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To that end we ought acknowledge the limits of finding a set of conventions or rules for fixing a reference, as set out by Davidson in "A nice derange...

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Very interesting. Can you recall a reference for this? Kripke does re-introduce the idea of essence, but in a form quite different to the classical ap...

That is, seems to me to be mistaken, becasue we do not usually need any "apparatus" in order to check who it is we are thinking about. Indeed, the ide...

I wouldn't quite accept your thinking, or even talking to yourself about the tree, as a bonafide reference. I am more incline to think the prime examp...

By answering both and seeing to which @"Srap Tasmaner" responds? Answering one, and seeing if the response fits that answer? Generally, by moving the ...

Going back over this, it seems to me that the reference is now fixed by the indexical, "the man over there", and not by the description "He has champa...

Pentagon launches review into AUKUS deal to ensure it meets Trump's 'America First' agenda The Australian Embassy in Washington declined to comment wh...

This is good stuff. A couple of points. The type of stipulation used would be a status function, a "counts as" Statement. There is a mutuality in the ...

Consider "Let's agree that this thing is Blork". Who teaches who here? Isn't the choice to use "blork" an agreement, if not a commitment? There's an i...

In Trump’s America, the shooting of a journalist is not a one-off. Press freedom itself is under attack If this is not troubling for you, then it seem...

A well-rounded account. Of course deontology doesn't have to overlook 'the human practices of mistakes, reconsideration, excuses", and a deontology th...

And the question becomes, external to what? If the world is always, and already, in a context and a language, then there is nothing "external" to the ...

An interesting thought. I fond it hard to see how a first philosophy (again, a loaded term) might be articulated without being interpreted. But I supo...

Quite so. However I often find it difficult to see much argument in his posts. They read more like just-so stories—rich descriptions of how he picture...

This is spot on. It marks the link here between Tim's approach to aesthetics and his comments against liberalism and in favour of elite education. It ...

Shifting ground here.You started with Now it's If you are now saying only that the flower is prior to the flower being called pretty, then you have dr...

The world is always, already interpreted. It shows up for us through our practices, our language, our forms of life. To suggest otherwise is to appeal...

We did not starting from nothing. We start embedded in the world and in a community.

I guess that post made sense at least to you. But maybe not. Makes not difference.

Footage of an Australia Journalist being shot in LA shows how low the US has become. She is standing in front of a camera, with a microphone, obviousl...

So you don't get my intent? That's fine, we could keep chatting and see if we can reach some agreement, or at least some point form which we might mov...

Well, seems to me that referring to something can fail in a few different ways, and that it might be worth paying them some attention. I treat them as...

Yep. Glad we have a point of agreement. Is it worth my saying I don't usually read your long cut-and-paste quotes? Will it save you the effort? I will...

Well, yes. No. You use what is said or shown. We do not have access to intent. We might infer it, but...

All sorts of problems with meaning as speaker intent. The most significant one is that we do not have access to what you intend, only to what you say....

Set, maybe. There's more. The example is set at a party, presumably with many men and various drinks. The speaker says "The man over there with champa...

Good. "Qualia" are either a something about which can share nothing, or they are the subject of the common terms we already use to talk about our expe...

There's a key difference here. @"Hanover" seems to be looking for a set of rules that are practiced. But what answers the question, and what you have ...

No sooner is the "one thing you need no matter what" specified than some smart arse provides us with a counterexample. https://miro.medium.com/v2/resi...

All well and good, provided that we do not conclude that there must be an "objective " aesthetic value. That there is some agreement on aesthetic valu...

If the conclusion here is that there cannot be 'a science to art that resulted in proven, repeatable "good art"' then we are in agreement. Art is not ...

There is equivocation here, but not the one your think. It's very unclear what you are trying to say, despite the erudition. "Noumenal" is even less u...

That's a deeply mistaken account of Wittgenstein, for whom the most important things were aesthetic and ethical.

~~ The answer given for aesthetics is applicable to ethics and science. I gave aesthetic examples becasue that's the topic here. Aesthetic and moral j...

Cool. What we can do is map out the interrelations between our words, though. So we differentiate knowing and believing. We can say "I believed it was...

Hang on - again, is the suggestion that reason and emotion are physical things? Yeah, I concur. But we have agreement that the topic is wider than tha...

Pretty much. This is to the point - wants a "basis" so he can "condemn their art you find abhorrent"; and that basis is all around us and includes our...

Ah, better. A good comeback. But you've moved over to ethics, and we probably should remain in the area of aesthetics, for the sake of the theme of th...

No! The objective/subjective dichotomy is a mistake. Much clearer to use charity and truth, after Davidson.

That word - objective - again causes more confusion than clarity. If had only said that disagreement can only take place against, and so presupposes, ...

Good to see you here. Those different things – hope, resolve, and so on – are they but species of belief? The standard analysis has three parts: attit...

No, no thumbs up. Its not a good thing. Disagree with me! Show me were I'm wrong!

Ok, that makes more sense. Frankly I'm not sure we have a point of disagreement. I'd put silentism were you put the Tao. I don't think we would have t...

Now you're getting it. Is Damasio's idea an hypothesis, as your quote says, or a fact, as you claim?

Yes, as per our PM conversation. ...says nothing. In explaining everything, the Tao explains nothing. There's still the work to do; we still carry wat...

So hackneyed a term, given that no one seems to know what it means. Are you looking for a mind-independent truth? But how could a judgement be mind-in...

The idea that we can seperate reason and emotion physically is surely a category error? Hesperus and Phosphorus rigidly designate Venus. Two names for...

Yep. Not seeing the relevance. Modal logic can be translated into FOL thus: ?A ? ?w? (R(w, w?) ? A(w?)) ?A ? ?w? (R(w, w?) ? A(w?)) Where: w and w? ar...