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Probably so, but they could be characterized in a manner that relates. A problem I see is the often implicit presupposition that consciousness is clea...
October 10, 2020 at 15:58
I appreciate the evolutionary bent.
October 10, 2020 at 06:48
That's a bridge between two things that I've yet to have connected. Intriguing. I suspect that I will not grant meaning or truth to such simple biolog...
October 10, 2020 at 06:26
There are specific circumstances in which we must say that appealing to convention is an unjustified, unjustifiable, wrong, and/or otherwise mistaken ...
October 10, 2020 at 06:12
If you want to better understand what Davidson is getting at, like I do, then perhaps we could use our discussion to our mutual benefit. Rather than r...
October 08, 2020 at 16:34
:up:
October 08, 2020 at 07:18
Since you've claimed Davidson is using the term "theory" in an 'inapt' manner, I've thought about it and decided that you could not be more wrong, my ...
October 08, 2020 at 04:02
There's a bit of a misunderstanding between us, and it seems to be growing. Let's see if we can resolve that prior to continuing, for if we cannot, fu...
October 08, 2020 at 03:16
This part is curious.
October 07, 2020 at 06:55
I suggest that you carefully read the aforementioned pages to better understand what Davidson is doing with "theory".
October 07, 2020 at 05:48
You'll have to spell this out for me, by quoting him in the relevant context. He's covering a lot of ground in that paper... or trying to anyway. I su...
October 07, 2020 at 01:35
Do you find that the three principles are lacking in the capacity to take proper enough account of the approaches you mentioned? He also talks at leng...
October 07, 2020 at 01:32
Davidson agrees, and actually talks about that in a little bit of detail. It's not that the speaker and/or audience is aware of how they successfully ...
October 07, 2020 at 01:28
I'm not sure. Do you find the three principles somehow lacking in that capacity?
October 07, 2020 at 00:50
The above is Davidson's report of the conventional understanding regarding what successful communication with speech requires. The three principles se...
October 07, 2020 at 00:46
Yes, I agree with Davidson on that point. This assumes that the three principles he proposes 'covers' conventional accounts(standard descriptions) of ...
October 07, 2020 at 00:42
I think we would, but... The question is how we understand what is meant when that differs from what is said and what is said is not in accordance wit...
October 07, 2020 at 00:38
It may not matter, but I'd say that that is not quite what I'm saying. There's a little more nuance than that suggests. Not much, but a little. I'm sa...
October 07, 2020 at 00:33
Hey! That's too bad that you're losing interest. I'm gaining understanding the more I read here and back to the paper... Your notion of association, a...
October 07, 2020 at 00:27
Good point. The suffering of the American people due to covid is sobering despicable prima facie evidence that the government is not working on behalf...
October 07, 2020 at 00:19
What's shared, to the extent that communication succeeds, that is not learned or governed by rules or conventions, is the very ability(which could be ...
October 06, 2020 at 22:57
Whereas, I read that as saying the problem is the assumption that communication by speech requires a common method or theory of interpretation that is...
October 06, 2020 at 22:54
Malapropisms are not in accordance with the rules.
October 06, 2020 at 22:32
Davidson wrote.. The question is, do the three principles forwarded by Davidson take proper account of the standard descriptions? If they do, then Dav...
October 06, 2020 at 22:23
That looks like a misunderstanding to me... That does not deny linguistic competence. It does not say that there is no such thing as linguistic compet...
October 06, 2020 at 22:10
There's not enough time to do both, proceed with the Supreme Court nomination and come to agreeable terms and conditions with relief. The strategy is ...
October 06, 2020 at 21:54
does the above make sense?
October 06, 2020 at 21:47
That move will be used against him, and rightly so. Continue aggressively moving forward with Supreme Court nomination. End relief talk. There's not e...
October 06, 2020 at 21:34
Watch closely and prior to recording his 'speech' he exits view for a time period long enough for him to be administered enough oxygen to catch his br...
October 06, 2020 at 21:32
How would the T sentence method work for translating meaningful sentences that are not truth apt? For example... "Don't be scared of the virus." "Don'...
October 06, 2020 at 21:25
I suppose I'm positing that the ability to attribute meaning to an otherwise meaningless utterance(to the interpreter) satisfies the demand that David...
October 06, 2020 at 21:17
October 06, 2020 at 21:08
According to Davidson, the problem is this: what interpreter and speaker share(the understanding of the speaker's words), to the extent that communica...
October 06, 2020 at 20:30
The problem is exactly how we successfully interpret malapropisms despite the fact that they are examples of incorrect, mistaken, unconventional, and ...
October 06, 2020 at 19:39
Charming. No point in my continuing this conversation.
October 06, 2020 at 06:30
In addition, I've already begun laying the groundwork for an exposition, by pointing out that that which is interpreted is already meaningful, and tha...
October 06, 2020 at 06:15
I'm not suggesting that it provides all the answers. I'm strongly suggesting that it adequately explains how we successfully interpret malapropisms. I...
October 06, 2020 at 05:59
The bottom of page nine...
October 06, 2020 at 05:03
If what were this simple? The discussion? The problem? The proposed solutions? You're presupposing that the conventional discourse has 'it' right, and...
October 06, 2020 at 04:01
Davidson attempts to account for how we successfully interpret unconventional language use such as malapropisms by positing his notions of prior and p...
October 06, 2020 at 03:55
Talking about rules doesn't help. Rules are conventional. The conventional rules of language use cannot take account of the success of unconventional ...
October 06, 2020 at 03:35
I find Davidson's account flawed in the ways I've set out heretofore. What you quoted was part of my position on the matter that Davidson is addressin...
October 06, 2020 at 03:22
Is it though? I think not actually. What else are idiolects?
October 05, 2020 at 23:48
I can assure you that it does not.
October 05, 2020 at 22:31
That post gets us back to the substance. I appreciate the fact that many others here like yourself have offered background. It helps me tremendously! ...
October 05, 2020 at 22:03
Is that a problem?
October 05, 2020 at 11:39
Relevance?
October 05, 2020 at 11:37
I don't follow. Care to connect the dots?
October 05, 2020 at 11:08
Or perhaps the ability to correctly translate malapropisms are not a matter of following a rule at all... Perhaps it's more that our knowing the rules...
October 05, 2020 at 05:00
More formal sounding than my earlier understanding of the T sentence, but it seems that your view has evolved a bit. I've never seen you argue for the...
October 05, 2020 at 04:41