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Claiming that philosophy operates at a level even more fundamental than truth is troublesome. I agree that one's framework allows us to talk about tru...

You're not making any sense at all. In order to change law a law body must be involved.

You're confused. The thread is about how language effects/affects thought, belief, and behaviour, with an initial aim on how Giuliani used the terms "...

This will be my only attempt to get this conversation going in the direction it ought be, according to the main thrust of the thread. Laws governing t...

Jeez. I gotta take the time to read this thread... carefully. Again, excellent OP. I'm being reminded... strongly reminded... of Quine's "Ontological ...

Excellent OP Street. I want to critique the blog post you've argued in favor of, but not until I've given it due attention. Odd. I find much agreeable...

As if rationality alone is possible without sensory input... Quine is relevant here...

Hypocrisy is not when one acts contrary to one's beliefs or expressions thereof. That would be inconsistency and/or self-contradictory behaviour. Hypo...

Wow. I'm left wondering what the term "belief" is referring to here. You posit a notion of belief. You argue for that notion. You find that the notion...

The rules that elected officials must follow are most certainly a legal matter. The last statement needs a thorough unpacking. There is no clear conne...

Yup. Particularly when digging with certain kinds of schemes(linguistic frameworks; schools of thought;etc.) It seems quite clear to me at least, that...

Such people are irrational and ok with it. If enough people are ok with being irrational, then being irrational becomes the accepted known norm... Tha...

If all you meant was "equal under the law" then we've no disagreement. Keep in mind here that not all law applies to all people. Some laws apply to th...

All this is for what? Seems to me that one could just ask for a definition of a key term if one feels that the authors' usage is questionable for what...

No. All things one wants to hide ought be protected under privacy? Red Herring. It's not the orgasm that is harmful when an elected official is unfait...

This is as aside, however, Trump has shown some flaws of American politics and culture(for that matter) to those capable of noticing. Most don't. Trum...

Why assume that they aren't? They clearly are, otherwise they wouldn't neglect to speak about the ones they find damaging, and openly espouse the one'...

The runner was either safe or not. The opinions differ accordingly and they are what's subject for dispute. What happened is indisputable. The distinc...

You've missed the point. How we come to terms with things directly affects/effects our thought, belief, and subsequent behaviour(s). Using terms in th...

Regarding Giuliani's 'truth'... People have conflicting opinions about what happened or is happening(the facts). It does not follow from that that tru...

Giuliani is conflating truth, fact, and opinion. His speech is self-contradictory and ought be shown for exactly what it is. These are important matte...

Here is where philosophy and narrative are important... Belief is not truth. All folk may have their own belief about the facts. They do not have thei...

That's another matter, and it is equally important here. Michael actually put the interview forth in a link. The words... by themselves... do not offe...

You're thinking about your own belief frank... One must first have belief, and the capability to think about it, prior to being able to think about it...

This conclusion isn't true Banno. We know that dishonest/insincere behaviour happens. Thus, we know that behaviour alone does not always show belief(p...

One can act in a way that contradicts what they believe? Not true unless speaking insincerely counts as acting in a way. Here, there need to be a dist...

There are different kinds of belief. We all know this. We can take account of these kinds by virtue of looking at the different sense of the term "bel...

A very young child, around a year old, cannot yet walk so she is in a walker. She is moving around as she can in this walker. At her fingertips, on th...

Jack has true belief. All belief presupposes it's truth(as it's own correspondence to fact/reality). Non-linguistic belief coincidentally achieves thi...

As a result, we can further know that knowledge can be gleaned by creatures' incapable of meaningful utterance. All of this follows from a notion of "...

One argues for their claims. This is done by setting out the ground. The act of convincing another(the justification process) that one's claim is just...

I suspect that there's a bit of underlying confusion here... old epistemological mistakes rearing their head.

This isn't quite right either... Some knowledge is not existentially dependent upon it's being demonstrated. The fire example. The child can know that...

This is a contradiction on it's face Banno. If we could say that his behaviour is explained by virtue of his believing the world is flat, and setting ...

And... it follows that your earlier notion of "belief" cannot take proper account of this everyday situation. It follows that the child's belief is no...

A dog barks at the mailman... What can we say about this dog's behaviour, as it pertains to language and belief? Well. Knowing what the dog is thinkin...

I think that if Mueller finds evidence of severe wrongdoing on Trump's part, they will offer him a way out, if they can keep it under wraps... and it ...

That would require a candidate who shares them. Unfortunately, American government has not been representing the overwhelming majority of it's citizen...

Placebo proves beyond a reasonable doubt that belief has efficacy... and can be quite powerful in it's manifestations/instantiations...

We can look towards an angry person, and know by their behaviour that they are in an angry state of mind. That is, the anger is strongly influencing w...

Uh. No. I'm asking you to justify your claims, particularly the ones involving "phenomenal states". I'm asking you to set out the criterion which - wh...

Hey Hanover. I know that the above isn't a reply to me, however seeing that I have a healthy respect for Banno's position, I am one of the ones who ta...

That's a concession of sorts Banno... :wink:

I'm actually leaning towards the conclusion that what is happening between Jack and Banno is a rudimentary sort of language. I find myself observing m...

The reason why "is true" becomes a redundant use of language is because all belief presupposes it's own truth. That doesn't make correspondence with f...

So we say that Jack acts as if he believes the food bowl is empty. Jack behaves in such a way that has, in the past, led to Banno feeding him. Jack ha...

A very young child, say crawling on fours still, can learn that touching fire hurts by touching fire. They do not learn that "touching fire hurts" is ...

Well, I find it unacceptable for one to pursue a path of language use while denying that "belief" names some thing, at least in some senses of the ter...

Here, the "such and such" and the "something" are both statements. To believe 'something' is to act as if it is true. Note here that "it" - when taken...

Could it be the case that the so-called "hard problem of consciousness" is nothing more than a consequence of ill-conceived notions? I think so. "Expe...