Keep in mind his aim. He is proposing a method of approach to the very idea of conceptual schemes. He grants them all coherence and meaningfulness and...
"Being true" is Davidson's focus. Davidson kicks out correspondence. His doing so leveled the playing field by requiring only coherence. In this way t...
And yet, we all know that correspondence must be adequately accounted for... it is after-all the default position of unquestioned naive realism that w...
That's not the distinction I've raised though. I reject both rationalism and empiricism on the same ground. So, given that Banno was drawing an equiva...
I cannot speak to that. I am of the view that there is one world, and it includes us. I am further of the view that there are two major categories of ...
I'm not in disagreement. Uncharacteristic of me... sure. Nonetheless, sometimes convention agrees and/or supports my own position. Davidson has influe...
I think the point about the ministry was that a change in terminological use alone does not always guarantee talking about the same things(referents)....
Was it Davidson who claimed that if we know what it takes for a statement to be true, then we know what the statement means? Is convention T showing t...
Yep. That's a sticking point for me... as a general criterion. However, in this context, I can happily accept it, for it is imperative - I think - to ...
You've offered different descriptions regarding kinds of thought and belief. You've not offerd a universal criterion for what counts as thought and be...
This is the part that I completely agreed with earlier... The only sticking point to me is the criterion of being both true and meaningful. I'm not su...
Sometimes... I'm either not clear enough, or you misunderstand. As you well know, my own position regarding thought, belief, and meaning is unique. Wh...
...And what do all those examples of thought and belief have in common such that having it is what makes them thoughts and beliefs instead of somethin...
Believing in human races makes one a racist. Saying what's on your mind makes one a good president. There seems to be a pattern here of utterly inadeq...
This dovetails nicely with thought, belief, and meaning as correlations. In this case, shiny new phrases play the role of the messy old mental concept...
What do statements about the world and/or ourselves mean??? That's a strange question. I mean, strange that one would not know this already, at a very...
I wanted to redress this. My last comment came off as a bit too snarky for my own tastes. My apologies. The latter... Which domain sets out what all t...
Interesting thread Banno. Just to set aside any misunderstanding, I do not think that conceptual schemes inhere in the mind without or prior to langua...
Everything. What is the minimum criterion that need be met prior to our assent that the candidate under consideration qualifies as a case of reason, o...
All attribution of meaning consists of correlations drawn between different things. I would not pursue a question about the meaning of descriptive sta...
Aww. That's too bad. There is so much more to enjoy. They are identical at their core. All correlation. The separation only applies in situations wher...
All thought and belief statements consist of predication. All prediction is correlation. Not all correlation is predication. All thought and belief co...
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