That may be true, but it's been a serious point of contention in the post-Frege discussion of language. And here I'll mention, for the nth time on TPF...
Broadly -- I think everyone knows this, but here we are -- the two principal strands of thought about language are: language as symbol system (which f...
Indeed it is so incomprehensible that I didn't even remember this was Frege's view. Which suggests to me that "assertion" is really not a word we shou...
Eek. Not only is this part redundant but it requires classes to be objects, which pill, though bitter, even Quine swallowed for the sake of mathematic...
It's ironic you say this. My deep dissatisfaction with everything I've read of Kimhi was precisely the emphasis on assertion, judgment (a word I've ne...
Well, that's the thing. You're talking about Frege says about his system. And I'll grant you, the first version of the system we all know now as "clas...
I think the argument has been that Frege believes this must be so, and Kimhi claims it ain't necessarily so, but sometimes it is. I haven't wrapped my...
Shrug. That's how simplification works. It's a model; all models are wrong. For instance, my little triangulation model is waaaaaay simplified. I alwa...
Awww. :( Sitting in the library reading "On Denoting" changed my life. It felt like coming home. "There are a great many qualities one could attribute...
I think we can say this: a world with declarative sentences in it, or a world in which they can be produced, is a world that also includes assertion. ...
For example, I'll go ahead and note (not assert) that in a mathematical or logical proof, you will often have occasion to rely on statements, derived ...
I'm not much concerned about this, but the single most interesting point, and relevant to this thread, is that the assertion stroke disappeared. Frege...
This phrase, "just an ontological move", is interesting. My first instinct, as suggested earlier with force and content, is to suggest that what's at ...
Not to beat a dead horse but this is another exemplar of the pattern I've been talking about. We do generally credit candid speech -- and there's an a...
And I'm usually so careful about that. At any rate, I'm just using 'statement' to mean 'indicative mood sentence.' Are you using 'statement' here the ...
To stick with Frege, this is the motivation for the context principle: never ask for the meaning of a word except in the context of (as it is used in)...
I'm going to recast what you're saying in this post. (That's just a representative quote.) I think what you're actually circling around is this: given...
I'll give my understanding -- and that without going back to the source -- but you are encouraged to check my work. The distinction is total and funda...
I noticed that too. Absolutely. I think the general thrust of the whole modern Frege-Tarski-model-theoretic approach is to presuppose the existence of...
I've been rereading your OP, and I think I get the argument now. Here's the key point, I believe: Two alternative definitions of "assertion" contraste...
Another black eye for modern thought. If you like, go for it. Sometimes it's more useful to speak of "logics" in the plural. It's just a word, you kno...
Shrug. He can define as he likes. I don't think "logic in its entirety" is a thing. I'll pass on Frege exegesis, but I'll say his system is spectacula...
@"J" It looked to me like the argument form here was something like this: A: Fs are not Gs. B: But in a way they are. That's a disagreement, I guess, ...
Oh all right. First, it's not clear to me what your argument is. That doesn't sound like an argument; it sounds like you (ahem) asserting your propose...
For what is worth, I agree with pretty much all of this. One way to clarify all this is to distinguish clearly between rationality in the instrumental...
I don't think that's quite right, depending on what you meant by "generally". Let's continue to ignore the OP's use of "implies" and consider what's g...
There are a few points I'd like to address further. One is this business of psychoanalyzing. Of course in debate one philosopher not uncommonly accuse...
Well, the form in which the question is posed, "What does philosophy want?", has neither a first nor a third person pronoun, so it is a matter of inte...
But the question isn't why you or I do, or don't do, what philosophy does, but why does philosophy do what it does? According to @"Antony Nickles", ph...
As you like. I think the question is interesting: what does philosophy want? Not: what do philosophers want? Not: what do people hope to achieve by do...
Sure. I've said as much myself. There's a couple things going on here. On the one hand, all models are wrong, but the process of modeling is iterative...
Ha! I almost did "Did anyone check to see if it's unlocked?" (Culture & Value contains many gems.) (I have actually had such a comical experience. I o...
I was hooked immediately, from the moment I opened the Blue and Brown Books: It's tempting just to quote the whole first page. I thought then and stil...
Anscombe somewhere links LW to Plato (rather than Aristotle). You know both much better than I do, but I just want to record my sympathy with this vie...
Yeah, just wanted the distinction in print. "Model" is a pretty tricky thing that covers a lot of ground. I don't actually know what to say about that...
For what we do, sure, but I keep thinking the brain is so much messier. The individuated steps there are each neurotransmitter binding to a site or no...
I'm gratified you found so much to agree with. I was very impressed by the idea (in Mercier and Sperber) that participants in a discussion systematica...
I am never disappointed when I return to Hume. As a young man I foolishly preferred the Enquiries, so I am eternally grateful to you for getting me to...
Well, here's an absurdly long post I didn't mean to write. @"fdrake" I don't think you're quoted in here but now you've been mentioned, in case you wa...
Sigh. Look at what you quoted: People might talk about whether there's money in the bank or beer in the fridge, but they don't talk about whether mone...
I'm more inclined -- you'll be shocked to hear -- to say the opposite. There is behavior, such as De León's, that we can recognize as "truth seeking"....
Desiring-machines run amok? What I most enjoy, honestly, is everyday reasoning. I eavesdrop a lot -- the rednecks across the street talking about Viet...
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