As I see it, there can be no salvation at all beyond either mere indifference (in the sense of acceptance) or affirmation. Acceptance or affirmation o...
Presuming you are referring to Douglas Hofstadter, what is his "Disease" and what are the symptoms of it that you, by implication, are suggesting that...
You ignored my previous objection, so I will try again. A realist could reject verification-transcendent truth (in the sense of acknowledging that we ...
A delayed response; I have been away. Give me an example of an "obvious practical application" of ethics. Just look at the number of posts in Metaphys...
A realist may reject verification transcendent truths without rejecting verification transcendent actualities and verification transcendent speculatio...
Well, for a start, Ethics is just one part of philosophy. Epistemology and Metaphysics are arguably a much greater part of modern philosophy, and ther...
I didn't say philosophy cannot have any practical applications. The suggestion was merely that it does not have anything like the very obvious practic...
That's a fair point, Baden, well taken, and I stand corrected. Now I am wondering what it could be that distinguishes a sentence from a word. It seems...
If translation is possible then the sense must be retained, which means that the logic of the semantic units is more or less equivalent. From this it ...
Your mathematician is still very much alive, so activities of the body such as breathing and circulation of the blood, as well as thought and percepti...
For me, to speak of "subjective elements" is to commit the very mistake you have identified in your first paragraph: that is, the mistake of imputing ...
In lieu of me going back to read the whole thread over again can you outline your argument again, in the context of the idea (I presume you are espous...
Cavacava, I have been attending a course called Philosophy and Poetry at Sydney University, and by amazing coincidence these very lines from Ezra Poun...
Thanks bert, that's a nice observation; that had not been thematically figural for me before. I'm very happy to hear that Tiff, thanks. I am kind of r...
They were certainly not successful in your case apparently. Is there any good reason to believe that it will be the same objects which lead different ...
The argument turns on the point about what constitutes a word. The usual definition is that a word must be one of a number of types, because a word mu...
OK, that's interesting that you should say that, because the specific aim of the Abstract expressionists was a purely formalist one (under the tutelag...
The English translations of these morphemes: "reindeer-hunt-future-say-negation-again-third.person.singular.indicative" can stand alone and thus be co...
This is from Wikipedia: "A morpheme is not identical to a word, and the principal difference between the two is that a morpheme may or may not stand a...
Firstly, "unbreakable" does not convey anything other than a definition, so it could not count as a sentence. On the other hand, according to your arg...
Keep going, you got two likes for that last post alone! But, on second thought maybe you're right that the value of registering the likings of posts d...
All I am asking you to do is tell me on the basis of what criteria such 'words' as the exampled 'word-sentences' qualify as words rather than as sente...
Yes, but the point was: what is the salient distinguishing characteristic between that 'sentence-without-any-gaps-word' and a so-called 'normal' sente...
Why could the example 'word' "tuntussuqatarniksaitengqiggtuq " not equally be called a 'sentence without any gaps', and the 'morphemes' that make it u...
I voted '3' and '2' would be my second option. I can see a value in acknowledgement that individual cases of effort, erudition or even sheer brillianc...
I still think individual words are better thought of as having definitions, references or functions than they are thought of as having meanings, A wor...
Thanks, Baden, I was going to respond with something like, "Yes, but isn't what you say here just standard linguistics?", but then I turned the page a...
I certainly agree that meaning as such does not require reference, but I have been contending that linguistic meaning can only be understood in terms ...
Ok, 'hello' can be translated, or at least has it's equivalent functors in other languages or in English. But it does not refer to anything specific. ...
If I just gaze emptily at the environment, with nothing in particular becoming present for me; that level of perception is ungrammatical. It is when I...
What you are saying seems to point to the idea that it is not merely that linguistic "units" of meaning derive that meaning from a context which is th...
Then it must be a mere tautology that any example of language has a linguistic meaning. For me, if a sentence counts as having a linguistic meaning th...
If to be linguistically meaningful is not necessarily to refer to something concrete, then what does it consist in? Are you merely saying that any mar...
That you think that is nice to know; to know why you think that would be even nicer. In any case, whether it does or does not have a linguistic (which...
This sounds reasonable at first glance; but I am not convinced 'hello' has a linguistic meaning. In any case any statement of linguistic meaning is a ...
I'm still not clear exactly what you mean by "experiencing an Idea". Do you mean something like 'grasping the form of a thing, in a kind of geometrica...
For me, it depends on what you mean by 'truth'. Taking it in the strictly propositional sense I agree with you. Mostly, speakers are not so much conce...
What is the reasoning that you take to support a claim that a theory of truth must form part of a theory of meaning, rather than that a theory of mean...
Which is arguably equally true of science. The difference with science is that it generates new possibilities for technological inventiveness, and thu...
Yes, the common understanding of the phrase "I know" is precisely an expression of the idea of an absolute certainty which is opposed to the uncertain...
For me, language, taken as a whole does not represent anything; rather it presents a domain of things out there in the world. Sayings represent things...
I have been slowly working my way through this rather dense paper. This is not the style of philosophy I am used to reading, and I agree with Streetli...
It might quote me TGW. but it does not address the argument that I made there. The argument is that there is a difference between the claim that we ca...
Whether it is sensible to say the glass is half empty or half full would seem to depend on the prior state of the glass. Was it full, and subsequently...
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