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Fair.

You may stipulate as you wish. It makes no nevermind. My opine:

Deadnaming! :scream:

Yep. I'm fairly well acquainted with some of the literature. My basic objection is that if they are private experiences then they are unavailable for ...

Given that I don't think the very notion of qualia can be made coherent, I oddly find myself agreeing with you, but for completely different reasons. ...

That's the research? There's a section on the method used to measure belief. If there is to be a critique of that idea, it ought start by explaining t...

Not too sure what that is. Why should we give the last word on this to neuroscience?

Lots in that. So if something... some statement, be it form Descartes, Kant or Wittgenstein, is indubitable, will we count it as a belief? Seem to me ...

Fresh meat, perhaps. The enthusiasm of the fledgling? Would it help if I occasionally asked you to ? I wouldn't want you to feel left out. :wink:

Does my air conditioner fit that, then? It intends to keep the room at 22ºc. Does it feel satisfied when it achieves it's goal, and frustrated by the ...

Thanks for the explanation. All good.

Bloody pragmatists.

Only there is, since they were quoted... A rigid designator picks out the given individual in every possible world in which they exit. So if they ceas...

Proper dilemma that one. The only alternative was presumably to ban them so that they could not delete their own posts... Of course, where they had be...

Can any one provide a link to the research? So what are the "qualia" that were measured?

Yeah, agreed. So can we always seperate out the affective and cognitive aspects of a belief? Is there a method, rule or algorithm that does this for u...

Checking if I've understood... are you suggesting that belief is a propositional attitude, and that we also have affective attitudes, and that these a...

Yep. That'll be 'cause we're on the topic. And read more than just the abstract.

Cheers. When you get blocked, you can blame the liberal leftist gays that run the forum, and consider yourself a martyr to the cause... what ever that...

I don't know you from a bar of soap. But why did you think I was referring to you? Something's a bit fragile. Curious.

Gotta love how much that little girl upsets old white men. Why do they care? An interesting question.

I agree. Excommunication is one thing, annihilation, quite another.

There's no conceptual work to do here? But what of the issues raised in and ? And in the cited articles? Or the SEP articles on belief and emotion?

If his fear is irrational - he refuses to touch a Child's Python, perhaps - despite knowing that he will not be hurt - then isn't he is afraid, but do...

Thanks for this reply. You ask if all beliefs contain doubt. The obvious counterexample is the hinge beliefs @"Sam26" has urged on us, and with which ...

Yeah, pretty much. The belief is prior to the argument. But are we amenable to rational persuasion with regard to our beliefs? And to what extent? Sho...

More accurately, being a name is not part of the syntax, but part of the semantics, of the model being used. The model may be formal, or it may be par...

A good point. If there were alternate explanation, what might they look like? There's a generalisation of possible world semantics that turns out to b...

That's not the argument. The argument is that there is no "clear definition". With the exception of merely stipulated technical terms, the way we use ...

Excellent essay. The usual suspects are here, bending over backwards to pretend that it doesn't apply to them. What a sad lot they are... the self-mad...

Well, you are not the first to present this sort of account, a scientists setting to rights the poor benighted philosophers. It's easy to provide an a...

Ok. Since you have it all worked out, I'll leave you to it.

, , , ...so one might find oneself at pains to demonstrate something that is not at issue.

The first argument: A description. So you are saying that it's an empirical observation? What is it we are observing here... I understand what it mean...

So what is a property? Fair question. Logicians use "property" in a slightly different way to Aristotle. What is "'a' refers to a" about? At a naive l...

Seems fair to say that in natural languages the distinction between semantic and syntactic is fluid, far more so than in a formal language. As I under...

Oh, boy. there's a lot in that post. Relevant logic uses a variation of the accessibility relation from possible world semantics to model relevance re...

That's the idea. It's not that we can't, or even shouldn't, choose amongst the metaphysical theories. It's that if some metaphysics is not in harmony ...

:roll:

, Kripke: Identity and Necessity

I'll try to explain the assumption again. It's ubiquitous, and so can be difficult to see. Descartes supposes that we have on the one hand, mind, and ...

Cheers. The difference between syntax and semantics is very clear in formal logic. Less so in natural languages. The following is probably familiar. L...

There's something deeply problematic about using evolution to explain away ontological problems. Evolution assumes a degree of realism in assuming tha...

@"J" gave a pretty clear account of this, don't you think? Together with @"frank"'s account of how we identify an individual with their origin, which ...

I'm pleased to see so much analytic work going on. Working through the issues is the only way to work out how to fit all these pieces together - if th...

Good analytic arguments. You'll get a pushback against "you know it is real because you can see it" from the idealists and solipsists, who will claim ...

Cool. f(a, (b,c)) is of course malformed, and even if we charitably allowed some sort of well formed interpretation - perhaps f(a,b,c) - it doesn't ev...

Ok. I'm not overly thrilled with Descartes. Been a while, other ideas came along. So arguing against him is superfluous. Unnecessary. Knowing that you...

It's not not about the body either. Your body wrote the reply, making use of what you knew about Tully, in a way not that dissimilar to how you ride a...

Sure. We agree on much of this. Are you comfortable saying you know things that cannot be justified? Saying you know you are in pain looks to be unjus...