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Footnote 13 at the bottom of the "Nothing...no thing..." paragraph refers the reader to "True to the Facts" for a defense of that paragraph. Is there ...

If you have a minute to explain that further, I'm interested.

Well...Davidson says he defends his "Nothing, no thing" notions in True to the Facts. I'll take a look at that one next.

I agree with that: Truth is a funhouse, evil clowns and warped mirrors and all. But Davidson is interesting too.

Is there a Davidson essay that expands on this?

Is there a paper on this? Preferably by Davidson.

Of course. It's just an example sentence. Let's stay on track.

So it's more the history of language use - the linguistic-holism-thing somebody mentioned earlier - that makes the sentence true?

It's fine to eliminate the idea of a fact. But then we have an object (the sun) allowing us to put the sentence to use. Davidson says "nothing, no thi...

Thanks. I'll take a look.

Can you give us some direct quotations from the paper where you see this happening?

Sure, that sounds great. It seems to be a kind of eliminative skepticism vis-a-vis certain kinds of epistemology, metaphysics, and the rest of it. Is ...

But there seems to be a fact in the mix: a setting sun. Davidson says the sentence doesn't make reference to a fact. "The sun is setting" is true iff ...

Davidson closes by saying: In giving up the dualism of scheme and world, we do not give up the world, but reestablish unmediated touch with...objects....

It's not too much to ask. But saying "it's a lot to read through" can be a turn-off.

Shit. I meant this one. Did you say "yep" to this?

Just to be clear, did you say "yep" to all of this?

Sure. But it wouldn't eliminate eliminative materialism, as Banno suggested. It would throw the entire set of referents into question. It would create...

Right. The new dialect may or may not be referring to the old referents. It's unknown.

So you agree that the phrase "for all I know" is an important part of the parable?

I agree there's something important in this phrase: "For all I know." (As connected to the Ministry-of-Scientific-Language parable.) Read the thread a...

In other words: The eliminative materialist - "for all know" (this phrase strikes me as significant to any assessment of the Ministry's old and new di...

Ah, okay.

This is a bad example since snow is always white. (Unless someone adds something, like pee, to it.) Let's say: 1) "The sun is setting" is true iff the...

I'm familiar with this idea - there's a lot of it around the forums - and a lot of different varieties - but I'm not sure which type you mean to under...

Curious about what this means.

To deepen my understanding... Take the sentence: "The snow is white" is true iff the snow is white. I take this formula to be the linguistic form the ...

I have to concede that if Davidson is making jokes or being cute I don't have the background to recognize it.

All of this is clear and non-problematic. It seems silly to split hairs over the T-sentence.

I'm really not competent to talk about him but I read his two books six or seven years ago and they were interesting enough.

Why cut yourself off? He's as interesting as any other philosopher.

Looking forward to sifting through all of this tomorrow.

Tell us what Trump has accomplished.

I'm curious as to why the mind-matter dyad can't be considered in this light. All of it considered as an information-process and continuum: At one end...

I always preferred glass though. Just need a back-up. It's all clear to me. I'll probably won't say much till after the T-sentence bit. I did note thi...

This paper may help to clarify that bit. Are you familiar with it? "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html

Looking forward to it. At any rate, the end is always pretty nigh.

I've seen it. I follow a couple of Trump pages on Facebook.

On the edge of my seat here.

Yes. Groupthink: The orgiastic thrill of binding one's narcissism to a roaring crowd. That quashing of an essential anxiety in the synchronicity of a ...

To my view, American jingoism flows from profound anxiety stemming from a visceral fear of social ostracism - compounded by Pascal's "inability to sit...

That makes sense, considering your fondness for them. How do you read it?

Yes. A brief minor tangent. No problem. I'm more interested in the meat of the scheme-content dogma.

I know when a dolphin is trying to talk but I don't always know what a dolphin is saying. Also a young child. Also (I do life enrichment in long-term ...

Shocking? I take it you don't have a lot of history under your belt.

The fact that Zelensky knows how to tell lies...what follows from that fact?

Are you wearing a T-shirt that says "read the transcripts"?

Attempted extortion. Mulvaney says they do it all the time. (I heard him say it. It was on TV.)

I know you are but what am I?

I saw it on TV. I saw Trump ask the Russians for help.