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But it could be a demon. And that is an important point.

Good question, could be a demon putting the thought in our head, we simply don't know. There is no access to the real world, you see. But presumably t...

Yeah but I'm saying a and b are called red because they are THOUGHT of as red. That's how conceptualism works. And if c is not thought of as red it wo...

I don't see a problem here, surely red is applied if something is thought of as red.

Awesome, thanks. Might be useful to have titles as well as just links though :)

How about "The Intentionality of Intention and Action" by John Searle? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1207/s15516709cog0401_3/pdf

Oh I see. Well an Idealist would say EVERYTHING is thought (or at least all that is known is thought) which would solve that problem, wouldn't it?

Right but I'm saying universals don't exist. We just have a THOUGHT of redness.

Why do we need to account for the concepts? Can't we dismiss them as false if we reject platonism? We can have false concepts right?

Just swap hemispheres every 6 months and you'll get endless sun! Some regions in Australia look like like they may be in the middle of very warm summe...

How exciting! Is that a first for you, or you've seen snow at Christmas before?

Does anyone here live in an area where a white Christmas is possible?

I don't think there is much of a problem with universals if we accept a version of 'conceptualism': If everything is a thought I'm not sure you run in...

Not relevant you think?

Ah this is a common misconception. There are n + s conditions for both, and they are different. We need to analyse both conditions of description as w...

Excellent point, well written.

So a theory of evolutionary biology is actually pretty complete when it comes to astronomical bodies. I assume that a necessary condition for biologic...

It is about meaning isn't it?

Mmm, I don't think it is ABOUT astronomical bodies though.

I'm not sure this is true. To be honest I'm not sure we can even make sense of a 'partial theory'. Theories that don't explain things (and obviously '...

Why not though? That's my point. A theory of gravity attempts to explain gravity for all things, for example. Partial theories are dubious theories if...

But that's the goal, isn't? A full account of meaning. I can't conceive of how how a theory of meaning for truth-conditionals can fit into such an acc...

Yeah you're right @"mcdoodle" the theory is VERY wanting. Minimal explanatory power. Does it have many adherents? Seems hugely problematic.

I recommend reading the SEP entry on Davidson in conjunction with this paper, otherwise it can be a bit tricky to understand what's going on. Well. I ...

Perhaps you are technically correct. Is there another word for learning meanings in the way I suggest?

By listening to examples of things that speakers say we 'ought not' do (like stabbing people with knives) and inferring based on knowledge of speakers...

By listening to how people use the word obligation, determining the similarities in the things called obligations and using that rule when we ourselve...

I don't think I am making a distinction in my theory though. Can you see that? Can you elaborate on this? What are you saying here? You seem to be agr...

Yeah the guy on the floor is a great one.

We can absolutely theorise about a Mona Lisa of another kind. I think Goodman proposed this thought experiment (and Danto wrote about this too I think...

OK, like I say, meaning is an idea. What is an idea though? Simply a mental grouping, a type of thought articulated by a rule/necessary and sufficient...

No worries, they're nice. How long have you been doing photography? How old are these ones?

Can you tell us more about these Baden? Is your creation the photographs or are these installations/other works?

I'm also unsure whether I want to, or should, overcome my prejudices. The world of philosophy is a big place and with some reliability can say the vas...

Mmm, I'm not sure I would say art is found only in objects which are art. That seems to be some sort of infinite regress, paradox or other weirdness! ...

We learn ostensively, learning by examples then constructing a rule (necessary and sufficient conditions) that admits of those examples. Not conscious...

Pessimism is tricky if you're using it as a descriptor for a worldview because it such a broad, catch all label. I may be pessimistic about the outcom...

Like I say, a solution that doesn't result me in reading a bunch of rubbish. :)

One problem is that it takes a pretty special person to read deeply into a philosopher that they think is completely on the wrong track. Personally I ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NVOawOXxSA This is a song by a friend of mine about house hunting around the northern suburbs of Melbourne, where we ...

Oh that was easy. So we all know what makes something art but just have trouble articulating it? Do you suggest it is IMPOSSIBLE to articulate?

You maybe don't have to define 'chair' (i.e. articulate its definition) to judge it but you do have to know what a chair is. If you didn't know that a...

Hey just checking in. I kinda missed the change over as I was taking a bit of time out from PF, so I might be a bit of a silent member for a little wh...