Nope. Edit: Seems to be what @"Constance" has in mind, and I suspect @"Moliere" would at least like it to be correct. @"Joshs" view is harder to grasp...
Apparently. But you are familiar with the arguments in PI, I assume? See the section in WIkipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_resemblance#Fo...
Nice new thread of yours, by the way. Haven't chimed in yet, biding my time. There's a long reply half-written at the back of my mind that rants on ab...
Many of your posts do not show in the mentions alerts. Hence they get missed. Hence the rope example. No single thread runs through the whole rope, an...
Nuh. Trite. Hackneyed. A bit lazy. What remains is that much of philosophical discourse has a common error, so it turns up again and again in differen...
There are two sorts of responses to statistical arguments. The one looks at the quantity of data and the complexity of the analysis and thinks "Gee, t...
Cute. :grin: Edit: We might add that it is worth noting that the choice of hypothesis is not final; we can modify that choice based on further data. S...
Ah... an argument from statistics. On the other hand, the hypothesis with the most assumptions is the most falsifiable. If, the more assumptions, the ...
....so which is it? Is god's mind beyond our understanding, and hence not recognisably a mind, putting an end to the notion that we were made in his i...
What? Are you reaching for some sort of dialectic? I don't know how to make sense of those sentences. Bivalent logic applies to what is the case, and ...
Hence omniscience is a nonsense. ...and take your argument off on a holiday from reason. If you are able to recognise that what you have before you is...
Indeed. It is a preference, and dependent on circumstance. Methodologically the hypothesis with fewer assumptions is easier to work with. But it is no...
But being omniscient, they already know the answer to these questions. Asking a question presupposes not knowing something. An omniscient being cannot...
That appears to be an argument for the objectivity of ethical values. You said you had an argument that the usefulness of bivalent logic is dependent ...
If that is so, then so much the worse for these misguided folk. Well, then present the argument. What is it? Why think when you can quote... Relate th...
Why not? We use the word "red" for sunsets and sports cars and blood, but these things are not the same colour. Perhaps all they have in common is tha...
So you are now saying that since George Eliot was also named Mary Ann Evans, these are two distinct individuals, and that the author of Middlemarch an...
The arguments against dualism. We know that brain and mind are intimately linked, in that doing things to the mind alters the body (I can move my hand...
On your argument, the copy of Joyce's Ulysses sitting next to me on the bookcase is two different things, a novel and a block of cellulose. Of course ...
That sentence seem to imply that you have not quite understood what a family resemblance is. Notice the rejection of forms that goes along with this a...
... @"Isaac", you might be interested in my comments here and here, which address why I think this characterisation of science misguided. Realism is j...
And again, here's the reason this thread can go on indefinitely. Each time an ineffable is mooted, some fool thereby tries to tell us what it is. And ...
What's that, then? What exactly is "the smell of coffee itself"? @"Isaac" - here's the essentialism mentioned earlier - as if there were one essential...
Flame on for a bit... Not a view from everywhere, nor nowhere, but a view from anywhere. I think this fundamentally wrong. First, the stance you descr...
And yet... https://coffee-mind.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CoffeeMind-Aroma-Wheel_pdf__1_side_.jpg The contention that the aroma of coffee cannot b...
Religion does not do the things science does. Religion is not an investigation, but a way of living. It does not tell us how things are, but what to d...
Worth pointing out, although as you can see those who don't grasp the notion of family resemblance or who adhere to some form of essentialism will hav...
Yes, I'm familiar with the video. My present position is different to Davidson's, since as I said I do not agree that physiology causes intentional st...
Seems to me that we can have two descriptions, one listing the chemical and physiological reactions of my brain in the presence of coffee, and another...
The sorts of arguments I've used here here are closer to Davidson's criticism of the supposed subject/object or scheme/content dichotomies than to his...
Well, it seems to me that if we talk about something, then that something is not ineffable.... Hence if we talk about sensations - the aroma of coffee...
"Concepts". The term is fraught with problems. Folk treat them as if they were the furniture eof one's mind, metal things we can push around and rearr...
Your argument is that talk of sensations is metaphorical? "The coffee is too bitter" is about a sensation, but is not a metaphor. I don't agree that y...
Notice the metaphor. It easily becomes reified. What is transferred? In teaching someone to play, they become able to move their fingers in a certain ...
:wink: Yes*. Much of what has been said here seems to rely on that erroneous equation. A similar error would be to suppose that what can only be shown...
, , it would be wrong to treat teaching as moving something from one mind to another. It is better thought of as bringing about certain behaviours in ...
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