Indeed! Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof/justification/warrant. First things first though. I've already offered a simple easy to under...
Drawing correlations between different things is a basic outline that adds elegance and explanatory power where it's been found lacking(in our account...
I would hope such a person would have knowledge about bats that we do not. Seems reasonable to say that that knowledge could be very useful for acquir...
Given the medium of communication is bereft of all but word use and my tendency to believe I'm talking to an honest person who's seriously interested ...
Indeed. There is no problem at all talking in terms of "the cat believes" as a means to make sense of the cat so long as we do not claim that the cat'...
I take serious issue with the very notion of what-it's-like regardless of the candidate under consideration. It's not like anything at all to be me. W...
The notion is muddled, as you well know. How one 'detects' consciousness is a matter of what they're looking for to begin with, or at least, one goes ...
You're definitely wrong about that! A child that has just been burned as a result of touching fire forms the belief that touching fire caused the pain...
No. Human thought and belief is not the sort of thing that has a precise spatiotemporal location. It's not in the skull. It's not outside the skull. I...
You've misunderstood then. All I've done was point out the fact that outwardly observable behaviour - alone - is not always a reliable means to know w...
I'm not following why you suggest a theory of language as a means to establish what language less belief consists of? What would inferentialism tell y...
We have no other way to contemplate our own thought and belief save common language replete with naming and descriptive practices. That brute fact has...
Good eye! All propositions are existentially dependent upon(emerge via) common language use. They all consist of words. Language less creatures do not...
Which is to prefer doing different things with the very same words/marks. There's nothing - in and of itself - wrong with doing that, and I am quite c...
All of them have... ...gotten human thought and belief, meaning, and/or truth wrong. Not all positions are wrong in the exact same way. Just to be cle...
You're clearly not talking about the same thing. Janus set out a criterion that does not include the 'aspect of feeling' that you've set out. I'm curi...
It already is. No philosopher believes there is no such thing as an external world. The confusion comes as a result of attempting to take account of o...
Yeah, that's weird coming from someone who has been describing how trees become meaningful to complex language users like us, and doing so by setting ...
The implication that seeing a tree requires a "constructive process" is an interesting line leading to very different places in thought, depending upo...
I should have asked a better question. I wanted to see you set out the changing contextual relationships of sense that are rightfully and sensibly app...
It's always peculiar to me when one handwaves away and downright neglects several different arguments, examples, and lines of reasoning while gratuito...
Well sure, but the notion of a tree is not the tree. We actually see the tree, not our notion. My notion of trees is not out in my front yard. The Kuk...
I've little to no issue with any of the above. The question is whether or not those 'actual' parts existed prior to their being named. However, what's...
Exactly. The grouping did not exist in its entirety prior to your 'christening'. I'm talking about things that did. You're talking about things that d...
Less like truth, more like meaning. Confidence and/or certainty that is grounded upon consistent terminological use alone can and should be tempered a...
Human experience existed in its entirety prior to the term "experience". That is a true claim with considerable consequential power. It only follows t...
What appears to you is not a tree, or trees are not objects, or you're not seeing what appeared to you? Colorful regardless of exactly what you mean. ...
I agree. When a community uses words in certain ways, it can be detrimental to the community knowledge base. It can lead to big problems. Word use can...
While I do appreciate some of the changes Witt helped to get going, as well as some of his simple approaches, overall I'm not all that impressed. Afte...
Could be an interesting endeavor. Earlier you wrote the following... The same way two different people may share the same name. They are both called b...
There's never been disagreement regarding that much. It comes as a surprise to know that you thought I did not agree with that much. What made no sens...
The quote function did not transfer the symbols correctly... I am in agreement. The framework treats human thought and belief(human experience) as tho...
What we pick out with "cell" is up to us. Whether or not what we're picking out existed in its entirety prior to being picked out is not. If those thi...
I've no clear idea whether or not those terms pick out things that existed in their entirety prior to being picked out. If so, then those things were ...
If what is being picked out by the name exists in its entirety prior to being picked out then it does not matter one bit if those different uses confl...
Oh, for fuck's sake... The tree in my yard is not a name. The term "tree" is. The term "tree" is used to pick out trees. The same holds for cells and ...
That's what I took him to be saying. "Cell" is a term used to pick out specific biological machinery. That machinery does not need to be picked out in...
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