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This has the same issues as your previous formulations. For a start, the notions "well-informed" and "rational" are normative. You have embedded prior...

Again, and despite the ubiquitous ruinations hereabouts, it is not clear that awareness of events - the phenomenal approach to consciousness - is of m...

trouble is, it does nothing to help sort things out. See . If you can’t tell if Way is a P-zombie or not, how will the notion help with an AI?

Another notion of consciousness is the neo-phenomenological one, in which to be conscious is to experience - qualia and all that. It's a pretty odd id...

Quine's point is that all analytic statements are superficially so.

Even if the world contained no notion of marriage, the notion of marriage would remain possible, and hence bachelors would still be possible. It gets ...

The joke was a bit obvious....

Yes, good question. The trouble with this area of enquiry is that "consciousness" is used with such gay abandon. I've pointed out the several perfectl...

Why not. But my point was missed, so I'll put it again, more directly. There are those who leave one fundamentalism only to find another, who putting ...

But much the same architecture. It's still just picking the next word from a list of expected words.

It's anything but random.

Indeed, why take the triangle as being important? What rule was followed? And even if triangles are taken as primal, why not AME or AJK? What counts a...

I doubt he would, since existence is not bound to individual worlds.

The point was a simple one: Indeed, I do not. I think you understand that a child knows its mother, without the child being able to provide a definiti...

A Batchelor was long a young knight, not yet displaying his own banner, but that of a senior knight. Later did it become used for one who had complete...

No. Where did that come from?

So here is where connectionism comes in to the discussion, with the possibility of cognition without (at least local) representation. A neural network...

Analyticity without language? What could that be? I can make sense of two lexical elements standing for the same concept, but of two concepts standing...

Is this your opinion, or your view of Chomsky, or both?

An odd word, now becoming surprisingly common. What could it mean to have properties supervene onto individuals... green supervene on grass... that th...

This is ambiguous. Who was it took the Catholic bible literally - the anti-catholic fundamentalist? How perverse of them. Or did the anti-catholic fun...

Not much. The point would be to replace dogmas with problem solving.

A good read. I noted the similarity between the "thick moment" and Douglas Hofstadter's I am a strange loop. Prophetic stuff. That and the suggestion ...

Roughly speaking, science tells us how things are, while religion attempts to tell us how things ought to be, usually very badly. Science and religion...

One might hardly count past a few hundred, but that does not prevent one understanding much larger numbers, together with infinity, transfinite number...

The question for Professor Chomsky is at https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/804011 Draft form. Suggestions welcome.

Dear Professor Chomsky, Are there analytic statements? And if so, in virtue of what might they considered to be analytic? The SEP supplement Analytici...

It occurs to me that since the characteristic of language most central to Chomsky's approach is that language is compositional, hence permitting a sma...

I'll take some small issue with this. Wittgenstein's private language is used to refer to supposedly private sensations, to that feeling you have when...

This is to suppose that there is a thing, which is someone's understanding of grass; as if to understand "grass" were to have a certain box in one's m...

So you can set it out in a second order formalism? Go on, then.

Inside, yeah, but as I explained, it's cold and raining.

I generally don't eat cow. There's a reason it's the usual protein in hamburger. Ordinary. You've cause and effect arse about. I'm a lambvangelist bec...

The "real men eat beef" thing. Once you get over that, and can consider texture and flavour, beef is bland.

You can object; but you would be in error. Even goat has more flavour than dead cow. Steak is such a mediocre meat.

Lamb is far preferable to steak. You must have done it wrong.

Yeah, being in the pocket is social, being in the zone, not so much. The drum can't be in the pocket without the bass.

Looks like @"T Clark" has hacked @"Jamal"'s account.

It's raining. So I wore my rain jacket. It has a pocket. I can put the rain jacket in it's own pocket. So does the rain jacket have a pocket, or does ...

Yep. Not good. But it's raining, and cold. All this by way of getting myself arsed enough to make lunch.

Sure. Ethics isn't said, it's done. (It's the difference between praising National Socialism and working in a hospital ward.) Yeah, it is. Because we ...

Woe, heavy. Might need a few cones to work on this. yeah, and that's not quite right, since there isn't always a "what goes in" prior to putting the w...

Push all you wish, this is one of the common themes between Tractatus, Investigations and Certainty. And the source of my angst with your otherwise ex...

I see you've avoided the intellectual challenge of laces. Good for you.

Manpurse. Pfff. Why do you think god invented pockets? Get a jacket.

Sure. But the point remains the not all analytic statements are acts of naming. But further, when do you, or I, participate in such a formal act of na...

Hmm. I've been mixing my replies to and . My apologies. But why stop now? I'm not seeing it. Indeed, i find it hard to understand what an analytic sta...

It can. It's called Free Logic. But one of the results of free logic is that the existence of something cannot be the result of a deduction.