Banno

Engage the clutch; talk about the use of your beliefs. It's not a change of topic.

What are you grateful for? Having the time to think? Having access to a forum such as this? Being sufficiently articulate that you can elicit enough i...

Indeed. With all the moral high ground of usury.

Coming across a man dying of thirst, you'd loan him a shovel and tell him to dig his own well.

That's not on the page I was reading... Did I assent to "All belief is meaningful"? Must have been a moment of weakness. Try this:, talk of meaning he...

Left unexplained is how drawing a correlation is not propositional. The general form of a correlation: P(x,y)

Ah, Fairport. Good choice. Sandy Denny at her full-voiced best. When I played it, YouTube flashed up an add for a Senior's card.

Oh, I'm not advocating liberalism. Indeed my reading these articles is in part my seeking to delineate that separation. The capabilities approach, com...

Ah, might be; or Italian? Wiki agrees with you, but the citations provided do not suport it.

What does it do? Paraphrase it in terms of use.

No, I don't. Meaning is unworkable; looking at use will lead to more interesting results. Try it.

Come one. Meaning is not a useful notion. Put your comment in terms of use.

No.

In The Liberalism of Fear, Shklar posits the following definition of liberalism: It's an excellent definition of liberalism. For my part I might repla...

Expert reaction to Barrington Declaration, an open letter arguing against lockdown policies and for ‘Focused Protection’ Dr. Fauci says letting the co...

@"Roger Gregoire" joined a few days ago. He's only posted on this one, shall we say 'eccentric"? - topic. The conspiracy is growing: 5 failings of the...

"Form of life" - -Wittgenstein reference.

...and yet in the conclusion a new 'form of life' is created. Which was to be proved.

I watched it again last night. The premise that learning a language could somehow bestow the power to see the future struck me again as unworkably mag...

What the hell happened to Jordan Peterson? Pity, rather than admiration.

The article can certainly be read as a critique of Nietzsche.

"It was simply a matter of exposing the triviality of the excuses offered for the enormous harms inflicted on primitive peoples."

Ah. It can? I'm surprise dot see oyu defending the Humpty Dumpty view of meaning!

As previously discussed, I don't see that as any different to what we can know about creature's beliefs when the creature under consideration is capab...

There's something very small in counterpunch's thinking. :roll:

You keep talking about meaning. It obscures what's going on. Attributing meaning is just finding a use, which has already been done in your correlatio...

I'm playing Camus; fdrake's playing Sartre... Nothing I've said should be read as putting limitations on English. Yep, everything conceivable can be s...

:wink:

My comment was in English, but I didn't think that worth mentioning, either; my apologies.

...and in saying that you've said nothing.

Best to go straight grain alcohol.

But the dang chemtrails get in the rainwater...

What does believing that a meat diet cured their problems say about their critical ability?

Meh. If there is stuff that is beyond our reckoning, there is no point in talking about it. You want to "Eff" the ineffable again. If there are things...

I've long been looking for points of agreement and disagreement between Davidson and Wittgenstein, the two recent philosophers with whom I am most in ...

If your correlations cannot be put into the form of a proposition, then what are they? You would not be able to say. Then what are we arguing about?

If this were so, we would have no way to claim these were "aspects of the world"; as if you could show something and yet not be able to point to it.

I've no idea what to make of that.

Thanks for your efforts. That's an excellent reply. This might take a while. The "claim" is nothing but the commonplace that when what we say is true,...

To support your point you might present an aspect of the world that is not covered by our language. You show us, a new riff or artwork or film and say...

The inauguration happens at about four in the morning real time. Here's hoping the wind has ben taken out of the sails fo the insurrection.

Watch; that'll be absorbed and explained by the conspiracy theorists within a few days.

?? I cannot see your point. Use your words. Show me the ambiguity.

Colourblindness is what you pretended to in saying "His skin colour ISN'T AN ISSUE FOR ME!" How do you think this follows from anything else said here...

I mean that the world is all that is the case. Look at that and reassure me that you can see that it is about what can be stated.

You spent too much time listening to Thatcher. The question is, was he treated differently because he was black. But you cannot address this issue unl...

So... you think I am jumbling use and mention? I want to be clear about this. "The cup is on the table" can be dealt with in two ways. We can talk abo...

No. But one might hope that @"Kenosha Kid" pointing out the repetitive, self-serving (bullshit is a technical term in philosophy) nature of your posts...

Trump's departing speech: How fast can he back-pedal?

...you might learn to make better posts... ...you might learn to phrase your views with a bit more dignity... ...you might learn to fit in with the et...