People do not always accurately represent their own thought and belief. It does not follow from that that belief is inadequate ground for an explanati...
The belief as attitude notion is not entirely wrong. Some belief is an attitude towards a particular assertion/statement/proposition. Think Gettier's ...
At first blush, that may seem crazy. However, think on it a bit. There can be no introspection without language. Language is social. Introspection req...
Indeed, but this is still a bit too narrow. I would only add that not all beliefs are simple things. However, it seems rather clear to me that all bel...
From another thread, but relevant here... At conception, no creature is capable of drawing a correlation, connection, and/or association between that ...
The distinction between looking internally(talking to oneself about oneself and the world) and external(looking towards others' behaviour to show beli...
There's no way to talk about the points that make up a circle without using all the talk about the points that make up a circle. There are no points o...
Some of this actually supports my last claim. It seems we agree on some stuff. Having lived around these sites as long as I have, I'm prone to temper ...
Agreed. I was more making the point about the importance of language. Namely, the framework being used and how it will limit and/or delimit what can b...
Introspection is existentially dependent upon social constructs... There is no such thing as introspection... aside from asking others about ourselves...
At conception, no creature is capable of drawing a correlation, connection, and/or association between that which becomes symbol and that which become...
All meaning is attributed solely by virtue of this correlational process. As it pertains to all things ever thought, believed, spoken and/or written.....
It is worth noting that we work from different notions of fact. To directly answer the question... If I were to render "the cat is on the mat" as the ...
There are simple techniques for building bridges of mutual understanding, even when two people hold opposing views. I mean, it's no secret that some f...
Like I said... I've presented arguments for my position. Address those in an acceptable manner, or present your own, and I'll gladly critique those as...
Bald assertions won't do here Janus. Read the thread. Quote me where you disagree. Show me what I've claimed that is false, and then explain what make...
So now your argument is that you can know that "X" is not and could not be claiming anything empirically determinable without ever knowing what "X" me...
There are certain things which exist in their entirety prior to our becoming aware of them, and prior to language itself. Truth(as correspondence to t...
Too much unnecessary language use only results in adding nothing more than unnecessary confusion to the discussion. There's no need for all this talk ...
It seems we disagree about whether or not knowledge about the determinability of a meaningful statement can be acquired without knowing what is meant ...
It's not so much that I'm trying to show a difference. Rather, I'm attempting to ensure where the agreement is so that we can further progress the dis...
I was speaking loosely. Too much so, apparently. By "you" and "we" I mean someone has to know what the claims mean in order to know that they are unve...
Ah. Nice. It's always good to see that modern science is conducting experiments which support the position I hold. I'm lucky here too, I guess. I mean...
I would think that you've overstated the case here. Seems to me that in order for a will to be free, it must be free from influence, which is clearly ...
This suffers the same fatal flaw that the argument from illusion suffers. A simulation is of something other than itself. The word is nonsensical if n...
Problems surely arise when there are incommensurate notions of what counts as being "wrong". If we have a debate where what counts as being "wrong" is...
All meaning is the result of drawing correlations, associations, and/or connections between things. Last I checked, the SEP categorized all theories o...
Speaker A says "X". Listener B doesn't understand "X". Therefore, "X" is meaningless. That is the argument underwriting your contributions here. It's ...
The interesting thing here is that what we call such debates is not irrelevant. Rather, I've been objecting to calling them "meaningless" and I've mor...
Again, this is just plain false on it's face. Almost every word has multiple accepted uses. Each different in it's own way. That is precisely what mak...
Words don't do things all by themselves. Rather, we do things with words. We use the word "meaningless" to identify that which is without meaning. Car...
An appropriate response would be of higher utility. This one is irrelevant. We were discussing an example of a speaker and a listener who share common...
Well this is just specious on it's face, my friend. It quite simply does not follow from the fact that the same sentence has different and wide rangin...
Indeed. However, you've neglected the point being made. Let's see if it can be made clearer. We can verify that different senses of the same term are ...
Well, verifiability/falsifiability works from observation and repeatability. We're checking to see if what's claimed corresponds to actual events. The...
Fair enough Pseudo. Clearly there is distinction between holding that all unverifiable statements are meaningless and holding that charges of unverifi...
You seem prepared to offer alternative accounts and/or apologetics for historical issues raised across the spectrum here. That's good, and you'll get ...
I've bracketed my own presumptive portion(that you believe what you write)... Is that a true account? I would venture to say yes, for it is copied ver...
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