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It might surprise you, but I agree with this and find it a bad trend. I see all of those as irritating reductionisms. I'm equally irritated by a reduc...

I think it does make sense to talk like that. You need to learn what "is" means. Which doesn't mean that "counts as" is prior to "is" in all senses of...

I lied. Well no, I changed my mind. I was told to write something by three separate people within a week. Treated it as fate and adapted a bed time st...

Yes! We agree. I think the "the duck is a duck" is a form of the duck counting as a duck. But it's a form of a duck counting as a duck which has very ...

Brandom sees something in him, I don't know what, but I trust his eyes.

Yeah it's a quagmire. But Big Mad H might've been on to something.

Yes. Though I don't enjoy limiting it to words, or cleaving language from world as if there could be a single direction of fit between the two. My vis...

This felt a lot like The Road, but set in civilisation. I wish I had further commentary, but I do not. Great!

I don't have any useful criticism to give, other than that I enjoyed it. If someone told me it was an excerpt from a Vladimir Sorokin book, I think I ...

I put it back in the lounge since it's a popular internet troll question.

I suppose we could quibble about the boundary between philosophy, psychology and neurology. I suspect there isn't too much of one. Considering the deg...

Even to learn that the practice of "counting as"? I can certainly set it up like: let's pretend that this calculator is a phone... And it's not just a...

Yes! Though I think how "counts as" works can be shifted, intentionally or unintentionally. Like your "I'll eat my hat" example. You can say that it w...

I absolutely love the perspective this is from, and its poetic candor. I couldn't help but be struck by the sheer craft in some of the lines: So much ...

I have a guess at what you mean. One way into that flatness is that I've used "count as" in a single sense in the post, whereas there's so many ways f...

This is absolutely magnificent. I think it's a good stylistic choice to switch to more flowery description when dealing with the upper class area, but...

I think we've had this discussion before. But we might as well have it again to see if we end up somewhere else than last time. It's an enjoyable one ...

I didn't read it that way! No worries. Yeah. They're used like personality quirks.

I mean borderline personality disorder. Bipolar was all the rage about a decade ago. Anyone who could be happy and then sad in the same day...

I just wanted to go on a rant and this seemed like a good place for it. Not worth a thread. People got obsessed with narcissists and narcissism as con...

I didn't change the stories that seemed like the paragraph spacing was a strong style choice. Upon a cursory read anyway.

That was the point from before though, switching from asserted to assertible, or stated to statable, changes lots of things. There's an infinite numbe...

Also yes: sometimes it was obvious that the formatting was intentional.

If I get enough complaints I'll just undo it. It was not hard to do, it is not hard to undo.

Well you can always edit it back.

No. I meant I just went through all the stories in the literary activity, on site, and gave them the line break formatting. Manually.

Nah. I meant I added return spacing in the posts here.

@"Jamal" @"Baden" @"Noble Dust" @"javi2541997" - I just reformatted the paragraphs with the line break when I believed the spacing wasn't a stylistic ...

I see what you mean about the seeing. It's something like a stratum of human behaviour which does the revealing, isn't it? And it's inflected by norms...

Yeah I agree with that. Truth (as a concept) definitely seems to play a privileged coordinating role, even if you grant that it's all coordinating nor...

I doubt it does. It isn't generically. It's effectively the same in this thread. You've got a sentence content, you've got a fact, there's a bridge, a...

Oh. Sorry for putting the wrong words in your mouth.

Largely pointless pseudoproblem conjured by insisting upon the meaning of sentences being separate from but mirroring the world they engage with. It's...

It would be worthwhile discussing whether there is anything more to the fact that 799168003115 + 193637359638 = 992805362753 than how the sentence "99...

Pretty heartbreaking. Enjoyed this one thematically very much. Prose is very direct and unflorid.

I enjoy the dreadfully melodramatic perspective of the story. The style feels a bit gothic to me. I think this would have landed better for me with mo...

The phrase "divine bull market" is great. I enjoyed it. Though it will take my floor some time to recover from the anvils which just fell on it.

I be trying. Thank you for your thanks. I think that dodges the issue as stated in thread but not the spirit of the challenge it poses. I don't exactl...

You're in a similar position to saying that "2+2=4" isn't true on the domain {1,3}, because there's no symbol for "2+2=4". Which isn't to say that it'...

Aye! That makes the interpretation function partial. Because it doesn't exist. Or you assign the result of the interpretation to "mu" or something. Or...

Here's a worked example. This is our actual world, A. There is possible world connected to ours with no humans, as if we were all instantly deleted. C...

Yeah the distinction makes sense. In the context of the thread, though, it interacts very oddly with lots of things. Truth at a world is something tha...

C'mooon! All I'm saying is the usual thing in a discussion like this. That your stated position entails things you are claiming to disagree with. Whic...

C'mooon man, you know as well as I do that repeatedly shifting the frame of the discussion away from how people are disagreeing with you stops people ...

I'm simply not saying either.

I am not simply saying that you're simply saying something that you're not saying, I'm saying that what you're not saying simply is part of what you'r...

I am simply saying that you are simply refusing to play ball.

You're a philosopher, you can't say just what you've said. That's not how it works. You say all the things you might be committed to under some utterl...

The absurd and counterintuitive things occur because you have a contestable interpretation of how that works, just like your debate partners do! I'm n...

Entities aren't true or false though? Unless they're sentences. "there is a rock" is true or false. The rock isn't true or false. This might be a peda...