And it is the painstaking task of setting out the opposing criterion for what counts as being wrong that helps guide understanding and many times will...
We have to know what a position is claiming in order to know whether or not we can check to see if it's true. That is, we have to know what a statemen...
This is the kind of response that leaves me unimpressed. The question at hand is what counts as being meaningful. That is, what is the criterion - whi...
We cannot check to see if a metaphysical position is true, therefore they are without meaning? :worry: C'mon Janus. You know better. Furthermore, how ...
I think I have read Pseudo correctly. Here's where I asked and s/he answered that very question in the affirmative... That's not the argument s/he mad...
It wouldn't be an argument that is self-contradictory. It would be the inevitable result of holding a position. Heraclitus' position is untenable. The...
So the argument is that when two opposing/contradictory metaphysical camps have contradictory criteria for what counts as wrong, when either calls the...
Explanatory power is one way to 'gauge' or measure the power of a metaphysical theory. Coherency(lack of self contradiction) is yet another. Given mul...
As hinted at in the earlier post of mine, I would tend to agree with all this... There indeed can be a difference between experiencing some emotion or...
Interesting thread. After a few hours of careful reading, and in line with the current vein of thinking here, I'd like to address two things. First, t...
Mental states on exhibition are only and always only talked about in ways familiar to the observing speaker. Who's to say that they've gotten things r...
I wouldn't equate the two. Emotion is an integral part. Personally, I do not find these mental states very understandable at all aside from experienci...
Propositional attitude is one's belief(or lack thereof) about whether or not a proposition is true. That would be belief about the truth of a statemen...
The interesting part of psychology is that it shows how one's mental state is directly affected by how one comes to terms with events. One can change ...
If we take mental state to be a state of mind, then this becomes a rather simple and boring exercise... All states of mind are 'determined' by the emo...
So, I've worked out the answer to your earlier question of why all correlation constitues being belief. All belief consists of it. It presupposes trut...
This topic is of particular interest to me. I hope to convey my thoughts on the matter affectively. Discourse about belief is the most important philo...
I've arrived at the conclusion that belief is not existentially dependent upon our awareness of it. It is not existentially dependent upon language. R...
Do you believe what you write Banno? Denying belief? :joke: Word games are inadequate here. I know you're musing, but do you want to get serious about...
By whom Banno? Have you directly addressed what I've said? The answer(s) to your questions? A recap... You claimed belief was empty, or words to that ...
Performative contradiction. Incoherence. Self-contradiction. Poor language use. We think that the keys are here or there. We look here or there. No ke...
In defense of Banno's notion of "belief" being used as a placemarker for falsehood. He's right. However, that's only one sense of the word "belief". P...
It's not wrong. You've misunderstood what I'm getting at. Belief statements can be both true and false. We agree there. True belief has something adde...
Redundancy is about meaning Banno, not truth. "Is true" is redundant as a result of being superfluous. It adds no further meaning to belief statements...
Well. We're looking for what counts as belief; a criterion of necessary and sufficient conditions which when met by a candidate warrants our calling t...
It may be worth noting that some belief(particularly those about the rules of language) may be nothing more than an attitude towards a proposition. I'...
So... We have belief, belief statements, and belief reports... Reports account for that which existed prior to the report. "I believe" is always follo...
Try drawing and maintaining the distinction between belief and belief statements. That would be most helpful. Belief can be put into the form of an at...
The universe is everything on my view. All that was. All that is. I am neither a dualist, nor a monist. Consciousness is emergent. It is a matter of e...
What needs done here is painstaking. Taxonomy. I would agree that belief statements can be put in form of propositional attitude. Not all belief consi...
This doesn't square with everyday common knowledge. Conscious Space(whatever that is supposed to refer to) is in the universe, right? Everything in th...
Remember Jack has belief but no capability to have an attitude towards a statement/proposition. That is one of the problems with the earlier conceptio...
Remember that distinction between reports of belief and belief. Putting a belief into the form of a propositional attitude does two remarkable things....
So... I just wanted to scrutinize the earlier claim about IQ testing and what the results warranted. Someone claimed that doing well on an IQ test onl...
Yes. The same I've been using. Normal parlance does just fine. The problem is the language use itself. The very notion of "A Conscious Red experience"...
That's just the way it is. Oddly worded question my friend. Would you ask the same if I had asserted all belief presupposes it's own truth? Are you as...
The problem is the language use. Some frameworks are ill suited for taking proper account of that which exists in it's entirety prior to our discovery...
"Dark Matter" and "Dark Energy" are the names of that which was found to be missing from recent conventional model. "Consciousness" has no such origen...
All statements are predication. All predication is correlation. Not all correlation is predication. All correlation is belief. Not all belief is predi...
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