Obviously depends on the undertsnding. There are countless possible understandings of the human situation. I haven't said there is progress; again you...
OK, in my view an agent is someone who acts deliberatively by considering counterfactually the various courses of action available. Mental correlation...
This thread is not specifically a discussion of Wittgenstein. All I have asked is why you think the term 'belief' is more useful in the context of thi...
I use the term "human situation" and in your response you change it to "human condition". Probably doesn't matter much, I guess. You have understood t...
I'm not talking about us considering from within a linguistic context, something we can hardly avoid doing, but about considering agents and mental co...
The problem here is that I have some idea what "agents" and "mental correlations" could be as considered in a linguistic context, but outside that con...
But I still want to object that considered in a non-propositional context these actions can better be accounted as simply showing what we expect, refl...
The point is that if reality consists in discrete durational moments within which no change occurs, there may or may not be forces at work which are n...
The overarching aim has always been to understand the human situation. This leads to the long history of metaphysics, to the developments of epistemol...
Stick with Border Collies; they're much better than Rough Collies (except maybe for Lassie). I once installed a spa, brick and sandstone paving and la...
It's possible, but what could it mean to have free will if you could neither experience nor conceive of that freedom, let alone exercise it? Free will...
There is no contradiction. One frame gives rise to the next, without any activity being either in each frame or between them. It is the succession its...
'Talkfest' is a conventional term, too. The German word 'spiel' is not really along the lines of 'talk' or 'discussion' but more akin to 'game', 'play...
Apart from the difficulties you noted, the problem with this solution would again be that a physical cause or determining conditions would be posited ...
What kind of dog is s/he? I once lived with a female Staffy who was with me from six weeks old until she died at 8 years, who seemed to somehow always...
As if anyone actually ever knew! :rofl: As the ancient saying would have it: "If you are not massively confused then you obviously don't have any fuck...
This is the salient point when it comes to freedom of the will. The conundrum is that our understandings of reality are always couched in terms of cau...
What if the "doing" is not within each frame but consists in the the succession itself? You might want to talk about causation in terms of exchanges o...
I agree with most of what you say here, I think our only point of disagreement is over whether these 'hinge propositions' are beliefs. What is it that...
If they are not understanding, not beliefs (propositions) and not knowledge, then what can we say they are? I think Wittgenstein's ideas of background...
Subsequent frames are products of previous frames. If change were continuous then nothing could ever be anything. There would then not actually be any...
I am considering the possibility that no time is passing and that there is no duration between frames, also that no time is passing, but that there is...
You could put it that way, I suppose, but I prefer to leave the notion of certainty out of the picture, because when the idea of certainty comes into ...
Why call them "beliefs" then, when the word 'belief' is usually understood to have a propositional sense, when beliefs are generally truth apt, and th...
No it's a basic understanding or knowledge. To call it a belief suggests that it could somehow be wrong; and of course it *can*, but only in an elabor...
Reminds me of the 80s song by Edie Bricknell and the New Bohemians: I'm not aware of too many things I know what I know if you know what I mean Philos...
Is expecting to see the paycheck the same as believing the proposition: 'I will receive my paycheck', or is it the same as 'I will most likely receive...
And what is certainty? Is it logical: deductive certainty or psychological:feeling certain; or is there some other kind of certainty? If you know how ...
One problem with citing Quantum Physics as a basis for philosophical speculation is that physicists are usually mediocre philosophers and philosophers...
The problem I have with this way of looking at it is that I think the notion of belief is completely inappropriate in these kinds of cases. When I ent...
Can you understand that your experience and the conclusions it might lead to are meaningless to others without explanation? And I wasn't attempting to...
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