There are responses to the paper; I have three queued up that aren't buying it. Should probably be pushed off to another thread if people want to get ...
Nice find, reading it now. We'll see how it goes. I've been using "factive" as a shorthand for this: I would rather take the inference rule as primary...
This is a thing. And I almost asked if you felt a little queasy when you reached for words like "tracking" and "mirroring," but it turns out you had s...
I really expected something like this: 'Warsaw was bombed in World War II' is true iff 'Warsaw was bombed in World War II' is asserted in the Bible. N...
Yes, that's how I'm looking at it. And not only does it fix the extension of true, there is no other conceivable way to do so. That's why it must be a...
Here's a link to a post of mine about this. If you clink on that link, it takes you right to what I said. In this context, we could say it refers to w...
Well, something like that has always been the complaint about purely extensional semantics. From "The Meaning of 'Meaning'," which just happens to be ...
If you take take means as has the same extension as, then yes. Otherwise, no, or depends. They can't all be true at the same time, because the use of ...
You just read the Tarski, right? I haven't done that in years, so you're better placed than I. I think, yes, that is the semantics of "is foo." It say...
You mean if I wrote something like this? \ \ \ \ \ Kp\ \vdash\ p Like stating that kind of premise? Or would you prefer something like this? \ \ \ \ \...
I lean toward (2), but I just don't know enough to say. I keep thinking there's something of interest there in truth as a sort of identity function. H...
But the connection is right there: the conclusion is the object of the propositional attitude. You cannot know what is not so. You cannot see what is ...
Yes it does. No claim that someone's memory is infallible is needed to support the claim that, in this case, it is accurate. Neither does modus ponens...
I'm not following this. I think of holism as indicating that the members of the set are not independent in some respect, in this case truth. Isn't the...
I think I agree, though I'm slightly unclear on what the first part of your post is saying. (The explanation of T-sentences in English.) I think there...
Probably a bad idea. Language is a real thing, a specific thing. Not every form of communication, for instance, is language. Neither is every form of ...
That just strikes me as clearly false. I understand the point you're making, but lately on this forum people making that point use the phrase "forms o...
A side note, possibly off track. One way I've seen Davidson's program described is that he aims at explaining not what a given sentence means or what ...
I don't think this thread can or should accommodate a digression on names (though maybe we're going to end up there anyway). I will, though, point you...
Oh I'd have to go look, but, if memory serves, Grice defended material implication as a faithful representation of conditional reasoning in natural la...
Well, I mean, it's exactly that, and nothing else. The inference rule \ \ \ \ \ Kp\ \vdash\ p Allows you to conclude p from Kp, but doesn't tell you w...
Wasn't meant to be. This round of the conversation was my attempt to clarify the merry-go-round several of you were on that seemed to me to come down ...
Absolutely. I don't happen to remember, but I would presume there's a way around needing to make such a claim. You can stipulate that your account app...
Yes. Who can say? We do of course lose knowledge. And look none of this is transparent to us. You can rack your brains trying to remember something, c...
First, I can't speak to the later revision. I've tried reading Montague, but it's pretty demanding, so he's still an aspiration for me. I do know a li...
Then you didn't. Nobody's talking about infallibility here. You thought you did, you could've sworn it was today, whatever. But "I remember that I put...
Yes. The main thing is to recognize when propositional attitude verbs are factive. If I remember that today is Joe's birthday, then today is Joe's bir...
I liked the word "informal" in your previous post, it's just that propositional calculus is a formal system. It's a branch of mathematics. If you want...
I wouldn't call the points @"TonesInDeepFreeze" has made "quibbles" but I would call them "helpful". On the other hand, I wonder how accessible any of...
Not something we need to address. I suppose I should have put my point this way: short-circuiting is, here anyway, an unofficial procedure. If the tru...
The third and fourth rows. I suppose it's additionally a consequence of bivalence, since every consequent must land you on row 3 or row 4 and nowhere ...
Has anyone mentioned that there's a name for this -- the principle of explosion -- and that it is a direct consequence of how the material conditional...
But you're not saying Jung was antisemitic and that's why he and Freud had a falling out, right? Because that's the sort of thing one ought to have co...
We must be making progress because I have something to say in response to almost every sentence here. There is too much to say here, so this is a plac...
I'm not getting this at all. On the one hand, elsewhere in your OP you seem to raise the spectre of ideas that are dangerous (Nazi ideas). (Also: idea...
"Meaning" and "mean" are really extraordinary words. There's \ \ \ \ \ \ (1) What do you think it means? That is, what does it indicate, point at meta...
I vote not to get into the slingshot unless we really have to, but if we do I'll take the opportunity to wade into it and see if I like it any more th...
Whether one co-referring term can be substituted for another is the canonical way of distinguishing extensional from intensional contexts. You can sub...
What follows is speculative, but here goes. Certainly that's the discussion that's been going on here, but it's not necessarily the right discussion. ...
Oliver Sacks tells a story -- his father, he said, was the sort of man who would say to him, "Bring me that glass there on the table," and when young ...
Getting ahead of ourselves here, but I'll say this much: the kettle is literally "outside language" in just the sense that it is not itself the expres...
One down, three to go. Or shall we make it four? What about it, @"Tate"? Does "the kettle" refer to the kettle, or, if you prefer, can it be used in a...
I don't think the disagreement between @"Luke" and @"Michael", on the one hand, and @"Banno" and @"Isaac", on the other, is primarily about truth or f...
Just done with my experiment. Still thinking about truth. I remember learning that one way to think about T-sentences is that a sentence is used on th...
You're right, you're right -- forgot for a moment that this is just a schema, and it includes the quotes to produce a name for the substituted sentenc...
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