Harry Hindu

Were you asking me to describe the image, or what the image is about? The image isn't about anything because it is ambiguous. The image is ambiguous, ...

My tone hasn't changed yet here you are not ignoring me. It was a simple question, much simpler than the other questions in this thread that you attem...

I asked you to remind me of your part of the discussion that answered my question you couldn't do so.

Or in which "God" has not been properly defined by those that are using the term. If the users of the term don't know the rules then how do they expec...

It is also possible that while not being conscious of being flogged while made general, he may be conscious of being flogged at some later time. We sh...

Then you weren't accurate when telling me that you had already addressed the question I asked. Being dishonest and dismissive is the result of you fee...

I agree that all 4 statements to be about the same state-of-affairs so we are agreeing that all four statements are translatable with the other. In sa...

What are propositions if not images of scribbles? So to think in propositions is to think in visual images, or sounds if you're talking to yourself in...

Yet look at all of the posts you have created since my last post. You're willing to engage but only if you dictate the topic, which is off the topic o...

Thank you for the example. So in the example, the sentence would be the written scribbles or spoken sounds and the proposition would be the state-of-a...

:lol: What was CS doing if not insisting? You keep contradicting yourself. Sure, difficult questions that, when answered, point out your contradiction...

Asking a question is not biased or emotionalized. Avoiding them is. So you'd rather engage them half-assed? Sounds like a waste of time to me. CS was ...

You seemed to have overlooked this part of my post: So again, here you are explaining how things are for everyone, not just yourself. So again, you ar...

My point was that it is a waste of your time when it's obvious CS doesn't care about wasting his. That was obvious several pages ago. Yet you avoided ...

The whole thread up to the point where I made my first post and all you've done is repeat yourself saying: How does that answer my question? Seems to ...

CS is obviously being purposely obtuse regarding your rebuttal (and mine), yet you continue with wasting your time trying to restate it, when there ar...

Spoken like a true realist. Any time you attempt to explain how reality is not just for yourself, but for others, then you are a realist that is makin...

Seems to me that for something to be useful there needs to be some element of truth. Have you provided an example where a falsehood was useful?

There is no part in the entire debate that explains the difference between holding something to be true and holding a belief. Who decided that it woul...

What form do correlations take? Correlations between what? You're confusing the belief with the report/statement of the belief. Are we checking if the...

It would help if you just stopped avoiding my question and answer it. What form does a language you don't know take? How does that change when you lea...

I think you're confusing the form the subject-predicate (proposition/statement) takes with the form the belief takes. Going back to what you said abou...

Then the belief exists before holding some string of scribbles as true, but you've only explained the truth value of the statement, not the belief. Pr...

I'm not sure that I see the difference. To hold a belief would be the same as the act of believing. I'm sure that we can agree that there are beliefs ...

I'm asking you what you meant by "individual" in your OP. You described an individual as being both the willing and knowing subjects. In what way does...

You've described what an individual is as being both a knowing and willing subject. If the individual is an object in the world then the knowing subje...

Special and dissimilar are two different things. All animals are dissimilar from one another. In that respect humans are not dissimilar or special com...

I don't know why you're directing this at me when if you read Banno's quote, he said that ""P" is the name for a proposition, P is the proposition." Y...

Again, I need "propositional attitude" defined. Youre saying the cat has a belief prior to it being put into the form of a propositional attitude (wha...

Which has been shown to not be helpful in the slightest. Banno injected truth into the equation: If the attitude is certainty, as certainty is the att...

This is confusing. You're saying the name is true iff the proposition? What does that even mean? You seem to be saying that something is true if it is...

Thats what you would say if i was speaking a different language. What does Arabic and Russian look like to you, compared to English? What do they soun...

Right, so "P" is the proposition, and P is what the proposition points to. If what "P" points to is not the case, then "P" is false. If P is the case,...

Which are composed of scribbles and sounds. Yet names are part of the belief. If your beliefs don't refer to anything in the world, then your beliefs ...

What is the difference between knowledge and belief? What is the difference between, "the attitude that some proposition is true", and "certain that s...

Good question. If reality needs an observer then reality and observation are one and the same. If this is the case then where is the observer in relat...

Again, this isnt specific enough to be useful. What kind if attitudes? Attitudes of (degrees of) certainty. You keep throwing around, "truth" without ...

Not language, meaning. Are you paying attention? There wasn't any literature on the evolution of organisms by natural selection until Darwin wrote it....

Thats all fine, but if meaning is not simply use, but the relationship between cause and effect, then words can be used to do other things, but as an ...

Neither does pleading to popularity or orthodoxy that doesnt exist. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/belief/#Repr

Right, using words to refer to things that arent words in order to do stuff with those things that are not words. In other words, words are used to re...

Like i have said numerous times, meaning is the relationship between cause and effect. Effects are about their causes. Use requires intent. Intent is ...

i dont have to try that hard if "hello" is your one and only example. We can disagree on one example, but it take more than one example to prove your ...

Not sure what use the idea of possible worlds is unless were talking about beliefs as predictions.

Or a reference to the intent to communicate.

Like i said, it refers to the beginning of a conversation, or the intent to communicate with you. If its not referential, then what is its use?

We've already been over this. No new examples? "Hello" is the acknowledgement of two or more people to begin an exchange of information (have a conver...

No, it is you who missed the point. It wasnt a comparison of realism vs idealism, but between two different versions a realism - direct vs indirect. I...

A Man Without Words is a story about a deaf man that grew up without language and only discovered language after becoming an adult. Idelfonso obviousl...

In the first, the naive realist believes that they can talk about how things are independent of some belief or observation. The first statement could ...