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Because that happens too, and it's a different phenomenon. What you're missing is that self-deception is usually strongly motivated and irrational. He...

Are the quality of an experience and its content related?

Your experience has a quality and a content: the quality you know ("know"?) infallibly, but the content -- maybe not infallibly? Maybe not at all? Are...

My god, that's brutal. I had forgotten. Chomsky said somewhere that his life's work was organized around two complementary problems that he called "Pl...

I daresay you haven't had much practice. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six fals...

They're nearly two sides of the same coin, the same virtue and the same fault: falling to aim for truth in what you say, failing to aim for truth in w...

I'm insisting on another aspect of the connection between beliefs and actions. Banno has talked about our use of "belief" in giving post facto explana...

Yes, I understand that as far as you're concerned the phrase "lying to yourself" is just a contradiction. But it's a phrase we all use, so what are th...

All else being equal. It is, as I keep saying, a question of our norms of rationality. In my first presentation of the lost keys, I put a man with a k...

I remember hearing years ago that it's common for emergency rooms to have a spike in admissions just before dawn. The explanation was people lying awa...

So how do you read 3.1431?

Let me put it a different way. If you can show that we can, using the perhaps unknown value of our selected envelope, get the same answer we get by ig...

I'm just trying to understand the "need to" in that sentence. Don't be that guy. I'm reading your posts and asking about what I don't understand. (Btw...

If, even before selecting an envelope, you see that there is no reason to prefer one envelope over the other, what compels you to discard that analysi...

Can you give an example of how you'd analyze a typical knowledge claim? Anything about that analysis that makes you uncomfortable?

But confabulation is a little of each. You know how it's impossible to walk any great distance** if your stride with one leg differs slightly from you...

Do you have numbers you could share? I've always assumed post deletion and thread deletion were pretty rare, a tiny fraction of the posts submitted an...

Oh, and "expressed" can be glossed as "becoming perceptible by the senses," like a propositional sign. That's cool.

Well the way I've done this we do get a solid distinction we can work with, between trivial and non-trivial mappings or projections. It is curious to ...

Yeah but that misses the whole issue by talking about signs.

Good discussion. (I skimmed a little.) Here's a point against my suggestion: you would have to say that the projection of the fact onto itself is triv...

Banno says logical space is populated by propositions. I thought it was populated by possible facts. Propositions have a structure that mirrors the st...

Yes. People, for instance, buy lottery tickets.

To come back to the now canonical example, searching the kitchen for my keys only makes sense if I both want to find them and think they might be ther...

Oh I don't think *we* should have a homework category-- just an example of a self-sorting option other sites have. I took another look at the learning...

@"Banno" Actions speak louder than words, yes? So what do my actions say? What do they tell you? What I value, what matters to me, that sort of thing,...

Some sites allow users to sort themselves in ways this one doesn't. Sub-forums for homework help, for instance. Or something labeled "for beginners" i...

You missed the process part. Sometimes you cherry-pick the evidence, and you know you're cherry-picking, and you know you shouldn't, but you do it any...

Well there's this: I think Daniel Kahneman says somewhere in his book that cognitive biases are just the sorts of things we don't notice about ourselv...

I think most people's favorite method is convincing themselves, persuading themselves that they know something which they do not. (Second place is pro...

As we say goodbye to the two envelopes, I'd like to call attention to a couple oddities of the alternative analyses: (A1) No-switchers imagine the fir...

Doesn't this amount to saying that the loading of the envelopes and the selection of an envelope are independent events, in which case conditioning is...

It's possible that this amounts to an ontological question, and Morris suggests that TLP is deliberately neutral on ontology, in at least some respect...

The world is structured in a certain way: (a) it divides into facts; and (b) facts have a certain structure of their own. When we come to talk about s...

We already know that "how things might stand in logical space" — what atomic facts obtain and what don't — is the sense of a picture, and thus the sen...

I mean what LW means when he talks about correspondence:

Cool. I've been reluctant to rely on an interpreter because, well, what an interpreter gives you is an interpretation. But I'm coming around. We'll ju...

Gee, thanks.

I would say that defining the space as just makes it painfully obvious that knowing the value of one envelope is completely useless, and that you shou...

Is that what 3.4 says?

But doesn't it cause trouble? Suppose the problem is presented to you this way: one of these envelopes is worth twice the other; you get to pick one, ...

Yes, what? There were two options.

Are the elements of logical space obtaining and non-obtaining atomic facts, or are the elements of logical space the obtaining and the non-obtaining o...

This is more or less fair. As far as this part of the problem goes, I haven't gotten past my first comment on this thread, that there is a de dicto/de...

Been away for a few days, so I'll try to get back into this. We're going to work on logical space some more?

((urk. still don't have it.))

LW tends to talk about the logical constants this way too. I can't remember if that's in Frege, but it might be.

We agree. I'm just making life difficult for Banno.

It's at least in "Concept and Object" (maybe that's "function"): he tries several ways of explaining the difference between a concept (or function) an...

And he got it from Frege.