Here's what I've been working on... Imagine students taking a standardized test. Their goal is to select answers that will be marked correct. In selec...
Here's some more chess analogizing... There's an idea known as "the move the position demands." Among more accomplished players, this is the maxim tha...
Continuing my metaphor, one sense of "doing the work" would be to say you have to go all the way down the alley to find out if it's a dead end, but on...
I can see how you might take what I wrote that way, as if the goal were just to avoid mistakes and avoid failure. I don't think I really brought out h...
Something else I remember Ryle saying, though I can never remember where, might be relevant here; it was something like this: there's an idea that phi...
I am happy to provide a supporting reference, the first example Ryle gives in The Concept of Mind to explain his newly coined term "category-mistake":...
Every discussion about existence ends up being a discussion about negative existentials! But I agree. And I stand by what I said earlier: Frege makes ...
No, the pair of conditionals was (1) sufficient condition and (2) necessary condition, so the other way to say that is "All x are y" and "Only x are y...
I largely agree, but only that (1) is probably more of an insult. If "All men are fools" is on the table, why not "All women are fools" too? Subtlety ...
But it does follow from (2) that no women are: 1. If a man then a fool. 2. If a fool then a man. I still say the implied comparison in (1) doesn't hav...
Then admittedly I'm not your guy. Works for me, though. I enjoyed the analysis and it's something I had never thought about. I fully expect to use it ...
Yeah that's Russell's solution, to take the name as an abbreviated description. I think we also want a way to talk about fiction (hypothesis, supposit...
Not helpful. Russell would take all of these as false, but not as predicating anything of Vulcan or Pegasus or Santa. How do you predicate, truly or f...
For "Ga" to be a wff, doesn't a have to be an object in your domain of discourse? What sense can be made of asserting "Ga" if you don't already know t...
I don't know about the insult business, but I think you do have a kind of point here. There's an implicit comparison between two groups. Let's say all...
I think that may be the wrong approach. It's a little like saying, "There does not exist a predicate (x) in language (S) which has the meaning, 'and' ...
Hmmm. To me science makes more sense the other way around, where you have some idea what your domain is -- and you might get that wrong and have to ch...
... because certainty is a different issue entirely from knowledge ... ... and from truth. The Lucky Schoolboy is our two-for-one special today: Your ...
You really don't need all this business about changing the meanings of "truth" and "knowledge." That horse has lost before it even gets out of the sta...
Read again what I said. We may, as theorists, describe something using propositions, without claiming that what we so describe has propositional form....
Hmmmmm. Yeah, "that" doesn't do any of that. That's you. (English doesn't care if it's there or not.) Believe it or not, "S knows that P" is just an o...
A leaf twists, turns, and flutters in the wind, showing us now this side, now that, its color shifting as its angle to the sun changes, but the whole ...
I would invite you to consider the Toy Story example I presented earlier. Buzz and Woody actually mean exactly the same thing by the word "flying" and...
It's not a "category error." (Btw, the phrase you want, the one Ryle coined, is "category mistake.") It's also not a use/mention violation. "S knows t...
Do you mean to say that under the same scheme of interpretation, some statement P could be false and someone know that P? For example, "I am at work t...
I have seriously mixed feelings about it. If you report someone's utterance (or potential utterance) in the exact words they used (or would use), we p...
Just didn't want you to think I had ignored that part of your post, even though I wasn't really going to address it. Maybe my choice of words was poor...
Take it easy, man. I'm really not trying to pick a fight with you. I joined in not to bully you but to try to support Michael's point. You disagree. F...
BTW, Gettier case number 1 did not involve disjunction -- it's sort of a faulty definite description, sort of. You believe X will get the job (when it...
Well a convention is not something one imposes -- do as you like. I'm just telling you it's been standard practice in Anglo-American philosophy for mo...
One of the things about use/mention I'm ever so slightly uncomfortable about is that in a sense it's a claim that there is nothing but use, and that b...
There is a kind of connection to the argument here. Gettier cases are examples of epistemic luck -- you have a belief, it's true, it's got something t...
It's been too long since I read Saussure, so I'm not sure what separating involves here and if that's what Michael and I think we're doing. I might ev...
It's a convention. We can talk about a thing by using its name; if we want to talk about the thing's name instead of the thing itself, we put the name...
Absolutely. I wouldn't conflate knowing-how and knowing-that, just assumed we were talking about propositional knowledge. Well, sure, "know" is a fact...
I keep trying to help you but you're not putting the work in, so this is my last time. It's always already the case that ¬p and p cannot both be true....
Sure. But antirealism is the position he gets to, not where he starts. (And it's not necessarily universal.) And the getting to is mainly through his ...
Right, right. I see I was accidentally dissing McDowell. I was trying to stay kinda neutral, but back of my mind I was thinking about Dummett's idea t...
This is the thing about perceptual reports -- "Either I see a truck or I am experiencing an hallucination" -- that sort of thing? Is there another dis...
I think this is right and what I have been, too indirectly, trying to suggest. For instance, even if the truth of a sentence is actually the truth of ...
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