Curious, that your thread on a simple technical feature had been metamorphosed into a discussion of the arguments for the existence of god. A sign of ...
Hmmm. I read Searle as claiming that the difference between a grunt and an utterance is exactly that the utterance makes use of an institution... it c...
Perhaps in English its role is to distinguish Snow White from that snow is white. Again, there are languages in which it doesn't occur; it is not need...
"Snow is white" is just a noun and a predicate... f(a). The "is" does nothing. "Snow is whiter than rain" is an order predicate, still be parsed as f(...
One of my old profs tells a story of giving a talk in which some young kid tried to ask a question which the prof idly dismissed. One of the others in...
Why? It has a use? What does it do? It doesn't even occur in certain other languages, where the concatenation of a predicate and a noun will suffice. ...
That certain noises or marks count as utterances, while others do not, shows that language is institutional. Far as Searle's account is from Marx, the...
And so to the deconstruction of Russell from p.169. Russell tried to achieve some semblance of certainty by supposing that the only real names were "t...
Sure. The answer, at least for modal issues, is to drop talk of de re and de dicto and use diamonds and boxes and brackets to keep the scope explicit....
So to p.167 and the case of proper names. If we substitute a and b for x and y, with a few more brackets to explicate the scope, we have ((a=b) . Fa) ...
De re/ de dicto is a distinction with multiple renderings in modal logic. The one I gave above can only be indicative. A better approach is to drop th...
Note 5? Seems to be about the differences in how the formula are to be written rather than anything of direct import. Quine had issues with extensiona...
And hence to Russell's solution to the apparent problem of substituting descriptions not argument (1-4). The argument seem to be something like that, ...
Much of the next page is concerned with examples of two descriptions of the same individual. Let's look at "the author of Hamlet", "H". This picks out...
Hmm. Individuals as in individual constants... a,b,c... and properties of individuals as in fa, fb, ga... Descriptions are presumably formula that pic...
But we did learn that the star we see in the morning is the same as the star we see in the evening - they are both Venus. So we can learn that two des...
, The issue addressed int he article is, how best are we to talk about necessity and identity? The article seeks to sort out the many confusions by lo...
For the rest, small steps. I would like to look a the paper with care, rather than moving ahed too quickly, or jumping to Kant or to the mind-body pro...
Yeah, it's an important, but fraught, distinction. I suspect focusing on it will cause yet more confusion. It's a distinction that is important becaus...
...and so on. "There's a meaning there, but the meaning there doesn't really mean a thing". Russel Morris. When I try to make sense of what you have a...
Here's the formal argument from the first pages. (1)\,(x)(y) \\(2)\,(x) \Box (x=x) \\(3)\,(x)(y) (x=y) \supset \\ (4)\,(x)(y) What's posited here is t...
I think the conversation here shows that such a thread would be so badly misunderstood as to be all but impossible to keep on track. I agree with that...
Somewhat circular. If you are asking how you tell if something is red, the answer is that it simply doesn't matter. It's your beetle, use whatever met...
That's pretty much it. Language allows us to construct institutional facts; see the thread on Searle I presented earlier. These institutional facts ar...
Meh. What I'm offering is a bowdlerised version of the logical notion of interpretation and satisfaction. of course their definitions are explicit, wh...
That doesn't say ostensive definitions are impossible. If you go to the PI, and read §28 and onwards, you might get a different view. Turns out the qu...
It'll be because you are in Australia. We live ten or more hours in the future. Most of the folk here haven't yet even gotten to Christmas eve, and by...
So we are dealing, for now with the "is" of predication. First, it's worth noting that predication applies more broadly than to "judgements of experie...
Perhaps, although I don't think so. I agree with much of what you are saying here. We agree that there are rules for language use, and that these rule...
Parsing counterfactuals in terms of possible world semantics makes explicit the relation involved in the counterfactual. So parsing ”Banno might have ...
This notion of empirical knowledge of possible worlds is... confused. Best way to think of the process is that the facts in a possible world are stipu...
Grice? So that's not uncontroversial. What an author intends by an utterance can vary over time, as that utterance is put to other uses. Can't see how...
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