Have not read Ramachandran, but cognitive science is enough in the air it's not hard to have a sense of these sorts of things. I'm just never sure wha...
Here's another version. When it catches a "need an explanation" signal, your brain thinks, "I could show you the machine code for what actually happen...
Okay, but the vibe I'm getting here is that this "explanation" is essentially fictive, that the right word for all this sort of stuff is "rationalizat...
Yeah I get that. And my point was that this sort of post hoc fails if I don't act on my preference. You'd have to say my acquiring the preference is w...
There's surely a difference of some kind. We can say there's A's and there's B's, or we can say there's two kinds of A's. I don't suppose it matters u...
But that can't be right, because of the knife-wielding psycho in the kitchen. I can form a preference to look there even if it's overridden by my pref...
I still feel pretty good about the preference version, because I get to say "If you don't want to look for your keys in the kitchen, either you don't ...
So it would be weird if I felt a deep sense of kinship with this man ... Anywho, this sort of gamesmanship is practically built into the multiple choi...
My values are halves of the 1 in 3, and 1 in 4 totals, duh. The only reason to look at it by cases as I was -- and I should have done the other two --...
Dude, I didn't even think of that! Not sure if I did the simulation right, and I'm at work now. :-( (I had right answer being chosen from {b, c} and t...
Why don't multiple choice questions ever have repeated answers? If you were taking a math test and got to a question that had a repeated answer, you'd...
Bonus thought about constraints: there's prescription and proscription. Foucault talked about this with different styles of morality: you can have the...
But -- if there are always frames, it's not that fact alone you'd be relying on to avoid being misled. "Hey wait a minute! This picture has a frame, t...
Yeah, that's good. That's "sense" in the sense of "rational", or I guess more broadly something like "understanding", the "sense" that's in "common se...
It's like Burt Dreben's remark that great philosophers don't argue. (They just lay out their framework and you see how useful it is or isn't by using ...
A couple thoughts. 1. Willy Sutton's answer doesn't just shift the sense of the priest's question from one domain to the other, or from taking one kin...
Well, "mechanism" is a somewhat inelegant term -- I just mean the specific way something gets done. In the game theory approach, there's choice and ag...
Quick thoughts (since I should really be working): This sort of "linguistic accent" flattens any hierarchy we might opt for, and blocks outright the k...
That's curious because my instinct here was to say that the PSR, whatever its status, is not just a fact. Maybe as a first approximation you could say...
I think we largely agree, I just want the specifics, so that leaves a lot of work to do. For example, I don't want to lean on a word like "context" wi...
For "balance", an example of what looks like a genuine (1)-style report: those people on "Deal or No Deal" who just know the million dollars is in the...
One thing we haven't talked about is how we intend what we say to influence the attitudes of others. Suppose I am, as always on this forum, looking fo...
More like that. Grice is our great theorist of conversation and how it relates to logic. (His work would also be the model for Lewis's scorekeeping, e...
This is good, and I'm kicking myself for not sticking with your fashion designer metaphor, because it raises the issue of "fashion" in the other sense...
Hmmm. That argument has a funny ring to it in talking about Hume, since many people feel there's another god Hume was interested in arguing against, o...
Outstanding post. Also a good, serious piece of philosophy. Regarding option (2), the subjective test, I'll quote Frank Ramsey for the umpteenth time:...
The difference in meaning between "I" and "it" was not at issue; the question was whether "certain" means something different in "I am certain" than i...
You've shown there's a grammatical difference, in the same way there's a grammatical difference between Socrates is wise Wisdom is instantiated by Soc...
I think @"Thorongil"'s claim is wrong in a simpler way, or confused about probability in a way that needs a different kind of response. If I roll a fa...
The question in the title is a good one, but something seems to go wrong in the way you analyze it. (For instance, since you reverse Popper's test, "M...
I sympathize. (And I'm glad you're back, given your background in mathematics.) I too have decried what I think of as selecting a philosophical positi...
I admire your tenacity, but there's still an apples-and-oranges problem here. There's a well-known video of Feynman trying to explain how magnets work...
As a matter of English usage, you might be right, but even if you are, it's only for the nouns: the adjective that goes with both "certainty" and "cer...
When did you observe this? How did you observe this? The usual argument here is that we presume nature to be uniform, but we cannot possibly prove tha...
(1) The Earth is flat. (2) I'm certain the Earth is flat. (3) He's certain the Earth is flat. (4) You, he, and I are certain the Earth is flat. (5) Ev...
Wisdom is not forgetting that there are other ways to look at things, knowing some of those ways, and being able to rank them. Wisdom often has this f...
Here's a different version. Suppose I want to have my keys. Then we might say (A) Given that Pat wants his keys, if he believes they are in the kitche...
Suppose I'm looking for my keys in the kitchen. If asked why I'm doing that, I might say that I think I left them there. Someone else asked why I'm do...
Eh. The single most famous paper in the modern era of analytic philosophy, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," is a full-out assault on the idea of "the propo...
Ceteris paribus? It's "in principle" after all. You could head for something like: given a set of beliefs, belief P is the belief which, if added to t...
As you and recently @"Janus" have noted, in a propositional account of belief one argues not that belief must be expressed in fact, but that it must b...
They're closely related, of course. One old test to show that A presupposes B is if both A and ~A entail B. (Present king of France and all that.) Tha...
I want to start by saying I love the description of yours I quoted above: I think that really captures something nicely: I picture the difference betw...
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