Banno

Think on it some more. You have just encountered something new. Take your time.

...and hence language is what enables the activity to occur. Language can be used to describe. It can also be used to enact. "I name this ship the Bla...

Ah. I agree that language may reinforce and express ideas. I disagree with your contention that it does not enact realities. As evidence, consider: Th...

That's what I said.

As if science papers consist only in mathematical expressions; and as if mathematics were not language.

You are not a fool. You are aware that without language there could be no science.

...and so we are doing ethics, not economics.

Poorly. Better if the state had taken a more direct role in helping her.

Yep. Of course a better solution would have been for her not to be homeless and to have access to metal health support.

You were able to do so because your state permits the existence of religious institutions. If they were persecuted into obscurity you would not have b...

Risible.

The state is the res publica; it is us working together. Any other "entities" that you might site may take on that role only as sanctioned by the stat...

There's your problem, right there. You are attempting to solve philosophical problems with the wrong tools. That's just wrong. Get a hold of How to do...

See Language of thought. You might have to do some reading, I'm afraid. Unless you can find a short youtube video that will allow you to think you hav...

So we are back to your recalcitrant reluctance to read. "Intersubjective" is one of those oxymoronic terms that folk use to avoid thinking. If the sub...

The congenital deformity of economics is that it thinks of itself as amoral. Seeking efficiency is an ethical choice. But if it be granted then you ar...

See, for instance,

...such as property, money, government, credit...?

But that's the reverse of what you claimed above; your post was that he is mad, and that we should therefore dismiss his ideas: " What strange ideas, ...

Your argument seems to be "the world is not a simulation because Bostrom is mad". Have you a valid contribution to make?

It isn't. The objections to Laissez-faire are ethical, not economic. My guess, in answer to your puzzlement, is that you have not considered Laissez-f...

That's a very ordinary response, for very many reasons. Yawn.

Would that it did. Searle has derived his comfortable life in Berkley from linguistic first principles. Nothing in that renders his ideas false, nor a...

Have you looked further in to Searle's derivation of social facts from mere language? As one of the few who followed the discussion I was looking forw...

Oh, I agree. I was simply pointing out the fallacy of reasoning that "He is mad, hence he is wrong". Bad reasoning needs to be called out, less it bec...

Being mad doesn't make him wrong.

What often goes astray here is that not just anything we say works. There are restrictions on what can be sensibly said. If language enacts realities,...

He's not alone.

Why do you need a definition of "shoe"? You can already use the word... Indeed, you presume to be able to say if this or that definition of "shoe" is ...

Indeed, the redistribution in the following was such an injustice, an impingement of the rights of the poor fellow to the left... https://miro.medium....

The Adam Bandt interview The Greens are where the thinking happens in Australian politics.

We can make inferences from your comments. Notions of justice and equity do not loom large therein. The criticism of laissez-faire that you claim neve...

What?

But then you've never understood justice.

Power An agent has power if they are able to get someone else, the subject, to act in a way that they otherwise might not. Power is commonly, but not ...

I'm not surprised. It's not just that there is no essence that can help us distinguish the real from the simulated; it's that we are utterly embedded ...

What? :rofl: Sometimes folk say one thng while meaning the exact other. It's a form of humour... It's called irony, or if mocking, sarcasm. Must be a ...

Freedom Pivotal here is that it is incorrect to consider man as being in a "state of nature", and yet already having a language. To have a language is...

Lost irony.

The Conversation, again, a piece by Judith Brett from La Trobe University that sums up the demise of the Liberals. But if Frydenberg loses his seat, t...

Deontology Searle claims that his account of language is such that deontology is internal to the performance of speech acts. SO when one makes an asse...

Language Searle gives an account of language that is somewhat distinct from the account of other institutions. First, a few methodological restriction...

That seemed to be @"Isaac"'s problem, too. In his case it has to do with the notion of modelling used in neuroscience. And @"Tobias" is caught in a fo...

Yes! They are different because we decide the difference merits the distinction. Ipso facto there is a difference for which we might make that distinc...

I feel your pain. That we are social animals is not the most comfortable thing.

I don't understand what it is you are asserting here. Who's experience or honesty?

If I might interject, and @"Michael" may disagree, but it seems to me that this is where @"StreetlightX"'s point comes into play; for us there can be ...

Don't worry, Tobi's a nice bloke. In the OP I cited an article by Mary Midgley, The Game Game. In it she has soemthing to say about problems that aris...

I see an ambiguity here that seems odd. On the one hand you have that there is no point in distinguishing institutional from non-institutional facts; ...