Banno

Indeed. That's why I'm not saying that. If you came across a group of folk who used "cat" to only refer to what most of us call "dogs," then you would...

I think this in error. And this. My suspicion is that for you truth and belief are pretty much the same, and hence, since opinion is subjective and be...

Well, I've some sympathy for this, but the premise is false. There are sentences that have not been written, hence there are sentences that are not au...

I'm lost here because I am not sure what "the relation in question" is. But again I will point out that the use of "subjective" to mean "mental" is fr...

I like anchovies.

Terrapin and I disagree on a bunch of things. While it is true that some philosophers use these meanings, I think it causes more fog than clarity. it'...

Nu. Even if we agree, we might all be wrong.

OK, money and other institutional facts. I was impressed by Searle in The construction of social reality. The name is a play on The social constructio...

Those linguistic conventions are presumably shared expressions of our belief. And here I am trying to use your terms. Are you suggesting that we canno...

Hu?

Sure. Worth noting. What I find of value in considering such things is the difference between a proposition and the belief in a proposition. In logici...

Here's a use of private and subject that is quite problematic. They share a common experience and yet the supposition is that they can never really sh...

In what way does "The cat is on the mat" set out the speaker's feeling or taste? Now, "I believe that the cat is on the mat" sets out an opinion, and ...

Isn't it dependent on the opinion of the speaker?

What?

I agree. Thanks for the clarification. Institutional facts. An interesting point. I'd analyse this in a different way. Allow me to modify the example,...

Ask Wittgenstein. Get enough people to play along, and it will become a language game. So, correcting myself, your contention is not (as I previously ...

What's not the point at all? Is it simply that the words are used that way.

@"Isaac" That a certain state of affairs is represented by a certain statements - English or otherwise - seems to me to have no bearing on it's being ...

@"Hanover" Do you insist that every sentence has an implied perspective?

Ok. you lost me. I must have misunderstood you. Why talk about meaning here?

No more than you are suggesting that "the cat is on the mat" is true, and yet "le chat est sur le tapis" is not. "le chat est sur le tapis" is true if...

As if there were no places we have not been...

No; it is only so because the cat is on the mat. Truth is not a plebiscite.

The view from anywhere.

"belief sensu lato"? Belief in what broad sense? A belief not had by someone? A belief had by everyone?

Point taken. Not must. Can you say "the cat is on the mat" in first person? (or, yes, any person) Then isn't it objective?

Me, too. I wondered if he might have been in the pay of Mr Putin.

Indeed, care is needed. So let's go with "Yes", in that it is statements that are true, subjective, objective, and believed. Do you have something in ...

Belief? "Taste" and "feeling" are often accompanied in definitions of subjective by "opinion". Taste, feeling and belief are attitudinal. "I prefer......

Meh.

How could this come about?

Sure, one can so do. But the question remains, is it correct to do so? Refer to my previous post. The question then becomes, to what extent can Islam ...

Neat. Might adopt that.

Argument by label. Do you have anything to add to the discussion here? Do you think that what the terrorist was exposed to as an Australian had nothin...

Yes, there is. What does the say about Islam or Christianity being monolithic?

Here's a simple test you might use to check if some fact is objective or subjective. Ask if it can be said in the first person. "Banno prefers vanilla...

Seems to me you are reading too much into what has been said. You want to see liberals defending Islam, so that is what you do see. To my eye that is ...

I explicitly rejected the pissing competition even as it began. My first post pointed out that Islam is not monolith, and predicted the inevitable pos...

This puts rather an extreme strain on what was actually said; which was that making anti-islamic police and rhetoric part of the realpolitik will inev...

Not bad for a fellow basement-dweller.

Yep, that's it. - SMH What to make of this? If the terrorist is not human, then he is not one of us, and we do not have to consider how our actions co...

There was a thread on this, No? What is it?

Now if you had said that people ought be judged for what they do, we might find agreement.

I'm so pleased! There was a recent exposé in which this phrase was commended to a right-wing Australian political party - One Nation - by no less an a...

In a sense, Ilya does what Arendt attributes to Eichmann; so there is something to Frank's reading. What I am at pains to point out is the stupidity o...

I had in mind Arendt, judgement as a social act and the banality of evil. Treating folk as other is excluding them from a role in our making a judgeme...

Yeah. Islam is also imagined as monolithic; any sort of nuance would make it more difficult to maintain the bigotry. Acts are performed by individuals...

I wasn't thinking of self-evident proposals. Rather, there are some propositions, the denial of which tells us about the denier. It’s part of the natu...

Well said.