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A kingside castle? The rest will have to wait till tomorrow. Interesting thoughts.

Sticking our nose in other countries' affairs is what we do. It's our leitmotif. (Cue Imperial March.)

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Hehe you're right.

Life is an experiment. Part of that experiment is fucking. People will always fuck. Q.E.D.

Putting money where one's mouth is - if you'd like to be taken seriously - entails passionate political action. Is your anti-natalism a fair-weather p...

I do.

Not sure how a direct quote constitutes slander - unless you consider your statements self-damaging.

(NOS4A2 quote is from the "etiquette" thread in the Lounge.)

Here's a parallel in Sextus Empiricus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism: "Before the founder of the sect to which you belong was born, the argument which you pr...

Banned @everybodybutme for being wrong, objectively.

That's a pretty sentence.

Has a philosopher ever been right? Convincing, maybe...

Nice teaser. Looking forward to it. Have a good weekend. :smile:

The ideological evangelist is a perfect counter-case to the ketch and the yawl. The nature of the evangelistic spirit is such that a foundational dive...

I'm thinking strictly of charity in connection to the presupposition of a background of shared belief. Not the patient and kind kind, or any other kin...

Rephrasing this to see if you think I understand you: Broadly speaking, to facilitate communication (or "translation") charity and the presupposition ...

This is clear to me. We assume a background of shared belief and practice charity to facilitate communication.

I agree the stock characters create an atmosphere of caricature. At the same time, I've encountered, on these forums, both simplistic reductive materi...

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It must. :smile:

The People have found their champion. Trump has consistently evidenced a fierce, egoless passion for ferreting out corruption in every corner of the g...

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If you take a look at a person's use of language, the difference between believing such and such is a ketch and such and such is a yawl is of minor si...

There's no relation between the two. "Scaling-up" and a "non-critical attitude" - those two aren't related. You caught the tail-end of a longer conver...

Yes. Learning more about Davidson by criticizing and questioning.

Thanks for the response. I'm busy with the human stuff today. Will respond to this soon. Like you: the earth calls us out of the clouds.

If the essence of a conceptual scheme can be located in a far-ranging belief, are we back to square one? Back to an essentially (although a belief- ra...

Not interested in refutation. Just exploration. I wasn't including Davidson.

Partial failure inasmuch as the immaterialist and materialist behave in a similar way, suggesting a common core of practical beliefs. I can't really i...

What if I did something strange - like start talking insistently about my immaterialism; in the evangelical fashion sometimes found on these forums? W...

Conceptual schemes, as we encounter them in philosophical exchange, are generally centered on disconnective differences in belief. What is the signifi...

Scenario: You're a materialist. I'm an immaterialist. You don't see evidence that we're different. Therefore you believe - what? - that I am also a ma...

"I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason..." -Marcus Aur...

Secondary sources: https://www.unl.edu/henderson/Papers/SCHEMES.pdf https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1468-0114.2009.01332.x https://j...

It's a profound pleasure and allows the mind the liberty to scavenge both sides of a position. Unperturbed freedom of intellect. Ideally...

Me too. I've been on this site off and on for maybe seven years.

Part and parcel of being entrenched or submerged in a mode of thought. If I'm submerged in anything, it's Pyrrhonism.

Thanks. Re Davidson, the analytic veterans don't seem to be overly critical in their thinking.

You never really got a solid answer to that one over in the other thread. I don't see a clear answer. It's a nontrivial.

My understanding so far: yes, in examining schemes "different, even contradictory, things might be counted true." But these would be translatable in t...

Take the phrase: "il pleut" is not true in English Is translation from one language to another a strong enough basis for or analogue to the kinds of t...

Suppose I say: The universe consists entirely of mind. How, as a materialist, do you translate this statement?

Paragraph by paragraph, beginning with page 15 and the question of “fitting.” Engaging the question of fitting we turn to complete sentences. It is se...

Thanks. Working on a paragraph-by-paragraph exegesis beginning with the notion of "fitting." I think I understand the essay up to that point.

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Davidson: The point is that for a theory to fit or face up to the totality of possible sensory evidence is for that theory to be true. This phrase - t...

You might be right. That's what I've been doing. Feel free to leave a commentary.

Always the politician. In-group and out-group rigidity. Rigid exclusivity of the "view-from-everywhere"; something I anticipated and Cassandraed about...