The law of identity is better phrased as every thing is the same as itself. that is, U(x)(x=x) were x is an individual, not a proposition. But "Trump ...
Was it? "John is mad" - the mental state is a predicate rather than an individual here... This. Yes. The mental state is exhibited, apparent in the do...
I'm not too happy about including time here. But the point that being in a given state implies the possibility of bing in some other state is a good o...
OK, so mental states have a subset of propositional attitudes. And some mental states have no content - I suppose that's like "I'm happy". That's anot...
Well, @"unenlightened" is winning so far. talks of mental conditions and mental functions as if we knew what they are - but that's the question. @"wel...
Yes. It's worth paying some attention to the logic of denying a propositional attitude. There are four possibilities. a. Pat believes the keys are in ...
Here we have the reason for the debunked theory of meaning Harry exposes: Stove's worst argument. Harry never eats eggs, only images-of-eggs. That'll ...
Why say that he searched the kitchen because he believed the keys were there, rather than he searched the kitchen because the keys were there? I'm sug...
That's wrong. Some beliefs can be true, some false; therefore something is added to a belief in its being true. I don't see that there is anything her...
It's odd that one is obliged to say such things. I suppose Harry might have some variation of Kripke's causal chains of reference in mind; but it woul...
Harry can't see it. Odd. Let's be clear: Harry Hindu is not my mental image of Harry Hindu. Yet if Harry's theory of meaning were right, he would be. ...
Intention is a primary source. Moreover, the purpose here is not a commentary on Wittgenstein, but an analysis of belief. The two best accounts of mea...
One more time. Your theory of meaning is that the name "Harry Hindu" refers to my mental image of you. But you agree, from what you said above, that m...
Let's get back on track. If the keys are in the kitchen, we say "the keys are in the kitchen" or, perhaps even "it is true that the keys are in the ki...
I don't agree. Meaning, so far as it has any meaning, is constructed by folks doing stuff. Consider the notion of a unilateral agreement. It's oxymoro...
We can go a step further. I keep seeing "Hairy" instead of "Harry", and as a result my image of Harry Hindu is sometimes like this: https://h450v.alam...
Indeed. There is something quite amiss in Harry's account. Let's look at one of his claims directly: Harry says that when I talk of "Harry Hindu", wha...
This thread started with a picture of how words work that involved the meaning of a word or term as being given by another set of words. It's a mislea...
Another transcendental argument. Are you proposing that when one learns the difference between a duck and a rock that one is learning duck-essence as ...
So now we have : The meaning is what the writer intended to convey. — Harry Hindu Meaning/Information is the relationship between cause and effect. — ...
Perhaps remembering that you last say them in the kitchen. We have beliefs because we sometimes hold things to be true that are actually not true - we...
The parallel here is of course with the Quinean notion of the inscrutability of reference. Undetached rabbit-part. https://www.rit.edu/cla/philosophy/...
You don't see this as contradictory. OK. You think a belief can be both an attitude towards a proposition and yet not consist in a predication, as if ...
The notion of essence is quite problematic. The notion that it is certain identifiable properties that can be used to individuate some individual apar...
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