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Well the logic of promises the grammar - differs from that of bananas and neutrinos. Promises have a basis in institutional facts - the utterance of a...

Yes; it's in a sense the elimination of the picture giving the meaning in favour of the use replacing the meaning in an expression. That the cat is on...

It's not philosophy because, like this thread, it is not self-critical. It looks like just making shit up.

Well said. I'm not surprised that it's @"bongo fury" who has you pointing this out. I've tried to make the same point to Bongo a few times. to which h...

But do you think where is the same as And if so, how, and if not, why? Seems to me the problem stems from treating propositions as individuals.

TO get back to the point at hand, do you think that is a T-sentence, as Michale claims? I think there are important differences. You?

Doesn't look right. What is interpreted is a particular utterance, made by a specific speaker, at a given time, in a certain situation. Hence the cont...

Radical interpretation does not deal in utterances?

OK, p is a sentence. "p" is an utterance.

I will go with Davidson and opt for utterance rather than proposition. I understand what an utterance is, not so much a disembodied proposition, float...

That's what this thread might do, for some.

I'm not sure of that. Your version hides the disquotation in a seperate line. 'q' becomes explicitly the name of a sentence, raising the complex issue...

I'm not so sure. I suspect it's actually pretty simple, if folk don't confuse themselves. Treat T-sentences as a definition of "...is true" and you wo...

Meanwhile, in Australia, there's this image of a supernova remnant... https://images.theconversation.com/files/478042/original/file-20220808-16-t0qvkx...

And how did the end of history work out? He's still trying to eff the ineffable. Neurath's metaphor only goes so far. The ship meets another ship, sai...

If you have an understanding of the state under which p is true, then what more could you want in order to have the meaning of p? (Davidson) You are g...

So language is subject to convention and yet most interesting when breeching convention. Why not? An error here is picturing language as fixed, as mer...

@"Pie", I doubt that you disagree with this; rather, it seems obvious, no? In my previous discussion with @"Joshs", the contention has been mostly det...

It's about grammar. That beliefs are propositional is not an observation, subject to verification or falsification. It's a definition. It serves to di...

Ok. If you are content.

Just that "absolute truths" is as clear as "pink truths"... that is, not very clear at all. I know what a truth is, but what a pink truth is, I've lit...

May as well ask which truths are pink.

Another performative paradox - you request, even demand, answers from folk whose existence you claim to need proof of.

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We see someone writhing on the ground with a stick poking out of their bloody belly. You say "They are in pain". I demand proof. You say that if A imp...

"Predisposition"? There are plenty of cases in which "proof" is irrelevant. I think that is not the case. I suggest that you do believe in other minds...

Well, yes. And there are some things we accept without proof. Go on.

@"Baden" is on line, and has a dislike for robust language. So let's go back over it again. I accepted your odd statement, in the interests of charity...

What? I changed "mad" to "fuck off", I recall. So where are we WRT your query? can we get back o the topic?

Where? And why the fucking stars?

I'm Australian. 'tis but our customary parlance. Me too. every day since 1970. If you have a choice, best not get involved in philosophy. Sometimes a ...

I don't think so. You asked for help in understanding the relation between idealism and solipsism, and for a discussion of solipsism. You were asking ...

I'm sure you can google it. Without continents to interrupt the flow of wind and water the volume acts as a global heat sink.

...except for the bits where it is hotter there now than in 1970? Point being, this image says little about the antarctic. Overall, temperatures in An...

It should not be cold in Antarctica in winter (June-August)?

I think Davidson's approach has great merit. Truth is such a basic notion that it is absurd to attempt an analyse of it... After all, such an analysis...

If the criteria for knowing something is proof, we have a problem. If everything that is known has a proof, then for each statement that is known, the...

A minimalist view of truth is the only way to go. Hence, T-sentences set out pretty much all there is to the logic of truth. Yes, but idealism and ant...

But what he said was that, to borrow your example, if we have no evidence of aliens existing, then it follows that they do not exist. "Justified", or ...

"2+2=4 or Spoigle is a blothik" is true.

Do you think that things must be proved in order to be true? Or are there things that are true yet unproven?

What?

Yep. Perhaps the direction of fit for realism is changing the words to fit the world, but for ethics it's changing the world to fit the words.

No it isn't. Lack of proof other minds exist is not proof that they do not exist. So, what will you choose?

and And if we cannot, do you think that proves that other minds do not exist? Of course not. When you are in pain, need you produce an argument to pro...

A logical proof moves from premise to conclusion. If someone is happy to doubt the existence of a world other than themselves, what could possibly ser...

The next few remarks show the poverty of the subject/object distinction. That's where becomes confused.

~~ This phrase comes from Count Alfred Korzybski, and the null-A movement, "General Semantics", a pseudo-science from early in the last century. I had...