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Agreed! Though if I said this I would probably have only said "theoretical framework" instead of metaphysics. Also agreed, though again I wouldn't hav...

I mean, I get that "correspondence" is like a swear word for you, but you're just making stuff up. What notions? Where did I talk about observation an...

Nope. You got all of that just out of me using the word "research"? Geez. Exactly. I can't speak to Peirce, but it takes no more than a page of Dewey ...

We know what picking the results of research ahead of time looks like, and it's not the same thing as working within an existing paradigm. I wouldn't ...

Thank goodness! Yes that makes perfect sense, and I see now you were filling in a possible motivation. I was deeply confused. Apologies if I misread y...

I'm right now reading a book of psychology that I would argue is in some clear ways compatible with the later Wittgenstein. On the other hand, who car...

I have no idea how you got that out of what I wrote or what you quoted. I was making very close to the opposite point, that you need to commit to an i...

Btw, a little cluster of articles about masculinity in American politics recently dropped over at Politico.

Maybe you're right, and maybe bullying is just one style of a manipulation among others. The ones that matter here lean heavily on devaluing the targe...

This happen to you a lot, someone asks you, "By what features or attributes are you distinguishing that object?"? For one thing, "feature" in everyday...

Certainly there are people who see this as the job, sorting people into good and bad. Some people feel it's important -- and their job -- to sort art ...

But those are all good things, and the best way to fight off dogmatic certainty. Over here in the science-friendly world we say "Better a question tha...

There's some stuff here. One is that the behavior we all deplore -- because Street's gone, so there's no one to take the other side -- among certain g...

I don't know if this holds up, and these days I would associate it with the Stanford prison experiment (which I didn't know about when I heard this) f...

A surprising answer! Good for you. Nietzsche has that line, "Most philosophers are bad writers because they show you not only their thought, but the t...

I think you're on the wrong track here. (1) Science is not the land of certainty. People talk this way sometimes, sure, even scientists, but when it c...

Yeah I'm not contesting any of that. Let's put it another way: suppose you're making some argument and you have in mind a particular interpretation of...

Okay this is the perfect example. What will you say about the difference between the 50s and the 60s? Let's say this comes up in a discussion here on ...

I'll go and read the IEP article, thanks. It looks better than the New Yorker piece. My first reaction to what you've quoted is that this a damned cle...

But also because pronouns are just easier right? I mean, yeah, there's the cultural fight over it, but, as you note, the policy opportunities are stra...

So visualizing, imagining, hypothesizing, all that sort of thing, might be accomplished at least in part by inhibiting channels to an area involved in...

Here's a curiosity: the crazy right, and let's pick on QAnon, has both superheroes (we've all I assume seen the images of Trump's face on Rambo's body...

Interesting quote I just came across today: The spot for the recognition of letters and such is right next the area dedicated to recognizing faces. I ...

Agreed. But to @"NotAristotle"'s question, it does appear that objects are by and large constructed within the brain, without our awareness, and that ...

"Human"? Dogs don't bury bones? Beavers don't build dams? Owls don't catch field mice?

Does nobody want to compare the behavior of the (young, online) left to the behavior of the (young and old, online and on-air) right during this perio...

Just a general comment here. I think you're missing the point of the field. There are a lot of areas where people assume they know roughly what the ex...

Okay, that's helpful. Toward the end I was starting to imagine an almost adhoc building up toward the general, generalizing just as much as you need t...

That is exactly the sort of position I was hoping someone would advocate -- but for some reason even you hedge here and don't advocate it -- and why I...

Corrective rather than constructive, and the consistency being enforced is that of the narrative your current model is organized around, rather than "...

It's probably me misremembering or misunderstanding, and I'll look again. Mercier & Sperber mention in the introduction to Enigma of Reason that their...

But it's also whacko. I'm surprised you're nonplussed, but cheers.

This is the main thing I'm trying to get past. I think there's a typical assumption that our beliefs have a clear logical structure and if an inconsis...

I'm down with the demotic. Get over it.

We are, yes, absolutely. I'm just kind of curious to see how it goes. Maybe. I think @"Isaac" would agree with that -- rules of the game we play here....

But that is exactly the endless debate about consciousness here.

Well, that's the thing. It's really already in there, because we're just talking about a working hypothesis, just pragmatism. All bets come hedged. I ...

Sure, but what do you take away from that? Are we just going to do another round of the endless consciousness debate in this thread? "Science still ha...

I meant the list as a whole -- some of the stuff on the list might be cogent critiques that are crucial to the future development of the field or even...

No of course not, but why should you care if it's an outlier? You're an anti-natalist, for chrissakes. Outlier is where you live. Of course people hav...

I just don't see how you're going to cleanly partition what is and what isn't part of an argument. Why am I even arguing about this? I don't think the...

So what did you think of all those books and papers? --- Or, wait, was your OP a summary of your position after reading all that stuff?

I'm not sure that was a critique of evolutionary psychology rather than of a critique of the idea of human nature, and maybe even of psychology tout c...

Actually I have some sympathy for John McWhorter's take, that wokism is a new religion. And that's not based on what young progressives advocate, but ...

Indeed. I think reasoning serves a purpose. Probably nothing more to be gained from further discussion, but it was fun. Appreciate you indulging my he...

Have a great trip! We'll be here when you get back.

Okay, but you can't possibly find that satisfactory. That is the weakest conceivable position it is possible to take and still call this 'philosophy'....

Perfect! For me. Just moments ago I realized I meant to say something about Whitman over in the thread where I'm pissing on the law of non-contradicti...

It depends. I thought you were going to finish that paragraph with A at 0.7 and ~A at 0.7, which should also be impossible but is known to happen, at ...

Joke I heard while I was there about the little bells people wear especially on particular trails: What's the difference between grizzly scat and, say...