You seem to think you have made a point. Presumably that "none" is an absolute. But you have yet to be clear as to what an "absolute" is. I hope I've ...
You have claimed this, but I do not believe that you have succeeded in defending such a view. And that is becasue the juxtaposition of objective and s...
Well, no. A view from nowhere has no location. A view from anywhere has any location. These are not the same. The intent of a given principle is that ...
So it claims. And my reply is that it is not what scientists aspire to. They are not seeking to remove perspective, but to give an account that works ...
For the viewers, Tim apparently asserts that language is governed by conventions. The best rebuttal of that of which I am aware is Davidson's essay. I...
The "view from nowhere" expresses a misunderstanding of the approach adopted by scientists. They are not attempting to create an account that 'abstrac...
The quote is the conclusion of an argument presented in the article "A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs", available at https://www.scribd.com/doc/82848058...
Sure. We learn where to use the syllogism, and where not to. We might do much the same with Ramsey's idea. We are not obligated to shoe-horn. Again, I...
I'll help. I think your intuition is along these lines: 1. Making any comparison requires a standard. 2. That standard must be fixed 3. That fixed sta...
What is an "absolute"? I juxtaposed "relative" and "absolute" measurements, in the example of hot and cold - I hope that is clear. We can instead play...
I almost left the word "internally" off that paragraph, yet you see it as pivotal. So something is adrift. The simple point is that we can deal with o...
The two accounts are of very different things. You have a plant. You water it every day. This is not a symptom of a hidden, private belief, on Ramsey'...
Ok. Bayesian analysis takes a prior and updates it given further information. Ramsey is different, more fundamental. His stuff is setting out what rat...
I'm unable to work out where we disagree - if at all. I gather we agree that induction - the conclusion that a general rule is true, on the basis of s...
I'd already avoided saying that. In the new order, all comments regarding religion must be deferential, apparently. Jordan Peterson has a new book. :r...
I want to go back to this: I hope it's clear that I am not advocating doing induction using probability. Better to drop induction all together and ins...
Not sure what to make of that. The act is a distinct thing - asking a question, giving a command. Things we do with words, and they are recognisable d...
:worry: If you like; They have acted. Of course it's "made up". That's not a deprecation. It does really happen. We do make statements, ask questions,...
What you are doing here is unclear to me. To be sure, the mere occurrence of a sentence with a declarative grammatical structure does not amount to so...
"p" is a place holder. We can replace it with some other sentence. It's usually understood uncritically as standing for any sentence, but doubtless th...
There's a difference between "p = p is true" and "p ? p is true". If we allow "p = p is true" aren't we going to fall victim to the slingshot - that a...
Is that so? or is it right, up until we try to pay it out. Then we find that theory rests on a mistaken view of the nature of language. There are conv...
I like that - a simple argument. There's benefit in having different ways to describe different things, hence collapsing everything into one descripti...
As is mine. Yes, indeed. But if we are to do so consistently, we might do well to presume a few things. Ramsey doesn't tell us how to be certain. He t...
What could it be to "read it correctly"? The presumption here seems to be that there is a seperate and "correct" belief, perhaps a piece of mental fur...
Thanks - there's a lot here. I'm not closing the book on probability, but opening it. That our deliberations rarely fit propositional or predicate log...
Ooooo nice... Trouble is I don't think any of science, revelation, mysticism or whatever can have "absolute knowledge"... 'casue I don't see how we ca...
I might as well also play with the toothpaste, while I'm here. The claim that science seeks a "view form nowhere" is a misrepresentation. Science seek...
But having said that, I remain unclear as to the "very original move", so let me reflect it back to you, see if I have it right. Our problem: If philo...
There's the obvious point that we do compare aesthetic judgements. They are not private. There's the further point that our discussions of aesthetic j...
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