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Here's an argument that the aggregate absence of regret impacts how ethical it is. ( 1 ) If a surgery is not regretted, it was either not felt to be h...

This is from Quining Qualia right?

This reads to me like an expression of disgust towards trans and gender non-conforming bodies. While your confusion toward all this is understandable ...

It strikes me there's a lot of possible wrangling about "propositional as structures" vs "hermeneutical as structures" from Josh's side, but I've chos...

Can you pass the hooch please? The inference that this is how statements of trans identity work is yours. It could be that someone asserts they're not...

Chat GPT's use of "science" derives from the more primordial signification obtained in the German "wissenschaft", which signifies a systematic as well...

Absolutely! I think this is something which the felt account, and an account based on behaviour also miss. Will detail an "only behavioural" account f...

I'm glad you immediately went there, so to speak @"unenlightened". Let me try to make a "babies first" account of personal identity so that it can be ...

Yes, looking at the present. At any given point in time, discussions can feel simultaneously too in depth and too superficial all at once. Though I've...

;_; They were well loved here. I shall miss them. We've been chatting for years.

Enemy anemone lemon Eminem enema.

It was a nod to attacks on relativising narratives requiring a fixed background to articulate the relativising critique in. How do you even start doin...

I'd argue those T sentences aren't really "iffs". Since they are either sufficient but not necessary (truth is a concept requiring an exact match of a...

Oh, as for comment on OP: the philosophical analysis of the truth of sentences does little to explain a social transition towards how narratives' rela...

Mmm... I agree that the cluster of concepts is inescapable, but not that any particular one is. They also don't seem to be equivalent concepts as ther...

That's about my criticism of the argument, yeah! Seems were on about the same page. Up to possible quibbles about whether actuality is only articulabl...

See the bit in my post about recursing the procedure. AFAIK those notions require precise interpretations of their truth values. The words I used have...

Is not a very good argument. You can use lots of words in that place with inequivalent meanings: Is that true? Is that accurate? Is that representativ...

Also yes to selection bias.

Yes. It is comfy though. The best thing to happen is for a thread to burn bright and die early, before the assumptions underlying the assumptions get ...

@"Andrew M" @"Srap Tasmaner": we had a discussion about that Rovelli paper a few years ago here.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/1980/evidence-of-consciousness-surviving-the-body/p1

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Do you think you could play this rejection game on hard mode? Like if you discarded your priors about how nature worked, would you be able to conclude...

Probably! I remained unconvinced, but it took decent effort for me to feel like I'd unravelled things. Worth engaging with I feel regardless. At the v...

@"Sam26" 's arguments about out of body experiences can be quite convincing. Have a look in their post history if you're interested.

I'm even more confused by this! Can the hidden state denoted by "the kettle" boil? Even though boiling is a collective fiction? The first predicates b...

@"Srap Tasmaner" - might be interested in post above here.

Thanks for the input. From what I understand of the discussion with @"Isaac" and @"Janus" though, a state (or collection of states) being modelled is ...

It's quite difficult for me to tell precisely how this limits your agreement with ""P" is true iff P". I can think of two possibilities, but I doubt t...

@"Banno" My exegesis here for the second quibble is more detailed.

Can we please postpone that discussion for now? I don't think our quibble there is too much related to the semantic content and denotation quibbles we...

Ooh. What are they for you then? I don't think you think there is a veil. What I intended to convey (but failed) was the sub discussion we had about "...

I do, but I'll do it when I'm less tired because it's finicky. I could default to my usual 900 page essays on trivial bollocks, but I'll try and make ...

Edited the post a bit to be more explicit, if you're got anything further to add, please do.

It's the difference between a representational relationship ("the kettle" symbols and perceptions of the kettle <-> the kettle), exemplified by a neur...

Yeah. I think there is a distinction between the two; the neural models interact with the kettle, the noumenon is either a limit on possible thought o...

It's the word "really" I'm scared of in this context. Austin derived methodological worries (what the word "really" does to statements and its ambiguo...

@"Isaac" - would you actually agree that "you burn your hand if you touch the kettle" would be the same as ""you burn your hand if you touch the kettl...

@"Olivier5" - you posted just an insult to Tzeetch. If you can't keep a post reasonably civil, don't post it at all.

@"boethius" , @"Tzeentch" - if you're going to be snarky try and put some substance in it. @"Isaac" @"SophistiCat" - neither of you needs to have a co...

"Little more" is a bit of a covering word there right? It's also true because an event occurred which was parsed as the kettle boiling. You can go dow...

I disagree! I think we've come to a better understanding of the discussants' perspectives. Wouldn't've happened without you facilitating it.

I still do, even though I had something specific in mind. What I'm gesturing towards is quite mechanical sounding but there isn't a specified mechanis...

I'm trying not to come at this from a Humean "mere custom and habit" angle of causal succession, I'm trying to come at it from the perspective that pa...

I think that's true, and there's a need to account for how general descriptive terms are in declarative statements vs how specific the behaviour of th...

I think some of them carry behavioural expectations as norms (prosaically "I expect this to be done") and some of them carry them as predictions ("If ...

This is still on the denotation side of things, it gestures toward what truth might mean with a successful denotation and explores some issues regardi...

Yes. I agree it's strange that it's controversial. But I don't find it surprising any more. Philosophy in both analytic and continental traditions has...

Apologies for the late reply you lot. This thread moves fast. I think that's a pretty strong argument against a position, though I'm not sure that tha...