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To be sure, progress is a normative notion. So modal logic is an improvement on predicate logic, despite modal logic being in a formal sense reducible...

You are basically painting with a roller rather than a brush.

I I'll have to leave you to it. Thank you for the example.

Oh, yes. I think this the topic of the next few pages.

Is this to be read as a stipulation? It doesn't correspond to, say, Searle's use of 'brute fact" as mind-independent, non-institutional and (at least ...

Yes.

No.

Shouldn't we demand clarity as much from those asking questions as those seeking answers? So in Joshs' case, it is not just legitimate but incumbent t...

Section four is about the problem of the priors. That's a genuine difficulty for Bayesian approaches. However it is clear that there are some interest...

I'm aware I didn't respond to your comment in the "Belief as emption" thread, where you drew attention to some similarities with Bayesian stats. I rec...

Our mystery man. yep, "Sushi" works. thanks.

So, page eleven, and the core complaint: And then: That "assumption that our allegiance automatically confers on us methodological virtue" is quite ac...

Also, some members do not come up in the search box. Not sure why - "@"I Like Sushi"" and "@"T Clark"" do not come up, but "@"Count Timothy"" does. Th...

On a PM following on from a recent thread, a name is now struck through. Interesting. So presumably if one deletes a conversation, it is deleted for o...

There's a lot to unpack in that, and the worst outcome here would be yet another realism/anti-realism thread. This would be a good topic for PM, if it...

I'm unconvinced. Mostly because I don't quite see what you mean. We might start with the brute fact of bread, presumably, and work from that. No need ...

I differ with him here - philosophical problems are overwhelmingly the result of poor choice of wording; to the point where that's an alternative defi...

A bit of history seems appropriate here, given the comments above. A potted history, leaving out whole continents of philosophical discourse in order ...

At last the ALP understand the term “diplomacy.”

How can I achieve these 14 worldwide objectives? Not by yourself. That much is clear.

That's probably a bit too strong. I gather you want something in the mix about agency and instrument? Perhaps we might agree that under a certain desc...

Yeah. The master moves blocks by giving a command as much as by pushing them with their hand. I'm sorry you can't see that. It prevents you participat...

Page ten concerns the nature of discipline in philosophy. As I've said before, philosophy is more than just making shite up. It also has to fit in wit...

Onward. Page nine is a defence of the use of philosophy of language. and The "linguistic turn" brought with it various philosophical tools that have b...

A tangent: That's a misunderstanding of "private language". A private language is one that cannot in principle be made public, such as the sensation "...

Should we look more deeply at the examples? Taking the example "...contingency is not equivalent to a posteriority, and that claims of contingent or t...

I don't understand this. If "Block" did not result in the apprentice moving a block, then we have no game. Moving the blocks is constitutive of the bl...

If you have time, I'd be interested in your reaction to

Isn't the present paper just that, an example of self-reflexive philosophy, in analytic terms?

I'll happily stand by my preference for rigour. The complaint that quality in philosophy is in decline remains unjustified.

I haven't yet read much of his beyond the present paper, but from tertiary sources he seem to have some odd approaches to modal logic and epistemology...

The distinction between analytic and continental philosophy has become somewhat anachronistic. There's been somewhat of a convergence, taking the best...

I'd agree with that. It follows form treating philosophy as a method, as something done, rather than as a set of beliefs. This was one of the themes o...

indeed, they are not searchable.

You are familiar with the example, from PI? There is presumably a difference between moving blocks and moving blocks following an instruction.

There's an updated copy of the essay included as a afterword Williamson's the 2007 book The Philosophy of Philosophy. Available here: https://onlineli...

So to the next issue: how much progress had been made. Williamson is optimistic: He argues his point on a case basis - undeniable progress has been ma...

Imagine a philosophy conference in Presocratic Greece. It's an excellent parody, sharp and well-aimed. We have the system-builders, the groupies, the ...

Yep. This last parenthetical sentence ought give us pause when considering the usefulness of "form of life". I can't follow your reasoning here, sorry...

, There was an opportunity to consider more of Midgley, which might have been quite helpful. @"Hanover"'s move towards forms of life is interesting, a...

This supposes that the we and the French participate in the same Form of Life... Are you confident in that? :wink: Even less so with ChatGPT, since it...

Thanks. The thread became a bit of a shit show. But overall I'm happy with the result. Indeed, the passion of the response overwhelmingly carries the ...

You have misunderstood. The bit you miss is that language games and language are not the same. A language game - moving blocks, counting apples - is n...

I suspect this is only so amongst apprentices, and the occasional journeyman. I'll maintain that Austin and Wittgenstein put the sort of scepticism in...

Here's a funny thing: After learning that atoms are mostly space, one does not find oneself sinking into one's arm chair. Things remain solid. Learnin...

Pretty much. The usual suspects are here, together with the personal attacks. Of course, I created this thread specifically to run away from criticism...

You mean like Kripke?

To be sure, I'm talking about using the inbox facility in the forums, not a different provider. Nice. I had quite an extensive PM chat with him myself...

Some scepticism is deserved here. It's pretty likely that this "boom" was the result of oral traditions being writ down. Certainly the myth of simulta...

Just that, in a fairly straight forward way. The arm chair appears to be an arm chair because it is an arm chair, the cat appears to be a cat becasue ...