Banno

Pragmatists err in their disavowal of truth. It is true that I planted garlic yesterday for the spring crop. But a pragmatist might say that it's not ...

Why a new thread? https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/506899

Yep. You say it like it was a bad thing.

...then you have the difficulty of differentiating analytic philosophy and linguistic philosophy. Noether term has a hard and fast definition. The lin...

Well, I can't make sense of that. Language is made-up stuff, shared sounds with which we do things. It follows that anything that was inherent - built...

...interesting content. As I pointed out, some of the threads I have made have as few replies as your longest thread. Is "interesting content" your be...

If there were a god, it would be overwhelmingly obvious that there is a god. And then, indeed, atheism would be delusional. Hence, the existence of at...

Answering big questions is easy - as I showed above: Answering small questions - that's were you have to do the work. And it is where the consistency ...

...you say that like it meant something...?

... if you start asking smaller questions, you will perhaps get better answers. "Because God says" will answer any "Why...?". Is it a good answer?

...and what comes next might best be silence. Unless you have something else in mind?

Well, philosophers did come up with science, so there's that.

This bit gets left behind. So, what are those caveats? To my eye it would be the explication of the distinction between saying and showing. I've been ...

...which is to understand that "intelligibility" as exactly "translated into some natural language"... Logicians get paid to deal with the untranslate...

So it's about interesting content? Some of the threads I have started are shorter than the longest of yours. The obvious confusion in the OP is the di...

...that's propositional logic, which is the first step. Then logicians break propositions into predicates and individuals, and add "all" and "some"; t...

Here's the thing i would guard against: those who have, either explicitly or implicitly, a theory of the meaning of "red" or "pain" such that these wo...

Yeah, you keep saying things wrong... :razz:

...which is exactly what logic is, also. And mathematics too, for that matter.

Something like that. Yeah. So your phrase was far too strong. When you say a blind person can't know what red is, you just mean that a blind person ca...

So then what do you make of: Is convention right? See @"khaled"'s claim that a blind person "does not know what red is". Is he correct? Look at the us...

As if "knowing" were a boolean variable.

I have a blind friend who is an excellent photographer.

...now learning how to use the word "pain" involves seeing people in pain and hearing folk talk of pain and Mummy saying "oh, Frank, that must hurt, y...

Yep.

But not your knowledge of rhyming slang? :up:

Ok, replace meaning with use... "Convention says I know your pain by thinking of my own"; Instead, to learn what pain is, is just learning how to use ...

As yourself: "What would Banno argue here?" It will save us many words. What would Banno say about this?

Well, there's you problem, right there.

@"TheMadFool"Take a look at this sentence, from elsewhere: There are a bunch of errors in the formulation fo the issue within this one paragraph. Not ...

How? It looks to me that you are reading too much into what was said.

The forum seems to have a plague of "sovereign citizens". Folk who do not see the irony of their oxymoronic title.

...as if there were only one experience of pain. Do you notice how this very phrase grossly simplifies the situation? "The experience of pain is priva...

This statement, made after my previous one, shows exactly what time is. That you cannot see this is a fact about you, not about time.

Considerations such as yours may be behind Wittgenstein's enlarged notion of "grammar". Both formal and natural languages - propositional logic and En...

I'll show you what time is - later.

https://www.ikea.com/jp/en/images/products/ekedalen-extendable-table-dark-brown__0719960_pe732334_s5.jpg?f=xxs But isn't what you are really experienc...

...like, a clock.

A term invented after the fact for an approach to philosophy that began with critiques of the obscure language of the Hegelian thinking of the 19th Ce...

So you use "detecting" to mean "defining".

That's accurate. Hegel spoke nonsense. Nonsense turned upside down is still nonsense.

You left out Jesus.

What did you have for breakfast? The chooks are laying at half-speed. So I've started eating more cereal, and also cut back on coffee consumption. Wif...

I think the OP trite, and hence thoughtless.

The 'mercan myth.

Perhaps. But that's not what was contentious in your OP.

Time is what clocks measure. Can't see this going anywhere. The point being that philosophers can help scientists with conceptual orientation?

Hm. ...the way we usually do. The notion that feelings must be either public or private takes form from the erroneous idea that comparing feelings is ...

And..?