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That which exists in it's entirety prior to our awareness of it has the very same elemental constitution regardless of how one 'perceives' it. So, no....

Creole. Pigeon. Combinations of English and other languages are the result of exploration and colonization. Such combinations of different languages a...

I'm not buying that at all. In order to have the truth conditions, one must already speak the language. Davidson seems to want to be able to combine c...

There's a concern worth careful consideration. Please overlook my ignorance if it's been dealt with in it's entirety. If that is the case, hopefully o...

Licensing reproduction, as in having children? Whoa. Really? That's a bit too much confidence in the spurious presupposition that we know what the dir...

So, a statement need not be believed in order to be true. A statement's being true requires more than being believed. It is a mistake to say that a st...

We do not do so without extremely complex language use, which is precisely the point being made here. Indirect reference is a complex cognitive proces...

I agree. However, I think we're much better served here if "being wrong" were made more explicit. If we begin by granting all conceptual schema are tr...

Which makes the all referents of such perception-talk and model-dependent realism socially mediated... doesn't it?

I think it stems from Frege's notion of truth as object(truth values)?

That's not the only way...

Here is the SEP's take on the slingshot(Davidson style)... All the way at the bottom/end of the page...

The great fact...

I'm more than sympathetic to the need for any theory of truth to take proper account of correspondence. I do not find it(convention T) compelling if c...

'P' IFF P

That is some weird logic Janus. Becoming aware that some language use is superfluous/redundant requires it's use in the first place. "Is true" is one ...

Is it? Seems to me that some argue that it's superfluous/redundant, and others show/argue what it means. I think that this is far more enlightening an...

Convention T, redundancy, and deflationary accounts focus upon "is true". Truth as predicate. Correspondence theory holds that truth is correspondence...

Yes, and in line with Davidson's rejection of an uninterpreted world(and yours too, if I understand you correctly). That is - it seems to me - a major...

I've thought long and hard about whether or not there are such things as incommensurate schema as compared to non translatable ones. Ultimately, I thi...

Directly perceptible things... common referents(says Davidson).

Precisely... hence Stoicism!

Sigh... Pots and kettles. Aren't you the one forwarding a notion of consciousness that you yourself cannot explain?

You claim something existed called "subjective experience of consciousness, or qualia". I'm saying that "subjective experience of consciousness" point...

I appreciate you and Moliere correcting the setting. Cheers! Davidson holds that we become aware of the role that truth plays in our conceptual schema...

The problem is the historical notion of "necessary". When the criterion for what counts as "necessary" is being true in all possible worlds, then all ...

The irony of one who charges another with exactly what they are guilty of doing. I'm not interested in continually explaining with someone who doesn't...

The problem is based upon a gross misunderstanding(misconception) of human thought and belief as a result of being based upon the objective/subjective...

I agree. Davidson waffles on "truth", much to my own dismay. It causes confusion when reading him.

Get human thought and belief right. That's where to start. The purported 'hard problem' is dissolved - as is many other so-called 'problems' - when we...

Makes perfect sense... Take away the term "apple pies" and apple pies no longer exist... Jeez!

Naming and descriptive practices. Derrida was quite a prolific writer.

These notions of exact meaning and pure meaning are foreign to me. The "pure" qualification makes no sense to me given that all meaning consists of co...

All meaningful use of the term "meaning" consists of the correlations, associations, and/or 'connections' drawn between it's use and other things. It'...

Agreed. The meaning of "meaning" consists of the correlations drawn between it's use and other things. Correlations being drawn between different thin...

"Full" meaning is present? I don't talk like that. Something else. All answers to the question of what one means by some word or other requires increa...

Sleeping with enemies does not necessarily make one an enemy.

No. After the indisputable well known accepted facts are laid out... and after the states finish the work Mueller began. Until then... let's have all ...

Undoubtedly, but that's true of asking anyone what they mean by any other term as well... If one does not know the difference between you and I, well,...

There is no denying the affect/effects that common language use has upon human thought and belief. However, there's no good reason to believe that we ...

Making clear statements about someone's insanity is not bashing. Godel was one of the brilliant ones for many reasons... "Crazy" ain't always a slur m...

Yes. The tumour is the common referent.

I retired last night, when I realized how close I was to veering too far off Davidson. I'm thinking I'll re-read the paper again tonight prior to addi...

Sure. Pick any of them, as they are all related.

I'm more than happy to discontinue... Be well. :smile:

"It"...

Some of us do.

I'll return it when I see it. I've been plenty charitable in past, and would be glad to continue being so. All physiological sensory perception. "Visu...

I've no issue with this at face value. I agree. What I take issue with is the idea that that somehow applies to thought and belief that does not invol...

If that doesn't count as being crazy... then nothing will.