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All that's required is a single example of a belief that does not regard a statement. I gave you an example of a process of forming beliefs that do no...

Question begging! That only describes a belief which regards a statement. Were it you'd proved that... There are counterexamples. (1) Someone looking ...

Burden of proof switching. If you give an argument that beliefs can only concern statements, I'll engage more.

I believe that my cup is behind my laptop. Is that: A) a belief directed at an event involving the cup B) a belief directed at the statement "my cup i...

Would be a good thread.

I guess this is because representation mechanisms can sit pretty uneasy with direct realism? I think it's hard to have a notion of representation play...

Here since page 1. Derailed at page 2.

Aye I get that. I was driving at the same thing you've been talking about with my question. Removing the aspects of the theory which look like they sh...

David Graeber's "Debt, the first 5000 years" has quite a lot on the relationships of debt and morality. Not a logical argument for why they must go to...

I don't think people have transactional ethical intuitions in lots of circumstances; families, lovers, kids, pets, friends. If a parent's strictly tra...

I think there's a pretty strong alliance between that perspective and embodied cognition approaches, though there's a rabbit hole to go down regarding...

If the issue turns on whether patterns summarising and aggregating other patterns are real, I don't think the dispute is rooted in neuroscience. If th...

IEP article on validity and soundness (a peer reviewed open access online philosophy encyclopedia, @"S100"). You can see from the definition that all ...

If @"S100" is examined on the material - their post begins with a lengthy quote from an A-level textbook in philosophy - they'd be examined on questio...

Do you believe it is accurate to say, according to the conceptual act theory of emotion (the Barrett paper you linked earlier and I reread) that while...

:up: I agree with you! I wrote extra details if you're interested. If you want to show an argument is invalid, you can do that by finding a way for al...

Probably because I was misinterpreting you. I thought you were construing the lower level "upwardly mobile" signals as being uninfluenced by salience+...

Sideline question: could you give a checklist for a position not to count as Cartesian? Just to be clear, I'm not trying to "gotcha" question you into...

If anyone wants to read a paper on how Dennett treats the folk psychology categories ("pain", "spicy" etc) as a useful models without giving them the ...

It would be an even longer post to write, I think!

@"Banno" (because "seeing as" and "seeing an aspect") Yeah! That's a good analogy. Translating it back to make sure we're concordant: the priors=flipp...

I think that's about what I meant. Don't come away from what I've said with the idea that "how fdrake thinks about direct realism" is canonical though...

I definitely should've highlighted that I was claiming in normal circumstances items (1) to (4) do collectively determine the process of perceptual fe...

This might be wrongheaded, but I think the perceptual system would not be direct if the process of perceptual feature formation didn't have direct cau...

So let's make a distinction between environmental and bodily hidden states. If a hidden state occurs as a part of a bodily system, then I'll call it b...

I think directness is ultimately a question of whether there is a direct causal+informational relation between the hidden environmental states and the...

Here is a thing I've never managed to understand when talking with you about this. Do you agree with these things? (1) The model's state is informativ...

:up: Again, I was wrong. Example: for all x P(x) => Q(x) is a statement of FOL, but neither it or its negation are provable.

:point: Or individuated in a manner that doesn't resemble labelling classes (or aggregating states based on family resemblance) of similar states with...

Fair! I think that's equivalent to a theory deriving (P and not-P) though, which is always false. IE, a theory managing to prove something that no obj...

That makes sense. I'm using terms way too loosely and wrong. A model of a theory is an object which satisfies all that theory's true statements. Like ...

Seems I was confused and wrong then. To set the record straight, do you agree with this: Edit: (0) Call a well formed formula of a system's language w...

Looks like a Tarski's undefinibility theorem problem. The strategy there will probably be using the diagonal lemma to set up a derivable contradiction...

A list of statements is closed under first order logical consequence = everything that can be derived from that list's elements using first order logi...

Regarding the mirror stage - what about people who're born blind, though? If seeing your own reflection is a necessary event in the formation of a dis...

Some ways of torturing explicitly try to get their victims to want the torture or blame themselves for it, so that the torturers appear as allies and ...

I don't wanna name names.

Welcome!

In the spirit of Stove's Gem, here is one that occurs on forum a lot in various guises: You used the word X, the meaning of the word X is a type, ther...

What do you mean by "beyond"? Do you mean what later philosophical problematics do Nietzsche's ideas impinge upon? I'll assume you do. There's a serie...

x% GDP on military spending doesn't translate too well to its effect on the long term differences in total GDP per capita between colonised and coloni...

If you're just starting out, there are a couple of online peer reviewed philosophy encyclopaedias that are amazing. SEP and IEP. Here's a link to SEP'...

One of my earliest memories is diving into a bath, fully clothed, with my brother. I was 3 at the time. With particularly strong memories, I get menta...

Is definitely happening. Corbyn's suspension from the party was ended, but his position in party hasn't been reinstated. If only publicly committing t...

Can probably learn from what's happened to Corbyn in the UK. He's currently getting ratfucked (EHRC report if you want to see the outcome) by a party ...

If you're willing to "pass up" the conceptual hierarchy to more everyday language use of the concepts, I think that's fine. So long as you're aware yo...

Extremely doubtful.

I made similar posts in the "Quining Qualia" thread too.

Let x be a real number between 0 and 1 (1) P( x is rational ) = 0 (2) x is not rational. Does (1) materially imply (2)? It does not, x=0.5 is a counte...

Aye. That is the rub.