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If Mary's Room tells us anything at all, it is that we are capable of posting/stipulating an impossible set of circumstances. Mary's Room works from a...

If your point is that I must distinguish between the child and mother when talking about the child and mother, then I must say that I agree, but it's ...

It's said that an unborn child becomes familiar with the sound of it's own mother's voice. That familiarity is the result of correlations draw between...

One cannot even know everything that has been written about the color red without knowing what the term "red" picks out. If that correlation has never...

Seems you're using the term "correlation" as a synonym for any and all connections, including physical causal chains(causality) whereas I'm not. I do ...

I cannot see how anyone who truly agreed with Bernie would. Most stayed home, I'm afraid, as did so many others who just assumed based upon all the po...

That experience consists - in part at least - of physical interactions. Thus, Mary did not know everything physical about the color red.

I do not mind working from a statement/premiss that is so obviously true. Distinguishing between things seems to me to require quite a bit more than j...

Seems to me that you're conflating causal physical systems/interactions with correlations, or more directly, conflating causality and meaning. The for...

Minds are existentially dependent upon brains. Brains are one elemental constituent of minds. I do not say that minds are immaterial. Minds do not hav...

"Show", as in... ???

No. Correlation is existentially dependent upon a creature capable of drawing correlations between different things. So...

Minds consist entirely of thought and belief. Thought and belief... correlations between different things. Correlations are not physical. Not much of ...

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If you're looking for me to defend the use of metaphor when doing science or philosophy, you're wasting your time. Metaphor is a poor substitute for e...

There is no such thing as a selfish gene.

Acting in one's own self-interest(being selfish) is not existentially dependent upon language use. Being metaphorically selfish is being called "selfi...

So there are no such thing as selfish genes.

Are genes capable of acting in their own self-interest?

If minds/consciousness consists of both physical and/non physical elements, then they cannot be properly taken into account in terms of one or the oth...

What does it take for something to be selfish?

If one must admit that rocks have consciousness in order to save their philosophical position, then something else is horribly wrong somewhere along t...

I've read this thread. I want you to answer the question, that way I will not misattribute words or meaning to you.

What does it take in order for something to be metaphorically selfish?

Gibberish.

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The following vein of thought is promising... I would readily agree with this, and would add the following... Promises aside, when an audience takes a...

We do so long as we are setting out a criterion for what all successful communication with speech requires and/or consists of. Not 'special' though, j...

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Who said that it was? I would no longer even be willing to say that the meaningful connection drawn between them is mental. There are no clouds or rai...

How we characterize it matters most here. Mutual understanding, successful communication with speech, arriving at shared meaning, etc. is something th...

Looking for a method to ensure that we agree on the meaning of a sentence or statement is a metacognitive endeavor that is fraught, and puts the cart ...

With regard to avoiding and/or skirting around the psychology, which Davidson seems to want to do... Davidson deliberately states it does not add anyt...

I find that the POE has already been made, just like Roe v Wade. No need for another.

Seems to be a goal he strives for. As far as truth conditional semantics goes, truth conditions play a major role in one's belief statements. Belief s...

"The elites" is too ambiguous.

Unfortunately I cannot open that link. Incompatible user platform, I suspect. I would personally place more importance upon a theory/explanation of me...

Black Lives Matter is a movement that champions fairness and justice; equal treatment under the law. Equal treatment under the law is the standard lyi...

Davidson's approach?

It is a populism based upon fairness and justice that is able to distinguish between law and order and an abuse of power. Do you not see the connectio...

Black Lives Matter

Yeah, Trump's all for law and order unless he's the one it's being enforced against.

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I think we're both saying that Davidson is unjustified in his move to attribute his theory to another. On my view it's a clear conflation between his ...

There's talk of 'covid fatigue' being a cause of increasing case and death numbers. I think that there can and ought be a very strong case made regard...

Something that struck me as rather self-defeating nonsense... Trump is supposed to be running on a law and order type of platform. At least, he loves ...

Aren't we saying much the same thing? :smirk:

The system is beginning to drive a wedge between itself and Trump. Cleave Trump off, and the pre-existing issues that gave rise to Trump remain, but a...

I sense Heraclitus' river coming around the bend...

Davidson's notions of prior and passing theories 'overlap' in odd ways that allow for their evolution one into the other and must, I suspect, in order...