In the extreme case, yep. Extended empirical observation of Jenny's behaviour within the community in which she participates. Watching her pet the cat...
The inconsistencies you have noted do not matter to those who believe. Part of the reason is that they have been taught that belief is of greater impo...
Jenny says "the cat is on the mat" Jenny often uses "the cat" to talk about Jack, the black cat. So she says things like "The cat's bowl is empty" whe...
Are we? Davidson's aim is to set out the meaning of some utterance, not to set out folks' intent. Their intent can be quite incidental. Davidson's rep...
A pretty weak restriction, if what it does is allow some paintings not to be pictures. I'm finding this conversation a tad tedious. I'll allow for pai...
Odd, that you say Then use a quote in support of that, that does not mention intent We can indeed use a presumption that the speaker's beliefs are muc...
Been that way all my time. Heuristically programmed algorithmic computers, parallel processing, neural networking... each promised more than it delive...
I'll go over the thought again, I guess. Any definition given for art will invoke a counterplay by some artist. The act of defining art - and by assoc...
Not useful - folk do put the texts to various and varied use. But that there is one interpretation that is the correct one - that's, shall we say, und...
Amongst others. I'm not a close follower of Supreme Court process, but the idea that we can discern some imagined shared intent amongst the authors of...
The inner state of a computer is usually described physically, while the inner state of a person is described using intentional terms - as believing t...
So you just wrote "the cat is on the mat". Twice. Did you thereby assert it? Or can you do other things with the string of letters <The cat is on the ...
It explicitly isn't. We can attribute an intent to someone only after we have understood what they are saying. Understanding their utterances is prior...
Yep, there are conventions in language. But Davidson argues that they are not what give our utterances meaning. I understood Tim to be arguing that it...
Perhaps. But what I'd like to emphasis is that Davidson's theory of meaning is not dependent on intent. It assigns a truth value to an utterance. It c...
Why? Kazimir Malevich, Black Square (1915) explicitly does not represent anything. Also, note that "picture" does not occur in the OP. I like that. No...
How does a Last Supper differer from a coat of off-white? ...unless it was painted using Microsoft paint. Point being, whatever rule is offered, someo...
Sure, if you like. We can drop "intent" from that without much loss. Added: we don't much need the bit about inferring some intent on the part of the ...
But I'll give them anyway. Painting of a (drawing of a (painting of a (house))) The outermost quantifier determine all. So A painting. A painting. "Ni...
Davidson intends his approach to be extensional, so he avoids intentional contexts. Hence intention plays little part in his approach. The three point...
Yes, although the point made above concerning the IEP quote applies here, too. Somewhat perfunctorily, the goal is not to expose the intent of the spe...
The story we tell about the painting is different to the story we tell about the wall, even if the medium is the same. The Sistine Chapel ceiling migh...
Yep. He and Davidson have that common background. They would presumably agree on some form of the indeterminacy of translation. (I take that back - tu...
The key seems to be that conventions cannot be the basis of interpretation, but that this does not mean there are no conventions. There's the somewhat...
Thanks for that. What is interesting here is the compatibility between Lewis and Davidson. They agree that the shared context includes both action (th...
Thanks. That quote risks giving the impression that the meaning of some utterance is to be found in the intent of the listener or the speaker. That's ...
Yes, not much here from Spain, I'm afraid. We haven't had a large wave of Spanish immigration to drive imports - Italy, Greece and Lebanon, yes... Eve...
Nuh. Science looks for an explanation of what is seen that will be applicable to multiple observers. Not the same thing. Folk see different things. Sc...
Another mere assertion. Why not "absolutes are arbitrary invalid inductions from particle instances"? Is it? Then whence paraconsistent logic, Dialeth...
Being in the middle is not being at the end or the beginning. A stipulation, then? "Here is a hand". Not as asn observation, but as a stipulation - "t...
There is no idealised observer. There's you and me and them. Science seeks to give an account that works for any of us. That "perspectiveless abstract...
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