That's not true. We can know quite a bit about how biological minds work. It dovetails with knowledge about how all things become meaningful. How stat...
I'm not fond of "information". It smuggles meaning. There are all sorts of language less creatures(creatures devoid of naming and description practice...
Whether or not it is rational to believe that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones depends upon the individual's preexisting worldview. Feath...
Uses the exact same mistaken notion of belief as JTB. I reject both for using that notion of belief. :wink: Another topic. I'll say nothing more here....
I would not say that. You would know your own temper better than I. You're quite right to point out the difficulty of establishing whether or not a ca...
I'm sorry. That post was not reviewed prior to posting. There were half edits going on. As it stood, on my view it was nonsense. :blush: From my own p...
Yes. I was just expanding the scope of what counts as being rational to include more than just the ability to differentiate between accurate and inacc...
For a dog that begins going to the train station at 5 o'clock on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday for all sorts of reasons, including ...
That was a reference to "chess", "checkers, "draughts" language. Words don't play games. You made remarks about playing games. You were not talking ab...
I cannot, however, I'm not sure that being able to differentiate between accurate information and inaccurate information is the measure for rationalit...
Our experience is the same on a basic level. All experience consists of correlations drawn between different things. All thought follows that same pro...
:yikes: A sincere typical neurologically functioning person who tells you what they believe cannot be wrong about what they believe. Their words are t...
Hmmm. That's a fairly tall order to fill. It seems to require a creature capable of testing/comparing the world to it's own beliefs about the world, a...
Can I take this as evidence that your criterion for what counts as "rational" includes something like based upon fact/events/what's happened and/or is...
No... it's not. I've painstakingly explained, on more than one occasion throughout this thread, how thinking about belief is a metacognitive endeavor ...
Well. The dog's behavior could be the result of rational thinking that belongs to a creature incapable of adjusting its belief based upon facts, or th...
Oh no. I'm not heated. Thank you for the considerate apology. No need though. I just don't enjoy personal slights, and you've begun them. I'm just war...
Because the dog is not expecting Ueno to arrive while knowing he may not. Expectation is shown. Hope is articulated in the face of knowing that what o...
He did not name your description. He named the balloon. The balloon consists of rubber. It was flying away. Your descriptions... your concepts... they...
There's a whole lot of presupposition packed up in very few words. Evidently, I've misunderstood your position. You claimed in past, on more than one ...
Guilt is what one experiences when they know they have done something that they believe they should not have done. The dog does not believe that he at...
A child learns to utter "Bye, Bye" in certain situations. The balloon was leaving, and I say that for your benefit, not mine. The child knew it was ti...
Indeed. It's the approach that matters. The correlations drawn by the dog between all the different sights, sounds, smells, etc., exhaust the dog's ex...
That's odd. You say it seems about right to say that dogs cannot hope that something will happen despite knowing it may not, and then attribute hope t...
This troubles me. Let's say that we're reporting upon our neighbor's belief to our significant other. Let us also say that we're aiming at accuracy. W...
I don't see the relevance. I don't think I've made my point clear enough. I'll try a question... Does the dog believe and/or know that the train arriv...
They belong to the dog. They are meaningful to the dog. If that dog has beliefs, then they exist in their entirety regardless of whether or not we tak...
Well, in all fairness, I cringed far too much. Literally, viscerally. To use an intentional stance in a way that attributes agency where none is justi...
Nice input. I'm oblivious to the details of the actual events. My initial interest was piqued in that story regarding whether or not dogs could look f...
That's not true. If the only sense of "thought" and "belief" we employ is the one meant only to make sense of reasons in rational actions, then it may...
Ditto. Daniel Dennett in From Bacteria to Bach and Back, I think is the name of it, goes into the biological mutative aspect in more detail than I ful...
Some find the glorification of being able to use one's status as a means or excuse for committing sexual assault hilarious... evidently. Yup. A concer...
Okay, this is where things could get interesting very quickly. The claim is that the dog has two separate beliefs. What exactly constitutes being two ...
Oh yeah. I meant to comment on this method. Perfectly performed. Pick out simple true statements. Verifiable. Falsifiable. Build upon and with them. K...
Well, I may draw and maintain such distinctions. However, I was not doing that when using the terms "rational thought and thought that is not". Perhap...
The irony. "Waiting to be picked out" is anthropomorphism. That's a very odd thing to say. I didn't, nor would I be willing to assent to that, as it's...
Thinking about X presupposes something to think about, and a creature capable of thinking about X. All creatures capable of thinking about X possess s...
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