Hmmm indeed - what did take place as Noosa Heads? What was "X"? I haven't been there for forty years. The Nomological Net is not unlike Searle's backg...
So the upshot seems to be that Anscombe and Davidson are approaching different issues, and so that they do not, despite appearances, contradict each o...
Rubbish. It's not at all clear what that might even mean. Use of ideas from Ayn Rand will only detract from your credibility. I'll again leave you to ...
It might be amusing at this stage to mention Ascombe's shopping list. Anscombe has a piece of paper on which she has written a list of items to be pur...
The literature around this topic is more than extensive. That's one of the reasons for my caution. Also we are a bit off topic here. But more reason t...
Well, a regularity along the lines of "A whenever B". So a mass experiencing an action will always result in a reaction. Yet wanting a beer and believ...
Have a quick look at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/davidson/#ReasCaus first. It's a really pivotal question, not something with a quick answer. A...
As mentioned a few times in other threads, here's an odd logic: Premise: We don't know anything with 100%, absolute, undeniable certainty. Conclusion:...
Yeah, but a good rendering of Davidson would have to go back to his work on the logic of action, and there's large, but perhaps not insurmountable - p...
Me, or Davidson? I've not thought about it, and I'd have to go back and re-read Mental Events to set out Davidson's approach. Probably "mental event" ...
Yep. Been there. For what it's worth, given that 2+2 is 4, "Socrates is a fish" entails 2+2=4. The truth or falsehood of the antecedent makes no diffe...
It's never the case that two and two is not four. So we are only considering implications in which the consequent is true. In all such cases, the impl...
Oh, yeah - sorry, @"SophistiCat". Good move. There's a break in the symmetry that I think some have not recognised - that ??y(Gy ? Fy) does not give u...
Yeah, understood; hence my previous reference to Hegel. But there are all sorts of issues. The parsing makes it look as if we only need negation, but ...
Davidson, I think, would tend to say that mental state A is the result of brain state B, but that it might also be the result of brain states C and D....
Supervenience is a modal relation. Take the forgery example from the SEP article. Some particular tone and texture in the forgery might well be produc...
How do you tell that a child has followed the rule of addition? By looking at a finite set of examples. But, as for all induction, no finite set of ob...
Yeah, I think the account in the Meno is wrong. As was Chomsky. But this is not the place for that discussion. What I was after was showing how Kripke...
Well, thank you for that reply. I completely agree. Its much the same stuff as I went over in the thread on Searle and intentionality. WE can be more ...
Hmm. Might be better to say it is a ritual. Touch one shape, say "one", touch the next, say "two"... We watch a child do this, and then count the cats...
Cheers. Again, it's perhaps the problem of considering too few examples that leads our engineering friends to conclude that pragmatism is the whole an...
As if triangles, parallel lines and chess were not real. There are profound difficulties with approaches that include words such as "absolute". What's...
Meh. That looks to be all over the place, truth-makers coming from a different place to modal logic, and I'm not too happy about your claims to copyri...
What could you mean here by "justification necessitates the truth of the belief"? That there is no possible world in which the justification is true b...
I don't follow that, TIm. You can be absolutely certain that you are a cat, if you like. That doesn't make it true. But the bishop stays on it's own c...
Best answer might be that it is rules of grammar; rules for stringing symbols together. But I would draw your attention to logical pluralism: the view...
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