Michael

It was all a clever ruse by women and blacks to avoid having to be around despicable white men.

And you're the expression of the spirit of conservative rubbish. ;)

Nah, tradition sucks. We're in a better world now. But the historical time that established a tradition wasn't just a fashion? I wonder, in what year ...

Came here to say the same thing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41020779 Accusing the media of misrepresenting his words, and then misrepresenting his own words by leaving ...

Molyneux's problem it is then.

:D

Nah. Tradition be damned. Get with the times. They be a-changing. For the better, too.

Yes. Better than Trump.

Another reason Obama is better than Trump.

I was looking over a list of unsolved problems in philosophy to find a new topic of discussion and there isn't really that many. All stuff that's been...

I didn't mean it like that (and nor did Dummett, as far as I'm aware). Rather it's the lesser claim that the world talked about (by the people in the ...

It's not relevant in the relevant sense. Yes, there's a causal connection (maybe; perhaps the simulator is protected from the external world rain and ...

My step-mum used to do reflexology, and my girlfriend's mum is trying to get her to see a reiki practitioner. Even my mum, who was a nurse, said good ...

This isn't about perception, which is why it isn't indirect realism. It's about meaning. The same argument can apply even if direct realism is the cas...

The truth conditions are recognizable, whatever they are. We know what they would be. If we didn't then we wouldn't know what "it's raining" means. "I...

That it's raining if it's raining isn't inconsistent with the claim that "it's raining" must have recognisable truth conditions for it to be mean some...

Given that "it is raining" and "it is true that it is raining" and "water is falling from the sky" all mean the same thing, you're just asserting the ...

Given that you've said that "it is true that it is raining" and "it is raining" mean the same thing, obviously this sounds right. It's a tautology. Bu...

Yes, it sounds right. The above claims have recognisable truth conditions, and we have both rational and empirical grounds that warrant their assertio...

And I've explained why your question is misleading. A better question would be to ask if some hypothetical people can in their language have a stateme...

Because we have a method of verifying the claim "it is raining", and so the claim "it is raining" means something to us. Your question improperly inje...

Your question is misleading, hence why I provided a more appropriate answer. Given that we have a method of verifying the claim that it is raining, "i...

There has to be a known method for the claim "it is raining" to mean something.

What I'm saying is that to understand what it means for a statement to be true one must understand what would count as verifying that claim. If someon...

How does one get to the physiological sensory effects of sugar? And which physiological effects? The ones that happen when I hold some in my hand?

I don't understand what needs to be acknowledged. As an example of what I mean, you wouldn't know what "sugar is sweet" means if you didn't know that ...

Well, yes, because truth is predicated of statements. Only statements are the sort of things that can be true, correct? And how am I to understand wha...

It's verifiable in the sense that we understood what it would take to verify (or falsify) the claim. Dummett's point is that if we can't even make sen...

This is very strange coming from you. You've long argued against this Tarskian approach (e.g. here). But then even if we take this approach, how am I ...

I think this is the problem. It's not the case that the realist and the anti-realist agree on what it means to be true and just disagree on what it ta...

That "gold really was found in the hills" has a verification-immanent truth condition, because the meaning of the phrase "gold really was found in the...

Yeah, because what else would it be? That fake passports are being planted by right-wing nationalists to frame foreigners and Muslims? Given that the ...

I provided a good summary here.

The official number from the Department of Homeland Security is $21.6 billion.

This isn't incompatible with anti-realism. As I've said many times before, anti-realism isn't un-realism.

And this has nothing to do with what you were saying earlier. "Having your cake and eating it"? "The Natural Laws that are determining everything is a...

This is nothing like what you were saying earlier. You've changed your criticism of determinism.

That's not entirely accurate. Unpredictable events are common place. I believe whether or not such events are uncaused depends on whether or not there...

Yes. What do you mean by this?

This doesn't make any sense at all. It is simply that if determinism is true then our speech acts – whether that be to utter "we have free will" or to...

Most people carry IDs around with them, whether that be a passport or a driver's license. It's a useful (and habitual) thing to have. So I think a dif...

I'm not here to defend Wittgenstein's argument that meaning is use. I'm here to discuss if Dummett is right that such a view of language entails anti-...

All you seem to be suggesting is that it's something of a performative contradiction to argue that determinism is correct and then that one ought acce...

Thanks. Although I guess if I've thought of it then someone smarter has already done so. ;)

I'm saying that the God you imagine in 1 is identical to the super-God you imagine in 4. In both cases you imagine a thing to really exist. But you're...

I should add though this cat-in-a-cupboard example wasn't a good one. Recognition-transcendent truth conditions are truth conditions that we cannot de...

By "corresponding" you appear to just mean "causally responsible". That's not the kind of correspondence I'm talking about. Obviously things have a ca...

Given Wittgenstein's account of language (or Dummett's interpretation at least) it doesn't. To understand the meaning of the sentence "there's a cat i...

No, I'm not dyslexic. And I know what you said. What I don't understand is what it has to do with the claim that the meaning and truth of the claim "M...