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I’m pleased that folk found my stuff interesting enough to comment on.

But that's not true.

I don't think the distinction is that tight. After all, English philosophy was mostly Hegelian, and it was this that Russel and Moore were rejecting, ...

Ah, but what are you becoming...

None. I'm taking truth as fundamental.

I don't understand your comment'd relevance to my comment...

It's meant to be too simple. What's missing is the distinction between knowing how and knowing thatt; this is about knowing that. A better revering wo...

I don't see how volition makes sense without belief. How can you will some act unless something is taken o be the case? How does one will oneself to g...

Not sure what this is asking. Are you asking if some folk believe strict nonsense? That's why I added that beliefs might be seen as ranging over state...

Well, is it true or false? I say neither, and hence it does not count as a proposition.

Yes. well done.

I'll add, I had understood that something like my explanation above was why Davidson moved from translation to interpretation.

Is this a thread about me, or about reference? We do manage to talk about rabbits, despite Quine's misgivings. And he was a clever chap, so I'd give h...

Dude, all your Pizzas are goat.

Not so much.

Of courser I do. You know that.

Why assume that descriptions must refer? Sure, most times that's what we do with them. But not always. Suppose we like chess, and play regularly. One ...

But I don't what you to write it, I want you to point to it. 'cause you see, you cannot. That sort of pointing is sort of metaphorical. Well, if you c...

Poor @"Harry Hindu". He's still confused about the difference between what's in your underpants and how people treat you.

So "run" points to...what? And if it's every instance of running, it's circular. IF it's moving at a speed faster than a walk, while never having both...

While we are refraining from being toddlers, you might address this:

So you can refer to things other than things...? If that's all you are claiming, then we might agree; but can we denote things other than things?

By the way, I'm blushing.

Antigonish Last night I saw upon the stair, A little man who wasn’t there, He wasn’t there again today Oh, how I wish he’d go away… Words don't refer....

@"Baden", so you think I wrote it so that no one would read it nor criticise it?

Very few words refer. What would you say a verb refers too? Let's consider "run". And yes, i am trying to be difficult. it's called analysis. If you d...

Nothing; it's a verb, not a noun. Seeking definitions is a very old philosophical game; you can see where it leads by reading Plato. Mapping out use w...

There's a lot about transgender sues that I don't get. I've outed the issues I see in a few threads over the last year or so. they are mostly to do wi...

If you don't know, then yes, you do explain what you know better by admitting that you don't know... Much better than making stuff up (we can leave th...

But without the Hegelian baggage.

Why would a rational person think that the words attributed to Jesus were actually spoken by him? This is a piss-poor argument, even by Christian stan...

The overwhelming problem in this thread is the failure to distinguish race from ethnicity. Sort that one out, folks.

Well, we can't have @"Terrapin Station" being right now, can we. That doesn't seem right - isn't it wise to admit sometimes that there is stuff you do...

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Disavowing dogmatism - dogmatically...

Analytic philosophical method is by now ubiquitous. Continental philosophy had more or less the right answers for the wrong reasons. SO the task at ha...

You are being far too nice. It's not healthy. Delete and ban.

WE ought take care about what exactly our topic is. Yes, people may be uncertain about what it is that is being said. That is a distinct point. Nor is...

Excellent OP - a formal demonstration of the "trickle up" effect; which is quite the opposite of what conservatives would have us believe.

Yep. Doubt would be unconscionable. Yet, plainly, there is doubt...

I'll take issue with the bolded bit; the certainty here is in language use. So it is misleading to talk of certainty being inherent; except perhaps as...

Oh, Harry.

So why are there now more freshmen philo students doing theology?

No similar development elsewhere - mere anecdote.

a trend Here, not more generally.

I pondered much the same thing. A reflection of a need for certainty where there is none. More likely it's just random movement of folk around the net...

Well, the OP can go on those grounds, too.

Without the mathematics, it's not physics.

I don't see this as different from what I have suggested.

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