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From the OP: I'm not thinking of rules in terms of "thou shalt not..." - that's imposing an obligation. A rule is rather a pattern, in this case a pat...

Because "rocks" was already taken.

@"Metaphysician Undercover" goes beyond Anscombe. Long ago he tried to convince us that the private language argument itself was mere equivocation. My...

You read her as rejecting rules? No, she rejects obligation.

So take this to the final step... is your conclusion that colours do not exist?

So when you ask if someone from the past exists, you are actually asking if someone who is dead is conscious? Yeah, you can have that argument to your...

Oh, hush your mouth. You did well to get that much out of him. Besides, he answered your question earlier:

Yep. What?

What?

Dude, i just denied the picture theory and you want to talk about junk?

But I did. The picture theory is not relevant for 'lower' languages. So it's not relevant for 'higher' languages, either. And that's leaving aside the...

Yes, excellent stuff, Un.

No. And after Davidson, I'm not keen on the picture theory - at least if it is understood as some sort of model of the world. Bu that's off-topic.

The table is made of wood; therefore there is no table, only wood. Would you agree with this? The table is made of atoms which are mostly space. There...

Sure. The blue colour of the sky is caused by the selective absorption of red, green, yellow and so on in the atmosphere. What would be wrong would be...

You seem to be looking for something that we can be certain of, perhaps as a way of founding an epistemology. But that seems to me to show a misunders...

Perhaps. But do you see how naive realism is foundational?

Hu? What more analysis do you need? Stop trying so hard.

Thank you for sharing, Gregory.

I've no idea of what to make of that post. You thought the cow looked like a panther, so you knew it was a panther? Balls.

I don't see what Gettier has to do with the OP. Why add "really"?

But why? Even Socrates rejected the JTB account immediately after he proposed it.

But of course, material implication can be used to justify anything. Consider https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZGhGZ.jpg If the consequent Q is true, then so...

It doesn't hide the assumption of naive realism - it displays it and shows that it underpins language use. What is the sky? Would you have us think of...

That's not the best argument I've seen; sliding the word exists from one sense to another.

So it's like the chairs at the end of the universe. But that debate disappeared long ago.

Excellent point, Tim; and that should be an end to it. But doubtless these appallingly bad physics and maths threads will continue. They are an embarr...

Actually, what you were held to account for in the now-deleted thread was your description of someone as being "bound" to their wheelchair. I pointed ...

Nice to see @"unenlightened" having so much fun.

so that’s a planet we would see if we went there. Same as a cup we would see if we opened the cupboard.

so what would be an example That was not verifiable in principle?

the wiki article leaves much to be desired.

so, put the cup in the cupboard. We can’t see it, we can’t verify that it is true that the cup is in the cupboard. But I say that it can still be true...

How's that? What's this bit mean? Can you fill it out?

The Vienna circle? Thought we moved past that.

Kind of like you can evaluate the fork being on the left for the person sitting opposite you, despite it being on your right. The earth's being flat w...

So... she would have us replace an algorithm with a heuristic. I'd go along with that. Algorithms were long held as the quintessence of rationality; b...

Yep. Playing chess against someone who gets to change the rules to suit themselves. What's obnoxious is their then claiming that whatever they decide ...

So... your argument is that if we decide on the definitions of our terms to start with, then we will also know where the argument will lead us... Set ...

And, like all true Scotsman, those who rule get to decide what is "smart".

Bullshit (in the technical sense). The cultures developed a continent into a tame parkland that required the bare minimum of intervention to provide w...

So for you, the meaning of a term is given by some set of synonyms? ANd one ought set those synonyms out at the start of a conversation? But you are t...

Dwell on it a bit. If you want...

Australian indigenous cultures, for a start. Do you see the implicit racism in "smarter"?

If.

no, it isn't. It's just set up a culture in which the idiots get to decide what to do. But culture is malleable.

And an intelligent species would recognise that this is unsustainable and exercise some self-control. Is does not imply ought,

That's just an artefact of capitalist culture.

What you have shown here is that sometimes folk use "that's true" for "I agree with you". is the same as Person A "The cat is on the roof"- Person B g...