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Unless the game is inventing the rules.

Yes, I was trying to show you some respect. I should know better, but am a slow learner. Wouldn't it be sad, if @"apokrisis" have a decent point to ma...

I don't think I disagree with anything here... so far as I understand it. I don't think that Uluru-as-entity is at all defensible, since it relies on ...

I'm not convinced that "there is a valid logical distinction between what Uluru is, and has been, for human experience and thought and what it is in i...

Uluru is a rock; while "Uluru" is a word - I'm sure we agree so far. But there are those who would claim that to understand the sentence "Uluru is a r...

What?

I don't that it does miss the first person perspective. Nor is what I said dismissive of the role in culture in discussions of Uluru. Indeed, if anyth...

Perhaps; it's surely the case that if it is private to your own mind, then we can't talk about it? Otherwise, in what way is it private? I had a physi...

What your opinion of the height of Everest is, perhaps? Never did quite work that one out, and since you brought it up again... But perhaps not here. ...

I don't. Qualia are a nice example, though. If a qual is a private thing then following the private language argument there is no point in talking abo...

thanks Sam. I now think we do not differ by much in our understanding of the relation between brain states and mental states. Indeed I don’t think we ...

well, sort of. And no. If we reject the juxtaposition of world and word, then we reject segregation of the word from the world. That doesn’t mean that...

and now when asked to explain yourself you take the role of a fanatic. It’s not so much what you say as how you present that is gauling. We can all do...

Indeed.

@"apokrisis" It is clear to me that your critique of brain states does not apply to @"Sam26". He earlier cited this article that is quite explicit on ...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/2768/mount-everest-is-8848-meters-high-/p1

Indeed. So you don't know any other songs? We just go straight to the pissing competition, yet again. It's just sad, Apo. You could do so much better.

It is much easier for Apo to critique my view if he makes it up as he goes along. I am still open to having this discussion with you. I find it fascin...

Again, this is not an accurate account. I am convinced by Davidson's account, from On the very idea... That is, I reject the dualism between scheme an...

Sometimes.

He isn't trying to promote a particular thesis; rather he listens and comments on what is being said. That's what makes Creative worth talking to.

Try telling Jack that.

http://www.rantpets.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Cat-Food-Bowl-Logic-PIn.jpg

Yeah, all good; except that I am not convinced that brain state and mental states correspond, nor are brain states passive.

JTB is an account of knowledge, not belief.

It's very unclear to me what you are missing. Whatever we use to reasonably explain his behaviour. You seem to think that this somehow makes it my bel...

Creative, you asked what sort of thing a belief is. The approach I am examining is, why think of beliefs as things? This came from @"Sam26" musing abo...

I don't see why. Logic is just bunches of symbols matched up according to rules. It's a game. If every now and then a logical system is useful, so muc...

Again, it's not a thing. That's the point. Reification.

Yes, if a belief is not the sort of thing that one holds. Sure, we say we hold to this or that belief. So pull out your belief and hold it up high, ap...

Curiously, but not surprisingly, this is not my argument. My argument is that beliefs are explanations for behaviour, such that they set out what woul...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/144648

No, actually. But I am much more interested in what @"Sam26" has to say on the issue, since he has a demonstrably strong grasp of the issues with rega...

Jack cat is behaving as if there is a mouse under the bed. Jack thinks there is a mouse under the bed. For Jack, there is a mouse under the bed. For J...

...but you can't make him think. Jack's beliefs are not something that is inside his head. Jack's beliefs are ascribed to him by language users in ord...

@"Sam26" Tomatoes make good food. SO I seek out and buy tomatoes, I store them in a certain way, I plant seeds or buy seedlings and water them and pic...

X-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V92OBNsQgxU

Only if you continue to believe that a belief is a think inside Jack's head.

Around and around. We can use the notion of belief to explain jack's behaviour, even if Jack can't talk...

Where to go. This is the sort of error that creeps in when beliefs are treated as mental furniture. Beliefs are explanations for actions; they are all...

You left out the comma. :-}

That's the trouble with god; it does no good to introduce him by way of explanation. He's just too good at it.

So we agree, I hope, that we cannot have a statement without a language? In philosophy, contingent does tend to be used for things true but not necess...

Thanks. Looking good.

Of course we can. Hence modal logic. I suspect @"unenlightened" might well agree with me if I pointed out that a world containing square triangles wou...

If I may make an attempt to reflect on your new account, @"Sam26"... First we have a picture of things happening in minds and brains, such that some p...

That's not something I would agree with. Just to sure I am not misunderstood, a square triangle cannot exist on a plane; and that's jut a result of wh...

Dude, I give you all my power and you ask

Yes, except happens too fast. It's not clear that bringing intent into the discussion helps; why not stop at behaviour? If I accelerate towards a red ...

I used the phrase "In whom I am well pleased". Not so pleased with @"Noble Dust" at the moment.