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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 ...
July 06, 2017 at 04:11
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...
July 06, 2017 at 01:12
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...
July 06, 2017 at 00:28
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...
July 06, 2017 at 00:05
8-) Trump makes America irrelevant.
July 06, 2017 at 00:01
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...
July 05, 2017 at 23:44
Of course.
July 05, 2017 at 10:47
Perhaps that is what March is suggesting. Is it what Question is suggesting? And that is my point. What is it we are talking about?
July 05, 2017 at 09:51
What does that mean?
July 05, 2017 at 09:01
as I said, "modal independent" appears to be an oxymoron.
July 05, 2017 at 06:59
July 05, 2017 at 05:02
If something is not subject to modality, then ipso facto it cannot be discussed in terms of possible worlds.
July 05, 2017 at 04:54
But how can a fact not be subject to modality; neither necessary nor contingent?
July 05, 2017 at 04:46
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 ...
July 05, 2017 at 04:45
Just so long as they know who to blame.
July 05, 2017 at 04:20
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...
July 05, 2017 at 04:15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgGvd1UPZ88
July 05, 2017 at 04:09
Unless we decide what brute fact is, your question cannot be answered.
July 05, 2017 at 04:03
I introduced the distinction between the bullshiter and the liar in the OP.
July 05, 2017 at 04:02
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...
July 05, 2017 at 03:53
Employing a symbol is already using language.
June 18, 2017 at 05:49
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...
June 18, 2017 at 05:33
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...
June 18, 2017 at 05:29
How?
June 18, 2017 at 05:14
Hm. I think, rather, that he solved it by pointing to the basis of language in following, not stating, a rule.
June 18, 2017 at 05:13
How can a thought be shared? Now, a use - we could share that. But a thought? You are not able to see the beetle in my box.
June 18, 2017 at 04:57
Sweet. So, how does representation differ from symbolism?
June 18, 2017 at 04:55
Try this - Not all meaning is representation. All symbolism is representation Therefore not all meaning is symbolism.
June 18, 2017 at 04:50
SO my argument might go more or less as previously stated: Not all language is representation. All symbolism is representation Therefore not all langu...
June 18, 2017 at 04:48
I'll go with that. Could be fun.
June 18, 2017 at 04:46
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...
June 18, 2017 at 04:38
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 ...
June 18, 2017 at 04:26
No.
June 18, 2017 at 04:23
But they also have the same extension. I don't see how your example works for you.
June 18, 2017 at 04:21
There is a limit to how far I will explain my jokes.
June 18, 2017 at 04:20
Both. Bad use amounts to incorrect meaning.
June 18, 2017 at 03:49
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 ...
June 18, 2017 at 03:45
Both.
June 18, 2017 at 03:42
What to?
June 18, 2017 at 03:34
This is what Davidson tried to bring out by translating natural languages into first order language. It didn't quite work. But it was fun.
June 18, 2017 at 03:33
Yes; exactly. 8-)
June 18, 2017 at 03:31
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...
June 18, 2017 at 03:30
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 ...
June 18, 2017 at 03:26
Yep, yep.
June 18, 2017 at 03:22
Yep.
June 18, 2017 at 03:21
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 ...
June 18, 2017 at 03:14
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...
June 18, 2017 at 03:12
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...
June 18, 2017 at 03:06
A symbol represents... But we do more with words than just represent. Hence, the analysis of symbols is inadequate to explain language.
June 18, 2017 at 02:58
...unless you can tell us what 'meaning' means...?
June 18, 2017 at 02:51