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Very true. Of course not. On re-reading, a few things stand out to me. Foremost is how often Austin explicitly pushes against many of the sorts of thi...

For my part my intent is to continue in the way I have been, reading a lecture or two ahead and then going back to re-read in more detail to make note...

Yes, it is simplistic. But what makes it invalid is that the conclusion does not follow from the premise. What is not ruled out here is the possibilit...

III concluding. The sting, when it comes, is pithy and simple. So the argument goes that the stick is straight, but appears bent. And the answer here ...

Is that what he addresses in a somewhat racist fashion on p.26? I don't think he's saying that there is only one correct way, but that there is at lea...

III continue... So is a mirage an illusion or a delusion? Ayer would have us suppose that we have conjured into existence a thing, a "sense data", and...

One story is that eucalyptus affects Koalas much like hemp does humans. They spend their lives shit-faced. And they have two thumbs. So they don't fal...

Yep. I supose that what is salient here is that sometimes folk doubt what they are experiencing without good reason. Austin is slowly and carefully sh...

III continued... Ayer's supposition is that in each case what we see is not a "real" material thing; there is no bent stick, no body of water, no pers...

Yes, I was somewhat concerned not to present Wittgenstein's view. Here: Moore might have said "If this is not a real hand then I don't know what is." ...

III Here he outlines the argument from illusion, hinting at the shenanigans he sees in its structure. Austin will show how Ayer has oversimplified, ev...

Cheers. I'm not claiming any expertise here, just an interest and an enjoyment of his style, even recognising its many flaws. I already missed a few t...

Nice. They will probably go after @"Jamal" rather than you, but good luck finding him; he'll just retreat to his Moscow basement.

Well, if folk plant them in the wrong place, yep, But your article says: Melaleuca, then, a shrub with a similar oil.

Or you could present the relevant arguments. Even a time would be of help. Depends on your purpose.

You want we should sit through over an hour of that? Trouble is, one would already have to be a devotee...

I probably have a photocopy (anyone remember those?) filed away. These? Bottom of each post is a secret, invisible "??". Hover near the ellipsis.

For sure, they are not going to do you any good.

Thanks for having a look. I suppose that tells us something of its effectiveness.

I'm not in favour of treating awareness as a thing. Might lead to qualia.

Didn't we send you folk some eucalyptus trees? They keep the oil in their leaves, making it much easier to extract. And less painful for the tree. Goo...

Ok. Is it the right view?

What?

Your teeth, as I understand from a peripheral interest in Archaeology. It is not clear that endurance is a suitable criteria for aspects of self. Why ...

, I suspect we have common foes, if for different reasons. It is perhaps those who have poorly read Kant who are most apt to paint him as an antireali...

Supposing that we have them at all (see Davidson), do we perceive our word views or do we discover or construct them? At best the notion of their bein...

, Austin is not claiming that we never perceive things indirectly. He gives examples of where it is appropriate to make such a claim. His target is th...

If it's a challenge for you, you should provide the answer. I've set my own task here.

II. There's a copy of Ayer's Foundations at https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.46395/. In the section quoted Ayer is introducing the Argume...

Cheers!

I. The first lecture is introductory, of course. Austin notes the tendency to back down on stronger versions of the doctrine - "Theres the bit where y...

There's something to that - here, it's the Northern Territory.

To be sure, that's not what Wittgenstein said; it was “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world" (“Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten di...

Yep. thanks for clarifying my recollection. Dewey might be thought of as addressing belief rather than truth. His concern was not so much to explicate...

It's not that clear to me what the OP is seeking. But I'll take this as my starting point: I choose the coffee mug I want from the several in the draw...

Yeah, that'd never happen.

True stuff. Advice for folks on K'Gari (Fraser Island): Always stay within arm's reach of children, even small teenagers. Those two kids are lunch.

Kids and dingos don't mix. Nor kids and tourists. They are not like dogs.

A dog following the sent of a hare along a path, which divides: A good read.

I've used brown; Muscovado, too. Someone's left two kids with a dingo? Bloody dills. Folk never learn.

Oh, Kripke. Curious. It's what we do?

The Law of excluded middle is not a rule? I don't follow.

Does a language begin to exist as a consequence of biological evolution?

Strange, to think of laws of logic as discoveries or the results of evolution. What, then, to make of Paraconsistent Logic? Devolution?

Indeed, but of course transcendental arguments are fragile. X is a necessary condition for Y; Y is the case; hence, X is the case. That first assumpti...

This is what happens when you get your education from "TicTok". They think the world is flat, like a screen. The new Plato's Cave?

Cheers. Again, if you haven't understood the argument so far, there's not a lot of point in continuing.

No, he doesn't.

Yep. Again, as per my previous example, not all facts are scientific. If you base your epistemology purely on science, you will only have accounted fo...

I'm a bit surprised to see you rejecting realism, but Dewey is the more coherent of the pragmatists. He had the decency, in his mature thinking, to pr...