Let me play devil's advocate for a bit. Personally, I understand houses and flowers largely through the medium of cartoons. What you're saying doesn't...
That's exactly the kind of stipulation of context I was trying to highlight in my post. I take one of the major points the OP is trying to illustrate ...
The issue is alleviated here by both being stars, the new information about their identity doesn't violate any rules of sense, it rather allows us to ...
If you want a mathematical gloss on it, I'm thinking of it as something like: We have a sortal concept of 'house', some things count as a house, some ...
That has more to do with Nazis rebranding themselves as 'ethno-nationalists' or 'identitarians' rather than the usual connotations of (left liberal) i...
Childhood sexuality among consenting children is a taboo when it probably shouldn't be. Pedagogy students for nurseries here (Norway) are now being ta...
Yeah, that's the equivocation Peterson uses all the time. Zizek 'agreed' with it in the debate, but it was pretty clear that Zizek thought the old fra...
If you're willing to aggregate to 'analysis of power' = 'oppressed vs oppressor narratives' = 'Foucault' = 'Marxism' you may as well call Marxists lef...
Rhetorically, I don't think you should really treat it as a debate. There were no pre-planned points of contention, just vague terms: 'happiness, comm...
I like to imagine a world where people who end up having unpleasant arguments on the internet have to release a diss track against their foe. People w...
The problem here is such 'centres' aren't always metaphysical presuppositions sustained through being inattentive to aporetic shifts in context, they'...
Can you do more if you visualise filling out a naughts and crosses board with the sentences? I like----|I like----| I like oranges| apples | bananas -...
I imagine we both had the same kind of 'quasi-auditory echo', I don't want to say that I literally experienced sound, or even something like a memory ...
Me too. What's it like for you? I have to bend my mind a bit with a visualisation to bring on the auditory effect of both at once. If I try to picture...
I don't intend what I wrote to be a criticism of Derrida, I was actually trying to satirise your posts in the thread. The on topic posts were about ho...
Ah yes, the world's most problematic metaphysical distinction, the distinction between houses and flowers. The house is privileged over the flower thr...
I think formal semantics is a worthwhile area of research, but I think you're treating the conditions of adequacy for theories in it as far too much l...
I just realised that we glossed over a really important pragmatic distinction. A question pragmatically is much different from a request. One asks a q...
Stahp, please. This is obviously unpleasant for both of you. (this post is not written as a mod, it's written as someone who wants to keep a good disc...
I'd like to begin with saying I'm not trying to advance a descriptivist theory of reference, or any particular theory of reference. Specifically, what...
I'm not certain that the distinction between referring using Clark Kent and referring using Superman is just a difference in psychological or behaviou...
In the context of the discussion in 508->516 in On Certainty, knowing is situated in a context alongside other things rather than standing apart/alone...
I don't think the conversation between @"Banno", @"StreetlightX", @"csalisbury", @"unenlightened" and myself was ever about questions of existence, th...
Ok. If you can assume the truth or falsity of X, then X must be able to be true or false. This means X is 'truth apt', where there are conditions unde...
Those questions were rhetorical, assuming the truth of an expression in order to ascertain its meaning only makes sense for those expressions which ar...
Provisional belief that P is different from belief that P, P iff ("P" is true) has no bearing on that. Edit: moreover, we're not just talking about pr...
Convincing to the idealist (or correlationist). If you adopt that perspective, you're not going to find your way of using the word 'objective' convinc...
I dunno. How useful is it to ask an idealist about mind independent properties or objects? You kinda need to implode the position to make a convincing...
Let me be a cynic here. What's the distinction you're trying to highlight? And how does it differ from these banalities: (1) The literal truth of a ph...
Well, it could be, if the interpretive context is examining the literal truth of the phrase. Just as in the other grammars we'd fit the world to it, w...
I don't really buy this. Framing devices and their rhetorical background/discursive-conceptual structure/philosophical grammar could possibly have 'ho...
The usual function of dogwhistles is to go largely unnoticed and tacitly accepted, they're supposed to create a consensus or work through the myth tha...
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