Never heard of him. Seems he is a Lacanian, which raises a few flags for my unquiet soul. I liked Freud a lot at some point, but it proved a bit too e...
I can learn a bit of that... I went to church yesterday for the first time in a decade or two... A wedding. I didn't get all the sermon (in Italian) b...
I think the important point here is that all language is an act, an action of a person with some sort of intent. Locutors are operating within a certa...
It's also about being economical, word savy. A child doesn't need 20 pages of machine code on addition. She needs 10 seconds to grasp the concept of p...
"Perhaps" indeed! My criticism of Wittgenstein is that he made a futile and pretentious attempt at philosophy for computers in the Tractatus, realized...
Not to make too fine a point of philosophical history, but the Principia Mathematica, to which your quotes certainly refer, were authored by Whitehead...
Soames is still marred in his analyses of propositions though... He must not have been told. What I'm wondering is: did they find out in the end the s...
Thanks for Austin, didn't know him. I see ordinary language philosophy as more a refutation of AP and its obsession with logical propositions and perf...
Soames appears to define himself as AP, so his enthusiasm may affect his diagnosis. I'm not looking for an hagiography. I had a look at one of his boo...
Well, I have no reason to doubt your word that almost all English-speaking are academic philosophers, whether they agree or not. I haven't got a clue,...
Indeed it was. So almost all it is. Are you confident that almost all English-speaking academic philosophers self-identify as analytical? I know a few...
I have already answered that. They are quite a few academic English-speaking philosophers who don't define themselves as analytical philosophers. Who'...
Yeah. Bits and pieces of ideas, among which a good one bubbles up once in a long while... Even the most dishonest trader has to deliver the real stuff...
And that strikes as a bit naïve, if you don't mind me saying so. 1. Since there's been trade, there's been fake trade. Pliny the Elder wrote about it,...
Quite true, that last bit. My ire is aimed at the fakes only, or those I consider fake, not to all AP (assuming this is a meaningful category). So tha...
It was not a defense, rather a series of question. What type of discourse is appropriate (or inappropriate) on a board such as this one, according to ...
So what type of discourse do you think is appropriate for a philosophic board? One that doesn't ever question anyone's motive? One that respects intel...
Once I attented a basic analytical philosophy course at the University of Peshawar, of all places. I was totally into Popper at the time, and knew fro...
That sums it up for me. It's a narrow-minded use of philosophical talent, that is generally used as a posture rather than to do any actual productive ...
Thanks for this quote. Got me googling. Here is the (oh so true) source: https://fakenous.net/?p=1130 Summarized by the author as: "Analytic philosoph...
As often the case, the term is also a way to define oneself in opposition to the other, i.e. "continental philosophy" in this case. Moreover, the word...
So you didn't like my definition of 'meaning'. You couldn't play with it the way you wanted. Now that's too bad. Allow me to apologize for not meeting...
You can indeed replace specific instances of meaning by the class of all meanings. But a word is not a meaning, so you cannot replace a word in a sent...
As you might guess, my inkling is that you missed his obvious mistake: that of confusing a word with its meaning. Let me try the tedious analytical ro...
What you did, technically and factually, is take out the word 'pain', and replace it by another, the word (or symbol) '{meaning}'. That's what you did...
You guys are very confused. Not sure I can do anything more at this point... Maybe the idea that words have meaning will sink in after some time. You ...
You are replacing a word by the class of meanings. Of course it's different. That's like replacing an apple by the class of oranges... Duh. Words are ...
The analytical approach lends itself to getting lost in the weeds, because it ignores the need for a constant back and forth between synthesis and ana...
« Cup » and « tea » are part of the class of words. Therefore, you want a {word} of {word}? That would be the right way to substitute an instance by a...
Why yes. To qualify as linguistic meaning, an idea has to be formulated in a symbolic language. A meaning is whatever thoughts are conveyed by a text....
You’re confusing a general category (meaning in general) with its individual instances (a specific meaning). You use words to communicate, right? But ...
Mental events and structures: Anything you can think of, perceive, feel, plan and do, remember, or imagine. And any thought about that thought, and en...
Not advocating anything in particular, just stating the glaringly obvious. Language conveys meaning. That’s its main function, and why it exists. When...
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