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The sheer number of agents who were working with American government and have come up either missing or murdered since Trump left office hasn't been o...
October 02, 2022 at 17:50
That just seems way too convoluted and theory laden... Seems to me like there's nothing more to the book being in Michael's room than the book, the ro...
October 02, 2022 at 17:40
That's how to avoid anthropomorphism. The notions of 'linguistically mediated thought' and 'language capable beings' don't - ahem - can't.
October 02, 2022 at 16:51
Seems to me that we're perfectly capable of understanding what sorts of thoughts are exclusive to humans and what sorts are not. It would make no sens...
October 02, 2022 at 06:03
I think we can in both principle and practice. It takes knowledge of what the difference is between language less creatures' belief and language users...
September 06, 2022 at 15:56
How do we(or you) avoid anthropomorphism?
September 05, 2022 at 23:09
It's all about the content of the belief Sam. I think you would agree that believing a mouse is under the stove depends upon the prior existence of a ...
September 05, 2022 at 19:22
That first sentence is very long, but the more I read it over, the more it looks like a partially formed incomplete thought. Be that as it may, I've t...
September 05, 2022 at 18:20
One consideration worth mentioning... An overlap happens between language less creatures' belief and belief of language users. The overlap could be re...
September 05, 2022 at 07:02
In the bottom quote above you are doing what you said we could not do in the top quote. In addition, we've also arrived at incoherency/self-contradict...
September 05, 2022 at 06:36
Only after we first stipulated what counted as eleven meters. Not before. The fact that the tree is eleven meters tall is existentially dependent upon...
September 05, 2022 at 05:39
We may be talking about different trees. The one in my front yard is most certainly outside of language. The term "tree" consists of meaningful marks....
September 05, 2022 at 04:35
I'm not defending that use of "linguistic fact" or "non-linguistic" fact. All kettles were, are, and will forever remain to be, existentially dependen...
September 05, 2022 at 04:26
Makes sense to me thus far... The tree is outside of language, perception, and belief is it not? A kettle? Not so much.
September 05, 2022 at 03:28
Hey Sam, sorry about the delay. Doctor visit. I think we agree much more than the above seems to suggest. Could you re-read that post and tell me at w...
September 05, 2022 at 03:18
That's the bit directly above that seems to be untenable in the same way that Kant's Noumena is.
September 04, 2022 at 22:24
When and where there has never been language there could have never been stoves. That sums up the difference between our views it seems. The object th...
September 04, 2022 at 22:15
Understood. I do strive for agreement with myself though. :wink:
September 04, 2022 at 21:08
Indeed. Gives me time to do this though! lol. Cannot move around as usual, otherwise I would not be doing this. There are more real life results based...
September 04, 2022 at 21:05
Like the shingles virus that I'm currently suffering from... :yikes:
September 04, 2022 at 19:52
I do not completely agree with Davidson or Witt. There are important differences at a fundamental level between their views and my own. My and your vi...
September 04, 2022 at 19:50
I may or may not be one of those philosophers, but I do think common language is capable of being precise enough. Language can be honed. For example, ...
September 04, 2022 at 19:32
Not necessarily use against what you said so much as attempting to makes sense of how the 'actual world' posited earlier fit into the carving. You've ...
September 04, 2022 at 16:59
That's a common scenario around here.
September 04, 2022 at 00:42
I would agree.
September 03, 2022 at 23:27
Are you carving your initials into a tree or your perception, conception, and/or impressions?
September 03, 2022 at 23:26
The problem for others is conspiracy to defraud the US, seditious conspiracy, obstructing an official proceeding, amongst others....
September 03, 2022 at 20:13
Would not put it past 'them' to steal an election... Right. Especially given how they had replaced as many of the decision makers as they possibly cou...
September 03, 2022 at 20:09
Given the strict chain of custody standards concerning the information itself, it can be known if anything is still missing. If that ends up being the...
September 03, 2022 at 19:56
Sam, do you think our everyday language is insufficient for explaining the Liar and/or all its permutations?
September 03, 2022 at 19:27
If that were the case, then there would be no substantive difference between illusions of trees and perception of trees.
September 03, 2022 at 19:23
Looks a lot like a cool marble from a vantage point far enough away in space. We have pictures. I'm surprised you haven't seen one. Maybe you've forgo...
September 03, 2022 at 08:42
I agree that language less belief can be put into propositional form. That's how we present it to one another. Our ability to render language less bel...
September 03, 2022 at 08:27
You posited an actual world then clearly stipulated a forbidden access/purchase to/upon that actual world. You then posited your experience as another...
September 03, 2022 at 05:29
How can you know that if you cannot access it, if your perception and conceptions cannot have purchase on it?
September 03, 2022 at 02:08
Facts give the meaning of true sentences? I don't see the benefit in what you're doing. Maybe I do not understand. Getting rid of the distinction betw...
September 03, 2022 at 02:07
How else can you know that the one is not the other if not by performing a comparison/contrast between the two purportedly distinct things? In order t...
September 03, 2022 at 01:54
That pulls the rug out from under our own analysis, does it not?
September 02, 2022 at 08:37
Submission of all our propositions to an unknowable actuality?
September 02, 2022 at 08:33
This presupposes that such an agreement is not already complete in the making aside from making it outwardly known. :wink: From where I sit Banno, you...
September 02, 2022 at 05:33
This is very close to what makes the most sense to me regarding falsification/verification. If we nix "it's true that" and swap "idea" with meaningful...
September 02, 2022 at 05:02
Rest easy Sam...
September 02, 2022 at 02:24
Indeed. Logical notation takes account of common language use, or at least that's what it's supposed to be doing!
September 02, 2022 at 02:15
It's all about that which is existentially dependent upon language and that which is not. We need language to draw and maintain that distinction, so o...
September 02, 2022 at 02:13
Janus, while that is true, it is also true that "cat" is meaningless beyond what is communally perceived and conceived to be a cat. Cats, however, do ...
September 02, 2022 at 01:51
Difficulty indeed. There's no rejection of truth there Banno. Not in the least. What I've done is begin to point out that of all the notions of "truth...
September 02, 2022 at 01:44
Four suits. Jan. 6. Georgia. New York suit. Now Mar-A-Lago. Still early in the last but, the new pic is worth a thousand words. Conspiracy to defraud ...
September 01, 2022 at 15:29
Trump is done. :fire:
September 01, 2022 at 06:28
Because correspondence to fact is presupposed within all belief about the world, the presupposition of truth connects all thinking believing creatures...
September 01, 2022 at 05:06