Banno

Status Functions Suppose you are selling tea, and a customer offers to trade a blank piece of paper for a cuppa; You would presumably refuse; but if t...

Collective intentionality You can't play football on your own. And if you send 36 players onto a field, with each trying to kick the ball between the ...

You keep using that term. I don't think you know what it means.

Cheers. Folk with a science background who think they can "fix" philosophy are a dime a dozen. Most fail to see that they are not even addressing the ...

Truth and error? What is an error if not a statement that is not true? We have the notion of truth an falsity in order to be able to identify error. I...

So it seems.

This despite being shown in both the Anscombe article and Del Santo's work that physical causation is not a necessary relation; and both and I pointin...

To be sure, even Socrates didn't like the JTB account, describing it as so much flatulence in the Theaetetus. So the Gettier examples are beside the p...

Well, I see your point but do not agree. I think that we do know things like that 2+2=4; that this sentence is in English; that you have some expertis...

Yep.

Well, that's the promise; there should be a few hints already, especially in regard to how the utterance of a set of words in a promise places one und...

Consciousness Searle's approach to intentionality differs markedly from that of other philosophers who have discussed the topic. In particular, consci...

So we thought we knew, but we were mistaken.

The difference between believing that X and knowing that X is that if you know X then X is true. SO no, I'd say they believe it is true, but that they...

Indeed, thanks for that. Part of the reason for setting out Searle's account in some detail is the complexity of the relation between speech acts, int...

Isn't the point of including "true" in justified, true belief simply to rule out cases of knowing things that are not true? Does anyone here know some...

Indeed, hence the formulation Searle uses is "X counts as Y in C" where C is the context, and includes the network and background mentioned above. Aga...

I don't think so. The comment you quoted is about the context on which the institutional fact occurs, not about what makes the fact true.

If the ontology must be put in such terms, then Searle is pretty much a direct realist. Speech acts are very much public.

I'm happy for you to do so. It seems to me that such an "inward" declaration would be private, and subject to the fate of the beetle, but that might c...

Intentionality Intentionality is just a philosophical term for the way in which ones mind is directed towards something. So one might believe that the...

Well, yes. @"Nickolasgaspar" presented a particular approach to ethics, which I think somewhat problematic. The suggestion that he show how it can be ...

Yep. There's a way in which a declarative is like both an assertive and a commisive at the same time; it's that dual direction of fit. "I declare the ...

Propositional Content Speech acts are, one way or another, about how things are. In philosophical terminology, how things are is set out in a proposit...

Not sure what you mean by "inward". Direction of fit is about whether the words are changed to match the world, or the world changes to match the word...

Well, Searle says his list is complete. I'm open on the issue. But on first glance I think you are right that suppositions are declarations.

Welcome back. I am asking you to show how to apply your moral considerations in a particular case. How best to treat transgender folk?

Perhaps the error is in the attempt to set out explicitly the nature of justice. After all we do use the word "justice" to great effect, recognising i...

Five types of speech acts So we've established that there are more things to be done with words than just make statements. Searle claims that there ar...

Yeah, that's pretty much it so far. A few quibbles that I will let slide.

If you like - it's not central to the argument here.

The essay above, 'How to Derive "ought" from "is"', was pretty controversial for a while. There's moral implications, but small steps. Thanks for your...

Truth is, I'm not sure I do either, which is part of why I am writing this. For now the point might be that the aliens would presumably agree that all...

Indeed, with some complications, that is where this line of thinking leads; language itself becomes liable to this analysis. But not until the structu...

Promising "I promise to meet with you next Tuesday." With that very utterance, the promise is made, and the obligation created. Uttering the sentence ...

How to do things with words. The presumption here will be that we do things with words. Words are not just names used to passively set out how things ...

You might do well to include institutional facts in your list.

Ah. I'll leave you to it then. Too much adoration for my taste.

Tell me more.

?

Yep.

Jokes aside, Mercury does satisfy all the criteria.

Ah, don't apologise; I'm used to it. Goes with the territory.

:wink: .

Thanks for the info. Watching with curiosity, to see what the IMF deal looks like. Glad Sri Lanka might be in with a chance.

Just to be sure, That's not the argument in the Anscombe article, which explicitly rejects Kant's a priori imaginings. Her writing works at multiple l...

...and Jesus wanted to be Satan but his Dad said "No".

So he went and recorded one album with Duane Allmann. That was enough to shake him out of it. I'll grant you Dylan, Jefferson Airplane and Grateful De...

SO... this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJeWySiuq1I (Edit: I hadn't noticed the Weeping Angels before...)

Ok, so mathematise the definition for religion woman pesimism depression atheism cause