Harry Hindu

Yeah but now you're talking about Jack having different beliefs after becoming aware of something that CONTRADICTS his prior belief.

"Something" that is shared by different sentences is too vague. What specifically do they share and is there a categorical term that can be used to re...

Or just stop using the vague term, "will" and say that one had the choice to eat chips and the choice to not eat chips. Once the choices were compared...

I doubt it because the existence of others and their goals is what limits our individual freedoms in realizing our own goals. You also have the goals ...

You're moving goal posts. Jack's beliefs can change, sure, but which belief is the statement about - before or after he became aware? You're being pur...

I prefer the term, "goals" rather than "will". What is a will and what makes it free or not? Freedom is the idea that you can achieve your goals using...

Or more specifically - other's goals. Ethics is the relationship between one person's goals and another person's goals in whether they come into confl...

What do you mean by "propositional content"? What are you pointing at when you use the string of scribbles, "propositional content"? You seem to be co...

What about it?

The move to set it outside the scope of Jack's belief is due to the fact that it would be impossible for Jack to make such a statement based on his be...

We're still on this? CS doesn't yet realize that the proposition, "Jack believed that a broken clock was working." isn't something Jack is saying (bel...

:roll: You've never seen a language you don't know? Have you ever used Google translate? Take some of your own advice in answering questions you don't...

Lame. Wtf does it mean to be neutral on a question, if not "I don't want to answer it because the answer would contradict other things that I've said....

, but only after you learned that is what the scribbles are labeled as. I've been using the term scribble, not word, because they are scribbles withou...

Here you are again confusing what it is that we are talking about. You're talking about stories. I'm talking about what the stories are about.

I'm not interested in your opinion. I'm interested in what is the case. Your opinion has no bearing on what is the case which is why it is useless to ...

No, it is not confusing, you are. Just go back and read what you wrote. "All people see a reality which they think exists separately from them." means...

Yeah, I've been having the same problem with neomac with us continually talking past each other. Their posts are mostly highbrow word salad.

If you are agreeing with me that strings of scribbles is an image then there could be many descriptions that could correspond to the same image of str...

I'm having trouble picturing this. If there is no overarching world bubble, then what is the medium in which our subjective bubbles exist? What separa...

How is it inaccurate if it is useful to me? You see, you keep making the same mistake of asserting that I am wrong while at the same time talking abou...

The latter isn't about the state-of-affairs of Neil Armstrong walking on the Moon (whether it actually occurred or not). It is about you. This is why ...

I don't see how this answers my question. I entertained you with your silly question, so I'm waiting on you to return the favor. When you say that you...

How are propositions made? if they are made by writing or typing then they are the color of the ink or font you choose to write or type with. If they ...

Really? What does a language that you don't know look like? And when describing what a language you know looks like, are you describing the language o...

So, is what you just said true in that it is the case regardless of whether I agree or not, or whether anyone else knows it or not? Are you describing...

It's nonsensical. But if you're going to twist my arm, then I'll say that what it means is a strange form of solipsism where reality is only the use o...

I would need "world" defined in this instance.

Then we're talking past each other. That seems to be happening a lot lately on this forum. I'm talking about paradoxes and you're talking about my cho...

Where is the theory we observe? Where some see quark like particles and you see triples of geometrically extended structures, are you saying that what...

What form does a sentence take? What form does a proposition take? How can you tell the difference between a sentence and a proposition? Can propositi...

Huh? Meaning requires being meaningful to something or someone? This is circular logic. What does it mean for something to be meaningful to someone? Y...

Committing logical fallacies isn't helping your argument. You should try a different argument.

What would it mean for there to be false propositions if not that the proposition doesn't refer to some state-of-affairs that isn't just another propo...

No. There is what is the case independent of theory (think of what was the case before humans evolved to make theories about what was the case before ...

I didn't say that you claimed to be attempting to educate me, I'm saying that you just attempted to do so. Maybe you should take that as a sign that i...

Here we are talking past each other again. In 1 and 2 you are talking about the some string of scribbles (descriptive sentences that do not share the ...

If every truth possesses the quality of subjectivity then you don't get to say that I'm wrong, or that what I'm saying isn't the case. You can and I c...

Really? Then please educate me on what the paradox says. Which state-of-affairs does a paradox describe? If what you say is true, then it is merely yo...

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A lot of famous people say stuff. It doesn't make it true, or useful, because they are famous. All your example shows is that we can substitute hand m...

It wouldn't be a specific sentence, or specific scribbles, or specific mental objects. It would be sentences in general, or scribbles in general, or m...

More specifically, what decisions needed to be made? You're just moving the goal posts. You're saying that conceptual models are useful and accurate b...

Ok, Snowflake, it's actually the other way around. My post was an attempt to understand what you are trying to say and your response is thinly veiled ...

In what way are images suppose to be ambiguous? The only images and words that are suppose to be ambiguous is art. By describing your images and words...

If "a property's surface soil has been contaminated by lead at above concentrations defined by regulations." was the conclusion after the original SCM...

You're confusing what is true and what we know to be true. Propositions can be true and we don't know it. It is either true that "Every truth is subje...

Making contradictions is playing with words, not stating facts. Is it objectively true that every truth is subjective? In describing the world you're ...

But in saying that conceptual models are accurate TClark is saying they are true. "Accurate" is a synonym for "true".