, ...

...the core Austinian argument against qualia...

It's just that there can be more than one true statement for any given fact. Did you kick the door or the painted wood? This needs to be pointed out b...

Incorrigible. An interesting choice which aroused my curiosity. Not certain, as I have used. So in the OED, there are three senses for the adjective: ...

IX continued... Ayer had proposed two different senses of perception words, one in which we infer the thing "seen" exists, and the other in which no s...

They've already won. Always have. Plants and animals are just bacterial megacities.

Hilbert's tent emporium. A subsidiary of Hilbert Hotels. It has an infinite number of tents available. Sales of any number of tents will leave an infi...

Meh. residents not born in the USA, about 14%. Residents not born in Australia, about 30% But you need keep your myths.

Not sure how to understand this, but it's probably worth pointing out that not all analytic philosophers think metaphysical claims are meaningless. Wh...

Yeah. But so many folk take this as showing that it is never going to lead us to the correct conclusions. That's muddled.

OK. Did you notice this...? That seems to be what Ayer has in mind, and it doesn't work.

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Thanks. I won't disagree with what you have said. For the last few days Markov Blankets have been at the back of my mind. One might place a sequence o...

I have to differ. He is saying that the difference is purely linguistic - his so-called "two languages" theory. I had thought that was what you meant ...

It strikes me as most absurd that folk think there is no reason to supose the world continues on when unobserved - when one has been unconscious, for ...

Good argument, but Lakatos' research projects or Watkins' "Confirmable and influential Metaphysics" had the potential to overcome this problem. The re...

Ayer. I think it clear from Austin that there are not here two differing senses of "see". But I take it you are setting out what Ayer is claiming, rat...

Well, yesterday I thought the argument so bad that I must be missing Ayer's point. Today I still think the argument extraordinarily poor, but still ca...

IX continued... Ayer says So if not because of problems with illusions, what are Ayer's reason for holding to sense data? I've over-read the texts her...

IX continued... A bit more about Ayer, perhaps, since it's arguable that Austin is addressing a caricature, rather than the real McCoy. The SEP articl...

Someone should start a thread about that...

Well, one is left wondering if some professional philosophers were unduly pretentious. If not He of the Great Moustache, then certainly some of his ac...

IX This, and the last lecture, are twice the length of the other lectures. Austin is broadening his account here, becoming more explicit as to his met...

I don't think it a problem in the wider community, nor with professional philosophers, who tend to be more critical of their own thinking. But it's no...

Did folk notice ' new thread?

I downloaded this PDF: https://ia804706.us.archive.org/19/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.46395/2015.46395.Foundations-Of-Empirical-Knowledge_text.pdf And thi...

Sounds dubious. Just to be sure, the notion of predictive value is from Ayer, pp 267-268. It's Ayer who would privilege certain sense-data because of ...

Well, I regret engaging with Corvus, and can understand why you might be confused, coming in part way through. The point, way back, is that we do thin...

Whole careers cut down to nought by your succinct brilliance, and after just a cursory read of a tertiary source! Cheers, Corvus. You win.

Yeah, you can. I put in the order, Trees-are-us came and implemented it. Who cut down the tree? If they find out it was over twelve metres tall, it is...

Yes, and Austin's approach to truth became part of his fall from grace, via Strawson. So there is plenty to say there, too. In these lectures the targ...

As a pedagogical point, are folk here mostly familiar with speech act theory? The conversation above with @"Corvus" has me wondering how much this top...

This? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9BXHqiosnI Good stuff. "This was Austin's most important idea: All utterances are the performance of speech act...

Speech Acts (The end of that article has some critique of Austin for you).

I do not think the confusion mine. My Honours thesis was on this stuff, and was accepted by a panel of academics, receiving a first.

No. I think most folk here understand Austin. You are an exception.

Obviously. It probably has not been pointed out to you before that we do things with words. A Big Learning for you.

Words are actions. We do things by speaking and writing. Your view of language is far too passive.

You say that as if the order can't change things. And yet it does.

The fashion at present, as I understand it, is to think of Searle as having propagated a misinterpretation of Austin, that the Austin we see is often ...

:lol: Given this, there is no way that you will be able to understand Austin. You've just got the perception stuff far too embedded in your thinking. ...

Yep. Nope. Worked for me, but like Antony I am using Safari.

:lol: Not in your world, perhaps.

:grin: As I said: I can only set the argument before you. If you can't see it, that's down to you. There's a curious myopia amongst those who see lang...

Vat-brains. The nemesis of clear thinking.