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creativesoul

['Member']Joined: June 15, 2017 at 19:03Last active: January 09, 2026 at 00:2043 discussions12119 comments

Discussions (43)

Justice Matters

October 22, 2022 at 04:11 15 comments Political Philosophy

What An Odd Claim

September 21, 2019 at 04:49 93 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

Shared Meaning

March 13, 2019 at 04:47 161 comments General Philosophy

Ancient Texts

March 06, 2019 at 05:25 151 comments General Philosophy

The Question

September 27, 2018 at 02:14 12 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

Comments

Seems that way, doesn't it? I mean, if we were to imagine what sort of behaviours Trump would practice if - "hypothetically speaking" - Putin was dire...
January 09, 2026 at 00:32
That's chock full of meaning. If you'll forgive my sudden poetic license; it seems that you're setting out 'layers' of the individual significance and...
January 08, 2026 at 23:42
And yet I painstakingly set the difference out between common language and "common language". In short, the latter consists of meaningful marks, where...
January 08, 2026 at 01:58
Okay. Good. Our positions may not be as far apart as I thought earlier. I've no issue with any of that. Right. Agreed. No worries. I cannot see how "w...
January 08, 2026 at 01:42
Terminological frameworks are pivotal. Seems to me that there's a bit of phenomenalism/idealism in the background of your view. Is that correct? On yo...
December 30, 2025 at 03:09
You were quite right about the differences in our viewpoints pertaining the above and what immediately preceded it. The map/territory distinction seem...
December 30, 2025 at 02:58
Well, one aspect of the paper highlighted how we can sometimes say the wrong words(malapropisms) and be understood, nonetheless. Hence, when your coun...
December 30, 2025 at 01:52
Understood. No worries. I get it. While this is an interesting discussion, in the big picture - for me anyway - it's a spare time activity, and life c...
December 30, 2025 at 00:49
Good to know. Thanks. Here is one of those times when someone(me) falsely assumes their own personal experience is shared by everyone else far more th...
December 23, 2025 at 00:35
Seems to me that the history of 'civilization' has always treated those with disabilities as if they did not belong in the same places as 'normal' peo...
December 22, 2025 at 22:25
Well put. The context makes it crystal clear.
December 22, 2025 at 22:10
Yes. The key element being "well-developed". However, some other animals have a theory of mind, just not nearly as well-developed as ours. Ours is one...
December 21, 2025 at 16:15
Yup. It's fairly clear that some pack mammals have some thought about what other members are feeling/thinking.
December 21, 2025 at 16:04
You sure about that?
December 20, 2025 at 02:45
Okay. I think what you're calling "matness from a feline point-of-view" is what I talk about in terms of the meaningfulness of the mat to the cat(how ...
December 20, 2025 at 02:44
Understood. Abstraction is necessary here. I would say uniquely human as well. I was skirting around something that is better stated outright. Avoidin...
December 20, 2025 at 01:57
I am uneasy with the mapping of propositions onto language less creatures' thought. Propositions are utterly meaningless to language less creatures. T...
December 20, 2025 at 01:27
I'm reminded of Davidson's paper "A Nice Derangement Of Epitaphs". If you're not familiar, it may interest you. There's also an older thread on this s...
December 20, 2025 at 01:17
I do not necessarily disagree. Nice. The suggestion makes 3 follow from 1 and 2(assuming "counts as" and "is classified as" mean the same thing). As i...
December 20, 2025 at 00:34
There's so much more to cover. No time. Until next time! :smile:
December 18, 2025 at 01:59
Nice recent additions. I think we're doing just fine. Well, you're doing way better than just fine. I say this in light of a few self-doubts you've ex...
December 18, 2025 at 01:54
I'll address the rest of your last reply next time. I wish I would've skipped the bit above and went straight to the rest. :blush: Thank you for the i...
December 16, 2025 at 01:35
Thank you for that. I appreciate the effort. I think it has been helpful. No need to apologize though. I'm not offended, and do not take this personal...
December 16, 2025 at 01:29
Bullshit. You're too much. You claimed Reagan's policies produced stability. Again. I call bullshit. We must be measuring very different things. Now, ...
December 16, 2025 at 00:23
Well, no. I meant what I said. Although, your point is taken, and those years were definitely far more beneficial to whites than minorities. That's be...
December 09, 2025 at 01:32
You think? Crashes and all, huh? Those are signs of stability? I think not. Evidently, we're measuring different things. The stability of everyday wor...
December 07, 2025 at 18:40
Indeed. The underlying concept/notion/idea is hard at work in each of our contributions. Setting that out in a way that makes sense regarding of all t...
December 07, 2025 at 18:14
Well, I'm talking about the idea of existential dependency upon language use but not gravity because the former is relevant to our process of understa...
December 07, 2025 at 17:49
As if minimizing the number of downtrodden while increasing the amount of Americans with plenty of spendable income somehow does not result in tremend...
November 30, 2025 at 17:19
What's the difference between using the English language and using the English language like one knows it is a nominative-accusative language? I origi...
November 30, 2025 at 16:53
I see. So, how does this notion of behavioural implicature deal with the fact that behaviour alone is indeterminate regarding that? I mean, for exampl...
November 30, 2025 at 16:40
I didn't see it that way at all. You do not look foolish to me. Becoming aware of our own false belief seems like an accomplishment. I mean, we're all...
November 30, 2025 at 16:28
And yet, it's an answer, not a question. The question was to what degree "language needs to be involved" in belief formation. I answered as clearly an...
November 30, 2025 at 16:23
Would you care to set this disjunct out a bit more?
November 24, 2025 at 01:26
Okay. That's good. I would think that any acceptable notion/conception/theory of "meaning" would be capable of setting out how things become meaningfu...
November 23, 2025 at 22:37
Is that the only two options: Either native English speakers know that English is a nominative-accusative language, or linguists are wrong in some way...
November 23, 2025 at 22:12
Hmmm. Is that something like a performative contradiction? I'm fairly certain I do not quite understand the point being made here. I'm curious about t...
November 23, 2025 at 22:02
Okay. So, it is not the case that beliefs might all be prelinguistic. Propositional attitudes are beliefs. I invoked belief as propositional attitude ...
November 23, 2025 at 21:51
To the degree that the content therein is existentially dependent upon language.
November 23, 2025 at 21:36
If I understand this correctly, I'd agree that the importance that the mat plays in the cat's thought and/or belief is determined by its relevance to ...
November 23, 2025 at 16:26
Yes. That sounds about right, but I do not find that any of this is inevitably contradictory to what I've been saying, although it could be in its und...
November 23, 2025 at 15:57
I'll address your response sometime tomorrow. Looks promising to me in many ways. :smile:
November 21, 2025 at 01:54
Yes, we certainly do. I think that those differences could be causal in nature in a certain sense similar to what the OP has been talking about. All o...
November 21, 2025 at 01:51
Indeed, it is. I've found that this particular pursuit can challenge one's basic ontological underpinnings in unfamiliar ways that can result in cogni...
November 21, 2025 at 01:37
All sounds fine with me. All looks fine here as well. Hopefully "the line" is a bit better understood after the past couple posts. Sure. I've no probl...
November 20, 2025 at 02:38
I don't know if I understand the first question, but I think you're asking something along the lines of how meaningful the mat is to the cat. That wou...
November 20, 2025 at 02:23
It seems to me that "Some thought relies on language" is undeniable. The content of some language less thought relies on language as well. Hence, such...
November 20, 2025 at 01:32
:up:
November 19, 2025 at 23:50
Nice additions. I'd like to give your post the attention it deserves. That's my intent... Manana!
November 19, 2025 at 02:17