Over the years, I've come to realize that parsing the issues in terms of linguistic and non-linguistic belief is fraught, it quite simply does not wor...
To the best of my knowledge, current convention denies that language less creatures can even have belief, to remain consistent with holding that all b...
My position is that some belief do indeed have propositional content, but not all. This was explained thoroughly enough in the first three posts of yo...
I agree on both points above. There seems to be some special pleading going on, at a bare minimum. Inconsistent terminological use, certainly. That's ...
I agree on the points you make here. The false equivalency, it seems to me, comes as a result of using the belief that approach for a task it's not su...
I may be of little help or interest here, I'm afraid. This seems to be from speech act theorists(Austin, Searle, Ryle???), and I'm not familiar enough...
I'd be honored to offer my feedback to such a carefully well-crafted post. Due to personal time constraints, ease of reading, the desire to offer subs...
Rendering the content of something into propositional form warrants neither concluding that the content is propositional nor that the thing is an atti...
Unspoken is not language less in the relevant sense. Language less means that they exist in their entirety prior to language. Propositions that someho...
Some folk hold that all belief amounts to an attitude towards a proposition. This seems to be the basis of Banno's arguments as well. I've already lev...
I am still quite content with the first three posts in the debate. If you'd like to discuss these, I'd be happy to oblige and grateful to have piqued ...
That's the general structure used to describe, report upon, take an account of, and/or make some statement about anothers' belief. Do you not draw a d...
But why demand this? Who is arguing otherwise? It does not follow from this that the content of all belief is propositional. It follows that the prese...
Understood. Good to know. So many terms are loaded and around here, it's far too easy to get distracted by futile arguing over semantics/definitions, ...
A pattern? Not my choice of descriptions... All thought consists entirely of correlations drawn between directly and indirectly perceptible things. We...
I reject the mental/non mental dichotomy as well as the subject/object dichotomy upon grounds of inadequate explanatory power. Not all things are one ...
That's not the way I talk. I reject the very notion of 'mental objects'. What does that have to do with anything. We think about trees too, but trees ...
I've no idea what you're trying to say here. What's the significance of encapsulating the term keyboard in quotes? Are you referring to the word or wh...
Have I misrepresented the position you argue for/from? You most certainly have just misrepresented mine. Misattributing all those uses of language to ...
When I'm heading towards the shed out back, the ducks about my residence can and most certainly do believe that they are about to be fed. They do this...
Upon what ground are you stating that language-less creatures' belief has no capacity to be true or false, unless there are such things as non-linguis...
He is much more averse to metaphysics than I. He places higher value upon propositional logic than I. He places propositions in a more fundamental rol...
Aren't you merely using the keyboard to state your thoughts? Are you merely expressing your thoughts about thought here via common language use? You s...
If you're asking me about what 'connects' our thoughts to each other, I would only say that that seems to presuppose some need for something other tha...
Could you elaborate? Are you referring to the time period between thoughts? I'm not sure we're on the same page here. What I wrote there was simply th...
What I mean is that all thought is existentially dependent upon physical things. The periodic table of elements and all that that current conventional...
That's odd... We cannot sensibly swap these words whenever and wherever we chose. That inability to remain sensical when doing so tells me - quite cle...
What we're attempting to describe existed in it's entirety long before we began attempting to take it into account. Sure, the terms we use are pivotal...
Scientific reasoning has it's limits. Those are often ignored by some using scientific knowledge. Science, for example, has nothing at all to say abou...
See where you began with "therefore"? We use that term to indicate that a logical conclusion comes next. What you wrote after "therefore" did not foll...
It makes no sense to me to wonder what 'connects our thoughts'. Very very roughly put:Our thoughts connect us to that which is not as well as ourselve...
I've no particular conventional understanding in mind. Indeed, philosophy proper hasn't gotten much right at all as far as human thought goes. I work ...
I think we have, considerably. The notion of "what connects our thoughts" is problematic itself. It's based upon an understanding that led itself to a...
Banno and myself have very similar views, but there are crucial differences. He is more Wittgensteinian than I. Much more actually. However, although ...
I've explained my objection above, for the third time. Yes, I can explain how thought works. I would not talk in terms of "thought connections" for al...
Well, as astute as Hume was regarding some things, his notion of thought is found sorely wanting. His understanding worked from the notion of percepti...
The 'problem' amounted to conflicting understandings is all. I mean, yours and my own, respectively. We have two very different notions of what counts...
If morality is always about what should or should not be done in some particular situation or another, and a society is a group of individuals that ha...
Cannot. That is exactly the point. Talking in terms of "thought connections" like the OP chose to do is an inadequate method for better understanding ...
Perhaps there will be less of a surprise. The problem is that Trump and his supporters in the House and basically the entire right wing conservative m...
What would happen to this endeavor if all thought consisted of connections? We would be exploring the possibility of connections connections... See th...
It seems more and more evident that there certainly was an attempt to stop the peaceful transition of power, and that that effort was coordinated on m...
Witt is wrong. The limits of our language do not represent the limits of our world. They most certainly do represent the limits of what we can sensibl...
In response to the OP... The cloth was not a cow. The farmer believed the cloth was a cow. All Gettier problems are accounting malpractices of an othe...
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