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Russell also placed too much emphasis and/or importance on language use. However, given his belief system and his life circumstances, that man deserve...

Perhaps.. However, if there are a plurality of different methods all of which are capable of showing us a bit of how language acquisition affects/effe...

:brow: Would you like to understand it? I could easily explain it for you. Would that prove to you that I understand it, and that as a result of both ...

That goes without being said... with me. We can delve into such though. It is quite germane to 'bedrock belief', of the linguistic variety anyway....

If you want some REAL insight into Witt, find a copy of the Cambridge letters...

Interesting and a bit odd reply... I still suggest that read. As I mentioned, the method for questioning one's own adopted belief system holds good re...

Good. At least you're being clear. I'm curious. What are you basing your claim about my cognitive ability upon... exactly? And... What would it take f...

Not all meaningful claims are understood by everyone. Thus, we know that being 'meaningful to someone' is not equivalent, is not part and parcel to be...

So, sensible claims hinge upon your understanding?

Definitely a necessary prerequisite. Someone is claiming that the only meaningful statements are descriptions about the way the world is. That someone...

How so? I mean... it's true and can be proven as such by using the right terminological framework.

This is muddled. How about this example of what seems clear enough to me to be a metaphysical claim. All human thought and belief consists entirely of...

Is that a "yes"? Are the only meaningful things descriptions? Must all meaningful things describe something?

I do not find that the 'cognitive significance' mention is helpful at all here. It could be easily refuted. I'll leave it be though, for the answer to...

There seems to be a thread, so to speak, pervading your part of our discourse here, and as I understand it, your discourse elsewhere on this forum as ...

So, I'm curious... What is the minimum criterion for being meaningful?

Clearly the language use worked. It would not have had the kid not drawn the right correlations to the language use.

I'm not entirely sure about either of those cases regarding the content of correlations, or if there is such a thing regarding those behaviours.

As far as I know, there is no other advocate of what I'm advocating. My world-view has been influenced by far more people than I can possibly know, an...

I wouldn't say that a name represents it's referent. It refers to it. It picks it out of this world to the exclusion of all else. In cases of successf...

Sorry, that answer was too quickly given. Language does much more than just reference. Habits die hard. :joke: Language use begins when a plurality of...

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I'm not a Rorty fan, by the way... He mistakenly holds that truth is dependent upon language, which is prima facie evidence that he has no coherent co...

There is a plurality of different things, but it is a far stretch to claim that there is a creature capable of drawing correlations between them. Not ...

Of course. We must - at the very least - mention it's use. That's remarkably different than continuing it.

This might be a point worth unpacking. We're involved in a metacognitive endeavor. That is, we are talking about our own thought and belief. We use la...

My cat is capable of seeing a snowman. Snowmen are directly perceptible things, after-all. In fact, that snowman is capable of becoming a part of that...

Good job on that.

Ever heard of a performative contradiction? I'm beginning to believe that you're either deliberately misrepresenting your own thought and belief, or y...

Earlier you spoke of seeing a plie of snowballs either as a snowman, or as something else... They key there is what is required for seeing a snowman '...

Judging by what followed the above, I'm afraid there is still some remarkable and/or significant misunderstanding at work. Not exactly. There are two ...

What are you trying to do here? I've a ton of sympathy and appreciation for Heiddy... regarding his focus on language.

My guess is that that is not true, and you know it! Earlier... not so long ago actually... I stated the following... Expectation is belief about what ...

We're both Bernie supporters. However, not all racial issues are corrected by class focus, since racism is not about class.

Heiddy had a clue that language effected/affected a speaker. His notions of Dasein and Being proved that much, but... his account was horrendous and c...

Why posit this? I've explicitly said otherwise.

Do you agree that language less creatures form, have, and/or hold belief?

I suggest stopping such talk. I've certainly not talked in terms of implication. What sense does it make for you to ask me that question? Perhaps you ...

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This seems patently wrong-minded, despite my fondness for Morgan Freeman. Racism is not fueld by the names we choose to use as a means to describe peo...

I'm dumbfounded that this was not remarked upon...

That sums up my thoughts rather nicely as well...

Others had no choice but to be minimalists. Made fun of for being poor, as if it was all up to them... What we're seeing in this regard is a revisitat...

The sheer number of fashion shows exemplify this shallowness... while simultaneously devaluing another based upon something other than their character...

Indeed. And based upon the idea that a property owner(or the group rather) ought get to choose who all is allowed in the community... Liberty and free...

I've not used the terms "hidden consciousness", nor would I. Expectation is belief about what will take place, or in this case belief about what is ab...

So, I'm curious... How do you account for the belief of language less creatures?

That's an odd suggestion given that bedrock belief is the topic.

There are many things that can never be measured or touched. The odd thing however is that I have painstakingly given you the tools to 'measure' all t...

"Thinking" - in quotes - refers to terminological use of that term. Not all use of "thinking" is on equal footing. That's been a problem throughout th...