If a mind knows a language, it embodies a community, carries the product of a community (its norms and conventions) within it, and uses these as the m...
I mentioned Crusoe already. I think you are missing the point. Even if everyone but me drops dead, the me that remains was formed by interaction with ...
I think it's false that you can have a reasoning mind without community. IMO, my assertions are not wild and not even original. It's just 20th century...
That was not aimed as a criticism toward you but just a point that rationality has a moral component. I don't think you've made a strong case against ...
Sure, those are good mentions. I tried to limit myself to activities we aren't born knowing how to do. It's easy to take reading for granted because w...
Even an atheist, if not playing with words, sees the reality of social mores. This is practical reality, the place where we all actually start (in a s...
Sure, we use the words 'mine' and 'yours' like that. But human minds have evolved for human cooperation, in particular for learning and using at least...
I need to get around to Goodman. But if you mean the exception of formal languages, then I agree. Of course there's still the 'problem' of how formal ...
Minds aren't 'really' individual though. A trained/educated mind is running public 'software.' (Of course we are individual enough to occasionally int...
You do raise a nice issue, but let's consider a different example. 'I have a few errands to run first.' Why might I say that instead of 'I have two er...
I have enjoyed your posts. It seems that they help explain vagueness. I'm personally coming largely from Wittgenstein's analysis of pain. What is pain...
I agree that language is a behavior, a skill with using sounds and scribbles. So the issue is the nature of this skill. Note that you again invoke 'we...
This touches the issue of the signified versus the signifier. I agree that digital copying is especially impressive. We tend not to lose a single bit....
We take it for granted, but how about reading? Can you imagine being illiterate in 2021? It'd be easier to not be able to drive, not able to cook, etc...
I agree that vagueness (and/or ambiguity) is integral to our thinking. Look up a word in the dictionary and you get other words, which you can then lo...
Well the cards might as well be numbers. We can translate everything about poker into numbers. But I agree that there is something subjective. With p-...
Informally I agree with you. But more formally it's not clear that no pattern exists in 3478907834617856 simply because one is not obvious. I like the...
I agree that individually we are born with the ability to (pre-)reason and learn a language. I can't agree that language is just scribbles and sounds....
If you look into algorithmic information theory, you'll see randomness as irreducible. It has no useless space in it. It's thick. And a truly random (...
I've read much of Fooled by Randomness. Taleb is great. I like that he programs simulations (and I'm quite fascinated by PRNGs and all that they can b...
I think I understand what you are saying, but IMV thinking itself is (counter-intuitively) not a private act. I say this because we think in and throu...
I agree. I don't see any way around type-I and type-II error. This is one reason I like to frame things practically. Let's say we are doing quality co...
Let's consider a simpler example, so you can see where I am coming from. Let's flip a coin ten times to test it for fairness and get HHHHHHHHHH. If H_...
I don't think it's that clear. While statistical hypothesis tests are never conclusive (because haunted by the possibility of type-I and type-II error...
We should keep in mind that pRNGs are a big part of modern technology and that there are lots of test. http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~garrett/students...
That's true, and that's a good point. Each string of ten digits is equally likely, but it's strange that we got such a monotonous sample, all in the s...
EDIT: At first I applied a GOF-test, but I ignored that I need more to data to justify using that test. My informal response is that there are only 10...
I understand the temptation to make this point, but consider this pronoun we. Perfectly private 'observation' is (or seems to be) scientifically irrel...
:up: It makes sense to me to that this is what shooters are doing, going on a power trip, playing God, and (often) escaping into the grave from any co...
For whatever reason, the free will issue has never bothered me.I guess I'm a soft determinist. I think we can't help but enact our training. At the sa...
I'm guessing he means constructive in the sense that, given any countable list of real numbers, one can construct a real number not on that list, from...
:up: In other words: I don't have the language, the language has me. And I am more within the language than the language is within me. To exist in a c...
Another quote from C S P and the same essay seems to fit here (the new link includes a longer version.) http://www.bocc.ubi.pt/pag/peirce-charles-fixa...
Yes, I was trying to bring this intuition of the ideal coin into the conversation. Did we evolve so that this intuition was available? And: how does i...
Nature aside, what I'm trying to get at is the ideal, mathematical model. Specifically, we can think of a Bernoulli variable with p = 0.5. But even th...
Deep issue, and you've got some good answers already. I'll just introduce the theme of the theoretically fair coin. This is an ideal coin. It's the pr...
That was my favorite quote perhaps! I'm glad you gave it a look and found the same focal point. This quote also reminds me of the idea that philosophe...
You put your finger right on a nice issue. I think it would have been better if Peirce had said nothing individual (or individually human). The goal i...
I agree that Chesterton is wrong, but then he's also fooling around. Radical skepticism is something like a pose, IMO. Genuine doubt is paralyzing. Th...
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