Janus

Well, two can play the "lazy" game. Perhaps you could offer an example of a "new usage" that bears absolutely no association or link whatsoever to the...

OK, I'm interested to hear why you think we should not accept it. Also, I don't want, and have not wanted, to say that meaning is use, whether convent...

This is true, but new usages cannot "break" entirely, they must retain some link, some connection or association, however tenuous, with "convention"; ...

8-)

You seem to be alluding to something along the lines of the ideas of thinkers such as Hegel, Brandom and McDowell, that the events: dying, being murde...

I can see the issue you have in mind, and interesting though it might be, it isn't what I was concerned with. I take Kants' assertion that rationalism...

Fair enough, but I honestly can't see your point. I think you are haunted by chimeras of your own making, and confusing yourself over what is really v...

Characteristics of the apple; its sweetness and its redness separately make those corresponding statements true. It is that entity, that apple, which ...

Well, that's right, and if it corresponds then it is true, and if not, then it's not. The point is that any statement's correspondence to an event can...

OK, it seems now you are saying that it is a matter of interpretation as to whether he was murdered or justifiably assassinated, or something like tha...

If they refer to the same event then they also correspond or fail to correspond to it. Are you attempting to draw a distinction between "events" and "...

I can't see that, because assuming that Caesar was murdered then it is his being murdered that makes "Caesar was murdered" true, and that also makes C...

This seems nonsensical. I can state multiple propositions about an entity, any of which will or will not correspond to the entity, and none of which a...

You seem to be saying that the event of Caesar dying cannot be the same event as Caesar being murdered, because Caesar could have died some other way....

They are the same event iff Caesar was murdered. " Caesar died" and "Caesar was murdered" are different statements about the event is all. They bear a...

But any actual entity is only in principle separable from all other entities, not actually separable; so again you are talking about possibility, not ...

If statement A and B do correspond to actuality, then they do, and if they do not, then they do not. Of course it is logically possible that they migh...

Of course, and I have already stated that. This is so because even if we say we know that Caesar died, we don't know whether Caesar was murdered.

I'd have to understand what your argument actually is in order to tell you what part I disagree with. It doesn't seem to be a cogent argument at all. ...

That does not follow at all. If Caesar was murdered then x=y obtains; if not, then not. Of course A could be true when B is false, but only in case Ca...

What do you mean by "uniquely true"? Any event, it seems to me, could correspond to multiple propositions. You haven't explained why correspondence is...

Yes, I probably should have said "communally established usages" because the "agreed" still smacks of the 'contractual' which I wanted to de-emphasize...

That's one kind of dry interpretation of the notion 'convention'. I don't think of conventional usages of language as "contractual" at all. I believe ...

Do you have an argument for why two or more propositions cannot correspond to the same event. That claim just seems plain ridiculous so far.

How are conventions really different than 'communally agreed usages', which, I would have thought, just are what grow out of "forms of life" and what ...

Perhaps we are at cross purposes. The way I see it all propostions are both true and false depending on which way you look at them. So true and false ...

Then you don't agree that for every false proposition there is an exactly equivalent true one? If so, then perhaps a counterexample is in order?

The problem seems to be that you cannot give a 100% rationally deduced reason for believing that you are 100 % rational. In fact you cannot give a 100...

OK, great, my reply would then have been that for every proposition that is a falsity there is an equivalent proposition that is a truth, namely the p...

The word is used in several different senses, one of which is also applicable to the word 'fact'. That is both are sometimes used more or less synonym...

To extend it then, are there truths which can never be known? Also, would you be able to explain why you think that truths are a subset of proposition...

If there are truths which have never been told, does it then follow, according to you, that there are propositions that have never been proposed?

The idea that anyone could be "100% rational" seems to be extremely delusory. In any case how could you ever know if someone were "100 % rational" unl...

Knowing how is distinct from knowing that.

Apparently that quote does not appear in Plato's writings. In any case, it's not a paradox if it says 'there is only one thing I know, and that is tha...

Yeah, far crazier I'd say, since he says he would deliberately put an end to the human species if he could. Shit like that reeaally pisses me off. :-}

I don't presume to speak for others; whereas you do, that is the difference. What you say about putting a chemical in water to cause infertility just ...

Having children also creates more human pleasure, more human creativity and growth. I think you need to acknowledge that your view that life is predom...

If you decide to take a job, for example, then whatever happens to in that job is only partially under your control. You are just repeating the same f...

I don't see how language can explain the fact that people can invariably agree about minute details of any object which they are currently jointly vie...

Of course it is. If you decide to do something your are permitting it to happen to you. Giving your permission for something to happen is consent; it ...

Actually I don't think we are that far apart on this. When I say I don't think there is a telos; what I mean is that I don't think even God knows prec...

Perhaps it is different for different people, but what I "experience phenomenally" includes an inescapable sense of what is beyond that experience. I ...

The nudist beaches I have been to are in national Parks along the path s I have been wlaking, and i stopped for a swim. Swimming nude in the ocean and...

I'm not sure if these are questions or statements Cavacava. Are you saying that thought leads to alienation? I think the sense of the infinite is an e...

I'm not saying that at all. You need to read more carefully. I'm not saying that we should believe anything; either that souls pre-exist bodily life a...

Parents may or may not consent (intend) to have a child. Obviously they cannot consent to have the particular child they end up with, but if they inte...

Yes, but we know that she responds differently to that particular tree than she does to others, that it figures in her daily awareness and activities ...

The in itself is infinite and our knowing is finite. All knowing is knowing for a knower. We are finite knowers who possess a sense of the infinite, a...

That's nonsense; for example when people consent to marry they never know how it will turn out.