Time does not seem relevant, but if you must include it: becomes At time t, there is a broken clock X and (S believes that X is not broken) S has an a...
I considered referring to the Dunning-Kruger effect for that post, but it's so cliché. Fiction is written self-consciously, in that the author underst...
And yet Interference happens. There's a few folk hereabouts, including @"Benj96", @"ucarr", @"Gnomon", who seem to think that philosophy consist in do...
Yep, wonderful stuff. I support your crusade against the reductionist attitude of the engineers hereabouts. But I don't see the world as a haunted mac...
Good. I like Mary Midgley's suggestion that they are simply different topics. But I also like Davidson's idea that what's true in one topic, if it can...
Sure. That doesn't mean that the conflict is about anything substantive - so to speak. So do we agree that the cup, unobserved in the cupboard, still ...
If we instead said that physics talks about matter and energy and stuff like that, we wouldn't be surprised to find that physics tells us little about...
Indeed. Or perhaps de manu? Nothing could please me more. This seems to be pivotal: There's your primacy of consciousness. The demand is that either e...
Pretty much. It's trying to talk about stuff about which we cannot talk... Also, it's where showing (and doing) take over from saying. Cool. But at ti...
Amusingly enough, I had written the first part of my last post before @"Janus" chimed in. Providence. Yes, I'm assured that Kant's use was innocent, b...
Yes, it's a bit obtuse. So far as I can make sense of it, it seems to suppose that since A derives from B, B cannot derive from A. It forgets about ci...
All still around, even Coomsy, who has a birthday celebration coming up. Jack has the C, but we might get another month or two out of him. Wife says "...
I think you are claiming idealism but advocating antirealism. But more, for you, the ghost is still haunting the machine. I also think you do this in ...
I sigh. "You know, we have followed this path each time, only to backtrack when the going gets tough. There are three problems - the puzzle of other p...
"Well, I hope so." I scoop up some more berries, and start to pop them in my mouth. "But you've set me another puzzle: the cutlery might not be where ...
"Thats much quieter. Better for a reflective mood." I sit wiping the bright red stains from my hands. "Of course I can say what it is - it's mountains...
"??The hills are alive...?" echoes around the valley... "Yes, we know we have a perspective, that our view may be different from that of someone else,...
Excellent OP. Interesting in puzzling ways. SO let's go back to your meadow. I stand facing you. A butterfly flutters between us. You say "See the but...
Show what? There's an ambiguity here that can be expounded by getting the scope clear. It might be There is a broken clock X and (S believes that X is...
Ok, so the Jupiter example was at least rhetorically a poor choice, since it led us off on a side line. Here's what I would defend: Not all our belief...
You're trying to make a point that is something to do with de re and de dicto interpretations? Or substitution? Sure, substitution into such contexts ...
Ok, so no antirealism towards belief. Good. Then I don't understand your use of "belief". But we knew that. Because you perhaps believe that I am in A...
I was looking for that: which chimes with this: ...which you appeared to be rejecting, here: ; especially: which it seems I had misunderstood... All b...
You said that potential energy is not real. Yet physics uses it in it's calculations. You then bend over backwards to try to explain how it is that ph...
To be sure, the suggestion is that if you have the truth conditions of a sentence, you have it's meaning. This is so whether the sentence is true of f...
Sure, all good pints. Consider the Slab game in PI. The builder calls "Slab", the assistant brings a slab. The Builder calls "Block", the assistant br...
, , here's a neat synopsis of the Tractatus, focused on the picture theory. Pictures and Nonsense I hope we agree on at least the description in the f...
You get so close, then jump sideways to the wrong conclusion. The "common factor" is what is done with the utterance. And that is public, open for us ...
In the PI? I think that's right. It's delicate. Consider: This has ramifications for your discussion with @"schopenhauer1", who is seems is in the thr...
Ok, cut off the conversation even as it begins. You might be claiming that belief statements are not bivalent - that "Banno is floating in space in th...
Good to see something a bit more sophisticated going on here. Interesting that you talk of "levels" here. It seems there is a vast difference between ...
So in order to defend your scientistic realism, you deny the existence of certain things posited by science. That seems odd. I'm thinking you are look...
So your idea is that the proposition does not exist at all until voiced? That is, you are not supposing the antirealist view that "Banno is floating i...
Depends on your flavour of antirealism. But the label is not important, so much as the content. (3) the world is such that we can treat part of it as ...
Russell, I like the way you return and attempt to summarise your thinking. Look at this with care. I do not see how it follows from your argument. Why...
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