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So does that account instead describe deduction as being central to the development of the thinking involved? I think not. Newton's theory of universa...
February 18, 2018 at 23:52
Don’t be such a sook. If you agree with Janus, you agree with me. Get over it.
February 18, 2018 at 05:05
Yep. It is an interesting exercise to imagine seeing any object from every perspective possible. So Ayers Rock from the inside, from every distance ou...
February 18, 2018 at 05:03
Sure. If you have a theory of abstract reference frames then you can add the further constraint that it’s distances are ruled off in terms of some arb...
February 18, 2018 at 02:48
So tell us in your own words what "height" should mean within the language game of a first Australian form of life.
February 18, 2018 at 02:37
More weirdness. Banno is told how it works. Inductive thought is about the creative leap from the particular instance to the general rule. Peirce then...
February 18, 2018 at 01:43
LOL. But Banno covered that already.... "How we measure that, from base or sea level or your nose or whatever - is up to us." So apparently the number...
February 18, 2018 at 01:28
Why mention the three things of the world, the sign and the interpretant then? Is this why you don't get triadic ontologies? You struggle with the cou...
February 18, 2018 at 01:24
Squish, squish. ;)
February 18, 2018 at 00:56
Rather than just answer with the same repeated misrepresentation, answer the question as it was posed. Or show where the literature of Pragmatism supp...
February 18, 2018 at 00:16
Hmm. Maybe you really do have a problem that I haven't picked up on?
February 17, 2018 at 23:13
I'm going to lunch. When I get back, I expect a post that is something worth a response. In what sense is "height" real? Sure there is a world out the...
February 17, 2018 at 23:12
No, no. Finish what you started. Don't just keep deflecting.
February 17, 2018 at 23:03
Quote my reply and show how it didn't answer the question you posed.
February 17, 2018 at 23:02
Well I made my arguments. I also commented on what you had to say about yours, even though I had to pull it in from elsewhere. You have said nothing s...
February 17, 2018 at 22:58
But it was you who made a fuss about my use of "form of life". You asked - confusingly - whether that was an insult (to aborigines?) or gratuitous (so...
February 17, 2018 at 22:50
Gratuitous? That I used the appropriate Wittgensteinian terminology? You really need to make up your mind. Either I'm guilty of being dogmatically Pei...
February 17, 2018 at 22:09
So you are a pain realist? It exists in the physical world? Throw the rock at a wall and pain is also going to occur as a consequence? Not a lot of th...
February 17, 2018 at 20:25
What are you talking about? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_of_life_(philosophy)
February 17, 2018 at 20:20
Hah. Your replies so fail to engage with my argument that it ain’t worth a response. Read what I actually wrote and try again.
February 17, 2018 at 03:23
Again, the difference is that my approach speaks about "the world that has us in it". It makes it explicit that "truth" applies to a modelling relatio...
February 17, 2018 at 01:57
Straw is all there is. You described you own profile statement as straw Banno. Lordy.
February 16, 2018 at 22:59
Sufficiently similar for whom? Again, the world does not arbitrate in the absolute way you want to suggest. There has to a self with a purpose at the ...
February 16, 2018 at 22:57
Continuing the effort to flush out the contrasting epistemic positions here - not being one to bottle a debate - we can see that Banno is channeling t...
February 16, 2018 at 22:38
Yep. And thank goodness our brains can work like that. There is a natural way to reason, as evolution shows. The question is why for a minute would yo...
February 16, 2018 at 20:45
C'mon Banno. This is laughably awful. Remember, it is me who is putting forward a "theory of truth" that explains why language games have this kind of...
February 16, 2018 at 20:33
LOL. Love it when you resort to explaining how low we are in your list of priorities. Gotta keep a grip on the situation, heh?
February 16, 2018 at 03:49
Oh how I wept with laughter at such wit. The real joke is instead how you keep claiming to want a debate before bottling it yet again.
February 16, 2018 at 02:31
...bear in mind that you seem to be sometimes adding the clause "give or take a bit", and so making a probabilistic statement about the Eiffel Tower. ...
February 16, 2018 at 01:20
So I have to provide definitions and you get to hide behind commonsense usage? Seems legit. :) Again, how could that be the case in your world of no d...
February 16, 2018 at 00:08
??? Straw Banno writes your profile?
February 15, 2018 at 23:36
Again, what do you mean by "true"? You want to make a naive realist point without having to defend doing that. So that is the dodge I always pull you ...
February 15, 2018 at 23:35
For fun, as you won't ever set out a counter position when making your scoffing noises about mine, let's take this profile statement you make. Now let...
February 15, 2018 at 23:20
That could depend on how you are defining truth, Banno. So how are you defining truth? If you think I am not offering a theory of truth, how could I p...
February 15, 2018 at 07:10
Not a problem. That's what I say. Pragmatism is a theory of justified belief - as well as a theory of how the notion of objective truth is a naive rea...
February 15, 2018 at 04:00
Those are just your misreprentations of what I have said. And I’ve corrected you on them often enough. Truth is what we believe in the long run follow...
February 15, 2018 at 02:48
No worries. I knew you would bottle it.
February 15, 2018 at 00:20
So if it ain't inductive and it ain't deductive, then how is the decision "rational"? Surely the whole bleeding point of epistemology - a theory of tr...
February 15, 2018 at 00:18
Odd. First you promise that you will be getting back to me with a proper reply and then you edit your message to tell me to look up transcendental arg...
February 14, 2018 at 18:58
It's hard to be sure how to interpret this bizzarely incoherent sentence. But how would it be a problem if there were some transcendental argument in ...
February 14, 2018 at 04:02
To remind you, here was a fulsome reply. Now rather than doing your usual of pretending it wasn’t said, then coming in later with claims of a refusal ...
February 14, 2018 at 01:54
I prefer to read the papers. Now in your own words...
February 14, 2018 at 01:29
Perhaps you could explain his entropic approach to gravity for our benefit? In your own words now, what is he saying?
February 14, 2018 at 01:12
Yeah. It would be useful if you could decide how you approach hinge propositions given your comments about me. But I fully expect you to take rapid ev...
February 14, 2018 at 01:11
Trichotomies = hierarchical causal structure. Simple, innit?
February 14, 2018 at 01:07
To deal with this one last misrepresentation, the logic you are talking about is designed for dealing with the particular or individuated. So of cours...
February 14, 2018 at 00:55
That is why Peirce was concerned with the proper grammar of reasoning. You need to wrap the deductive bit in the preface of an abduction and the concl...
February 14, 2018 at 00:50
So you have changed your position on hinge propositions all of a sudden. Curious.
February 14, 2018 at 00:34
And yet the argument is valid. Curious. Perhaps semantics is the basis of truth-telling more than syntax?
February 14, 2018 at 00:30
You mean like ... scientific inquiry. :D You mean like whatever came after logical atomism sunk without trace as AP's grand philosophical scheme? >:O
February 14, 2018 at 00:28