That they accept and move on with life doesn't mean that they are not awed by thunder or enraptured by a sunrise. But problems happen when folk think ...
Yep. Indeed, the unsayable is the most important stuff - as Wittgenstein showed. And what cannot be said, may sometimes be shown. But the less said he...
There's a difference between being able to explain truth in terms of satisfaction, and truth not making sense outside of satisfaction. You accuse me o...
To be clear, these are two different things. extensionality is the logical decision to count two sets that contain the very same items as the very sam...
There are accounts of primates looking at waterfalls and rainbows in apparent awe. And elephant funereal rituals. And the cat hides from thunder in ob...
They had a use, yes. To my eye the arguments about animals, such as as those in the recent Davidson thread, somewhat misfire. Doing stuff comes first,...
Isn't what seems to count as an insect part of what we do with the word "insect"? So yes, what seems to count as an insect can inform how we use the w...
Then there is a discussion supposing a form of incommensurability. The upshot is that understanding the argument as a proof of god's existence require...
@"Count Timothy von Icarus" Extensionality was introduced in this discussion because the theory that a name refers to whatever it's speaker intends it...
That you suggest this might be understood to indicate a lack of familiarity with the argument. No. Have another look at https://medium.com/@ranjanrgia...
No, "gavagai" refers to the set of all gavagai. Quine was asking whether that set is the very same as the set of rabbits. That's the bit that is inscr...
On to the next bit of §5. There's a bit of waffle about Catholics being able to talk about pagan gods. Then Klima concedes the point made earlier conc...
Why include "qualify over" here? The axiom is 5:?A???A, where A might or might not be a quantification. If you want us to consider "Floridi", then lin...
Again, this seems to me, quite honestly, to be all over the place. So this: Why are we now talking about life? Is your position now that essence is so...
The Age, Melbourne's and Nine Entertainment's main paper, has as it's headline Continuing with It doesn't look like Trump's gambit will carry much sup...
Isn't that a bit petty? Ok, adult insects have six legs. I've already pointed to this short coming, and how it doesn't seem to help those who think in...
Well, no it isn't, but if it were, then that might be a good thing. Each of the three points you list is fraught with complexity. As such, they will n...
Interesting approach. I'd suggest rather that Davidson would say reference has a function only within broader theories of truth (or meaning), and ther...
That's a misrepresentation of the argument. In S5, if there is a necessary being than every being is necessary. You can find the argument online, or a...
:up: I agree with that. The point is that the questioner succeeds in picking out Socrates uniquely, and this despite not having a definite description...
I don't see what to make of this except as saying that there is stuff. So, yes. And folk want to say more, but as soon as they do, there are all sorts...
I have trouble seeing a connection between dependency and modality. Yes, it is. SO the question is clear, and the referent fixed - the question is abo...
Well, in S5 that would lead to everything being necessary. Much as Spinoza concluded. But that's not a theistic god. It seems pantheism is more logica...
Dragging this back to the OP... There need not be some property understood to apply to and only to Gavagai in order for the word to be understood and ...
Presuming we may now talk about §5, Returning to 'parasitic' reference, which is apparently where the fool refers to the thought object in the mind of...
And we might well chose to go either way. There is no fact of the matter, only how useful it is for us to talk one way or the other. I'd be inclined t...
I don't see these responses helping much. A metaphorical use is different to a literal use. Calling your ex an insect works becasue of the literal use...
Well, yes, as I said, it's not a great example. We might get out our CRISPR and re-arrange the genetics of a fruit fly so that it has an extra body se...
Sticking to the example, which isn't a great one, insects have six legs. Now will we count that as a bit of ontology, in that having six legs is a spe...
Sure. I've argued similar points at length, elsewhere. There is gold in those hills, even if no one knows about it. "What counts as an insect" is much...
Yep. Tim seems to be advocating some form of species essentialism, in which species are static groups with inherent essences. See the conversation wit...
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