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Truth is a predicate that ranges across statements. "The knife is sharp" is true; it is true that London is the capital of Great Britain; and so on. T...

I'm not going to write a dissertation - you? 1500 words. I realised five could mean we were still going in March...

What this shows is a deep misunderstanding of what truth is.

Title is: Is Belief Content Propositional? I write the OP. Three posts each. No more than a week between posts.

Yawn. We doing' this, or what?

So, your argument is that other folk, including robins, see things differently to you, and hence... no-one sees the world as it is. Why hasn't anyone ...

Thanks for the video. I've been looking for more info about this chap for a couple of years.

Hu? Look, if you like, set up a site and I will re-write what I've said above with a bit more context and something to keep the peanut gallery interes...

IF I were to open, my bit would be a copy-and-paste from my profile. So I'll ceed the opening post to @"creativesoul", who can address that profile. A...

Not sure. Waiting for @"creativesoul" to decide on the topic... I'm presuming that there is a structure such that only Creative and I will be able to ...

Ah, but you did express it in words...

Oh, I can't turn that down. OK - You first.

...that'll do.

...and...

...as opposed to being mislead by Platonic forms...

...which made no sense to me. Why bother with such odd locutions - a sure sign of things going astray.

There's a children's version, one I mentioned earlier, here: The Mark of Zombie The Friends of Qualia didn't seem to want to engage with that, either.

No takers on the Chalmers article? Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia What's that about, then?

That's the sort of thing we might say. Usually we would say something like "He thought you were in the other room".

You want me to expound on the ontology of belief. I think that a muddled notion. The best you can say about belief is what I have said: Belief is the ...

Frank, make a point or shut up.

"...mind/brain..." begs the question.

A pattern of behaviour is a thing in your mind? You probably believe that the grunge under your left big toe's nail contains microorganisms. But I'd b...

Just to help folk out, Here is an article by Chalmers which makes use of qualia. Here's the conclusion: Working that out might take a bit.

Indeed, it's the idea that a quale is a "thing in the mind" that is perhaps the target for Dennett.

SO we have @"bongo fury" complaining about essays while @"Daemon" requests them. Beliefs are not mental furniture. The expression "a thing in your own...

I don't think I've ever been accused of being too verbose...

And...? Philosophy as dentistry.

There's a bush outside the window. It's a Correa alba, about two metres wide by one and a half high. Its leaves are more rounded than most Correa leav...

Why? (Why do I have to ask this? Why don't folk present arguments here, instead of innuendo?)

Creative is replacing vitalism with meaning...?

Do you want us to conclude that, hence, we cannot not talk about the world as it is? Because plainly, that does not follow.

What I meant by what? The topic is too long not to need links.

So meaning has become a thing; How sad.

What's up, Frank? Did your idea petter out?

Glad to see you have that. I don't deny it, either. That's somewhat true, a result of the variability of the definitions used by the advocates of qual...

Start here.

Nuh. At a certain point the conversation gets too ridiculous. And it's bed time. I'm sure of it.

OK, then. Back to talking about V8 Engines in German, then.

But that's not right. You know the thread is in English. It's true, justified and that you believe it is evident in your continuing replies to my Engl...

Yep. Except for that bit, and a few other bits. And so are you, since you clearly replied to my English sentences. But as I said, It's just that philo...

Well, you are right that this thread is in English. So that's not right.

You jumped form "We might be mistaken..." to "We don't..."; from we might not to we never do. We get it right sometimes, too.

Well, that's what a sensible qualist might say.

You seemed to suggest that we don't see things as they are, in a chat with @"Andrew M". That's a long stretch, and pretty close to the conclusion of t...

Well... not too sure about the "unexplained belief" - unjustified, perhaps? But there's lots we know for sure. It's just that philosophy tends to blin...

Really? Not to me. Depends on the truth you are looking at. Yeah, despite the pretence, philosophy will not give you any shortcuts. Indeed, it shows h...

Nor I. Must've imagined it.

Well, this chap, name of Dennett, wrote an article about it. It's worth a read. There's a thread about it somewhere...