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That's not far from my earlier suggestion for how we can Grice's types rolling, but I still think that this similarity needs grounding, and we probabl...

One way to approach the issues you raise (which I think are serious issues, very much worth thinking about) is to step back and look at assertion firs...

I'm just still trying to figure out what all this means. Maybe if you clarified what you mean by "objective" and "subjective" -- I may have guessed wr...

We want to be able to make inferences that rely on mathematical and empirical truth being the same, one and only, kind of truth: If I bought 6 apples,...

There's the sentence I actually utter: "My apple is red." There's the sentence you imagine uttering: "Your apple is red." Do they have the same meanin...

Should also have said something here about category mistakes.

E: all of the above. I really cannot imagine doing philosophy by deciding ahead of time what I'll quantify over, if it comes to that. I have the same ...

This is absolutely true of course, and you may have to narrow the context all the way down to the occasion of utterance, and even then you may have to...

This is the part I really don't get. Why aren't you crusading for responsible parenting, the alleviation of suffering, the end of war, more nurturing ...

This had not occurred to me. I think overwhelmingly I use objective/subjective to mean something like public/private, just because of the contexts in ...

I should have added: do you expect that for all I can tell at least initially, when you say "Your apple is purple," you mean what I would have meant i...

Do you say "No, your apple is purple" because for all you can tell at least initially, when I said "My apple is red," I meant what you would have mean...

So how do people compare judgments? I judge Pme true, you judge Pyou true. We're not even talking about the same proposition. (In fact Frege argues th...

I think I've been pushing a Frege-inspired version of this in chatting here with Terrapin. Certainly positing propositions do give you a way to agree ...

I think it's a genuine question how much of especially pre-high-school teaching can be done without saying "we". I don't think of spelling as repressi...

I do not, and thanks for the tip!

I think that's right, bearing in mind that he's going to take mathematical objects as, well, objects, just like physical objects. Sometimes he describ...

But the question is, what are A and B making judgments about? Frege has a clear answer to that: the proposition, the thought, which is objective. I'll...

"Mind-independent" is not a phrase I have any use for, I think. Re: compositionality, I don't see how you recursively generate expressions without it....

In a way, "no man's land" is exactly the right phrase, because nothing here is the sole and unshareable property of any man. I can understand why peop...

If by "third-person" you mean public, then I think yes. There are various ways of formulating contextualism and some of them conflict with composition...

That's the idea. It's not the object referred to but still objective. That would be a version of Frege's context principle. It can get a little weird....

Scenario (1): A and B have a box of propositions, and they each have opinions about which ones are true. They take turns sorting them into boxes marke...

Leaving aside whatever there's room to debate, Frege's a pretty thorough platonist. The owning ideas thing he explains with a telescope: there's the a...

You misunderstand. I was not insulting or dismissing you. On your own view, you cannot tell me the truth, only your truth. No matter what I claim, my ...

Your truth is of no consequence for me.

"What you gain is that you say something that's true to you rather than something one would simply like to be true to one." Fixed that for you.

Here's an example that has real-world consequences: http://www.pewforum.org/fact-sheet/changing-attitudes-on-gay-marriage/ Changing beliefs don't dire...

I'll bite, against my better judgement... Whether it's difficult remains to be seen. It's clear enough what Frege gains by not denying it; what do you...

We're still waiting, as Billy Bragg said, for the great leap forward. But you're back in the usual bind here. Granting for the sake of argument that K...

Ah, so your question was exactly that: is there anything on the Geertz side, say, that at least aspires to scientific rigor as Harris did? Harris may ...

I think the issue @"WISDOMfromPO-MO" was raising is a kind of oversimplification people reach for, especially when religious beliefs are on the table....

You might also want to check out Timothy Snyder's Black Earth which repeatedly explains the events of the Holocaust in terms of the local political si...

I think there was something that historians (and maybe anthropologists) used to call the "intellectual fallacy," which was supposed to be overstating ...

Yes, so long as you distinguish syntax and semantics:

Maybe? But why go through the type business at all? Why not just say, as Frege does, that we each have the belief that such-and-such?

Maybe? But the main problem with psychologism is just that Frege has such a strong argument against it. Compare the example of phonemes (or cheremes) ...

Even if you start from the idea that individuals make their own choices based (or not) on their beliefs, it might be that in the aggregate you can mak...

Right. I think folk psychology endorses (2) and (1) is just a sloppy attempt to express (2) in most cases. I couldn't tell you what the scientific sup...

I can think of a bunch of other ways to put this too. Suppose I believe you are an armed and dangerous intruder in my home, and I shoot you. I could s...

What if, instead of saying your beliefs caused your actions, I said only that you had acted on your beliefs, or acted with your beliefs in mind? Would...

If it is wrong to procreate, is it also wrong to allow others to procreate?

How do you feel about the suffering of non-human animals capable of feeling pain? Is it wrong for them to procreate?

Depends on how "can" is interpreted, whether that means in principle or in fact. Depends on how "connection" is taken, whether that means there's some...

Fine. It's an idea. What is it an idea of?

Some of this comes down just to avoiding implied onlies and merelies. Once science is in fight for it's very existence, defending science is also a cu...

Cool. We're not on the clock here.

If you have a group of people trying to find the truth as best they can, and another group of people who oppose the first groups efforts for political...

I think for now, contrary to my last post, we'll have to focus after all just on reports of emotional experience, just to keep this manageable. I have...

Have you looked at this?