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Actually, if you re-read the debate, I've ignored it altogether along with all sorts of other problematic stuff Banno's (mis)attributing to me.

This could not be much farther from truth. Beliefs have no spatiotemporal location, because it would need to cover the entire area between internal an...

All conscious experience is meaningful to the creature having the experience. Consciousness is the ability to attribute meaning. The 'hard problem' of...

Banno, you're now claiming that holding 'X' to be true does not always include 'X', and that holding 'X' to be true does not require considering 'X'??...

Guess what one of the core tenets of my position is?

This is an excellent accompaniment Banno. Prime.

To this... I have not claimed that, and that much is crucial to understand. To quite the contrary, I acknowledged that some belief does... not all. Th...

I would be completely onboard with the idea that language users keep a culture alive, for it is language that transcends generations keeping them all ...

Good questions, but I'm unwilling to discuss the debate here and now, while it's still in process. I will say that the bit about "the way things are" ...

The above conflates what accounting practices require with what that which is being taken into account requires. Another conflation here is between ou...

One lies about what they believe. One is not lying if they believe what they are saying is true. Whether or not it is true doesn't matter. The only wa...

Proof of another creature's belief? :brow: What would count as proof of that for you?

There is an actual difference between a belief and a report/account thereof. Do not conflate the two. We put our reports of another's belief into stat...

One lies about what they believe. One need not know the truth in order to lie.

Some say, and rightly so, that when we believe some proposition or another, that we have a particular sort of attitude towards that proposition, and t...

Is this acceptable?

I do wonder about the topic being a question, but I'm willing to critique your OP, provided it answers the debate question in the affirmative. If the ...

Three is not enough. 1500 sounds good. We could shorten the response time to 72 hrs.

Three is not enough.

Three or five posts each? You changed that... or I misread???

All that sounds good. Minimum/maximum word count per post?

Let's do it.

We need to agree on the debate topic/statement, then set the parameters, right? I'm attempting to get the ball rolling here... I've offered a list of ...

My esteemed and revered interlocutor, for whom I hold much respect, you are talking about what using the term "belief" requires. You are talking about...

I would be willing to argue in the affirmative for "Not all beliefs are about statements", "Beliefs are not always about statements", "Not all belief ...

Millions of doses were purchased by the federal government prior to the FDA approval. Should this be concerning?

If you want me to critique the profile, that would end up being an entirely different debate.

Ok Banno. So, in order to do this proper(and I'm certain we can), we'll need to get approval from the mods and/or administrators, set the parameters o...

Isn't that the reason for long term studies? I mean, isn't it the case that the reason we'll probably never know(this time around) is because we've ne...

The OP is meant as a debate proposal, specifically towards . Although, we've yet to have hammered out a few details. That ought be done in the other p...

Perfect. So, we have a topic. Aren't you the one arguing the affirmative?

Perhaps it's been discussed heretofore, but shouldn't we all have very serious concerns over the drastic shortening of the duration of the field trial...

, get in the ring...

This one... Come on . Here's your big chance to officially "mop the floor" with my ideas... :kiss:

Anyone interested in a more formal approach to this? It's the contention underwriting a few recent threads.

My first response was meant to point out the appeal to omniscience inherent/implicit in so many arguments regarding "seeing the world as it is". My se...

The cat is on the mat? The cup is in the cupboard? The lights are on the Christmas tree? I'm typing on my computer? We're talking about whether or not...

Need we be able to see everything in the world as it is in order to be able to see anything as it is?

"Meaning" is a noun. All nouns are persons, places, or things. That's how English works. Your response is cowardly.

Do you agree?

The linguistic turn ought not result in forgetting that all sorts of stuff existed prior to the accounting practices specifically designed as a means ...

Where's the acceptable theory of meaning at? Where's the explicit account of how meaning first emerges onto the world stage in it's most basic identif...

:rofl:

Exactly.

Sure. All sorts of definitions for "proposition". I do not know, nor understand them all. Banno's use was the one under consideration, as it pertains ...

I've since dropped "mental", and "state of mind" from my account. Seems to work much better. Also dropped "objects", for the reasons given elsewhere(r...

Art doesn't like it when you call her by by name... Sure she can, but I wouldn't advise doing so.

"Qualia" is an empty concept, if it is completely private and ineffable.

I've seen the term rendered as such before. I find it tenuous. A proposition is proposed, it seems. As a result, it requires a creature capable of pro...

Expectation(the kind that is of interest here) is belief about what has not yet happened, belief about what's going to happen, and it's based upon bel...