Just trying to get a handle on this irrelevance. If I invite you to look at something, I'm inviting you to have a particular phenomenal experience, ar...
Suppose you and I are driving down the road, you glumly staring out the passenger window. I, looking out the windshield since I'm driving, see a hot a...
The upshot of the above was supposed to be this: whatever types are for, it can't be for deciding whether two objects count as the same sort of thing....
But what role does the type play in determining whether two given inscriptions are (intended to be) tokens of the same type? We can imagine an effecti...
That looks a whole lot like what others would call the extension of the predicate "... is a lion." I wonder if there's a place here for the medieval d...
Pressure is a nice example because statistical mechanics was invented for just this purpose, and would be one of the prime examples of explaining how ...
My inner nominalist keeps saying the problem is there's no such thing! There are a lot of issues that bear a resemblance to this one: the debate in th...
But language is a much messier affair than this. In a language such as English, there is a considerable range of sounds that count as a given phoneme....
I'm almost certain Quine mentions Church when he introduces "virtual classes" (I'd forgotten that's what he called them). What caught Quine's attentio...
Yeah, commitment and entitlement make a nice pair of terms, because there are natural points of contact with your speech community there: what you've ...
I'm not sure there's any harm in adding belief talk here. But if the idea is that explicit appeal to induction will explain everything, that might not...
Let A = some state of affairs (whatever that turns out to mean) Philosophers would usually call "that <A>" a fact, by which it is meant that A obtains...
Just chiming in to say I think "commitment" is the magic word here. This is exactly the word I was about to reach for over in the "Belief" thread to e...
Oh I see no reason not to include what he thinks. There may be no outward behavior, if that's what you mean, but I wouldn't demand that. You can keep ...
Sorry-- you suggested an analogy between believing and slapping. I think there is only a surface, grammatical similarity there. I don't have a full-bl...
Given your belief that DJT is a good man, you might also vote for him, campaign for him, give him money, etc. Btw, grammatical form isn't necessarily ...
Even though "believe" is a verb, it's not obvious to me that believing is an action. Say you believe that X. That looks to me more like a partial desc...
Well that goes on the reading list, thanks SX. (There was already a vague entry for "all of Sellars" but this still helps.) Does he talk about lambdas...
? Maybe I can make my point, if I have one, more clearly: maybe it's hard to figure out what someone is doing when they utter a statement that express...
No, I'm saying that if you look at how people talk about beliefs, there are often two distinct steps that are treated differently. We're watching a ba...
I think in a lot of ordinary speech, there are really two steps that get compressed in a propositional account, and which make the propositional accou...
Might be some trouble there, because in some quarters "proposition" is the word for the meaning of a natural language declarative sentence. (That make...
This is not an unusual situation on the forum: we seem to disagree over whether we disagree. We have the actual words you posted, and apparently need ...
In my view, your view is a basic recitation of what we imagine the phenomenal experience of a newborn baby is like. But our cognitive life does not re...
Huh. So you can't distinguish anything from anything else, there's just the endless unified flow of Hanover's experience. Nothing special about belief...
Our beliefs, in part, shape our experience. Sure. Why do you think that's the same thing as saying beliefs are experiences, or are an aspect of experi...
Is it? Where's the argument for this? When you're done eating popcorn the experience is over, but the belief that you were eating popcorn persists ind...
Sure, but here you're not saying the phenomenal state is the belief, or that having a certain belief means being in or having been in a certain phenom...
I'm going to indulge in labeling for once and call this empiricism. Would you be cool with that? What puzzles me a little though is that you want to c...
Even if you're not thinking about those reasons? And is holding a belief the same as having reasons for holding it? Are you still talking about the be...
Hmmm. That's introspection, surely. Doesn't your belief that you live in the great state of Georgia persist when you happen not to be thinking about i...
Is the phenomenal state the belief itself? When you see the beetle scuttle under the porch, is your belief that he's there identical to your phenomena...
Three ways of making the wrong move: 1. When I pushed that pawn, I was kicking myself because I knew I had to move my king first. 2. When I pushed tha...
I think I'm largely with you here, with the proviso that we do have experiences that falsify our beliefs sometimes. (And of course science sets out to...
I think you're being too casual with the word "probability" there, is all. If there are 500 million government-issued ID cards in the US, and an addit...
No I'm inclined to agree with you, because I take the justification to be a practical thing. It's a matter of applying your knowledge of circumstances...
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