Banno

I'm not sure what is being said here. Can you give an example of a "truth being relative to you personally"? Do you have in mind a preference for vani...

It seems so. The difference between animals and ourselves is that they do not have access to institutional structures such as language. In this regard...

If you prefer, "...one could only recognize another form of life by making use of one's own". A form if life is not private.

That's not quite the argument. Rather, one could only recognise another form of life from within ones own, and by seeing that some aspects of the othe...

Reasons are attributed post hoc, to cats and horses and hedges as well as to philosophers. I call bullshit.

Not even one Belgium, A hobby farm.

So now all our coins have to be stamped with King Charlie Three. Apparently he will be facing to the left. Seems apropos.

This of course raises the question of relativism in Wittgenstein. Some suppose that the truth of any proposition is dependent on the form of life agai...

It's informative, I think, to apply Davidson's strategy to form of life. If one supposes that there are various, discreet forms of life, then one migh...

Cheers. My apologies for not being clear. It seems to me to be like supposing that a form of life could be private.

I noticed it while doing a bit of reading on the Christian persecution of pagan intellectuals. Charity does not appear in Aristotle's virtues, nor in ...

What's happening here is a new way of treating definitions.

Try this URL. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4545102 You should be able to read it online for free. Might need to create an account.

I'll refer you to the discussion of definitions in the article cited. From about p.242 it discusses exactly this.

There's the nub.

Music to mine ears. In the past I've gone further and argued that concepts are things we do, not mental furniture. The number 1 is not a thing so much...

Cool, broad agreement, then. This might need clarification. If I've understood, there need be no homomorphic similarity between the neural nets of two...

It might be that folk follow your posts but reply to the conclusion as a way of keeping it simple. I had a little think about your thoughts on knowled...

In Australia, property size is measured in Belgiums. Small farms might be half or a third of the size of Belgium. Larger cattle runs range up to a hal...

Thought you might. What do you think of the link, if any, to Davidson's rejection of conceptual schema? Davidson's strategy seems to me to be showing ...

That you failed to recognise my showing how I arrived at that conclusion speaks louder. We can all play at passive-aggressive chit chat. You like dema...

I had much the same thoughts as Tom as i read your post. So like it or not, that incipient Scotsman is in what you wrote. So, care to try again?

@"Tom Storm"'s post was cogent and relevant. Don't blame the messenger. Care to try again?

Meh. It is the only bit of moral teaching that is not explicit in classical philosophy. I wasn't attributing it to Jesus. The rise of Christianity bro...

IS the argument here that some people are capable of atrocities, therefore all people are atrocious? Thing is, we get to choose our reasons. "They're ...

The moral novelty in Christianity is charity. Not a small innovation. What else there is of merit was already to be found, better expressed, elsewhere...

When one opposes a view that is ubiquitous, it can appear that one is taking an extreme view. I don't oppose the mental. I just do not suppose it to b...

Dragging the topic back to truth - Remember truth? This is a thread about truth (Arlo Guthrie reference, too obscure for anyone under 60). The Revisio...

My suspicion is that @"Janus", and @"Luke", see knowledge as a private construct. I commend adopting a strategy that shows the public nature of justif...

I think the continued use of a visual example is misleading. It unwittingly authorises the myth of subjective interpretation. I chose the alternate ex...

I'm not seeing that. What I have in mind is more that the house is a construct of our interaction. My objection is to the theory that we each have a p...

@"Isaac" I haven't read the whole of the last few days posts, which I gather went off on a bit of a tangent. But seeing as how you have taken an inter...

If the argument is that models don't work, then we have agreement.

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/assets/images/images2022/30Dor-STScI-01GA76RM0C11W977JRHGJ5J26X-2kpx.jpg This nebula shines visibly just over...

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200? fan forced. Probably less time for the cheese. Judge it so the potatoes, greens and halloumi brown nicely.

But all that you have said here is that what you choose to believe is down to you.

Cheers. ...oh, and a couple of handfuls of cherry tomatoes. A strained tin is fine. Have a Bloody Mary with the juice. So you get the version with hal...

How to cook pork sausages... Cumbrian, Cut it to bite size pieces, if you like. Make sure they are fatty. Into a baking tray, pour lots of good olive ...

Oh, it's Devon...

Balls like watermelons.

Are you asking how to solve disagreements, or whence disagreement? If solve, then rationality and force both will work, or even If you are asking how ...

Not my forte, unfortunately.

Nice. Interesting how much this coheres with what I wrote above, and Davidson's principle of Charity, from where I stole it. We make the most of one a...

~~ Something like that. And Banno would agree that common is not the same as identical. We agree more than we differ.

I've managed to fall into a place where I get money enough for tea and biscuits while doing whatever I want. What's curious, in such circumstances, is...

That bit. I'm of the opinion that the distinction between subjective and objective, as set out here, cannot be made coherent.

Ok, so on your two folk with different models of the whole neighbourhood, and following the argument in One the very idea..., we start with incommensu...

is quite right; if everything is subjective, there is no point to philosophical discussion. It follows that if you think everything is subjective, you...

OK; please continue. I might hold off on interjections and objections as you write, and await the conclusion.