Banno

I took the speaker to be disparaging the quality of the soup.

No. If you have a choice, don't.

These are pretty flabby responses. No one has pointed out that Stove constructs an obvious straw man. Look around and you will see folk fighting for B...

Some background: why Sydney University has two Philosophy Departments...

In action.

Imitation is as much a part of a language game as ostension. Looks like a backward step - explaining games by more games, rules by more rules.

So your imitation does not have to be correct in order to be understood? Then it could be anything.

I think you've missed the point. Imitation is yet more rules.

...and how would imitation account for our capacity to understand malapropisms? What is it we could be imitating, given that the situation is novel?

So we need free will in order to feel comfortable in administering punishment. But the purpose of punishment is to change behaviour. There are other w...

What could that mean?

That doesn't harmonise with the context in PI. There's a way of sidestepping the regress that is not dissimilar to a certain Nike slogan.

It's a consequence of your OP:

Good to see reference to Strawson's actual article. I admit to being guilty of replying to the OP and not to the article itself. SO you raise the ques...

SO "The ultimate technique in persuasion and rethoric(sic) is..." ...do stuff that doesn't kill you. Well, shit.

Just drawing it into the discussion. There is a way of following a rule that is not given by stating the rule but seen in the implementation of the ru...

And why is that what we ought do?

SO dictatorship is better than oligarchy? Where does Democracy sit?

PI §201

It doesn't provide a theory of meaning so much as replace it with truth; after all, if you know when a statement is true, what more could you want?

We ought add Davidson's own semantic theory. It looks to me to be the best candidate for a prior interpretation. Is it worth setting it out here?

Well done.

SO, thanks, 5G.

Thanks, Isaac - I'll have a look.

:up: Not enough 'Floyd references here abouts...

Hmm. Kamala Harris becomes President.

:up: Maybe we should send him some.

Nothing. That's why it is the perfect reply. And in so doing, reinforces the point that language does not rely on rules.

...and yet that was understood; hence, so. A case in point.

I'm reading convention as rule... almost.

I don't think that's the conclusion. The question as to the extent that Davidson repudiated his previous approach remains open at the end of this arti...

SO drop the notion of a share meaning. I don't see that as overly problematic. That is what Wittgenstein was saying, and where Davidson is heading. I ...

Not sure how to read this - do you mean " as long as Banno takes seriously..." or "as long as one take seriously..."?

Sure, which is why I took the time to point out that Davidson's conclusion seems to me to be not too dissimilar to your own conclusion (iii): that the...

Yes, in which case the article does not hold its argument. The article sets out to shoe that (3) is false. Yep. This is perhaps the first reading of t...

So you are saying that intentional states are not directed at things in the world, but at Aristotelian universals that are mental objects?

There's a meaning there... Actually, a question for you. I've had trouble working through the notion of a mental model of the world. What evidence is ...

No, I didn't - an actual sentient sentence would be far more disconcerting than one that was merely perceived to be sentient, I'd say...

Very interesting. This raises the question of what it is that is shared. So what is a "shared method of interpretation" if not a set of conventions? S...

What's an "instantiated mental act"?

Muddled, indeed.

Yes. The point is, he misunderstood and misrepresented Davidson and Tarski.

Well, then, you and I and Davidson are in agreement.

Yeah. I'd go with pedantic rather than pretentious. It seems to me pretty clear that the OP had not made much sense out of Tarski nor Davidson. It's i...

Well, what the argument is, is contented. It seems to me to be aimed at a mooted argument that there is such a thing as the meaning that can be derive...

Sure. Here he is perhaps being gentle. He everywhere undermines the notion of the meaning of a word, of a sentence, of a concept. Everywhere we are te...

Obvious stuff. No subtlety, then. Fine. It seemed that @"Jerseyflight", of loving memory, had read Davidson as denying that there was such a thing, so...

:ok: No surprise.

Yeah, silly buggers. They're a bit like the folk who think they have to specify that letters can't read themselves, presumably to guard against senten...

"the will to power" sounds cool. "The mechanism by which you chose power"... daggy. "Choosing to be an egotistical twat" ofttimes much more accurate. ...