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My response to @ucarr presented a hypothetical, not my belief that crows don't have language. @ucarr had previously written: "Language and logic are s...

I cognize something x. Cognition is a higher level function of the brain. I can cognize about x both as an appearance and a noumenon. As regards cogni...

As regards cognition, it is not a case of either-or, in that I can both cognize about appearance and cognize about noumena, such that P ? Q is possibl...

Perhaps "perception" would be a more suitable word than "cognition" in this situation. Cognition implies an active act of manipulating concepts. Perce...

The article How human language could have evolved from birdsong differentiates between the expression part of language and the lexical part of languag...

I agree with the Lakna article, where she wrote: 1) Humans are more intelligent due to their increased neural connections in the brain while animals a...

Where did human language, logic, reasoning, conceptualisation and consciousness come from if not from pre-existing non-human animal abilities ? Humans...

It depends on where the line is drawn between a complex concept and a simple concept My belief is that human language is a by-product of evolution rat...

The crow must be cognisant of the following concepts in order to gain the food: Causation = putting a stone into the water will cause the water level ...

What is language for if not conveying information ?

I agree @ucarr did write i) "grammar, the inferential platform and medium of language, is synonymous with logic" ii) Grammar is logic iii) logic is al...

It depends what you mean by language. Britannica defines language as "a system of conventional spoken, manual (signed), or written symbols by means of...

Causal understanding of water displacement by a crow It seems that the crow is using cognition. If the crow has no language, then it is using cognitio...

Do you mean something like the following ? The graduate engineer was given the task of designing a bridge. The engineer went away and came back three ...

Alienation and technology The technology that runs our lives is increasingly growing beyond the understanding of a single individual, with the disconn...

I wrote "Life has always been disconnected from what has sustained it" Consider the OP "We are disconnected from that which sustains us" The Merriam W...

Prehistoric humans may well have understood their simple tools and lived in reverence to a mysterious world. Modern humans may well not understand the...

It has always been thus. Nothing has changed. I am sure that pre-technology the world was just as mysterious as it is today. Life has always been disc...

There are different definitions of neo Luddite. However, the definition given in the OP is: "An individual who opposes the use of technology for ethic...

You define Neo Luddism as "An individual who opposes the use of technology for ethical, moral or philosophical reasons", and ask "Is the neo-Luddite w...

Susan Haack Philosophy of Logics "Tarski emphasises that the (T) schema is not a definition of truth – though in spite of his insistence he has been m...

I'm pretty confident that 100,000 years ago people weren't going around saying "snow is white".

I quite agree that Tarski never said ""snow" denotes snow because "snow" denotes snow". But I imagine you are inferring that I said that Tarski made t...

But if we don't know what Tarski means by the words he uses, then how do we know what he means ?

We can know snow is white before we know "theluji ni nyeupe". There was a world pre-language In the world 100,000 years ago, there was something that ...

If I understand what you're after, because the meaning of denoting (designating) is central to Tarski's Semantic Theory of Truth.

Tarski's approach is certainly rigorous. I would say logical rather than mathematical or scientific. He wrote in The Semantic Conception of Truth and ...

The complete paragraph containing item 4) is: It seems to me obvious that the only rational approach to such problems would be the following: We shoul...

At no time have I ever suggested that Tarski was confused. Are you making this up? Bye.

They are quite clearly not presented as a single quote, because the four quotations are individually numbered 1), 2), 3) and 4). You have the document...

I had written: "the meaning of "denote" is much debated". I agree that the word "denote" can mean from a word to thing or things. Yet there is more to...

My goal is to understand Tarksi's Semantic Theory of Truth, not get bogged down in unimportant detail and misunderstandings. I wrote "Denotes infers p...

@"TonesInDeepFreeze" You are quibbling over details and things I never said.

The meaning of denote The exact meaning of "denote" is debated, whether in linguistics or mathematics, and books have been written about the topic, e....

Tarski used "denote", but I don't think this term is strictly grammatically correct, but that is the word he used. I think snow is named "snow" would ...

Thanks, I have downloaded it. I understand more this week about Tarski's STT than last week, and hopefully more next week than this week, but I think ...

@"TonesInDeepFreeze" @"Banno" I'm answering my own (grammatically correct) question: "In Tarski's T-sentence, "snow is white" is true IFF snow is whit...

In Tarski's T-sentence, "snow is white" is true IFF snow is white, where exactly is "snow" denoted as snow and "white" denoted as white ? Because if n...

Before the truth value of any proposition is known, metaphysical or otherwise, the meaning of the words must be known. For example, is the proposition...

I believe that you are saying that the denotation of "snow" as snow and the denotation of "white" as white are already within the expression snow is w...

1) the denotation of 'snow' is: precipitation in the form of small white ice crystals formed directly from the water vapor of the air at a temperature...

The meaning of "is" It seems that most of our disagreement relates to the meaning of certain words that have multiple meanings. For example, I wrote :...

@"Banno" Metalanguage I used to think that "For Tarski, the right hand side is a Metalanguage, which is not the world", however, @Andrew M made me ret...

Considering Tarski's T-Sentence "snow is white" is true IFF snow is white, you are right that the T-sentence is the metalanguage, not the right-hand s...

The truth of Tarski's T-Sentence depends on how snow and white have been named Today, we have Tarski's T-Sentence "snow is white" is true IFF snow is ...

I am curious why naming plays no part in Tarski's T-sentence, as naming seems to affect the truth or falsity of the T-sentence itself. Am I missing so...

Convention of quotation marks Using the convention of Davidson's T-sentence "snow is white" is true IFF snow is white, where with quotation marks refe...

In Mathematical Platonism, sets exist in the world as abstract entities. The parts don't need to be in causal contact. Yet the parts must be connected...

You write that trees, rocks, stars, solar systems, etc are combinatory systems that can exist independently of a lifeform and can exist without the la...

I am sure that both Platonists and Nominalists agree that sets exist. The question is where, in the mind or mind-independent. Frege argued for mathema...