Janus

The information recorded in a memory is not a temporal event? I can get the notion of temporal displacement, how it enables freedom from the constrain...

It's true I have previously highlighted in different ways what seems to be an issue with thinking about spatiotemporal occurrences as timeless truths....

I think that should be attributed to Cavacava, unless you are referring to something further back in the discussion. :)

I believe it is not possible to make a wholly novel vocabulary intelligible to myself without translating it into English. I know I can't do it, and I...

Ever since I first encountered the so-called "private language argument" I have taken it to be asserting the impossibility of making a wholly novel vo...

I agree that the idea of an Uluru-in-itself is misleading if it is taken to be a different entity than the Uluru that appears to us. But Uluru-as-enti...

You don't agree that there is a valid logical distinction between what Uluru is, and has been, for human experience and thought and what it is in itse...

Perhaps I've misunderstood you, but I am not seeing a difference, in principle, between contending that words are not the things they reference, and s...

I can see that it makes no sense to think of the scheme on one side and the world on the other. This would create an unbridgeable gulf. On the other h...

How about a "proper account " of them then?

I generally find myself agreeing with Banno and Sam, in what seems to me to be their different approaches to what can sensibly be said. This is all in...

It seems it would be more apt to say it is the passive negation, or perhaps better, nihilation, of anxiety.

It seems that it is the human ability to think symbolically that allows for "holding beliefs"; where holding a belief is conceived of as being in an u...

In the sense you are using it 'state' refers merely to an abstract conception. if you want to say that inactive states exist, or are real, beyond our ...

There is no "static turbulence". A state of turbulence is a state of change. So, contrary to your previous claim states may indeed, even arguably must...

What a pathetic attempt at evasion! On the strength (or should I say weakness?) of this I have no remaining faith in your good will or desire to learn...

Mental atoms, eh? Are all thoughts beliefs, or do all thoughts entail (some) belief(s)? Are all beliefs thoughts, or do all beliefs entail (some) thou...

"The fluid was in a turbulent state".

An argument is viciously circular if its grounding premise is identical with what it purports to prove. The conclusions of all valid deductive argumen...

You're distorting what I have been saying. I'm not saying animals don't believe, I'm saying that they don't form or hold beliefs. if you can't see the...

It isn't (without its effects).

And you mean that in every sense of the word?

A genius chipmunk with huge prehensile hands could use it to smash an acorn.

To form a belief as I would use the phrase (and which I think is in keeping with common usage) is to undergo a process of deliberation that is linguis...

Because "forming" and "holding" are hallmarks of propositionality.

There is a distinction between 'belief' that is pre-linguistic and belief that is linguistically mediated. Then there is a distinction between thinkin...

Are you, or are you not, imputing a mental state of 'having a belief' to the animal? The only coherent way that it could be said that I am having a be...

>:O The Wagner seems to the the point, although, curiously I cannot say in what way. ;) "Much ado about nothing" and "full of sound and fury, signifyi...

Ah,yes, the alluring scent of reification in the morning! Or, as Whitehead liked to call it, the 'fallacy of misplaced concreteness'.

I think there is some value in the ideas that Kant works into the imperative; but as I said I don't think it is really workable. I'm not familiar with...

When I google 'crucification' I am redirected to 'crucifixion'. I did qualify "except by B fiat". I know what you meant when you used it, though; so i...

That's not a word, except by B fiat. If we can make up rules, then I suppose we can also make up words?

The game may seem to be languishing, but I sense that a great inscrutable architecture is being worked out.

To put it differently: I have both been listened to and not been listened to, and have neither been listened, nor not listened to.

I think they are co-arisen.

I can both affirm and deny that, and neither affirm nor deny that.

Yet my dung is not.

Yes, but it all relies on being listened to, since economics plays not part; and the listeners are fickle.

At least his work there is not dung!

Apparently, my work here is dung. :’(

works better as an informal privelege.

But I am not in a position of power such as to be able to oppress. Liberation comes when it is realized that within this game there is no real power.

I both acknowledge and do not acknowledge, and neither acknowledge nor do not acknowledge.

Ah, but all rules may be broken; one ineliminable rule in any game is the ceaseless march of change.

I prefer to think of them as challenging: they are oppressive only to those who would be oppressed.

OK, I understand a distinction between 'both signals and causes', and '(either) signals or causes', and I can't make sense of 'both signals or causes'...

Ah, but as you should realize all rules may be broken which means that what might appear to be oppressive rules are really exhortations to the creativ...

The use of the hash seems to reveal a certain bureaucratic mentality that should be not be encouraged except when it is employed by the Supreme Bureau...

As I said to ND, I have merely been echoing the Creator; who you have also affirmed to be The Man. I have no aspiration to minor despotism.

The nullification of rules that include hashtags comes from THE MAN, the Creator Himself, not from me, and not from a minor despot, so take it up with...