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is different to Sure. What's the issue? Isn't this exactly what is recognised by the use of the judgement stroke to mark the scope of the extensionali...

Oh, Leon. That's so far from what was actually said.

I can't get past this as a misframing. There's so much ambiguity in this! B is not about the cat - it is plainly about a thought. It will be true not ...

...and requires nothing more. That consensus might be all we have.

And Earlier I used this example: This is a triangulation, between her, the thermometer and myself. We reach an agreement, a level of mutual comfort. C...

Hence this: Things moved on.

Pretty close. But look at "A nice derangement of epitaphs", were conventions are rejected in favour of interpretation - an active process! And so clos...

Yep. The very idea of an overarching framework in which art takes place and is to be judged is anathema, to be immediately challenged. The framework b...

He mentions Davidson in relation to "systematic application of compositional truth-conditional semantics to natural languages", suggesting that it mig...

To call something misleading is to say it leads somewhere—but crucially, somewhere we didn’t intend, or that doesn’t fulfill the function we took ours...

, , Better perhaps to think of Davidson, like Wittgenstein, as rejecting the realism/antirealism dichotomy, than as compatible with either.

There's an obvious equivocation between understanding and knowledge, but natural language philosophy does pretty much seek understanding before knowle...

And deeply misrepresentative. Your standard practice, when you don't like an argument, is to misreport it. The phrase "If meaning is use, then use mus...

Well, no. And this seems to me to suffer the same error as your argument in the Two ways to Philosophise thread. “To call a metaphysical claim ‘mislea...

Fair point. So how would that work? I'd suggest Cartesian method, breaking the question down into sub-questions, answering each, and putting together ...

More like: Look for questions that look answerable, or at least for which you have some way of recognising the answer.

My classes did not begin with broad statements of what metaphysics is, but proceeded by doing metaphysics, self consciously, examining what we did as ...

Well said. The advantage of the question What is bread made of?" is that there is a pathway to answering the question, that we might well answer the q...

Teleology. We need not assume that meaningful discourse requires a teleological structure. - that we must have an aim. I don't grant that assumption—i...

They're not. The point is that the scope of the "?" takes in all the propositions, so as to maintain extensionality - and this is so whether we unders...

It seems to me that you are advocating absolute norms while @"Moliere" (and I) advocate relative or comparative norms. I may be mistaken. Yep. There n...

Perhaps it might help if I went back to this, regarding the philosophy conference in Presocratic Greece The trouble is, "What are all things made of?"...

Time to dig out In praise of idleness.

Odd. Seems to me the very point of contention. A goal, at least. Yep. Given two proofs, the clearer is preferred. On that we agree?

Call it a performative entailment, rather than a logical entailment, if you like. If you assert something that you think is false, or judge to be fals...

I'm not sure what "without you and I stipulating what an assertion is going to mean" is doing here. But I do think that if you make an assertion, we a...

Neither do I. But yours is a provocative post. I think maybe we might look back to the difference between an absolute and a relative measure - to bein...

Cheers. See A challenge to Frege on assertion for a bit more, if you are interested. Frege set the force of an utterance aside so that we could look t...

Can you do this without therewith judging that it's most likely true -- close enough that you are willing to assert it?

Seems to me that we can posit clarity as an aesthetic value. As something that we might preference not becasue of what it leads to, but for it's own s...

"Ends" are a figment of Aristotelian framing. So, no.

Sure. Frege's judgement stroke is a way of showing this, by clarifying the scope of the judgement: ?(the cat is on the mat, the cat is jack, therefore...

To me this talk of "ends" appears hollow. If, after Wittgenstein, we should look to use rather than to meaning, you might supose that a use is an end....

Sure. Does any one suggest otherwise? The "that" in both "J judges that to be true" and "Banno judges that to be true" both have as referent "The cat ...

I should have been clearer - my apologies. It's if the speaker does not know that jack is the cat's name. So we have And by substitution, Which is not...

The answer is straightforward. From "That sentence is true" it does not follow that "I judge that sentence to be true". Neither does it follow from "I...

Philosophers don't wait to be asked... There's no shortage, is there? starting with how many legs does a spider have, and working on from there... I s...

I don's see that this is not captured. The cat is on the mat. J judges that to be true Banno judges that to be true.

Then how do you explain a football game?

It might be worth pointing out that intuitionistic logic is a proper subset of classical propositional logic: everything provable in intuitionistic lo...

:razz: Isn't becoming clearer about what you already know a way to improve your knowledge? At the least, I'm not convinced that they are mutually excl...

But "What is a proposition?" would make an excellent thread...

I'd suggest some sort of shared intentionality, social intent, along the lines proffered by Searle. Shared intent as opposed to individual intent. Tha...

Yep!

Yep. Chalmers et al took themselves to be working on the same problem, as can bee seen in his Ontological Anti-Realism - he's explicitly re-casting th...

A result of philosophers being forced to pay their way, perhaps - of economics, rather than largess on the part of philosophers.

I'm lost here. We have it that "the cat is on the mat" can have a particular interpretation, understood whether it is true or not; and we have it that...

Yes, the argument did indeed move on. Disenchantment with the global framing of the debate led to the rise of localism, Phil os science moved away fro...

Well, there's the issues of substitution. If the cat's name is "Jack", does the speaker also believe that Jack is on the mat? It seems not. And yet Ja...