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Hmm. Let's check. Did I address your last post? Sure, that's Dummet's anti realism. It takes realism to be the view that truth is recognition - transc...

They're already called world-to-word and word-to-world. Active and passive would confuse the issue. But yes, that's the hypothesis of the other thread...

Well, yes, but see the intro to my realism thread: It's more a question of which, when than of either/or. Are there five spoons on the table when we h...

Oh, and while going through my old threads, there is this one: "1" does not refer to anything.

So you infer that there is a ghost in the machine in order that there can be five spoons on the table even when they go uncounted. Presumably the spir...

True. There's a reason for that. Wiki uses verified sources.

There's a call for a re-write of the Wikipedia article on the private language argument. Call for rewrite If you know this stuff, have a go.

Yep. Magic. The statement you make when you are not making a statement.

Are they? I would have said they were just statements that are either true or false. I had no idea that they were magical. So the proposition is what ...

But what happens when you take the images seriously? see Chris Mortensen. eg: Inconsistent Mathematics, Reutersvärd, And Buddhism: An Interview With C...

So one might think, but because maths is made up we can develop little intricacies by thinking otherwise. Inconsistent mathematical systems are a thin...

I baulked at this the first time I read it, but on re-reading I gather the emphasis is on representing; as in word do not represent reality, but are t...

Sort of. If you know the truth conditions for a statement, what more could you need? Well, quite a bit, as his holism indicates. Who is avoiding propo...

How is the halting problem relevant to the number of spoons on the table? As if that any consistent formal system within which a certain amount of ele...

Ok. .

So he should believe the symptoms you make up. Fine.

Good comeback. Is the line something distinct from the two points? I think it must be, since it includes all the points in between. If it is, is it th...

Yep.

Witti's thinking might be along the lines that if the Liar's paradox is something we make up, then it is a game to one side of the mathematics of brid...

If that is all he is claiming, then that'd be cool. But ...seems to imply more; a difference in logical status. I'm somewhat ill-disposed to Sokal, fi...

But you said that what is made up is subjective. Is Lord of the Rings subjective? What does that mean? I think it pretty clear that equating made up a...

Really? I don't think so.

But if it is subjective, it's private, and hence not part of our conversation. Further, what sense is one to make of inter-subjective? Something is bo...

Cheers.

There's that subjective/objective confusion again. it's not all either subjective or objective, and never the twain. Is Chess "in your head"?

That your mind is elsewhere doubtless explains the paucity of your reply.

So tell me the answer. After all, that's what you are for.

Then is seems we are both realists, except that you call yourself an antirealist. Odd.

Realism has to be un-learned. It takes sophistication. Idealism, more so.

After considering the Devitt article, we might proceed. Realism is about there being stuff. Whether our statements about that stuff are true or false ...

IV. Verificationisim and Realism realism, truth and understanding are distinct; they can be related by inference, not entailment (p.97) Realism has pr...

In regard to the argument around p. 95. Devitt sees Dummett as adopting the slogan "meaning is use"; I've recollections of this being dismissed as a m...

III Competence as a practical ability Considering now B2 and C2 Dummett must show that all truth conditions are verificationist (p.90) Devitt's versio...

To an extent that might be right, noting that Devitt is criticising Dummett for moving from the metaphysics of mathematics to the metaphysics of the w...

II Conjectures B and C The flow of the argument is convolute. The section appears to flow as follows: strangeness of equating a semantic with a psycho...

Section I.3 is mislabeled III.3 in the paper. In that section Devitt claims that Dummet's approach is a direct transfer form his metaphysics of mathem...

yes, but curiously there is this from the first page of the article: Something is odd here.

Doubtless, but I have been unable to follow your argument, especially in your new thread. Tying the discussion to an article may help.

So we do agree, at least on that definition. Then you are right, I have misunderstood Dummet; "Dummett is packing more into the notion of truth than t...

Your "quite the opposite" is the same as I sugested, so it seems you are a man of your word.

I wrote a short thesis in my Honours year on this topic under the supervision of a chap who was a student of Watkins. I've read more since - that was ...

Then I'm not at all sure what your task is in this thread. But then, logic is simply playing with symbols, isn't it? What more was expected? Thanks fo...

If we are going to consider Carnap, then we need to bring in Quine's criticism. IS it your plan to defend Carnap against Quine?

Then we are simply using the name "antirealism" in different fashions. SO, what is antirealism? I gave this: I'll add that realism does permit us to s...

Popper had to conceded that falsificationsim requires verisimilitude. Much of a muchness, both debunked.

Yep. Seems pretty clear.

Well, yes, but not just that. There are innumerable facts that are unverifiable. Verificationism deals with them by extending the notion of verificati...

Bloody hell - look at tall the parentheses. That's doing my head in, since it looks as if you are both disagreeing with and yet asserting the same thi...

The answer is that it is up to us to choose. Is that picture a duck or a rabbit? It's a picture that can be seen either way. Neither is obligatory. Fu...

Again, you haven't shown this. It is open to a realist to say that we can give the same name to different things, as well as to things that change ove...