Rubbish. It's sending the signal, but there is no heater connected that can respond. It is trying, but can't. That description is quite clear, quite d...
Unplug the thermostat from the heater, and drop the temperature - the thermostat tries to turn the heater on, but can't... (a description in terms of ...
Perhaps I am too used to disagreeing with you to notice when we agree. But This does not rule out that the reaction of a mind to the environment is ju...
No need to use a Zulu when we can use Wittgenstein himself. He took "Folk have never been to the Moon" as a hinge, it seems... but then... Again, bein...
They were certainly intended. Few words are as loaded, especially in these fora, as "perceive". You again make the mistake of assuming there is a ghos...
Yep. But if you cannot reasonably doubt P, does it follow that you choose to assume P? There is a difference between an assumption and a hinge proposi...
It's perhaps not much used in computational logic. A tautology is what is true under any consistent substitution, and so regardless of the assignment ...
Well, yes it is. That this sentence is in English is something you cannot doubt, in the act of reading it. It's a neat example of "This is in English"...
Might be an existential generalisation: Experience is "informative and coherent" therefore something is "informative and coherent" Experience is coher...
There is something odd about the claim that we assume that this sentence is in English. Hinge propositions are not mere assumptions. Suggesting that t...
Games come about as a result of constitutive rules. See John Searle’s work on speech acts, where he differentiates between constitutive rules that cre...
Emotions are not the beginning and end of ethical deliberation. There is more to ethical truths than just the expression of an individual's emotional ...
:wink: Part of Wittgenstein's response might have been an admonition to look - that despite the apparent problem, "and yet language works!" Like my an...
Well, the USA is fucked. The rest of us will have to learn to accomodate that fact. We'll get by without them. The details will need to be worked out....
No. Red and green may be experienced, but they are not experiences - not qualia, because nothing is. It's not just that the red in my imagining might ...
Yeah, I understand that, from previous conversations. Kripke has fun with a misdiagnosis of PI. I maintain that PI§201 and thereabouts answer Kripke. ...
That last paragraph in the article. Quine advertises it as "a final sweeping observation", but it seems to be claiming littler more than that truth fu...
Meh. Moyal-Sharrock tries something like this, taking "belief" to mean "trust" alone. The trouble is that this is not how it is more widely understood...
I'm somewhat surprised that you attempted to answer 's question, at your accepting the presumption that being red is an "experience". Ah well. Yet ant...
No - you are leading me astray here. A fundamental tension in my own account is between language as use, after Wittgenstein, and the truth-functional ...
Not at all. And I don't try, I do... "Knowing that" is dependent on "knowing how", in that one can only present a true sentence if one knows how to pr...
Not known as propositions. They are known as in knowing how to ride a bike. "Here is a hand" is a recipe for how to play the game of dealing and speak...
They are not different uses of "truth". They are different uses to which the proposition is put by the language game. Some propositions stand within t...
Two different sorts of hinges: the constitutive rules such as "the bishop moves diagonally", that set out how one thing counts as another... and the b...
I can't. All I can do is lead the donkey to the water. I can't make him drink. Can you show me a physics text that does not use time? 'cause, you see,...
Good, becasue it is nonsense. A "non- physical" measurement of a physical quantity... what would be your non-physical units for the fuel left in the t...
One thing that is very clear here is that some folk do not understand errors. Error is fundamental to physics. See, for more, Introduction to Error an...
Any declaration can be made compatible with any theory with the addition of suitable ad hoc hypotheses. I do much prefer literalism. Especially over s...
...and why more men are in gaol. It's very easy to point the finger at schools becasue they are examined in microscopic detail, and the data is ready ...
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