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But - how? In each case you replace one set of word with another, not with an ostension. Again, remember what we are after: And again, how is it possi...

I have garlic and a boned shoulder...

Alan Turing: The Turing Machine and Computability

I never did go back to that Wiki page to edit it.

What happens when a euthanasia thread returns from the dead...?

Remember what we are after: How do we know we are using "A", "Three", "Side", "Geometric" and "Figure" correctly in that definition? So that is incomp...

Cheers. That's an excellent post. It brings up a nagging doubt that has been sitting gat the back of my mind - in order for a malaprop to undermine a ...

Ah. Improved the passing theory, we did. Like what Davidson said. We dun good.

So you understand that the theory of definite descriptions was part of the same research, and that this led to Turing's development of the mathematics...

Turkish. I did spend some time wondering why "That's not well expressed, but it'll do while I get some more coffee" was a point of contention... :brow...

That is a very good question. Pick a word, any word, and present its correct meaning. Let's see where that leads.

An odd reply. You have heard of Kurt Gödel?

In dealing with @"Metaphysician Undercover", always keep in mind that he vehemently disagrees with 0.999... = 1.

Did you have it explained to you, while doing that course, that what was at stake was our capacity to render what we say into a logical form? Are you ...

There's a whole lot packed into that reply, which if I unpack for you will leave you calling me a pedant. And yet if you want a proper answer, the unp...

Well, the answer depends on what you want.

A casual phrase, into which I might be reading too much, but I think this puts the cart before the horse, and os perhaps at the core of the difference...

The comments regarding Donnellan seem pointed at the first; the process of interpreting "Smith's murderer" is not systematic, since it relies on the c...

Oh, yes. It's a process of interpretation, not of getting at the move from non-meaning to meaning. Explaining the origin of meaning remains outside hi...

Cheers. Seems we agree that brains are not so hard-wired as some have suggested.

I'll go along with Witti and say "No" Again, it could only do so were it a first use that came to be repeated in a community. No. So I suppose I am co...

I think the way to proceed is to be clear about what a T-sentence can do, and the role of other aspects of Davidson's semantic theory. "Smith's murder...

Well, I don't agree with this. It seems to me implicit that prior and passing theories are to be understood as able to be codified; and that the point...

The problem is more that "A nice derangement of epitaphs" could not be translated into Chinese without losing the joke. Hence, there are aspects of la...

Well, yes. That's what an algorithm is. Minds, Brains, And Programs This version has replies to critics.

Here's MacKay: Mr Donnellan And Humpty Dumpty On Referring. What's odd is that he disagrees with Donnellan, only to finish almost agreeing with him th...

Its at A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs. WEll, that's were the discussion about Davidson is. This was not a discussion about Davidson, hence it's change...

Pretty much.

No, I want to address it. I was looking to find the original context, Donnellan's article, when I came across the above SEP piece. It's Donnellan's Pu...

Here's a summation of the article, and a defence against it's conclusion: 2.SPE: Idiolects 3 Against Treating Languages as Conventions But my brain hu...

I wouldn't know; I never progressed past the oral stage.

Did you mean analytically retentive?

Quietism. The kale bolted, so I'm picking it while still tender. I'm out of the dried stuff from last year, so I also pulled a green garlic. So fragra...

I gather you are not convinced. Good. So where next?

Good to hear from you, Paul. As erudite as ever.

...and an emetic!

In A nice derangement of epitaphs Davidson argues that language is not algorithmic. Searle is arguing much the same thing with the Chinese room. How w...

You may be right. The present article seeks to show that theories based on convention are doomed to be incomplete, because they will necessarily be un...

The beginnings of a family tree for linguistic philosophy! That might be a fun exercise. Not sure about this, although I'm happy to be corrected. My u...

Could we do that? I'm in. But I'd not expect a high score; my Lichess correspondence score never gets over 1600, and blitz, never over 1200. You are r...

Stanford search on space: Space gets some considerable attention.

Isn't that the same as the distinction between prior and passing theory?

One part of A nice derangement that we have not directly addressed so far is that about Donnellan: the referential and attributive uses of definite de...

Section 5, for a few paragraphs from Davidson would not abide meaning without language; but that is Grice's abode. Sound familiar?

Seems you missed the reductio. No, it is not legitimate to say "I have a pain in my knee". That was rather Isaac's point.

Indeed. Although, given that you seem to me to have missed a point of fairly elementary logic in your discussion with Isaac...

I've no idea of your background or what you have read in the past; but I do know that the folk with whom you have been chatting here are not neophytes...

No, that's like replacing 'apple' by 'fruit'...

Good plan.

Oh, alright, Damn you. I just loaded Must we mean what we say? on Kindle. Which paper should I read first?