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Maybe? Can you think of an example which isn't culpable? I'm imagining that "refusal" means that stupidity is a practice of avoiding learning through ...

Aye. I don't think much effort is required to learn. If you even just listen to someone genuinely you learn. Curiosity alone tends to suffice I think?...

Probably the same thing. You think that pervasive refusal is intellectual only? I've got in mind people like athletes, who learn technique and discipl...

A pervasive refusal to try to learn. It strikes me that subsuming sensory impressions under concepts of reason is something that people do involuntari...

Those look a bit like capsules of store bought caramelised onions.

I don't know what the essence of reference is, so to speak, I broached it the way I did to try to find a speech act containing a successful reference ...

Nope. Further work though - truthmaker semantics. I don't know owt about it and would need to do homework. I don't know how to define reference. Or wh...

I'm going to close this thread as it's in feedback. If you feel like making another thread to discuss the same topic, you may. Just make sure you've g...

I don't know. If you make a thread saying what you think it is in detail, I could. If you're looking for a definition of a superintelligent AI, there'...

I removed it. The OP could have used more detail on what you thought superintelligence was, or what the stakes of your question were.

Aye. I was too ambiguous to pin down my own position, and don't even know it - going down to brass tacks. Yeah that makes sense. I think we'd proceed ...

I guess that goes back to the sense/reference discussion you were having with @"Banno" earlier. Specifically whether/how reference leverages concepts ...

Yeah I don't think the article makes a particularly involved positive case for essence. It's very much a prologue. I think he wants to blow open a hol...

I think I can see what you mean there. Though I read it the other way - how Fine is using the vocabulary of essence makes meaning "thingly" or "concre...

I think your cynical self is asserting fundamental presuppositions which the article is challenging, rather than engaging with them on their own terms...

I read Self-Made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man recently, and it was one of the most gleefully inflammatory things I've read. Radical feminist goes u...

I think that's about right. If you think about an essence of a thing as set of properties, a candidate set must be identical to that "essence set" to ...

One way into it. Moore's account of essence is modal. A property P is partially constitutive of A's essence if the following implication holds: Necess...

Vilnius Poker - Ri?ardas Gavelis @"Jamal" - I have a vague memory you've read this one, what did you think of it?

@"Banno" An ongoing conversation always conducted elsewhere.

I think I see what you're saying. If you take my attempt at formalising your maxim: I think you're saying one of two things. The First Thing The outer...

Just saw this. Thanks for the heads up that nLab has Hegel articles.

It's quite a big one. Identity of indiscernibles only unambiguously applies to unary predicates/properties. You'll notice that F applies to an entity ...

... A being is aware of X if the following hold: X is causally related to the being, X constrains the being's possible states and the being has a proc...

But it would be cool to have another discussion about perceptual content and its relationship to the nature of its distal environmental causes.

That's okay. I don't agree with it any more either.

We haven't had that argument in 3 years now. Could be time to have it again.

Heard this one is great. Been on my To-Read for a while.

It was!

You can unask the question. The author is not telling falsehoods about the pot in the story, if the author were speaking about a talking pot, in the s...

Absent a place to put this, I deleted the thread "All words are more words, and therefore, all words are silly" Due to a request to remove user data. ...

Same. I think we went to the bottom of the barrel and found out that the answer was in another barrel. If it exists at all. I'll have a think and get ...

Yep! I think that's true. Do you think this analysis also applies to crick vs creek? Maybe we can sidestep the issue of whether your potato is my pota...

I don't trust random variation as a concept here. When I think about random variation, I imagine that it occurs along a predefined concept. Like you r...

Nothing in depth, SEP's article and Brassier's talk on it. I've been trying to use what I know in the posts, but I don't have the comfort level for an...

I've really been going hard on the Sellars huh.

Thanks for the interesting comment @"Srap Tasmaner". I'm gonna get some symbols out. Most of this is trying to understand your position, then trying t...

Apologies if I've given this impression to you as well, it isn't my intention. My sympathies are, I believe, functionalist too. So we have that as a s...

Ah right, sorry. The idea I had was that what counts as a queer icon changed over time because people started classifying Tinky Winky as one, he's now...

I agree in principle. I do think we've got ontological level difficulties here though, so the boundaries seem part of the problem. If explanatory styl...

Woke lefties of the internet, unite.

It strikes me that my post is a re-rendering of 's here, only transplanted to method rather than ontology. What's the difference between psychological...

I thought you were addressing an arbitrary functionalist, rather than specifically @"Isaac". I'm also okay with saying that. If it turns out that the ...

Yeah! My intervention in your discussion with @"Isaac" makes no sense unless you're both quibbling on some interface between functionalist theories, I...

Yeah absolutely. My intuition is that doing both styles of thought about this should be possible, but that they should constrain each other as you sai...

Aye! I can appreciate what you wrote without agreeing with it. < 3

Oh, sorry. Pretty much everything a mind allegedly does, if it involves what we'd describe as a judgement or interpretation, can be construed as havin...

Aye. Something can be a post-facto story/rationalisation and still have whatever bodily state it secreted/was identified with be influential after the...

I've been out of the thread for a bit, but I wanted to thank you for how well written this is. Also @"Isaac", @"Srap Tasmaner", keep up the good work....

Negotiation about what, though? It's relatively easy to use the pronouns someone wants you to. It's a bit harder to see someone as the gender on a gut...