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I took note of the same thing...

Nice. I want to revisit a few things you wrote earlier, and take it from there. This looks like an interesting direction. I'd pose the following quest...

If the truth or falsity of "X" is dependent upon interpretation, and there are three different interpretations of "X", all of which conflict with one ...

Greetings Fafner... Having read through some of your earlier responses in this thread, I'm wondering if you'd be interested in revisiting some of it, ...

By the way... begging the question is an informal 'fallacy'. There are times, particularly when one is setting out their own axioms, definitions, key ...

I assumed(perhaps erroneously) that you were one in the same as MetaphysicianUndiscovered, if not my apologies. Not sure what false accusations I've l...

You've added just one more gross misrepresentation of another's position Meta. One must first understand another's position before one can effectively...

I've nothing further to add Meta. Let he who has eyes... :-}

This post is for the interested reader... Meta wrote the following: Sometimes stating the obvious is the best starting point. I was simply looking for...

Ok Meta, this conversation doesn't look promising, as it seems that we cannot agree upon some fundamental issues. This post aims to sort some stuff ou...

Hey Sapientia! I play around from time to time. That thought/belief thing is a pillar of my position. ;)

Davidson(I think) and others arrived at the notion that if and when a listener knows what it would take for a statement to be true, then s/he knows wh...

Thought/belief consists entirely in/of mental correlations drawn 'between' objects of physiological sensory perception and/or the agents own 'state of...

That is false. Interpretation of a claim is not a truth condition for the claim. You're conflating conditions of shared meaning with truth conditions....

You wrote: It was addressed. The attribution of truth is not truth. We can mistakenly attribute truth just as we can mistakenly presuppose it.

A skilled businessman need not be a good one. If profit is the sole measure of being a good business man, then any and all means to increase profit ar...

Interesting conversation... I would think that one's idea of who they are is built entirely upon how they've learned to talk about themselves and othe...

Just a bit of criticism regarding this part... This seems quite confused. The objective/subjective dichotomy adds nothing but unnecessary confusion. I...

Plato's and Aristotle's notion(s) of form is/are based upon an unproven premiss that assumes precisely what needs to be argued for. On my view, both u...

Well Meta, you and I have had quite nuanced discussions involving the differences in our positions. These have ranged from things similar to what you'...

You wrote: No, it doesn't. It makes the attribution of truth subjective. The objective/subjective dichotomy cannot take an account of that which requi...

I would question something however... If it is the case that prelingual experience consists, in part at least, of thought/belief then that experience ...

Well put.

Whoa. I missed this bit... How could we go about setting out the cat's meaning? Saying that she sharpens her claws on it and hunts birds in it reports...

This last statement presupposes that we have understanding and/or some knowledge of the emergence of language within our species. There are little to ...

Those amidst language acquisition doubt neither sense perception nor the truthfulness of what their being taught.

You wrote: Children come to know and learn language through first watching it's use, drawing correlations between situation and state of mind.

You wrote: By and in large Thinker, our viewpoints seem to be in agreement. It seems that they may differ a bit in the details(taxonomy perhaps). Thes...

Indeed... Koko's story can be compelling. I haven't carefully examined it in a while, and when I have, I quickly found that Koko's trainer seemed to b...

Nice. That's the common-sense take. Conventional correspondence theory gets mired in attempting some type of one to one nonsense between propositions ...

Indeed. I did notice that I left out the "excess" part and have since corrected that. That's nothing intentionally done on my part, nor did it make a ...

I've no idea what could possibly lead you to say something like that... Ah well...

Suggestions for what, exactly? Given the rough start here, I'm uncertain what you are asking me for.

I was interested in what I thought you meant Wos...

What other problems are there besides emotional, social, and any other area of life? On my view, you seemed to be saying "Just like all problems(in an...

You sure?

Hey Wos! Self requires other. Not sure if all problems point to an excess or deficiency, but that's an interesting thing to say...

"Seeing self-contemplation" is a tricky way to talk. Self-contemplation happens in more than one way, and does so quite differently, depending of cour...

You wrote: Gestures are not marks.

This works from the dubious presupposition that being a thing is what allows introspection(metacognition). We can think about our own thought/belief b...

On my view there is an interesting distinction between a state of mind and thinking about one's own thought/belief. The latter is introspection. Being...

The ability to contemplate one's thought/belief is metacognition. Metacognition is existentially contingent upon the ability to isolate one's own thou...

What is sensory data, and does containing it equate to being about it?

I suppose this marks a good time for the following:Thought/belief is accrued and gains in it's complexity over a sufficient time period. A thought nee...

You wrote: Thoughts are things. Some thought is about stuff. Others are more simple in constitution and facilitate the very ability for our thinking a...

You wrote: It's not that difficult to understand. When one says "Well put, for simplicity's sake" it need be neither a compliment nor a put down. You ...

You wrote: That doesn't follow from what was written.

It seems that your notion of cognition is not equivalent to my notion of thought/belief. On my view, not all stimulus/response situations involve thou...

A bird can play a role in human thought/belief formation without the resulting thought/belief being about a bird.

Is there any sense of "truth" that is not existentially contingent upon language? Perhaps this be better put a bit differently:Does any sense of "trut...