What do you want Sapientia? I say that "John believes something" says nothing more than "John has belief". You say otherwise, but fail to provide any ...
If John had belief, then John believed something... That is the claim in question... What more is there to 'something' aside from John's belief? I agr...
False analogy. "John believed something" is not equivalent to a definition. Nor is "John has belief" equivalent to A=A. You'll have to do better than ...
You're not making any sense to me Sapientia. I don't care who's fault a misunderstanding is. Of course what I said recently was put differently than b...
The second issue is about saying that John believed something... What does "John believed something" say that "John has belief" does not? What more is...
Belief that an event will not happen is belief about the event. The event is what happens. The belief is that what happens(the event) will not. If the...
Statements like "John believed something" are what Witt called the "bewitchment" of language... There's nothing more to the purported 'something' than...
Your criticism shows a lack of understanding and is nothing more than gratuitous assertion. A hand-waving gesture. You may as well just say that you d...
Reasons do not make things true/false. It's not a point about unreasonable beliefs. It's a point about what it takes in order to even be able to belie...
What you call trivial is crucial to understanding what you later called "mimicry". His argument is about grammar/syntax. I've shown that it doesn't al...
I agree with this, at face value. Our reasoning is remarkably different however... One thing worth mention here... All interpretation is of that which...
I'm still waiting for you to explain the problem mentioned in the first sentence above. It does not follow from the fact that we have all sorts of kno...
It is utterly inadequate for understanding the belief you've inferred. It's not a matter of 'inadequate to whom'. It's a matter of being inadequate fo...
That's why they've gotten so little right... epistemic luck. In my experience, from what I've seen with regard to the descriptions and/or explanations...
It seems to me that if we need to redefine the terms "language" and "syntax" in order to make sense of our viewpoints, then we are much better off coi...
An interesting thing to consider here is how one's language use helps to determine how one 'sees' the world. This is better put a bit differently... W...
Revisiting Jack... Can Jack believe that his bowl is empty if he has no conception of being empty and/or being full? Jack can see the bowl, despite hi...
I cannot answer your question if you do not answer mine... On my view, with my very limited understanding, there is no syntax of any kind without lang...
By looking at examples of belief, we are looking at uses of the term... at first. I mean where else is there to begin. Some of these uses are quite co...
Some... belief is prior to language. All belief is meaningful. Some meaning is prior to language. I'm not sure what else it is that you're going on ab...
A very young child has a pacifier. S/he drops it and begins to search around for it, looking and feeling around. Certainly the child believes that it ...
One who doesn't know that buildings can fall down, cannot believe that they won't. A cat walks down the same street as one who was in New York City on...
This is similar to many an account of belief being expressed here in this thread. To believe that this or that will not happen, one must first believe...
The chickens in the yard believe that they're about to get fed when hearing the sound of the food container lid being opened. They do not believe that...
Without a clear criterion for what counts as belief, at a minimum, there is no means for establishing which account of belief, based upon behaviour, i...
What about during language acquisition? The student must first believe that something is there prior to believing that it is(called) a brick, and then...
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