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I think what Williamson wants is for you and I to be rigorous enough that if we disagree it is clear that we do, and, in the best case, we can agree o...

I'll take Williamson's line, not with respect to your nephew, but this question and your answer to it: is your approach here disciplined by the decade...

I've said similar things myself, even in this thread, even recently, but at the moment the question of priority is less pressing for me than the issue...

You have a point. I apologize for giving in to a moment of pique.

Please just stop doing this. No one wants to hear it.

I'll argue now for a slightly different position. A lot of students have trouble with word problems not because they lack the needed technical mastery...

Probably. I tried to do a bit of logical analysis of the text, but I didn't try all that hard. And I connected what I found to what I know of Williams...

I'll take another swing at it, and recast the question using a different analogy, instead of the mathematicians talking over dinner. (This will be som...

"The Sentiment of Rationality" is one of my favorites, but not the one I was thinking of. I found what I had in mind in the next essay, "Reflex Action...

What follows wasn't intended as a bit of silliness as I began writing it, but I think that's what it turned out to be. It may provide amusement if not...

@"Hanover" did you read the other essays in the Dover collection that has "The Will to Believe"? In one of them -- and I can't dig it out just now -- ...

For the record, of course I didn't say that, even inadvertently. This, on the other hand -- I'll admit I was trying to coax someone into saying exactl...

I think that's actually an open question, particularly given Williamson's standards. It's certainly chitchat *about* philosophy, but it's not a piece ...

So thinking being the male and its object being the female? Metaphorically. Or maybe archetypally. Another way to say this might be that good thinking...

Not to be "Mr Woke" but do you want to try another simile here? Is this to say that the most important objects of thought are only accessible to the b...

That's not crazy and reminds me that when talking about Plato I wanted to point out that changes in technology, and especially in expertise and "know ...

True. But surely Williamson is proposing no such definition, is he? Not "has to", no, but might. Not everyone writes about everything, or even thinks ...

Edgar Allan Poe famously said there is no such thing as a long poem. I would say there are people who are naturally suspicious that the grander the ed...

I don't know what I was expecting, but that sure wasn't it. I'm just going to congratulate myself for being directly on-topic and move along.

I just don't think that's quite fair. I agree with @"Leontiskos" that one particularly appealing way to figure out what philosophy is, is to look at S...

I think a lot of people feel that way, even people paid to do philosophy. Timothy Williamson is not one of them

I think people are making too much of this. In analog philosophy, you'd find notes (not shared), papers published or presented (definitely shared but ...

I'm home from work now, and was prepared to address what I thought was a very interesting response from @"Count Timothy von Icarus", but I see in the ...

I agree, and this is the point of Goodman's that so impressed me, that there's no reason to regret history not being science, or biology not being phy...

Well, actually I meant the opposite. I can put it another way: it's a question of whether the subject who judges things like narratives and paradigms ...

My intention was absolutely to treat it as an open question. I actually worry about that too, especially with the stuff about translation that I poste...

Hey you're right! I suppose it's all one big thread to me. We all end up saying the same things in every thread, myself included, though I keep trying...

Yes, yes, yes, that was the whole point. I thought this was perfectly clear. Take @"Leontiskos"'s anxiety about distinguishing science from pseudoscie...

I like the roads. That's nice. But of course the real trouble is that we must choose not knowing where each road leads. They all lead somewhere, but i...

This is exactly why I moved to anchor the normative question to relations among or transitions between given epistemes (worldviews, frameworks, ideolo...

It was intended as an abstraction; if it doesn't hold up, I wouldn't mind or be surprised. I don't think so. My understanding was that if you're inten...

I tried to suggest two reasons: one identifies your ideology (etc) with dogma and delusion, which prevent you (as @"Wayfarer" notes) from seeing thing...

Kicking myself for not noticing you had already used the same metaphor: And the answer is almost certainly yes, but what's common is only part of what...

As if @"Banno" won't already be exercised enough by my use of "conceptual scheme". I have very mixed feelings about the issue of "commensurability" bu...

Yes, that's the idea ? and I'm glad it's clear enough despite me mixing up the numbers. (Anyone who found the post deeply confusing should reload to s...

I've been dithering about whether to get back into this. I've been looking for a way to do so without simply playing partisan to one side. I suppose w...

I'm still catching up on the thread, but fwiw I want to express my appreciation of this series of posts of yours, and throw my support behind your vie...

One of those camps is dramatically larger than the other. I remember a little cartoon, taped to a terminal on the checkout counter at the college libr...

I will try to get to the big can of worms you opened later tonight.

Saint Anselm? I'll have to google now. Ambrose!

It should be clear from other posts that I agree we do not know, and may not be able to know. But I am still a partisan of the communication first vie...

I agree. I hope no one will take the forcefulness with which I'm expressing my view to indicate dogmatism. I could be entirely wrong. Honestly I think...

And I'm suggesting that this "independence" is to some degree illusory, in two senses: the sorts of things you think are the sorts of things you could...

What I'm saying is that we only have something we call "reference", the thing that we do with referring expressions like names and descriptions, so th...

I know you're kidding, but that's clearly the wrong test case. He was taught to refer to things using first oral and then written language. Even gestu...

I just don't think that follows from anything. Everytime someone argues that blah is born out of social practices which continue to support and inform...

Yeah that's quite interesting, and I think both (yours and mine) represent types of triangulation. A further curiosity is that parasitic reference has...

I'll dig it out. I think I know what box it's in.

I think broadly you'd expect, and can find exemplars of, two ways to go on this, as usual: (T) Language is, first, a system for organizing your though...

It's on the first page: Complete text available at the David Lewis papers.