I consider the jury decidedly out on this. I don't know the contemporary landscape well, but I think the dominance of something recognizable as analyt...
Yeah I haven't gotten to that stuff yet. It's painful reading. I know a lot of that is just me, that I'm out of practice, but I never felt so frustrat...
I have a thought about this, which almost made it in an earlier post. Kimhi says that existence is conferred on propositions by the veridical use of '...
Quite the opposite. I'm just forcing myself to try to understand the damn book. Although maybe you're right, in the sense that I'm just picking out th...
Next bit of deviation from mainstream analytic philosophy: There's more, but let's stop here a moment. Extensional complex propositions are truth-func...
Don't think so. At least at first, Kimhi says nothing to suggest that you do anything by saying that things stand thus-and-so. Only as an abstract obj...
(Reminder: Parmenides puzzle number one is, how can we think what is not the case? Number two is, how can we talk about what is not the case, even to ...
I guess you could read my examples that way, but it wasn't my intention. It's a little harder to show collaborative thought, but I expect most of us h...
Natural enough. For a lot of cases, we usually say we need two elements for assertion: what we're talking about (to be picked out by a referential exp...
No no, of course not. We don't have to continue this here, or anywhere. Roughly, I'm just carrying the flag for population thinking versus essentialis...
Have a glance at SEP's article on psychologism. Some curious stuff there I haven't really absorbed. I may come back to some of your other points tonig...
Which has a weirdly moral ring to it. You're either right with God or you're not. You affirm the truth or you deny it. It's your soul that's at stake....
I find reading Kimhi pretty unpleasant, so a lot of what I say is kind of half-baked because I'm trying to avoid *studying* him, but that's what it ta...
It's from Kimhi's book. I don't know if anyone has posted that quote. If not I can do it tonight. Oh! Nothing. No no, I'm not accusing you of platonis...
The thing is, this thread is about what sort of thing the judgment of a proposition is. I mistook it, for some time, to be about "assertion" in a spee...
That post reads like I addressed @"J" as a defender of Frege, but it was meant to be addressed to @"J" as someone who believes Kimhi is making a point...
Suppose we go along with Frege and think of thoughts (propositions) as objective, in his sense, not the personal property of anyone. What about judgme...
Which is what I had expected! Obviously I must have misread you. I suppose we can leave it there for now, though I'll certainly go back through your p...
(my bolding) I can't provide an adequate response to this, with appropriate citations and such, but I can say this: I am deeply, deeply suspicious of ...
I have mixed feelings. Yes, this is the natural way to go, but I think there's a risk that it flattens communication too much. We need different level...
Because it's ambiguous. I'm struggling here to guess how you understand that word. But communication failure is not the main point here; it's that you...
That sounds very promising. This is definitely a tangent, but I was just thinking of a puzzle that can arise with properties -- it's close to the dist...
Yes, but I would suggest that we shouldn't take the word "analysis" there to indicate a practice that stands outside the everyday use of language, as ...
I hope I didn't suggest that there's only one type of abstract object. Quite the contrary. Mathematics alone provides a considerable menagerie. For pu...
I can say we agree, and I can say what we agree on, without attributing to "what we agree on" independent existence, but instead treating it hylomorph...
For this thread, it is absolutely central, this claim of conflation. You can consider a physical object as having properties such as mass, velocity re...
This is a good response. Heidegger relies on exactly this hermeneutic circle in everything he writes. It's prima facie a reasonable description of lea...
Maybe it's only important to philosophers and other such model builders. On the other hand, I think people often tend to treat memories as a class of ...
My point is that first and foremost the fiction writer *pretends* to have such warrant. In early prose fiction this is almost universal (in English an...
That's close to my answer. The obvious candidate for what's missing is belief, but I don't think that's quite it. (I'm only indulging here because I k...
Pretending, as your examples demonstrate, is complicated, but I think it's actually very important to logic because of hypothetical reasoning (not to ...
Very plausible. Taking down the words someone spoke leaves an awful lot behind. As musical notation is a somewhat limited representation of someone pl...
Sentences or maybe utterances, depending on how you'd like to slice it. It's not obvious to me you can utter a sentence without uttering it in a parti...
And one last point -- sorry for the multiple posts -- the whole point of my view of fiction is that it is parasitic on candid account giving or report...
Another way to look at it: if you're not sure whether assertion is something we add on (rather than being built in), does showing that we can add some...
Shaky ground for me, but I don't think that's right. The alternative title for the Tractatus is "The World As I Found It". "The limits of my language ...
Fiction is a minefield for discussions like this, and I don't want to derail the thread, if that's even possible, but I'll make one point. My view is ...
My memory of the Tractatus is that Wittgenstein also says that a picture is a fact, it's part of the world, and so to say this is a picture of that is...
Almost everything I've posted in this thread. There are a couple places where I was moved to think, but nothing much came of it. Most of my posts have...
Are you puzzling over the context principle, is that it? Are you asking if Frege is literally saying a word isolated like this, not part of a sentence...
There's a couple ways to read this, but at any rate, a couple obvious options: 1. Under the usual understanding of assertion -- just to get this out o...
I don't want to get into this too much, but yes, in trying to keep conscious, attentive decoding out of it, I do make understanding sound too passive....
Here's a fun read on Carroll and inference --- also handy because it mentions a lot of the best-known work, including a few I've missed. (You could pr...
Consider this: if you can predicate existence, can you also predicate non-existence? (Or, what is the same thing, negate a predication of existence.) ...
Do you know Russell? The thing about "The grass in my backyard" as a denotative phrase is that it has that "the" in it, which Russell gives a famous a...
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