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Does it? I don't see how.

But obviously colours are not private. Please justify this.

Thanks. Sure. So, since they can be talked about publicly, they are not private in the relevant sense. Yes! We have beliefs that have not been stated....

Can I just check an assumption I am making. There is a model of language that supposes a meaning in the private world of Anne, that is translated into...

Yet by allowing the relief valve you are allowing the injustice to continue.

Why not?

I wouldn't. They can do as they like.

Apo, I know you want me to react to this, but it's too far off the topic. My apologies.

OK, so a belief is a statement that could be used to explain a behaviour. It is locked in with certain actions. I'm juxtaposing this to it being a thi...

In each case the disenfranchisement is a social phenomenon that could be corrected by means other than euthanasia. SO the state ought not suport eutha...

Perhaps?

Interesting. In so far as a distinction, a discrimination, a categorisation, are acts, I could go with that. But I'm more for unstuffing belief. I tak...

Not just for the disabled, but for the disenfranchised more generally. The OP spoke of the poor; I introduced the disabled. But we could broaden it fu...

Are you saying they do not have beliefs?

When one says beliefs are concepts, it sounds like some explanation has been offered. But has it? Do you have a better notion of what a concept is tha...

Claim? More than that, they do in advocating euthanasia. "But they are just saying that folk should be able to make their own choice", you reply. And ...

And yet they can.

I think it a philosophical construction. The pain in my foot is not the same as the pain in my throat. The sensation in my back - is it a pain, or jus...

Indeed. I appreciate that you recognise this. Thanks. Evidence indicates that those who become disabled return to the level of happiness they had befo...

Fair point.

Michael, the reason given for Stella not being able to talk on the issue of euthanasia was that she was too independent. Having once had the honour of...

Indeed; killing someone takes much less effort than looking after them.

The argument set out in the OP is that the poor, if they are unhappy, should be allowed to terminate their own lives. That is set out explicitly in Po...

Well said. Equally, if you awake to find yourself a high quadriplegic, unable to move below the neck, and with a will to live your life, you should be...

Indeed, you clarified your position after your first dismissive post. Good.

Only if that voice is heard. And that is entirely my point.

So I don't agree with this, because I do not think that beliefs are a state of mind. Let's follow a variation of Moore's two hands, but using Jack, my...

Well, at the least I would have liked to see some discussion rather than this trite dismissal. It reeks of disdain. Chris does not have to hear the wo...

That's so insincere. Of course you have.

I agree. Who would not? But again, this is fine for those for whom society works; for those who have not had their autonomy curtailed. I read your pos...

Is your counter here that we can never achieve an ideal therefore we can never talk about making things better? But you would not suggest anything so ...

An odd inference. And incorrect.

Yep, they are European. Except for those that aren't.

Sure. What would that look like? The bird learns to push the red leaver. The point here is that red is not a thing in the head so much as a relation b...

...and that, if anything, was their strength.

So red is represented by what physical things? Your answers always reduce to "the red ones!" I don't think that helps.

This needs a lot of work. For starters, red does not work well as an example of an individual. It's lots of different things. But to cut through to th...

Bootstrapping. The operating system loads itself.

It strikes me as philosophically unwise to use some arbitrary date as an excuse for such resolutions. https://thei535project.files.wordpress.com/2014/...

This is a surprise for you? Did you think English people were of pure blood?

Simply because they are two quite distinct issues. Yes, it is obvious that you want to say they are the same, but as with your other thread you adopt ...

Just quickly, I should offer an alternative definition of a belief. Just putting it out. A belief is a statement upon which the believer is willing to...

Interesting, again - I agree that statements must be considered in their place, amongst the statements and other behaviours; I can't agree that these ...

I am understanding you as meaning what I would call an unstated belief.

X-) Cheers. It's a matter of great personal pride. I must say, it is a great pleasure to talk to someone with a decent understanding of Wittgenstein.

Can you see why I suspect saying a belief is "simply a state of mind" runs against Wittgenstein? Where have I gone wrong?

Are you saying that a belief is a set of behaviours plus a thing-in-the-mind? Then I am asking - what is that thing-in-the-mind? And I am suggesting, ...

No.

Hm. Not so fast. He did reject the notion of private objects.