Banno

Nope.

I'm not convinced of this. And if one reflects on what we ought to do, then it is apparent that we ought to hope. Hope is something that Nussbaum enco...

Not going to happen.

You start like that, yet want me to read the rest of it?

Not short. Someone who does not see the sense of this is most likely to do so because of their disposition, not because they have been convinced by ph...

Hope you find it worthwhile.

It needs and deserves more than a quick read. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/4520/philosophical-investigations-reading-it-together

Yes!

Pretty much the theory critiqued in the first few pages of the Philosophical Investigations. So, Merk, have you a reply to Wittgenstein's critique?

Hm. Take care to note what I was addressing: And, preceding that, Sure we can think in images and so on. That's fine. Merk is saying much more.

@"Merkwurdichliebe" is the chap who answered Monty Python quotes for two pages... Doing philosophy is not his purpose here.

That speech and thought are not divorced in the way you describe. But it's s much a part of the picture you have in mind that it will make no impact o...

That's pretty much where you go astray.

Cheers. At the least it deserves wider consideration.

I understand that I don't have strong grasp of Kant; but there is not much there that leads me to want to read him in primary sources. The main diverg...

Yeah, suspected so. I need more coffee so i can follow what's going on. Must start a thread on Nussbaum.

There's a cat, like it or not.

I'd go along with Nussbaum's approach. Indeed it has the same ethical goal as laissez faire, so far as that is allowing people to achieve what they ar...

Ah - see the vision splendid; believe the myth.

Yep.

Well, that's not true. You are asking what we ought do, and that is an ethical question. You are committing the Naturalistic fallacy in suggesting tha...

Nature? With a capital "N", no less. That's a fine example to the Naturalistic Fallacy of course - and also the fallacy of appealing to nature, so wel...

SO, the title is not a philosophical supposition, but is up for good solid psychological examination. And the fact is that in a group in which "creati...

The frustrations of Tiananmen Square were crushed and then placated by the distractions of middle class comfort. Western countries are finding it diff...

Why too many fearless people on a team make collaboration less likely.

Will familiarity do? It seems - and I dread using the word - too subjective. What is it to say something is familiar? To have a suitable mental image?...

I'm not so keen... It strikes me as odd that Gettier has such a claim to acclaim, since his famous examples serve only to debunk a theory of knowledge...

Yes. Nor need it be comparing images algorithmically in a database. Connectionism provides a much better model for brain activity than does unconsciou...

A favourite of mine. Thanks for your input. Do you, @"Sam26", find it curious that so many here remain convinced that one does know that this is a pic...

You are quite right to compare the note to the first part of On Certainty. I agree with you. And thanks for your reply I'm also interested in contrast...

Seems so.

So knowing it is N. lies in my capacity, among other things, to show you the difference between Jim and N. I rather like your reply, and think it capt...

Sure. That's not what I want.

Sometimes. Knowing that this is a picture of N. is different to knowing that water freezes at zero degrees.

Nice. Yes.

That's right; but one approach will be to treat the hypothetical as part of a reductio. If it is the case that we agree he knows the picture is of N.,...

This claim carries all the paraphernalia around the guess that mind involves unconscious algorithmic processing. I'm not buying that, and hence I am n...

Few would say it was without reservation. Hence this thread. I think he knows it is N's face, but it seems to me the knowing and justification are her...

One wants to use material implication, but that's too much.

I would like @"Sam26"'s opinion.

It is? How do you know?

@"Hanover"'s account... Justification: it looked like him Truth: it is indeed a picture of him Belief: Hanover believes it to be a picture of him. Is ...

Hm. The argument slipped sideways. Not sure it is worth saving. I edited my post.

And so you do not see that as circular?

So you have everything you desire?

Of course minds change the way the world is. Can a mind change the world so it has whatever it desires? No. Reality is the stuff that does not care wh...

Consider direction of fit. The world is mind independent in that the cat is on the mat and nothing you can say will make that otherwise; except callin...

That even if there is a mind-independent world, one can move things around in it.