Oh you're right! Reached for quotes to group, so that it's P ? (P is true) instead of (P ? P) is true. But that's not what quotes are for. Wasn't maki...
I would call the passage from ignorance to knowledge learning. You learned your mother's name from her or from someone else who knew it. On your usage...
I like that -- especially the word "opinion" there -- but I doubt I'll continue. Far as I can tell, people were only ((or at least mostly)) reading wh...
If you mean, why do I think knowledge is, at least relatively, persistent --- I'm not quite sure what to say. I could say (a) it's part of our concept...
Probably so. Honestly, it's like no one is convinced there's any such thing anymore. For what it's worth, I wasn't thinking about knowledge when I sta...
I think this is fine, probably. Maybe we could fill in some details even here, but maybe it's unnecessary. This is close to what I took@"fdrake" to be...
I feel bad now that I took the bait, but in for a penny, in for a pound... Sure, you're quoting me, but since you don't understand the context of anyt...
Okay, now, that's an appalling mischaracterization of what's going on here. I'm responsible for this current round of the discussion going in the dire...
"Where's Tim?" "Dunno. Wait --- he said he was going over to Josh's." Did I switch from knowing Tim was going to Josh's, maybe for a few hours, to not...
I've just never found this compelling. I always immediately think of cases where people are as confident as they can imagine being, what they would na...
Even if you want to say, as I've been inclined to lately, that knowledge is not a kind of belief but a "first class" mental state in its own right, di...
I think this is exactly where I disagree. It's become clear to me that the key ingredient in the model is knowledge. Step 1 in building a model is, wh...
Guy gets sent to prison and his first night inside he hears guys up and down the cell-block calling out a number now and then, followed by scattered c...
Why do I feel like you may have argued somewhere that all off our posts are for our own respective amusement... Maybe you're about to, and I've time-s...
Don't be so snooty. I did it to show the links between posts that were always intended to be linked. Wonderful! I have lots to say about the lots you ...
At the very beginning, I compared linguistic models to other sorts. If Pat's house is white, when you build a scale model of Pat's neighborhood, you p...
Quickly, this is probably right, but for my purpose here it's facts that matter, if facts are going to be how we talk about truth. As I understand you...
On your first post, the first part of an argument against people who disagree each having their own model: Before we get to that, I want to fill out t...
I can be more specific. Can you offer a no-models account of disagreement, while I'm working (you know, for money) and mulling over what to say next, ...
Oh good lord no! I mean, suit yourself, if you just want to see how it plays out. But I wasn't planning on doing it all myself. I'm not dribbling out ...
Yes and no. No, in the sense that I'm not trying to build a complete model of language use, just enough to clarify questions about truth. Yes, in that...
Actually thinking now I shouldn't have thrown in the second question. We don't absolutely need it yet -- that is, we don't need to pose this as a ques...
I get that you would prefer another approach. Maybe I would too -- I'm undecided. But this thread has overwhelmingly been about redundancy and T-sente...
I think disagreement is a natural way into the question of truth; maybe neither of us is right but at least one of us is wrong. (Those colors don't co...
Probably. The principal assumption here (since we're headed for truth) is that language can be used as a medium for making models of the world; if mod...
I think that's just about enough setup to begin talking about truth. I thought something like a simple model of language would be more useful than goi...
Which raises new questions. (1) Are we really either entitled or required to say there is a model here at all, or are we really only talking about wha...
There are two natural options here. One is a matter of agreement, among the users of the linguistic model, to say "Pat's house is blue" is part of our...
Objects can have names. The name of an object is a linguistic object, which can be used as a representative, a stand-in, for the object (which may or ...
Nothing complicated or subtle. I assumed concepts include at the barest minimum class membership and exclusion: if I have a concept of jabberwocky, th...
I was just hoping you would be more precise. As it stands, your position is that everything we do and say kinda goes together, and I don't know what u...
I only asked about what you said. Thinking about it on the way home from work, I think I have some idea what you meant, but I'm not going to guess. If...
What? The exchange is right there. None of this my phrasing. @"fdrake" mentioned "'access to exterior reality'," and he put scare quotes on it. I know...
What kind of opposition is that? You could have finished "there's just the stuff that is," or "there's just the stuff we say is inside or outside," bu...
I'm going to give you a hard time about this, not because I care about you attributing agency to non-persons for purposes of rhetorical grace, but bec...
I'm not faulting you. Davidson is slippery, and it's hard not to think this is deliberate. Williamson refers to his "elliptical and somewhat evasive s...
Ick. First, that's an argument that we don't need concepts at all. What kind of cognitive psychologist are you? Too much Quine and Wittgenstein in you...
And I'm saying that's incoherent. We can't treat things as black if we don't have the concept of something being black, so there's no way of explainin...
Under a policy of assuming what? That it is black. You're saying the same thing I did but in language that sounds more scrupulous. FWIW, I had the kin...
Here are two versions of an argument that rather than undermining the traditional understanding of knowledge and truth, partial belief accounts rely o...
Marvin tells the king the barbarians are within the walls. The king asks Jack if that's true. To me, the simplest way to understand that is that the k...
What exactly are you saying there, @"Banno"? All I did was stipulate a name for something that may not have had a name. Surely there are objects in th...
I'll throw in some non-analytic chit chat. That sort of analysis ought to look familiar. It's in the shape of the cloud that hangs over pretty much al...
Here's a version of Banno's Davidson's Wittgenstein. Let's say there's a (non-linguistic) state of affairs A that could obtain in the world, and a sta...
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