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Witt would never agree that all meaning has the same basic elemental constituency, would he??? His bit about the fact that there is no commonality tha...

Using the same word in a different context is to show all the different ways the term is used. An account of the accounts. What good is that if this a...

I would say that no such entanglement is inevitable. It's not fait accompli. I would also point out that it quite simply does not follow from the fact...

There's been a bit of back and forth between participants regarding whether or not metaphor ought be valued and how/why and/or in what way... A bit of...

This is most agreeable... An inexplicit ground... I've been wondering for quite some time now how it is that so many people think/believe that well-gr...

Again, here I think that I agree wholeheartedly that the attribution of meaning is largely mischaracterized and misunderstood by many of not most phil...

I think there is. I also think that that is not something that we decide. Rather, it is something that we discover to be the case as a result of getti...

I'm always willing to consider an example to the contrary. Got one?

I haven't said that. If... if... if... Sigh... The argument is more nuanced that this... if you cannot follow it, it's not my problem. You could alway...

Semantic holism... Explain a bit? Insert pleading hands...

Not much else to add... It seems that there may be a bit of indirect perception bubbling forth... that is to conflate physiological sensory perception...

Not sure what the term "that" is referring to at the ending... more sophisticated than what? It may not matter, if that is the case then there is no c...

Yes. I see that he skirts around what I'm asserting here regarding the aforementioned distinction being sorely neglected. I mean, there's evidence of ...

He never drew and maintained the crucial distinction between thought/belief and thinking about thought/belief. In his defense, no one else in philosop...

If... is begging the question(in the sense that you're using "begging the question"). Double standard. Your own argument cannot meet your own standard...

Heidegger attempted and failed at understanding the role language has in one's world-view.

The willful pursuit of ignorance...

Putting forth a criterion that has no examples to the contrary has the strongest justificatory ground possible... Call it "terrible" if you want...

There is no evidence to the contrary. What more shewing could one ask for?

Well no. The fact that meaning is existentially dependent upon an external world and meaning exists is all the argument that is necessary.

The cat you see is not something external to you? Really now?

Proof that 'logical' entailment is a misnomer.

So... How do we know which things are exclusive to humans and which things are not? If we do not know that much, how can we possibly know when anthrop...

Yes. It is best to exercise caution about mental states when the only measure of evidence is behavioural observation. It is hard to compare mental sta...

My ducks plough their own bills through the dirt while chasing earthworms after a rain. It seems to me that after this happens enough, the ducks come ...

It is when a plurality of creatures draw correlations between the same things that meaning is shared. It is when a creature draws correlations between...

No, it's not. Thoughts are not mind. Pains are not mind. Vision is not mind. Stars are not the universe. Etc...

I would like one example of the attribution of meaning that does not consist of something to become sign/symbol, something to become significant/symbo...

This seems the wrong way around. If something exists in it's entirety prior to our conception thereof, then we do not make it a foundation. We discove...

I'm thinking about branching off of this topic and beginning a new one that focuses upon what all is involved with language acquisition. Care to join ...

Maybe. Attributing particulars that are exclusive to humans to that which has none is anthropomorphism. One cannot see if these particulars are capabl...

As always Bitter, you've garnered an increase in my respect for you, not to mention the sheer amount of appreciation. I would readily agree with the b...

"A plurality of things" entails whatever I say it does. A plurality is more than one. A thing is anything and everything. A plurality of things is mor...

Very well put.

I think I understand and agree with the gist here. It seems you're skirting around consistency/coherency in language use... or perhaps in the bigger p...

If Socrates is a man and all men are mortal then Socrates is mortal. Does this argument beg the question?

Yeah, Michael is being nice. Ignorance is not a fallacy. Trump is either ignorant of the facts concerning climate change, or is speaking insincerely.

Hear hear...

Yes, yes, and yes...

Seems like you're grouping a bunch of separate philosophical issues together and wanting to address the group on a whole. That would, in my opinion, d...

I object to Kant's notion of Noumena. In order to know that all of our thought and belief about the world and/or ourselves is incomplete in some way, ...

I'm not asking you to defend my argument Michael. To quite the contrary, I'm just asking if you agree that... if the premisses of the argument are tru...

Ok. So, what would it take for the antecedent to be true? If it is true, then solipsism is false.

If the thread is not discussing how to overcome the above, it carries a poorly chosen title...

I thought anthropomorphism was what was happening when someone misattributes things(characteristics, traits, other such commonalities) that only human...

I'm not following you. I'm offering an outline of a deductive argument. I'm looking to discuss the merits of that argument(outline first actually). Ei...

Fiction, falsehood, and prediction all consist entirely of thought and belief about what has not happened. Events do not.

You're making this all a bit too fun for me. Take as much rope as you need.

Talk about fiction is not talk about what has not happened.

Adopting a framework as a means for contemplating it's utility is not self-contradiction. Piddling includes adopting foolish frameworks, and dealing w...