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Yep.

and...?

Alright then try: I have no clear idea what "there are non linguistic and linguistic beliefs" could be saying. If it is saying that there are beliefs ...

So... I'm just disincline to think that must be some neural network that corresponds to each and every possible belief, stated or unstated. But that w...

It's a common misunderstanding.

And what I proposed is not behaviourism, and we do much more than just move about.

More mental furniture. The argument I presented above treated belief as what is taken to be the case, and in so doing I hope undermined the reificatio...

Isn't it? Isn't that precisely how a neural network does learn, by reinforcing specific outcomes? If a kitten on occasions encountered a fluid floor, ...

Actually, one might have either belief, and yet still be wrong. This is simply the grammatical distinction between such-and-such being true, and so-an...

Think it through. Are you going to argue that there is a particular neural net of some sort for the floor's being solid? Another for the cup being in ...

So you should. I'm in for a minor medical procedure later today and have been off solids for two days; perhaps my hour of need is leading me to seek a...

I hope that from what I've just written it is clear that we can rephrase your question "Can a belief have form apart from language? " as "can what is ...

I suspect that there is some fairly profound misapprehensions occurring in the way folk are thinking about belief, the result of the considerable bagg...

Yeah, then he sets out 286, showing that he was having a bad day.

Suppose that belief is a mental state, independent of its expression in words or deed... Suppose everyone had a box with something in it: we call it a...

Are you suggesting that there are beliefs which cannot be stated? That is, not just beliefs which have not been stated, but beliefs which are un-stata...

"Work ethic"? Perhaps there is your problem: "How do we make more people middle class?" The United States has not just forgotten to look after each ot...

Surreal Numbers That's pretty cool. .

Well, no. There is still only one universe, with two descriptions.

yep.

A summary in ten words or less? Read PI. Or @"Sam26"'s notes. I'm sure not motivated by you to put in the effort.

Yes, indeed; quantity does not equate to quality. What's this conversation about? What do you want?

...over two hundred pages; and thousands more in secondary literature.

You might be able to fix the broken compass.

Indeed.

Well, yes; a grammar that accepts AOC as against a grammar that does not.

Philosophical investigations. Is this another discussion where you start to be interesting and then disappear?

It's how it works. You gota problem?

Paradoxes are not built into the world. Rather they are the result of not saying things well. They are errors in the grammar we chose. They may be dis...

In an obtuse fashion that might be a statement of the issue with which philosophy deals, but it's not philosophy. Philosophy isn't a subject so much a...

The OP is pretty typical of a certain type of post; a physical theory without any maths. Physics has required maths since before Newton. It's a confus...

Why not take a look?

Yep. You?

...presumably each of the things that satisfy that adjective.

You are asking fdrake if he knows if you agree with the standard definition of extension in logic?

The extension of "blue" is each and every blue thing - do you agree? Hence it makes sense to talk about blue things because there are things that are ...

Well transcendental arguments are notorious in that they rely on "the only way...". My point is that one is greater than zero not because of what it r...

so yours is a transcendental argument... something like: One is greater than zero. The only way one could be greater than zero is if the thing one ref...

Yep. Your point?

Doing so would require a private language. That's the rub; that being me requires there being you.

What you do with one is not the same as what you do with zero.

That's just giving it a name. Metaphysics is nothing,

What we need is more guns.

It must be difficult, to see the world change around you, undermining the doctrine on which you depended. I can understand why you might wish to glue ...

There are so many errors here, from the nature of logic through to the contingency of choice, that, well, one is left without reply. But a good rule o...

...and @"Sir2u"'s point remains undressed.

Well, you will be aware that what you espouse is not a widely held view. Can you offer anything that might lead us to think that facts - true statemen...

OK, so go back to my question... What's all that stuff about creation doing there?

Have you stoped beating your wife?