There's actually a funny issue with non-response I've been thinking about, since 's entreaty that I stick around. It's one of the things Lewis talks a...
I'll add one little note, relevant to the issues raised in the OP about essential properties. In the collected papers of Ruth Barcan Marcus, there is ...
It just seems obviously not to be. 1. It has an indexical in it. I think that rules it out from the jump. 2. As phrased, it names a class of actual pe...
I'm sure it's my fault. Of course it should be possible to provide an account of what makes names names, what makes them special, what their role in l...
This question is a non-starter. You're presuming the entire system of conceptualization and language usage is at your disposal, and then all you're do...
Well, I'm not even sure what we're talking about now, but it looks like you are trying to create one of Wittgenstein's private languages. You want to ...
I'm a little unconvinced by the "about whom I say..." locution, precisely because we're lacking a guarantee that the sentence the speaker utters means...
Unless it is. This is such a great example because the reference of the word "champagne" is regularly disputed. Are you using the word "champagne" "co...
I don't think it's that simple. In cases where the speaker is mistaken, memory being what it is, it is possible for them to learn what they are trying...
I would only add that "the one holding a glass of champagne" is said for the audience's benefit. I can look at someone and silently think "asshole" an...
Which is fine, I've just been avoiding committing to some major difference between the natural sciences and the human or social sciences, because I've...
Agreed. I suppose I shouldn't have put it this way because I was thinking of the musicologist not the musician, someone who is analysing a performance...
Yeah I think there's a trick to that story, that it does mean it's too hard to sight-read. But then I also think about the difficulty of notating jazz...
I'd say people quite often want to learn things that can be known, and when they reflect on how they're going about doing that, you have the beginning...
To the hoi polloi, "science" seems mostly to mean "medicine", which is no doubt an interesting story. For my purposes, medicine is a good example beca...
I tend to think what matters most is that the enterprise is self-correcting, and it achieves that by being plural. The replication crisis is a great e...
What if we left out "paradigmatically" in your question: are some disciplines "more scientific" than others? If you take "discipline" reasonably broad...
I don't really understand the question. "Appropriate" in what sense? I don't understand this question either. "Justified" in what sense? Truly don't k...
It's the view Nelson Goodman defends in Ways of Worldmaking, and one consequence I found particularly appealing is that it puts you in a position to t...
Agreed, but I would have thought "the limits of what we know how to investigate". At least that's how I think of naturalism; it's a program for furthe...
The intent of putting it this way was just to suggest that you might not ever be aware of entirely decontextualized (let alone "raw") bits of content....
That's close to where I'd find room for philosophy, but it's tricky. Consider emotions. The average person is under the impression that an emotion wel...
The first question is, fundamentally, empirical ? not just about me, but in general: is this an experience people have? The second question is still e...
This is the main thing I find so puzzling about your approach. (You seem to think it's phenomenology, and I think it's rather the opposite.) Rememberi...
Convince me that's either (a) not already a theory about how mental life works, or (b) it's a good theory, a reasonable theory. Yes, yes, but you seem...
Oh I don't think so. There have been several interesting points raised (by you, @"Dawnstorm", et al). No, my post was really just about methodology, b...
I expect I'll do as a representative secularist, and I have never in my entire life been afraid that one or another religion might turn out to be true...
I'm sympathetic, but this is patently false. If I want to die, I might very well seek out poisonous beverages. I have elsewhere argued at some length ...
This is demonstrably false. (I suspect you were misled by the mobile version having search in two different menus.) Either you had never run across th...
It does work better as a companion to the first video. The basic idea is that he has his camera mounted on a jib so that he can raise and lower it. At...
For the second video I posted, the first five minutes goes over his camera setup and the math he is going to be checking. He explains exactly what mea...
And a reply to things "looking pretty flat." Dan Olson happens to live not too far from a perfect spot to test whether the earth is curved or flat, a ...
It is, though I wouldn't lean too heavily on the niceties of phrasing. There are just too many possibilities and too many shades of meaning. Also, I'm...
But we all, I presume, want to avoid saying that a potion makes you sleepy because of its virtus dormitiva. The "because" in "because of what they are...
Well, that's a question. The thing is, models are sort of inherently hypothetical. They tell you what the world would be like if a duck were right the...
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