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That's a bit convolute. Again, this does not apply only to statements about the future; there are plenty of other sorts of statements which are true a...

I rather like the block universe. But as explained above, it's not essential. That we do not know the truth of some statement does not render it neith...

That's not right. That we don't know if some statement about the future is true or false does not make it neither true nor false.

I don't see how that follows. But either way, that we don't know if some statement about the future is true or false does not make it neither true nor...

A broader answer - that we don't know if some statement about the future is true or false does not make it neither true nor false.

Meh. Not unless we need to.

Yes. So let's go with a block universe.

Of course we can. Just wait.

I'm puzzled by your puzzlement. Moore holds up his hand. "Here is a hand". What does the "timeless truth really consist in beyond our thinking of it"?...

Friends, glad to see you.

Might be true. Peirce had a strange affection for triads. Yet another thing that irks. So I am not convinced I want it all. Or any of it. Despite your...

AH! Cheers. "The map is not the territory" was a favourite term of mine asa child. I was into General Semantics and all that. And in a way it is true....

Ah. found this: http://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/pattee/ (my emphasis) So displacement is where one talks about something in...

Take a look at the Pizza thought experiment. http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/11/26/the-pizza-thought-experiment/ Might be worth a thread on its own.

So I Googled "Pattee Displacement" and got the standard catalogue of American motorcycles. X-) Would someone else here tell me how displacement is bei...

You appear to have introduced a technical term - displacement - without telling us how you are using it. Could you please clarify?

Yes and yes.

Is it really an issue? It's not hard to add time and place; indeed, time and place are implicit in the statement: "the cat is on the chair" is true ri...

I don't understand this sentence. Can you clarify?

SO add a time and place, if you like.

Perhaps. the answer might rest on how we use "manifest". DO you want to set out some details?

Well, that's the thesis of the series, so that leaves us nowhere to go.

My gut reply would be "no". Private language seems to me logically contradictory, like squaring the circle. There are cases of languages that are priv...

I just find that rendering of a simple sentence overly complicated. The phrase "ontically on the chair" does not add anything that is not already in "...

@"Sam26" I want to apologise for becoming carried away in @"apokrisis" discussion at the expense of the theme of this thread. When you have time, i wo...

Folk think too hard about truth. Saying that the cat is on the chair and saying that "the cat is on the chair" is true amount to much the same thing. ...

A source mentioned before. http://www.nybooks.com/topics/on-consciousness/

Put so, I'm not sure a thought is ever complete. I'm increasingly intrigued by externalist ideas - the notion that thinking occurs outside of heads. C...

Perhaps. The thought was there, but incomplete.

Ach. Redirecting. Excellent behaviour management! So what is, is what can be said?

Damn. Mum found out.

I have one, thanks. Just boiling up some spuds fresh out of the ground, part of my first crop. Plenty more to come. They will be served with fresh her...

Sorry - which was it again?

Interpretations of what? Interpretation is moving from one language to another, yes? How does interpretation work when we are both speaking English? A...

This is very revealing. It shows that Meta does not take the idea of a public language quite far enough. The supposition in the quote above is that th...

I've got no idea what an absolutely public language might be. Again, you are far too tricksy for me, Apo.

That's it.

...or is it that you are still hoping to be in control of the discursive boundaries? Make this a safe space for that guy Apo? Remove the possibility o...

Isn't there a puzzle here, if one is able to eff what is ineffable? This is all rather a puzzle. Ride yourself of private items thus: imagine that it ...

You do not have to be here. You are welcome to go and spend your time more productively. But you enjoy this.

The time wasting is apparently mutual. IF it is all a matter of degree, then there can be no absolutely private language... I think we agree, but you ...

I would avoid such talk. Too close to reification; too much.

What would sharing it with yourself look like?

Private language speaks to the notion that I have private thoughts in my head that I translate into English and put "out there", that you read and the...

What? A private language would be one that cannot be made public, even in principle; and there can be no such thing. Where is the contradiction? Why b...

Well, I would not say it like that, but yes, I agree.

Yep. The difference is that a private language is one that cannot be made public even in principle.

Indeed.

So what do your replies say about you, Apo?