The Gem, an example: "...you cannot have trees-without-the mind in mind, without having them in mind. Therefore, you cannot have trees-without-the-min...
Well, if it is raining, while you go dancing in the puddles, do you choose to believe that it is raining? should be... When we believe something all w...
That question is the same as "what should you believe?" Would you expect there to be one answer to that question? As if the reason you believe the cat...
And the rest of §306, and on through §308. The error comes from thinking that because we treat mental processes as we do other processes: "We talk of ...
That seems an odd interpretation of that quote. But then, folk often miss the next paragraph, the remainder of §304, in which the apparent paradox is ...
That was what perturbed me about your approach. You think that those are seperate questions. Qualia exist if they make a difference. They make no diff...
Really? So if we all agree on something, that makes it true? Or real? All we need to do to get the plane to fly is to agree that it will fly? You don'...
Since we can't, ex hypothesi, see the world as it is, then at the very least we cannot know that what we do see is not the world as it really is. So t...
I'm not sure what to do with this. If qualia are ineffable, then we can't talk about them. If not, then they are just everyday tastes and smells and s...
Where, in the article, does he argue for this? Or is this a Dennett boogeyman? If the argument is "Dennett is a physicalist, so he has to argue agains...
I believe it is raining because it is raining. The thing in the world causes the thought. If I decide to move my arm up, the damn thing goes up. The t...
Roughly, it's the view that there is only physical stuff - the monism bit - but we will never be able to reduce psychological explanations to physical...
Me, either. It's a dreadful term, designed to turn people off before they have any idea what it is. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anomalous-monis...
No idea what that means. I would have said that they probably will never succeed because there need be no correlate between all the sorts of things we...
I can describe my cat's actions in terms of its beliefs; so that's wrong. Now we will go off on some bullshit about cats not being able to form senten...
....but there is an implicit desire to find some "concrete" thing that is the equivalent of a belief; to render belief in physical terms, perhaps, som...
...and concrete events can be stated; therefore any belief that ranges over a concrete event also ranges over a statement. T-sentences again, concrete...
See above. What does a belief consist in? It consists in treating some statement as true. The paraphernalia of perceptual expectations or correlations...
A corollary of taking beliefs as ranging over statements is that it shows how they can be used in intentional explanations of actions. Back to: I beli...
Perceptual expectations can be put into sentence form: "He expected to see a nose there". You can even put them into the form of beliefs: he believed ...
A sentence is any more or less well formed string of words, so it includes not just statements, but questions and commands and such. Statements are in...
Beliefs are used as part of intentional accounts of acts. An action can be explained, accounted for, as the result of a belief and a desire. I believe...
Short answer, Yes. There is a way of talking about qualia that is not ineffable, but it appears to be no different to our talk of tastes, sights, fell...
I don't understand this insistence - from you and from others. What similar experience could you have to my looking at a tree? You could start by look...
...as are all observations. I'm parroting Davidson, or at least my version of Davidson. SO I don't think I'm alone. Why do you have misgivings? (Edit:...
The argument is simply an observation. It's a commonplace, and that you can't see it is what is extraordinary here. I rather think you nailed your fla...
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