As I said I'm not seeking to explain "rules by more rules" or even "games by more games". Where, if at all, does explanation terminate? What's your al...
How is imitation just more rules? Are you claiming that is so in animals too? If you call following instinct following a rule, then your usage of "rul...
Say someone uses a novel expression; it could become established as convention or not. If others don't imitate, then it won't become established, and ...
As I already suggested, I think we understand malapropisms through association. Association is basically a form of imitation; where one idea resembles...
Well, the explanation for our ability to understand malapropisms that Davidson seems to be rejecting is that it could be merely a matter of following ...
Strangely my first thought was "soup kitchen". It's all a matter of associations I guess. "Tureen" associates the idea of two kinds of vessel or conta...
I'd say this kind of what you call rule following is simply imitation. Humans (and other animals) seem to have a powerful instinct to imitate others o...
Yes, well of course I am going to agree that the regress is gotten around; it must be. I also agree that rules (or at least conventions which can be e...
I agree that language does not rely on rules, and there is a fairly simple argument for that. If it was, through and through, merely a matter of follo...
Human life is negentropic, because it is not a closed system. Sure it can descend into disorder, but that would be the result of mismanagement, human ...
I actually don't think Buddhism sees the world as "dark and evil" but it ascribes the darkness and evil that brings suffering to dukha (ignorance) whi...
I would say that will is a reified concept of motivation or causation. It may be reasonable to ascribe will to self-conscious agents but Schopenhauer ...
Surely that would vary with each individual. Not having experienced what others do, and having only anecdotal evidence of a vanishingly tiny fraction ...
Why should the fact of entropy lead us to pessimism? The Buddha is considered to be all-good and all-knowing if not all-powerful. There are many deiti...
If you define religion as consisting in worship of a deity, then Buddhism both does and does not (and neither does nor does not :wink:) qualify as a r...
Returning to the point raised in the post before last. Having said what is said there, I acknowledge that it must be thought to be a bad thing if soci...
I am not sure just what an "identity claim" is for you. Is it a claim that there exists a changeless soul? Or is it a more empirical claim that there ...
The whole point of this thread has been to show that it is not coherent to claim that AP (or any other branch of philosophy or intellectual pursuit) h...
Of course we value on account of how we have been socially conditioned, and how we have reacted to that and worked with it, or not. Community values, ...
The increase in early and late teen mental illness, depression and suicide is disturbing. On a general level, if social media and the news filter bubb...
I take "AP" to refer to philosophy which is predominately concerned with logic, language and semantics. I think "logical rigour', however that has bee...
I don't know what you mean by "knowing it to be thought". Philosophy doesn't "tell me anything" it is ideology that would "tell me things". There is n...
Sure, but Popper is both a philosopher of science and a political philosopher, and would not usually be considered an analytic philosopher since his m...
If you're referring to practical, political or ecological relevance, then so what? No philosophy really has direct practical relevance, and only polit...
Relevance to what? Do you think they should reciprocate and not deny you the aesthetic right to play your dialectical games (or however you style them...
Well, we'll have to wait for Jersey to return and state whether he is only concerned with the "negative social value" of this particular paper of Davi...
Do you mean a judgement about the post you are making or the post you are responding to? If the latter, would it not be the case that if you didn't fi...
I know how you feel. But people have different styles, and some simply won't respond if they don't find what you have said interesting or relevant eno...
I think Jersey does want to claim worthlessness for the whole tradition, and even negative social value. Surely he couldn't be concerned about the neg...
Why are you worried about the behavior of individuals? Aren't you here to do some philosophy, to learn? The people you refer to can likely teach you s...
:up: yes, and the kind of iconoclastic analysis you are referring to is not confined to the anal tradition either! The intercontinentals also did thei...
That's hailarious! I haven't claimed anything about the value of analytic philosophy other than that it, like other intellectual pursuits, can sharpen...
No, you were making unwarranted assumptions about what I have been "conditioned" by. I'm not interested in references to works unless you want to quot...
I have no idea what you are talking about, all I've done is moved the discussion I was already having to this new thread since it was derailing the ot...
I still haven't seen your argument. Here we have instead a classic appeal to authority, and an implied ad hominem to top it off. Nice work! I actually...
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