apokrisis

The "affective turn" is hardly revolutionary in the history of psychology and neurology. But yes, the mainstream ontology of our culture is mechanisti...

Belief and doubt are complementary. You can't have one without the other as each is the ground of the other, and it is only together that you have any...

It helps to see that this linguistic self is a social construction. And so the words society creates as descriptors are those that it would have us ap...

But Hume represents the nominalist turn of thought. He was not a pragmatist in the sense of arguing for the reality of the general or universal. He wa...

Isn't this confusing logic and causality, strictly speaking? Of course, the two are related. We think of reality as being fundamentally reasonable or ...

This is important as Peirce is giving an actual reason for why induction is something that strengthens with time. A constraints-based view of the worl...

Yep. It is on the whole that it rings true. We believe in the world as a generality.

Belief is a constraint on doubt. Doubts are always possible to manufacture on some grounds. So belief simply aims to constrain doubt to a reasonable d...

You misunderstand the nature of constraints. The free actions of the world are only limited to some threshold variety of differences that don’t make a...

Always better than mystical bollocks.

So your claim is now about past vs future tense and not past vs present tense. Do you blame me for feeling confused. Especially when you just won’t co...

You said the difference in tense between past and present was crucial - between worked and works. So what was that about?

Well prove me wrong by actually making an argument and not merely an assertion. If the difference in tense is crucial, demonstrate what practical diff...

Sigh. The history of what worked up to a nanosecond ago then? Crucial difference my arse. Pointless pedantry more like.

Experience. A history of what works. Reason seems reasonable as unreason has likewise proved itself as such.

All this talk about truth, knowledge, certainty, belief, doubt. The critical issue seems to be identifying the mind as the part that has some understa...

Again, the converse is true. We can see from a history that believing the contrary of the principle of induction would have been as misleading as poss...

LOL.

Mind independently true?

But you mentioned a causal process that generally produces entities. Being particulate doesn’t seem a cause of a beach as such. The generality of curr...

But we do. We have inductive evidence that inductive principles have prevailed to date. This view has the weight of historic evidence. It’s abductive ...

I’m confused. You say generality and particularity are points of view. I agree. Then you make some further suggestion about individual worldly process...

We can know that it worked and so it’s opposite didn’t work. Inductively, we thus have no good reason to think that the story would reverse itself in ...

Just something? In what sense is that “trouble”? Especially given that in the limit, they would have no reason to care? If it makes no odds, it makes ...

So you seem to think that a capital called Paris or a language named English somehow creates a dreadful epistemic issue for pragmatism - bad enough th...

As I said, in multiple posts I’ve given the answer - truth is the limit of rational inquiry. So where is the problem with that position exactly?

You got a definition, so what is your point?

I laughed so hard.

Sounds legit.

So I gave you your answer on definitions. How does this next deflection relate?

Not really. We would choose it because it works. It become safe to think the past predicts the future once you are in that future. So we know what wor...

How do you think I use them? If you are going to pretend it is a mystery, you will have to tell me in what sense. It’s not as if I haven’t repeated my...

According to dualism. The causality is mutual according to my systems account. If interpretation is all there really is - there is no dualistic interp...

How are you defining those terms exactly?

Well I was quite happy to talk about the example you raised in this post - the social construction of Uluru as sacred. And that is a good example. The...

LOL. Some half-arsed AP notion of it?

But pragmatism claims truth is only relative. How could that view fail?

So after a series of evasive one-liner deflections, the confession of the lack of any reasonable counter. After the prolonged gurgling, the slow disap...

It's a dichotomy. So it is anti-dualistic in being fundamentally triadic. And I presented an argument. So you are just finding excuses to avoid making...

Hmm. What is it that you don't get about the the cut which is the separation that founds the connection? :) A Peircean epistemology explains how a sel...

But you do. You are a representationalist in saying there is "a world". It's right there in your language.

Again, your response founders on a failure to recognise that language games must create their speakers along with their worlds. So they are always abo...

You have to think about things to make definite choices. So rationality is just about exploring the right way to achieve some goal. The good and evil ...

Why does it make no sense exactly? You keep making the assertion. But the argument is missing. Pragmatically it might be no use - especially in everyd...

So of course, truth-telling games are grounded in a principle of indifference. A ground is found not by reaching the bedrock of "undoubtable hinge pro...

Yep. What is ostensively demonstrated is is a customary and pragmatic degree of unconcern. Folks, this is where the doubting stops ... so far as this ...

Yep. Words can only function as constraints on interpretance. They are irreducibly open ended and thus uncertain. Nothing could be defined exactly, as...

So what does that say? If failure can be partial - and indeed would always be partial under your view, as what would total look like? - then success w...

LOL. That would be why Moore on an LSD trip, shrieking here is one flipper, now here is another, is simply failing to share in a language game with hi...

You might need to brush up on your reading skills. Demonstrating that your bedrock is your perceptual experience is demonstrating exactly that. Which ...