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Yep. Of course this doesn't mean that we can't make use of rules at all in our explanations, only that we be willing to revise them.

, as I've said before, it seems to me that for you language is all names, that you think each word stands for something. And I think this is mistaken....

Yep. Cool. It's kinda what I had in mind. It seems to me there is a lot of very bad philosophy being done in the forums, and this thread is by way of ...

Why must wisdom "have some determinate content"? There's the idea again that if it has no "determinate content" then it is nothing, but that doesn't f...

That's fair. If I recall, at the time I wrote "Perhaps you can't have one without the other" I was puzzling about whether it really is dissection that...

Trouble is of course that if something is beyond discursive thought then it cannot be said. We could not have an argument that reached such a conclusi...

Karl Stone has the martyrdom he desired.

I'd count introspection as a tool rather than a method. And not a good one. Your threads tend to be dissections rather than discourses. Those "What is...

So let's go back to my question to Tim. If we are to focus on praxis, then what does the Grand Theory Of All provide? Why do we need an analysis of be...

In terms of Davidson's triangulation, the temperature being 0? is one vertices, the other two being the bloke not putting on his coat on the one hand ...

Thanks, Janus. Join us when you can. Part of the thinking that went on before posting here was a rejection of those very terms, and the selection of '...

, , all good stuff. Can I draw your attention to how these posts are now about evaluating what we do so that we can improve? and not just that, but wh...

Sure. And the guitarist practices outside of the performance.

I recall, back when I meditated, long sessions in which my teacher had us focus in great detail on various entrails. A confronting reality that for me...

Cheers. Trouble is, we have to act. We don't always have the time, fortitude or inclination to understand someone - especially when their view is well...

This put me in mind of the use of metalanguage in Tarski, a hierarchy in which the truths in each language are set out in it's metalanguage, and infin...

Nice.

Oh, Leon. Already misrepresenting. You are a liar. You know better, but you do this sort of shit. And repeatedly and to others as well as to me. It's ...

I don't see that this is so. Why should we limit wisdom to being either a particular, or a thing? And see how even here, at the first step, so much is...

Yep. That's the poison for which critique is the antidote.

Sure. I would also draw attention to the extra step of casting a critical eye over what is being thought. A shift from hermeneutics to critique. The b...

:wink: Indeed - although there is now such a word, created self-consciously. Good on you for noticing. I did indeed want something that portrayed an o...

I'm flattered that you have paid me so much attention. :wink: You read me as denying that I have a worldview. I presume you got that from And you are ...

Yep. See the mention of Midgley, in my reply to @"180 Proof". Where we - you and I - may lock horns is where I occasionally see science has having mad...

I'm happy to mix the two. Glad you can see the line of thinking here, and you are right to link it with Midgley. A related point came up in another th...

, Perhaps here we agree that the thermometer reads 0? and yet differ as to the appropriate response? So the world is constant, yet the utterance chang...

Part of this relates to a topic you and I touched on earlier, as to whether there can be more than one consistent account of some state of affairs. Th...

We can go on in this vein, if you like. But there remains the issue I've now raised several times, to which I would like to see your response. Can you...

It was an obvious joke. However your use of "straw man" might be telling. It's not uncommon for accusations of committing the straw man fallacy to com...

Why is that the question? The topic here is aesthetics, not animal psychology. Look at the question: can animals know anything? Giving an answer presu...

Tim, in this discussion between us, "being" is first used by you here: , several times in your extended quotes concerning Plato. A quick flick through...

Sure. Why are you telling us this?

I'm quite enjoying this thread. Aesthetics is not something we discuss as often as we perhaps might, but that can bring out quite profound differences...

Presumptuous, to supose that we are not... :wink:

To my eye, and I'd supose to the eye of many who have given it some thought, this use of "being" is fraught. The question as posed seems to depend on ...

What it is doing here looks to me to be more like a calculator doing a few additions. it's just saving me time in listing groups of words. That and by...

that's not he point here so much as that this particular term can be used in common parse to mean quite different things to the very same people. That...

Yep. Cool. This might be the most common error made by folk attempting to critique private language - "But I do talk to myself privately!", and by mis...

I erred in saying "individual variables" when I should have said "individual constants". So it should read "Giving an interpretation to a formal langu...

“Being” isn’t a content to be grasped outside language—it’s not in language, but we can only talk about it within language. The idea of “stepping outs...

Not sure what you are asking. Giving an interpretation to a formal language involves assigning individuals to the individual variables (names, in a na...

It's not at all clear to me what sort of act a "parasitic reference' might be; I can think of a few possibilities: repeating a name without knowing th...

This plays well on my dithering between Davidson, Austin and Wittgenstein. Referring as a speech act is public and communal, as are all speech acts. I...

Cheers, all. Some excellent input. I take it that we are much agreed that a belief is not, shall we say, present in the mind in the way being angry or...

Cheers. AI tells me it's in Ruth Barcan Marcus’s Modalities: Philosophical Essays (Oxford, 1993), especially in the early papers and appended discussi...

We are a long way apart in out views. Of course being is not contained in language. Being is not contained in anything, and neither is language a cont...

Spot on. I think you've put your finger on a problem with the article, in that one believes things – holds them to be true – while not holding them in...

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Sorry - I meant the discussion between Marcus, Quine, and Kripke.

I was noting that such inferences cannot result in certainty. But it's important to note that this doesn't matter. We don't need to fix the referent o...