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Trump has taken every action he deems to be legal for him to take in order to impede the investigation into himself. It doesn't matter if he thinks it...

We are all fallible creatures prone to forming, having, and/or holding false belief. Other people are required - in some way, shape, or form - in orde...

If you believe this, then I have to question your sincerity here. What I wrote sounds nothing like what you wrote. Read them aloud and see for yoursel...

Being unmediated by language use is not so much in opposition to anything... aside from being informed by language, and thus being existentially depen...

That's an imperative approach.

Physiological sensory perception that is unmediated by language use.

Touche. :razz:

Bein' reasonable is thinking about our own thought and belief, including but not limited to statements thereof. That's the best place to start looking...

All predication is correlation. That's more than adequate. Perfectly simple. "The gong tormented sea" is a linguistic device/characterization that cou...

Call me what you may, but I've not come across any reason worthy of being called "obvious". I've begun clearing the path of debris. Something wrong wi...

Not a good start. I'll overlook it for now. I like the avatar picture. Reminds me of an old forum long ago. To be continued...

Snow is directly perceptible.

By Davidson's method, convention T is capable of accounting for two languages picking out the same entity to the exclusion of all else. Davidson seems...

Convention T does not offer a method of translation described by Davidson(common referents) so much as a method of drawing an equivalence between two ...

I agree with Davidson's conclusion, I just arrived at it by virtue of taking another path. Shared meaning happens long before we become aware of it. S...

I wonder if valid argument to arrive at all of those things is acceptable?

First time for everything I guess... :razz: All thought and belief consists of mental correlations drawn between different things. The only difference...

Just wanted to mention that - after some much more careful and slow re-reading - I've come to realize that Davidson may be correctly interpreted as re...

The above is important to understand. Davidson's not wholly agreeing with the claim "truth is relative to a conceptual scheme". Rather, Davidson is cl...

Language is a device. Why quote the terms? I'm not talking about the language use. I'm using those two terms as a namesake for the same referent. That...

The above sums it up thus far for me. I would be happy to end it here, if you still want to do so after reading my last two posts.

I'm understanding just fine. You've described thought in all sorts of ways. You've named different kinds. You've made all sorts of comments. You've ne...

I did not claim that, nor did you offer that as a criterion for thought and belief. I did argue against the criterion you did offer for thought and be...

You can disregard everything I write if you want. I'm very very critical. I'm of the well-considered opinion that you've followed philosophy proper do...

Well done. :clap:

Depends upon who you talk to about it. I see I'm not the only one who agrees with you here. :wink: I also do not think that Davidson is doing away wit...

The number of terms... but I see what you're getting at. It is quite similar in semantics.

"To say of what is that it is" IFF to say of what is that it is. Nope. Not the same.

Here, if I'm using "A" to pick out an individual entity normally called "B", then understanding me would require knowing that, and knowing that would ...

Do differing beliefs impede and/or prohibit translation?

No. Clearly not the same distinction. Below shows this well enough... No. Although, I do underscore temporality.

I'm just pointing out that the duality of empirical content and conceptual scheme is not equivalent to the distinction between that which existed in i...

What determines the referent within Davidson's use of 'Snow is white'?

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Yes.

I would. I would also agree that Davidson is more deflationary regarding all talk about what makes sentences true, as well as all the historical bagga...

On my view, no. My skin being warm is not adequate. It is but one aspect necessary for "my skin is warm" to be so.

I think Davidson is opposed to calling events and happenings "things". He says no thing make a sentence true. An event is comprised of a group of thin...

I think that Davidson hold sfirm to the notion that truth of sentences is inseparable from language and thus translation. I suspect, even if it's not ...

Desiring for a feeling to remain is to know that they do not always. Knowing that feelings are fleeting requires being able to think about one's own t...

All thoughts?

Davidson doesn't make this claim though... He clearly talks about his skin being warm...

Might want to ask the person who said such a thing.

By stipulating all schemes as coherent, we're granting as well as also demanding consistent terminological use. It side steps the issues. I suppose it...

What has happened, and/or is happening... My skin being warm... etc. He then hesitantly refers to the actual events, the case at hand, what's happened...

I see it as an outright rejection of the idea that there can be such things as schemes about the world that are not translatable one into the other.

I think Banno is quite right in connecting this paper to Kripke's.

Now, if I can just stay on track! :wink:

I'm hesitant to agree with the idea that convention T offers an adequate means for translation. I think Davidson needs that to be the case to make his...

Davidson draw a distinction between kinds of possible worlds. He focuses upon the second in which there is one world and all the different views, beca...