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Interesting stuff! :smile:

I was just taking that line of thinking to it's logical conclusion... :wink:

Well put. :up:

:meh: There are already far too many such ideologues.

Hmmm. Something just dawned on me... Given the breadth of differences between societal, familial, and/or cultural mores in addition to the fact that s...

Trees, mice, birds, inanimate objects, many directly perceptible things, celestial bodies, causality... Off the top of my head.

I know, right. And sometimes some people act as if others are stating such things even though they haven't... Jeesh. Some folk, huh?

Lost interest in this discussion with you... I'll continue my assessment, further reading and review in spite of your absence. Be well.

Is anything you consider as something an animal believes equivalent to the animal's belief, or is it best understood as an account thereof?

Well no. As I explained in the last post... We can take a statement out of the context in which it's uttered, and when placed into different sets of c...

This claim is taken upon faith and faith alone. Some people have moral norms and values despite not believing in God. I personally do not believe that...

Collingwood makes the universal claim that each and every statement ever made is made in answer to a question. In order for that to be true, each and ...

I'm all ears.

And yet another question... different once again. How I know that I am ready for bed is different than how I know "I'm ready for bed" is true or how I...

It does not follow from the idea that statements can serve to answer some question relevant to them, that all statements are made in answer to a quest...

Religion filled in the gaps of our ignorance... That's why. End of story.

Is there a point, or counterargument somewhere here? I'm not interested in much else. The question you now ask, for the very first time, is irrelevant...

It's very odd when one, such as yourself, readily accepts the answer given to a question by saying "Sure, of course", only to then ask the same questi...

Indeed. I've said - ad nauseum - that Trump is not the problem, but rather, he is a symptom of underlying problems. Although, in this case of claiming...

When I say "I am ready for bed", I mean that I am tired at the time I say it. Perhaps it had been a long physically or mentally exhausting day, and I ...

Then that's about what counts as being "in logical terms"... My statement is one made in everyday discourse. It is not always made in answer to a ques...

Kudos for actually engaging. I appreciate you keeping the implicit promise that many others did not. Cheers!

Indeed. Science is a method of approach for acquiring knowledge about stuff. Science is neither good or bad. How science is used is another matter alt...

What Trump actually did during the occupation of the capital on Jan. 6 needs to be revealed to the public. He falied to defend the US government. He c...

The rules of logical entailment allow one to change the truth conditions of a statement, as Gettier so aptly demonstrated. That completely changes the...

This is much better. That is amenable to evolutionary progression. It also situates presuppositions prior to common language acquisition(prior to our ...

He looks to have an interesting position...

Just look at all the marvelous lines of thought coming from those who are really good... :death: Really good at doing what, exactly?

I've studied that part many times over. He's just plain mistaken here. His case is not as strong as he'd like it to be. It does not have the universal...

I would agree with the first proposition if and only if it were further subsequently qualified in the following way... The claim "Every statement that...

No, you should not. Generally speaking... Not - for that reason alone - should anyone conclude that some behaviour or another is acceptable or ethical...

I'd be curious to see your work set out.

I too am quite sympathetic. I would like to put his method of analysis to use here; play around with it, so to speak. I've read through around page ei...

I'm only through page 77, but I must say that something about this writing is quite striking to me, particularly that Collingwood keeps metaphysics co...

Sound advice. I, myself, have just recently realized that I had spoken too soon earlier.

Unless you first hold that absolute presuppositions are not claims at all, they are not propounded by those who hold them, and that what makes them wh...

Glad you're reading this. Yes, it's interesting. That term jumped out at me as well. It plays a key role it seems. I've yet to have understood exactly...

Indeed, it has been a pleasurable piece of reading at times. Of particular interest to me is that he avoids using inherently inadequate dichotomous te...

Thanks. I'd be delighted to see what you think. :smile:

In the preface Collingwood states...

To anyone interested, there's no time limit here or strict reading schedule. It seems that most who've expressed interest prior to and since I posted ...

Thanks for that link. I think I've corrected the one in the OP. Good suggestions. Collingwood provided his own definitions though. So, one who knows t...

Cool. Just trying to drum up some interest in carefully reading it... No worries.

In case you may be interested...

Nice. Interesting parallels drawn between RGC and Witt's notion of forms of life, with both emphasizing the importance of language. The difference bet...

No worries, my friend. Looks like we're the only ones who want to read this... :razz: I'm only on page 56, and I'll not be able to spend much more tha...

Talking about the shade of one's skin and devaluing one based upon the color of one's skin are two entirely different sets of circumstances. Being ash...

Extolling the benefits of both common enterprise and private property... A nice way of hedging one's bets, self-contradiction, or just plain insinceri...

Cool. Perhaps another thread is best for getting into the paper itself as a means for better understanding RGC. For myself, at least, I couldn't possi...

The above has been copied and pasted from the essay up to page 31. I think that the above part could use some considered discussion as a means to gras...