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The intermediary and the disguised analysis are the interesting cases. If it's disguised analysis, the all and some statement should somehow engender ...
December 31, 2020 at 14:37
I was gesturing towards something like: propositions are part of an interpretive device we use when analysing sentences and relating them to truth, to...
December 31, 2020 at 14:17
I agree with you there. I wanna push back on the idea (if you were suggesting it) that it's exclusive to art though. In terms of the expression of sem...
December 31, 2020 at 14:11
It defers the problem of how you go about "weighing" an all and some statement to the context of the all and some statement: Which seems a cop out to ...
December 31, 2020 at 01:16
I drew that comparison too, though I saw a hole in the account. The hole is: using the "all and some" logical form for the role that "research hard co...
December 30, 2020 at 22:51
The article I linked to you in the previous post explores the issue. Whether you are agreeing with what you've heard is quite different from hearing a...
December 30, 2020 at 16:51
I do that too. I noticed that I frame my interaction with the world as something like a conversation while reflecting, but that I retroject the narrat...
December 30, 2020 at 15:18
Yes. The quantifiers need some domain associated with them. The original article goes some way to specifying the kind of domains they're talking about...
December 30, 2020 at 14:56
Yes. A statement is verifiable if it can be shown to be true. A statement is falsifiable if it can be shown to be false. Consider statements of the fo...
December 30, 2020 at 11:03
I guess I don't really know how to think about a proposition if it's not associated with a statement, or a class of statements, that sets out a state ...
December 30, 2020 at 08:04
I think the author expressed that the sensations were caused by the bird. I don't think the author expressed which sensations were caused by the bird,...
December 29, 2020 at 20:55
Perhaps! It reads like a class of propositions with unspecified content to me. Which sensations? What's the character of the perceptual features forme...
December 29, 2020 at 19:42
My specific account? I don't know, I just hope I'm right. People's worldviews in general? I think so. Priors are a thing, it's rare that we find somet...
December 28, 2020 at 18:53
I don't think it's uninterpreted, nor do I think it's interpreted in the manner we'd usually associate with words, essays, statements and so on. I thi...
December 28, 2020 at 18:48
My attempt at arguing against "belief content is propositional" in response to 's most recent post. Intentionality is the capacity of agents to have d...
December 28, 2020 at 17:17
Very much yes. It's why I wanted the debaters to refine the sense of proposition before engaging in the debate. If your sense of the proposition is li...
December 23, 2020 at 01:12
Maybe general philosophy?
December 22, 2020 at 13:08
You might find googling around about "dynamical system" and "dynamical system subsystem" useful! "splitting up" a complex system into component parts ...
December 21, 2020 at 17:28
That's brilliant. :lol:
December 20, 2020 at 09:54
If you're going to do a debate you should agree on a motion. All key terms in the OP's question are vague, and each of you can use that to hedge. So, ...
December 20, 2020 at 06:32
Thomas Metzinger, Hubert Dreyfus. I've been on a David Graeber binge since he died, though he's more of an anthropologist.
December 20, 2020 at 04:45
I'm not trying to say that every belief is directly associated with something perceptible; I don't think there's anything I could perceive that would ...
December 16, 2020 at 20:29
What I want you to do is... Provide an argument for this claim. Why can beliefs only apply to statements? I agree with you that beliefs can apply to s...
December 16, 2020 at 20:08
What does his belief consist in? Would he have believed the ball would hit his face if he did not assess its trajectory and formed a perceptual expect...
December 16, 2020 at 19:54
I think that's quite sensible. But... It's not an account of what a belief is! Linking them to perceptual expectations would be.
December 16, 2020 at 19:34
This one work?
December 16, 2020 at 15:30
None of the ways of editing a mention into a post work then. (quotes, replies, @-ing).
December 16, 2020 at 15:29
Test 3. This one?
December 16, 2020 at 15:25
Test 2. This one?
December 16, 2020 at 15:22
That one was the old edit bug, still not fixed then.
December 16, 2020 at 15:22
Test. @"jamalrob" Receive that one?
December 16, 2020 at 14:45
I think it's true that whatever modelling process a human does won't resemble how we'd calculate things on paper. People do calculus at high school bu...
December 16, 2020 at 00:01
If it's appropriate to call those perceptual expectations beliefs, yeah. I think there's some intuition that a belief labels an "entire" state of mind...
December 15, 2020 at 23:33
The other way I tried to approach it with @"Banno" is: if you believe snow is white, is your belief directed towards snow or the statement "snow is wh...
December 15, 2020 at 23:20
I gave what I thought of as a counter example earlier. When you record where people's eyes move about on faces while forming a stable image of them - ...
December 15, 2020 at 23:10
Yes. I don't think you are either. What convinces you that beliefs can only be about statements?
December 15, 2020 at 22:25
I can see the appeal of the position, I just don't agree with it. Nah. It's that I don't think I'd be able to make you doubt your position regardless ...
December 15, 2020 at 22:11
Fair enough. I was finding this frustrating too, if you decide to come up with an argument for your position (that beliefs can only be about statement...
December 15, 2020 at 21:57
Tell me what you understand "substitution salva veritae" to mean?
December 15, 2020 at 21:54
And?
December 15, 2020 at 21:42
The student believes x is a group. The student believes x is a semigroup with identity and inverses. The first is true, the second is false. By substi...
December 15, 2020 at 21:37
I have two different approaches to get you to see the problem, then. First: What you wrote actually an invalid argument form: (1) x believes that p (2...
December 15, 2020 at 21:23
Don't you think "beliefs only apply to statements" goes against my belief that snow is white? Which is an attitude I have towards snow. Not just towar...
December 15, 2020 at 20:11
SEP makes a distinction between propositions and concrete events, I'm using proposition in the sense of what the statements "snow is white" and schnee...
December 15, 2020 at 17:33
Sure. Since you are either unable or unwilling to provide an argument for the position you hold (that beliefs only apply to statements), I'll provide ...
December 15, 2020 at 16:01
Do you agree that these two statements don't imply each other? (1) Everything that happens can be put into a statement. (2) Every belief regards a sta...
December 13, 2020 at 22:48
What I had in mind: X believes (placeholder) What kind of thing goes in (placeholder), can it only be a statement? That's what characterising belief a...
December 13, 2020 at 22:07
Only if you can assess the weight of a statement!
December 13, 2020 at 21:26
Assume there's a completely accurate Bayesian model of perception, its perceptual expectations in the model might be statable in a propositional form;...
December 13, 2020 at 20:58
Absolutely fumbling, because (1) the process by which my eyes forage someone's face to produce a stable image of their face occurs sufficiently quickl...
December 13, 2020 at 20:50