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You feel insulted and provoked because you are being insulted and provoked. What's odd here is that you seem unable to see the racism implicit in what...

Your martyrdom will be a lesson to us all...

Joke intended.

To be clear, the metalanguage is on the left, and contains the truth predicate. The object language is on the right. So the object language is the wor...

Yep. That doesn't look like what I am saying... I'd like you to fill this out.

Statements are sometimes extensional; it's not a game that can be played with all utterances. You know that. Your point?

It is if it is true; and that's what is salient. But I'm not interested in the ontological status of counterfactuals, nor is it relevant. What counts ...

Wrong. False.

Used as in setting out a state of affairs. What is on the RHS is a state of affairs, a fact, what is the case, the relevant correlation, the extension...

it's not "Snow is white"; it's that snow is white. it's not ”Snow is purple" is true IFF "snow is purple". The sentence on the right is being used, no...

What's the thing on the rhs?

I used it here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/482981 In summary, it shows that the state of affairs is truth functionally equivale...

...as if religious belief were not simply a species of the belief genre. Your comments are specious. This is not a discussion of religious belief.

If I had any doubts, they were about what it was you were asserting. So if you now say we are in agreement, I won't disagree.

After all, setting out what is the case is exactly what propositions do; It should not be at all remarkable that our common stock of words includes a ...

Read the debate. I explicitly rejected that link.

Are you sure? Then our only point of disagreement is your refusal to acknowledge that events have propositional form; that states of affairs are shape...

Reasonably accurate, except for two small points. I would drop the use of "meaning" and say we takes truth as a given and uses the T sentence to provi...

And yet I don't. What do you think we might disagree about?

I don't know.

We understand this not in the way we understand that the cat is on the mat, but in the way that we understand that the Bishop only ever stays on the s...

Sure. Animals can't speak. I think we are in agreement...?

No. T-sentences have two uses. Firstly, if we take "P" as some proposition, and A as it's translation, then the T-sentence ("P" is true iff A) sets ou...

Can you provide an example fo a correlation that cannot be shown to be in propositional form? That would be a correlation that was not a property nor ...

More on that. There's information here; it needs to be over there; it is transmitted as a signal. Introduce Shannon's equations and entropy, and it al...

Ah. Yes, follow the rules. I'll agree with that. But sometimes you communicate by rules, following not. And not all language is communication. But sti...

...bound...? No, you are not. You might say "them pretty flowers over there", or "the Rosaceae", or "????" or even "the bush I cut down last week beca...

...which if it is anything is propositional: "the mouse went behind the tree". Which was to be proved. I can't see you doing anything here except agre...

Did too.

If something is put into square form, is it square? Would you think that when something is put into square form, it was not square prior to the puttin...

...then where are we going? Sure. So you think you were caused to do so? You could not have done otherwise?

That's exactly what you are doing in supposing that the belief of you mouse is some sort of correlation going on in its head.

Sure; the causal theory of reference. I don't think it quite works. I think "frank" does not refer to you in the way a marble causes another to move; ...

No, I wouldn't; and this is salient because I think @"Constance", in reaching for Heidegger, pulls out a misguided picture of how language works. It's...

...which can be put into propositional form; hence, all belief is propositional.

Misattribution. This is important. We might all agree that having a belief is not like having something in one's pocket. We might suppose that @"creat...

Then what is this...? When we make the assertion that the rose is red we somehow invoke a "condensation of the rose's constitutive patterns"...? Looks...

I must need more coffee, because I can't make sense of this. What are the things language is concerned with? It is concerned with the stuff around us ...

Ah. Wondered about that. Something about a style that was too flamboyant.

Is that the Reality? Looks self-refuting to me.

You may need to use more words to make yourself understood.

Ah, not a bad question. One would suppose that misattribution would be the same for animals and people. There's an essay here, that I haven't time to ...

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Redacted.

...and what is it I am looking for in these?

A name is not a description. Nor does a name refer only in virtue of its somehow being the same as a description. But yes, words are not identical to ...

R. S. Peters. Treats education as initiation, developing a liberal view of education using analytic techniques.

A PDF or link might help. Cavell is not high in my reading list, not having much of an interest n aesthetics. But has come up a few times recently. Th...