...only it can't be, because experiences cannot be disembodied... your experiences are only ever yours. So is everything experience, ideas, or informa...
You callin' me names? Popper did say similar things, and I'm not in disagreement with much of what he wrote, but he was misled by certainty into think...
Well, that ain't so. Think of Quine's holism. It's fine to question anything, but absurd to question everything. There are things in which we needs mu...
Further evidence of covert idealism. Are they particles, and hence Pfhorrest is a realist, or are they "occasions of experience", and hence Pfhorrest ...
I don't see how idealism is bypassed here. How can mind-like stuff be just the activity of brains, unless there are indeed brains? But there cannot be...
The theory looks to be realism in name only; for all that is supposedly knowable are those interactions that cause phenomena. That puts far to great a...
That was my initial reaction, on reading the phrase empirical realism; there's a distinction between empirical method, a way of finding things out, an...
It isn't. But it can't be done without someone else - which is why you are presenting your theses in a public forum. So you can leave out the bit that...
...and hence the realism reduces to phenomenology. Why? Because it joins Descartes in the error of following the chimera of certainty, finding oneself...
This looks like the same transcendental argument you have used before: There is a thing called "what was actually meant", that is shared by multiple i...
There's an example from an earlier piece by Davidson, on Frege's invention of the function of asserting, '?'. Why had this function not previously exi...
Is it? It's one of a few articles in which Davidson stretches his semantic theory of meaning, perhaps beyond what it is capable of maintaining. It fit...
So how to interpret Harry's utterance? Seems to me that the word method here is... problematic. In interpreting "That's a lovely soup latrine" I don't...
What should one understand by this? An algorithmic process is one that follows explicit rules; I'm suggesting that the rules must be explicit, since i...
So was he thanking you for acknowledging his joke? Recursion is the bait in the fly trap. Thank you for following along on this little escapade. Your ...
Well that was more for @"Srap Tasmaner" than for a general audience, and whether an error is semantic or syntactic is mostly irrelevant to the discuss...
It's beginning to look as if you are equating syntax and convention. But that can't be right; that would be too elementary an error for you. So I will...
I don't know what you're talking about here. I suppose that what you have written might make sense if you divorce "governed by conventions" from "inte...
By taking the utterance as an event. Something like: creativesoul said "Don't be scared of the virus" 6 minutes ago is true IFF P. ...and we try vario...
Sure. I'm just puzzled by things you have written such as following: Now I noted much earlier that the misuse found in malapropisms can only occur, an...
Yep. Radical Interpretation is holistic. "Soup latrine", since it is a malapropism, does not occur elsewhere in the object language, or at least does ...
TO be sure, Davidson wrote considerably more, and much of it is specifically about the 'back-and-forth cooperative behaviour with participants contrib...
It seems you read Davidson as saying that conventions play no role in understanding what someone says. That's not how I read the article; it's rather ...
pp.263-4, paragraph starting "First..." is about the first principle - grammatical rules; paragraph stating "Second..." is about shared understanding....
I haven't had my coffee yet, but aren't these aspects of the prior theory? That is, they are the supposed attributes that allow language to be learnab...
For what it is worth, the fault, so far as there is one, seems to me to be way back at the beginning, in the assumption that That is, the fault is the...
That P sets out the truth conditions for S is an empirical question. For any sentence we would have to construct an interpretation, based on whatever ...
The core of Davidson's semantics is the search for a way to set out the meaning of often obscure or intensional sentences clearly; a theory of meaning...
Well, for you, pointing out that T-sentences are not just "P" is true IFF P; those case in which the sentence on the right is the very same as the sen...
Not for the last page or two. " That's a nice soup latrine" is true IFF P What are we to put in the place of "P"? If we assume mispronunciation, put "...
Ah. Cheers, @"Kenosha Kid". @"Dfpolis"' writing style reeks of fundamentalist Christianity, but I didn't see the explicit evidence until here. He need...
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