IF the cycle explains enough, then I don't see a problem. Suppose that every fact were explained by some other fact. Then there would be nothing that ...
Each item in the cycle has an explanation. So no item in the cycle is brute, by the assumed definition of "brute". Further, what sense could we make o...
There is a third possibility; a cycle of explanation in which each physical explanation is explained by some other physical explanation. It's just the...
The leader of the West is now Angela Merkel. China has out-played the USA in international development through programs such as the Belt, and will soo...
So this is the topic: What sort of thing is an explanation? If it is another statement, then does it have to be true? If not then "God did it" will su...
What? That is, I can't make much sense of what you said. Distinct from what object? The assigned value is what can be said about red that is distinct ...
Is it? That's not how, for example, Searle used the term. Further, what is the assigned value of a property, as distinct from the property? Or are you...
It's odd to come up with a term - "brute fact" - and then spend time arguing about what it means; as if its meaning were there to be discovered, not t...
But it does. There is a way of understanding language that is not stated in philosophy forums, but shown in the ordinary act of talking. The rope Wayf...
There's something mysterious about the notion of something being transferred - why think along those lines? Why not just suppose that we learn the use...
SO my argument might go more or less as previously stated: Not all language is representation. All symbolism is representation Therefore not all langu...
But all one has learned is a new use for the term "4". That Phosphorus and Hesperus are the same is a better example for your purposes. But again, whe...
That is, 2+2 is the very same thing as 4. The argument would go, "when one learns that 2+2 is 4, one learns something". I'm not so sure. If one knows ...
That's one of the things that made it interesting. Perhaps we need a seperate thread on where Davidson went wrong. Cool. But what is sense? How do we ...
Something that sticks in my mind of late is the observation that privilege is invisible to the privileged. Hence human rights are unimportant to those...
Me, too. I'm repeating Wittgenstein's point that we can get further by looking to the use to which an utterance is put, than we can by an analysis of ...
Why not say that use is what gives words life? Obviously, the words that die are those that are no longer used. If all words have a referent, to what ...
We ought pay more attention to the distinction between foundational and semantic in the OP. The best account of semantic meaning I am aware of is foun...
Take a look at this paragraph again, but see if you can see it as I do. It looks to ma as if you have assumed that every word (you say thing, but that...
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