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I think so, overall. I'm not entirely persuaded by your meta-analysis here: It is, of course, true that you're not compelled to believe 'c' by anythin...

Yes. Note 'used by a speaker'. They are on that sense imbued with intentionality, namely, that of the speaker, to convey or represent something. As yo...

Owned the first edition. Nothing whatever to do with the point at issue.

Much simpler than that - the source you provided doesn’t support your meaning of the term ‘intentionality’.

Life is short, 180.

waffle, 180. Pure and simple.

Discussion of interpretations of quantum physics is a sure death-knell for any thread. Let's not get dragged into that rabbit-hole. The topic is 'the ...

Sure! It is now. That is why a lot of people will say that quantum physics itself has undermined materialism (and I'm one of them). There is a strong ...

Which states that: So I can't see how your proposed definition: squares with what is given in the SEP article. You've already suggested a couple of ti...

I don't get this. I'm familiar with this principle in respect of energy, but not information. Is there a meaning of ‘information’ here specific to the...

Modern science has gotten many spectacular results from the interpretation of data in the light of mathematical abstractions. That is the subject of E...

And incidentally, see my response to the very post that you reference. You think that response is also 'anti-intellectual'?

It's not 'anti-intellectualism'. You haven't actually addressed the topic of the OP - what you've tried to do, is shift the discussion to discussion a...

House Censures Adam Schiff Over His Role Investigating Trump. Complete waste of time, as has no chance of passing the Senate, only serving to illustra...

Right - but that only applies to empirical theories, which the argument from reason is not. It's closer in nature to Kant's transcendental theories (i...

But they don't entail what you say they entail. Have you ever encountered the book The Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, by Hacker and Bennet...

Sorry, I forgot you had mentioned it.

Let's not dissolve the entire dialogue in the acid bath of post-modern relativism. The SEP entry would be a good starting point https://plato.stanford...

Let's do that.

OK then, give us a well-informed materialists' account of the significance of intentionality. As for whether output - written text - has any kind of ‘...

Thanks, although I suspect I'd have to read a lot more of that milieu to understand the drift (and must admit, feel little compulsion to do so.) Yeah ...

That's what I'm arguing, it's exactly what I said - 'Logical propositions and their truth values (meaning their content) are abstract entities that ex...

I think viewing reason through that criterion of whether it 'helps us survive' is reductionist. What is advantageous to survival is an essential consi...

Which question, exactly? It starts with the presumption that we can arrive at true beliefs through reasoned inference, and then asks what must be the ...

So how did this entry become written? By mistake?

On further thought, I’m rather intrigued by why you would say that, and why it appears obvious to you.

A story that comes to mind - I can't remember where I read it, or the details. But it was to do with a man who had a brain tumour (I think it was) who...

Here's an example from D M Armstrong, A Materialist Theory of Mind - a paragraph chosen practically at random, expressing a kind of exasperation that ...

It is because of the physicalist assumptions of the kind of naturalism that the argument is aimed at. I mean, do you agree that 'An impersonal, unrefl...

I was an undergrad at the University where D M Armstrong was head of school of philosophy. His best-known book is called A Materialist Theory of Mind....

But then, that's reductionist, as well - of the type of reductionism that says that we hold the beliefs that we do, because of our psychological histo...

I think the distinction is between different types of 'because' - 'because' in the sense of 'he became ill because he ate lobster' - the observation o...

It seems that the investigation of Hunter Biden has basically culminated in a couple of wrist-slaps, for un-filed tax returns and illegal possession o...

Schopenhauer’s Compass, Urs App. A new (2014) introduction to Schopenhauer, drawing on his written notebooks and the margin jottings on his copies of ...

No worries, I very much appreciate the courteous manner in which you post. As for the differences between our views, I start from what might be called...

I'm sure they nevertheless have at least a subliminal influence in our worldview and self-understanding. I will add that the principle difference betw...

I'm aware of that book, but no, haven't read it. Watched an interview with the now very aged Daniel Kahnemann the other night, he's clearly a brillian...

a.k.a. 'beings' As far as we know, with the first organic beings. Have a geez at this.

I'm sure it's a valuable part of the overall philosophical repertoire, but it is all too often used as a kind of blanket to throw over difficult argum...

A relevant educational opportunity - Dr John Vervaeke on Beyond Nihilism, with lectures, readings and online participation. (I'd consider signing up m...

I stand corrected. :pray: Which brings us right back to scepticism 101.

‘Science as metaphysics’ seems a relevant topic to discuss it, although i suppose strictly speaking this is a subject in philosophy of mind. But I’d b...

I don’t think there is one. There are major gaps and conundrums in physics, even without considering the very tenuous connection it might have with ho...

You'd probably need to start with a definition of 'physical' which I suspect will be very difficult to derive. If I was to pursue that argument, it wo...

Hence the requirement for noesis, philosophical ascent. The culmination of those states is in 'seeing things as they truly are', of arriving at an ins...

Well, perhaps you might expand on this: You seem to be opposing 'real' and 'ideal' here. What exactly do you mean?

Totally with you on that. I'm one of the posters on this forum who generally argues for an idealist, or anti-materialist, philosophy, and I know how i...

I meant, my wife corresponds to the part of you that is saying you should allocate your time better...

She says, sarcastically, ‘still playing with your invisible friends?’ I do try and point out that discussing philosophy is, you know, not like selling...

Yes, my wife also says that quite often :wink: