Banno

Didn't think there would be. I agree. It's unclear. But he is (it seems) working within a model of meaning as mental furniture, transmitted and transl...

This is what happens when meaning is thought of as mental furniture. Instead, think of meaning as what happens when words are used; the meaning is not...

Tried meditation instead?

There's a difference between a proposition being true and a proposition being believed. "p" is true only if p; the proposition "p" is made to fit the ...

Much of my biography corresponds to yours. But not this: As I've suggested before, the word objective gets in the way here. Consider instead: "the ide...

Odd thing is that one sees the pain in an actor, then becomes convinced that it is an act. It's not the other way around. Do you look at the jerking, ...

Here before you is a person in pain. Do you deduce that they are in pain by some form of induction from their behaviour? Or do you see that they are i...

@"frank", when you look at the face what do you see, without having to press it out?

with some of that I might agree. But why did you pretend there was?

:chin: I can't see it.

:wink:

While they might be accounts for why a belief is held, neither is an account of truth.

Because it's time for a pie and some shopping. Is the only way to be aware of something, to sense it? That's the hidden assumption in your argument. I...

One way: Did you sense water on the road? Yep. Did you see water on the road? No.

That's better.

Yeah, might have to leave it there. Others might choose to pick appart this argument for you.

Your obtuse use of language. Despite my having shown that it is an error to do so, you insist on treating sense and see as if they are the same.

That inference is just invalid. Everything is always, already interpreted... Every thing. Hence, there are things.

Actually, what is felt is not the temperature of the material - how much energy it has - but the material's capacity to transfer heat to or from the s...

...as if mental phenomena - pain, grief, thought... were not real.

@"Janus" This is perhaps the same point as I am making. We see water on the road up ahead, but it turns out that there's no water in the road, and we ...

Yep.

No - @"creativesoul" sounds like me. Sure. And presumably you would now take into account the difference demonstrated above. And when you tried to fil...

Yeah, you want to keep your cake and to eat it, too. So let's take your account at face value. Can you see a cat, yet there be no cat? Don't we then s...

So you are saying that one has a sensation of seeing the cat. What is wrong with that is the unnecessary middle man, in which we agree.

Cleaning this up: which is correct: a) One has a sensation of seeing the cat. b) One sees the cat. You said:

Not I; that was your doing. But yes, I heartily agree he is not needed.

So you think of yourself as a little mind inside a head, looking at a screen? A homunculi? You don't have your thoughts, you have sensations of your t...

So it is only real if you have a sensation of it? Nuh. Too simple to think of counterexamples.

Stick a pin in your arm and see if you still think that pain is an illusion.

Words. To express is to press it out. SO Magritte may be right. Perhaps the face shows grief.

SO after a bit more reading... I gave ten plastic cups to each of a group of five year olds, and asked what they could build. After half an hour of tr...

But that's just wrong. A misuse of words. Hm. Odd, again, that folk can't see this.

There is some confusion here between truth and belief. As always.

Does it matter if it is objective or otherwise, provided it is true? No.

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Cheers for the correction. But I'm still unclear as to what you are asking. Should it read "Opportunities are not guaranteed"? If so, then we ought do...

https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=public_law_and_legal_theory A neat summation.

An odd question. Which integers do you think are not countable? The question at hand was, are there integers that have never been spoken nor though ab...

SUre; not denying Kant or Rawls, but expanding their base.

There's much in the detail. https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=public_law_and_legal_theory The capabilities ...

1,2,3,4... and so on.

The capacity to count.

Really? How?

The three unaddressed problems of justice are: impairment and disability; Nationality; and Species Membership. For Rawls setting up a just society inv...

Yep. It's a rejection of relativism. Other cultures can have it wrong, just as can my culture.

Well, if a moral theory must be algorithmic - seeking the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or seeking to do one's duty, then probably not. A...

You are going to use some notion of language as communication between your homunculus and our homunculi, in which you homunculus takes his brain state...

Indeed: so other things exist besides stuff.