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I'm afraid we're just going to keep taking past each other, Harry, so I'll take my leave. Happy philosophizing.

Have another look at my post. You'll notice some numbered propositions and a question about them.

You didn't.

So you're not going defend your claim that "and" has same reference as "the addition of other things"? What context means in this context.

Thanks for playing along here. (1) Is there a candidate for a general rule here, that if the content is propositional, it involves more interpretation...

So would you say that "I felt like someone was staring at me" contains more interpretation of the experience than "I felt angry"? (minor edits for con...

There's something I never see come up in these discussions, and I wonder if it's because I have this completely wrong. (Here's where I admit not bothe...

There's the person reporting their experience, interested third parties judging that report, and then there's theory. A person might very well disting...

If I understand you correctly, I think what you want is a definite description. You've done some math? You know how in many proofs there is the existe...

Suppose I have the thought that Earth might have another moon, call it "Luna2." If I determine that there is no celestial object that actually qualifi...

Found it. I'll give it a read soonish. Thanks!

This still just looks like the copula to me. "A is not an idea." "A is not a potential idea." "A is not a symbol representing something else." There i...

Does it bother you that people often report the exact moment when an idea occurred to them?

Suppose I candidly describe the experience I am having right now as the feeling that people are staring at me. That I am having some feeling, you woul...

Sorry, I was unclear. I was thinking of "reliable" in a slightly different sense. A person might conceivably be mistaken, say, about being happy, but ...

Btw, I once heard Hugh Kenner talk about Chuck Jones, and he said Jones's favorite author was Mark Twain. Jones, he said, seemed very nearly to have T...

This doesn't answer your questions, but I can't pass up the opportunity to post it:

There are (at least) two layers here: (1) is there a reliable and and an unreliable part of a person's report of their own experiences? (2) if (1) is ...

(3) is just inconsistent with (1) and (2). I understand that you're frustrated, because you're experiencing some of the weirdness of propositional log...

WIYF.

Does the phrase "the addition of other things" also refer to the addition of other things? When expressions refer to the same thing, you should be abl...

I get what you're talking about it here; I just don't think it's the best approach. You're thinking of existing "as an idea" or "as a concept" or "as ...

So do you think you could manage an executive summary of the argument? I spotted bits of it here & there in your posts, but I couldn't possibly recons...

The issue you're raising right here is known as the problem of "vacuous singular terms," that is, expressions that look like they refer to a real obje...

It might help if you could sketch the case against reductionism-- I remember finding Fodor's argument pretty convincing in that paper about special sc...

"Contradicts" has a weird ring to it in this context. Some of the differences here aren't really much like the calculus/statistics distinction. Some s...

This is the part I'm curious about. Is it your position that (a) one cannot have an experience of God, or (b) one cannot know that one has had an expe...

We categorically deny that you were ever a member of the Church of the Invisible Pink Unicorn. It's all lies! Lies and falsehoods! And innuendoes! Ick...

You sure you want to go down this road? I can dispatch a team before you get your agent on the phone.

I saw the edit. Your new IPU is make-believe and you know it. Admit your failing, pay the indulgence, and we'll take you back. Oh, there's also a lect...

You can edit your own post, but I will require some consideration to edit mine that documents your weakness.

I tried to help you.

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Autocorrect or heretic?

Here is a hypothesis: (1) If something does not exist, then we cannot talk about it. It has a contrapositive: (2) If you can talk about something, the...

You have the option of not participating in discussions not in your preferred style. It may be reasonable to ask participants to adopt a different sty...

Yeah, and it runs pretty deep. There are certain sorts of things people say, certain words they use together, and so on. In chess there are automatic ...

I'm proud to say the astrology reference didn't even occur to me.

This is certainly true, and with logic there can even be controversy about different systems because there's already controversy about what the system...

You could start here.

Nah, "constellation" has this static feel to it. Maybe "convergence" is best if we're wedded to "influences." (That second sentence is strangely poeti...

Since we were talking of communication, it might be worth noting how redundancy carried the con-versation my son and I were having-- I knew exactly wh...

Yeah I tried to think of all sorts of "con-" words! People even use "constellation" in related ways.

My teenage son once described an album to me as resulting from a "conflagration of influences." I convinced him that was not the word he wanted, thoug...

I guess I still haven't exactly addressed the question of whether you could be said to be really using a word if you don't understand it. As I tried t...

Act as if ye had understanding, and understanding will be given ye, or something. Fake it till you make it.

Except that "Schnarrglop's" is actually the right word. Think about teaching someone to play chess or to use a tool, teaching them any kind of skill. ...

Thinking more about what you and @"Michael" said, there is still this oddity about what use you can possibly be making of a word, or even an entire se...

Looking back, I don't think I ever said I agree with this.

I think I get what you're saying. There are lots of occasions where the distinction between what you literally say and what you mean, or what you comm...