@"frank"'s beef is different. I think he is simply wondering about the manner in which the singular term "the cat" functions in the sentence such that...
This could indeed be a special case where Martin's account of the unity of propositionally complex propositions with the form ~p applies. Again, his a...
This is also the view McDowell once expressed, if I remember, and to paraphrase very loosely, that Plato himself, when taking about the form of the Go...
Interestingly, on page 54, Kimhi considers Critical Fregeanism, which he ascribes to Gareth Evans, as an alternative non-dualistic proposal to accommo...
ChatGPT o1-preview is a bit more conversant with carriage returns. You raise a possible objection to Martin's claim about the force of negation and th...
Just to be clear, Martin claims that when one asserts the propositionally complex content ~p, one does not thereby engage in a separate act of enterta...
As the quote from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics suggest (analogically) getting clear on the meaning of a sentence must rather be relativized to the c...
This is commonly (miss-)attributed to Aristotle who was making a different point in Nicomachean Ethics, Book I, Chapter 3. "In the same spirit, theref...
It may indeed be indirectly related to the view from nowhere. When arguing against representationalism, or the idea that our thoughts or the propositi...
I was rather arguing for something that is very much the polar opposite of that view. I alluded in passing to the case where we assert something to ou...
@"Srap Tasmaner" Here are a few further thought regarding the Wittgensteinian full context principle and the distinct ways in which propositional cont...
The relevant part in Kimhi seems to be this (p. 39) "In what follows, I shall call the correct understanding of Frege’s observation Wittgenstein’s poi...
In his paper On Redrawing the Force Content Distinction, Christian Martin suggests (and purports to illustrate) that the root of the difficulty is tha...
I was also thinking of a rejoinder along those lines. Certainly, for some purposes, there is a point in sorting numerical quantity alongside weight as...
You may remember that Frege wrote Thought: A Logical Enquiry, ("Der Gedanke. Eine logische Untersuchung") where he famously argued for a kind of Plato...
No, I agree with you. I also tend to view the pragmatic role of assertion to be paradigmatic and central in understanding what propositions (or though...
Maybe I misunderstand you but I don't see the distinction between a thought being merely entertained (or grasped) and it being asserted to line up wit...
And since @"frank" brought up the topic of non-rational-animal issuers of "assertions", Kimhi writes on page 137 of Thinking and Being: "But now one c...
While this issue isn't entirely off topic, and hence would be worth discussing, it also is liable to send us off into tangential directions regarding ...
In the original German text, Frege wrote: "Man nehme nicht die Beschreibung, wie eine Vorstellung entsteht, für eine Definition und nicht die Angabe d...
I would have thought that those specialized senses of "thought" and "proposition" struck at the core of Frege's thinking about logic in general, and h...
I began writing my earlier response before I read your request to me. Let me just specify that I hardly am a professional. I did some graduate studies...
I don't think those two quotes speak against the claim that Frege is equating propositions with thoughts in the specific sense in which he understands...
I've read several papers by Bitbol on quantum mechanics and didn't find anything remotely quacky about them. Thank you for drawing my attention to Mai...
No doubt. Weinberg was a much more accomplished physicist ;-) All kiddings aside, my point just is that unlike Weinberg, Bitbol didn't confuse the cor...
Indeed, but the reason I'm bringing up Bitbol and Rovelli is because they aren't really trying to think outside of the box and come up with fancy theo...
Quite! Although some physicists and physicist-philosophers like Michel Bitbol and Carlo Rovelli show that digging deeply enough into the foundations o...
Yes and no ;-) I was tempted to say that ChaGPT's (o1-preview) summary of its thinking process had included this phrase merely metaphorically, but tha...
Yes, although Wiggins stresses rather more the necessary establishment of non-arbitrary caveats. When a scientist (or lawyer, or philosopher or engine...
David Wiggins makes good use in his metaphysics and practical philosophy of a distinction of distinctions that he borrowed from Richard Hare (who hims...
That's fine, but you can read merely my question to it since it's addressed to you too. I had thought maybe Witt's Tratarian picture theory of meaning...
I was a bit puzzled by this so I asked ChatGPT o1-preview the following question: "Hi ChatGPT, There is an ongoing discussion thread currently on TheP...
That was my feeling also. Although I haven't read Kimhi yet, and added his Thinking and Being high on my reading list alongside Rödl's Self-Consciousn...
Someone in a YouTube comment section wondered how ChatGPT o1-preview might answer the following question: "In a Noetherian ring, suppose that maximal ...
I have not actually reached my weekly limit with o1-preview yet. When I have, I might switch to its littler sibling o1-mini (that has a 50 messages we...
I don't think so. We're not at that stage yet. LLMs still struggle with a wide range of tasks that most humans cope with easily. Their lack of acquain...
Oh! I didn't imagine they would restrict access to shared chats like that. That's very naughty of OpenAI to be doing this. So, I saved the web page of...
ChatGPT o1-preview is a beast! One young PhD astrophysicist YouTuber is currently investigating its coding skills and its problem solving abilities in...
Claude's Mathematical abilities and Kantian Knowledge for Spontaneity Here is a follow up to my discussion with Claude transcribed above. User We cert...
It indeed does! Our introspective abilities to tell after the fact by means of which mental means we arrived at answers to question also are fallible....
I saw an interesting Reddit post titled "How Claude 3.5 would teach an LLM trained only on data up to the year 1900 about its true nature." and what m...
@"Bodhy", I had missed your comment from 13 days ago. You raise may interesting issues and I'll try to address them at least briefly within the next c...
Claude 3.5 Sonnet was released today! It is claimed by Antropic to be smarter than Claude 3 Opus and, according to my early experiments with it, it is...
I don't understand the distinction that you are making between the PAP and the PAFP. Google returns no hit aparts from mentions of the concept in unpu...
Yes, thank you, I was also quite impressed by this result! But I was already familiar with the earlier paper about the Othello game that is also menti...
Indeed! The question still arises - in the case of chess, is the language model's ability to "play" chess by completing PGN records more akin to the h...
LLMs have some capacities that "emerged" in the sense that they were acquired as a result of their training when it was not foreseen that they would a...
That was a quite interesting alternative angle on the topic! I had earlier compared the responses of GPT-4o accessed through the web interface and tho...
@"Wayfarer" It just occurred to me to look at GPT-4o's "memories" and I saw that it had recorded on its own: "Prefers a more casual conversation style...
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