Michael

What does that have to do with anything? To understand what is meant by the phrase "Mario is jumping on a Goomba" and to determine whether or not it i...

That's not what I'm saying at all. We, as impartial observers, can talk about the simulation and the world external to the simulation, but my point is...

I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that to explain what we mean by "because there's a cat", we have to look to our practical ability to use the ph...

This seems to misunderstand the argument. In the example, the simulation might be nothing like the external world. The external world might just consi...

By "external world" I meant the world outside the simulation. It has no bearing on the meaning of the words said inside the simulation. Dummett's argu...

When you imagine the greatest being, do you imagine that being to exist? If so then there is no conceptual difference between the God you imagine in 1...

None of this addresses the logic of my argument. You defined God as the greatest being imaginable, and implied that existence is a necessary property ...

The description "greatest being" isn't particularly informative. It would help if this was a little better defined. So let's say that to be the greate...

Ugh, I hate online orders. Supposed to have a mattress delivered today. It wasn't. The delivery people don't deliver on the weekend. 3 nights sleeping...

Except it isn't a given that the TV show will follow the books. There's already been deviations. Maybe there will be big ones. Besides, if it helps wi...

Only white male Republicans. ;)

So what is the point? That we shouldn't use the courts and whoever's the President should be able to push his own partisan agenda with nothing to stop...

I know that he didn't accept Davidson's view, but he accepted a similar kind of view. As explained here, "However, distinguishes between a strong and ...

I think that's exactly the issue that you brought up with your question regarding Game of Thrones. Given that the script for the next season hasn't be...

Yes, my original account missed off an important premise of Dummett's argument, which I clarified here. It includes Frege's claim that to understand a...

You said "merits of sexism", not "merits of accusations of sexism", so it read as you suggesting that we should be able to discuss if sexism is warran...

Today's Trumpism: Seriously? This guy really does just want to be a dictator, and doesn't make a secret about it either. Edit: And because there's a T...

What do you mean by "as they really are"? The scribbles are just patterns of light displayed by your screen. And what does that mean? I just press key...

That comparison might be apt if one was talking just about removing one's genitals, and not of changing one's genitals. In the latter case it's more c...

Yes, and somatic delusions can be further distinguished: Conversion disorder: A somatic symptom disorder involving the actual loss of bodily function ...

Joey Joe Joe Jr Shabadoo was the biggest Kevin of them all.

Yeah, they can make it so that different people see different things, or even that different things show at different times (e.g some places detect th...

I think we could sensibly describe the behaviour, but that there aren't any determinant truth-conditions, and so it would be wrong to claim that such ...

Aren't you just asking me to assume your conclusion here?

In your hypothesis, "they live in a world, say, where such temperatures aren't possible". If such temperatures aren't possible then it isn't possible ...

Degree matters. Bitching about two people killing bystanders as they fight each other is fine. Bitching about one person for shouting and not wearing ...

You must really disapprove of the World Naked Bike Ride. Also, you know Adam and Eve were naked, right? It's only because they ate of the forbidden fr...

Is the real problem that they scream, shout, swear, and behave like savages, or that they're naked? Or to put it another way, is it bad if they're nak...

Haven't watched it but I assume he's great in it.

Unfortunately the software doesn't allow for that. The closest we can do is PMs.

I don't think that's exclusively concerned with body issues, though, which is what Harry was discussing. It's also worth pointing out that the APA cla...

I think what you're referring to specifically is body dysmorphic disorder. However, this doesn't seem like the correct diagnosis. For one, those with ...

You should add a spoiler warning. But to address your point, what is it? That we should have a public "Trouble threads/posts/posters" discussion? I su...

Thanks. Interesting read. Although I wonder if what the author means by realism and anti-realism is different to want Dummett means. From the article,...

Perhaps this simplification works better: 1. From Frege, to understand a sentence is to know its truth-conditions. 2. From Wittgenstein, to understand...

I'm not sure about this. Your hypothesis does seem to beg the question by presupposing that there's an unrecognisable melting temperature. The last pa...

Perhaps this offers a better account of Dummett's view than my account of it:

That there are no recognition-transcendent truth conditions, a realist requirement.

Because, as Wittgenstein argued, meaning is public. It is possible for me to learn what a French man means by the word "eau". But it would be impossib...

I didn't say it has nothing to do with how the world is. I'm saying that the part of the world that has something to do with the meaning of a particul...

So you say. But Dummett's argument is that meaning-as-use doesn't allow for recognition-transcendent truth conditions. The notion that there's a spoke...

The people inside the simulation were put inside the simulation late in life. Because realism, according to Dummett, requires truth to be bivalent. Bu...

If truth is bivalent, sure. But Dummett is arguing that bivalent truth requires recognition-transcendent truth conditions, that recognition-transcende...

I don't know if any of that makes sense in the context of Wittgenstein's account of meaning. Consider the earlier example of the simulation, but assum...

From here, "to say that the notion of truth involved is potentially recognition-transcendent is to say that (G) may be true (or false) even though the...

It doesn't say that the use of words has nothing to do with the world. It says that it has nothing to do with recognition-transcendent things. The rec...

Gotta keep informed somehow. Used to just get all my news from BBC. I missed out on a lot of the drama happening across the pond.

How so? Surely if the word "squiloople" is to mean something then there has to be an actual use for it, not just something that in principle could mea...

Anyone watch Game of Thrones? The next episode has leaked early, so be careful of spoilers (and in unlikely places; some twat posted it in Reddit's /r...

Yes. Has there been a single poster he's talked to who he hasn't soon after claimed to be ignoring from here on out?