Kenneth Black

Granny’s turning over in her grave

Never let your guard down

*looks around nervously for hyperintensional metaphysicians that will say making music is merely coextensional with rearranging “Low” in those worlds, not that making music just is doing that*

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Most of the instances talk about giving/lending/paying credence to people or sometimes to claims. There is some measurement (“much/any credence”) but nothing quantitative like “credence 0.7” (2/2)

I think I only really started hearing numbers attached to “credence” in grad school. Here’s some hits for credence in the corpus of contemporary American English—I couldn’t find any with numerical measurements, although I definitely didn’t look at everything (1/2)

(i), but I suspect that that’s just convention—pretty sure “credence .7” doesn’t come from ordinary language

Maybe Fodorians will write this stuff after the AI guys take over

It has even surpassed the comment count of a certain post about the metadata of a certain important document

The Apology of Granny was a really moving moment in the history of philosophy

Sometimes I google an academic paper so I can download it and it says an overview isn’t available, so not all cases are very suggestive

Screenshot of what I describe in the post

Paper skygest thought this was real lol

Beans-end reasoning, etc etc

Responding to counterexamples to my theory of the semantics of generics by saying "FFS I didn't say the semantics of *all* generics"

Juan Murillo Vargas, How Language-Like is the Language of Thought? - PhilPapers The language of thought hypothesis (LoTH) claims that thoughts are underpinned by language-like vehicles. A central motivation is that there is a relevant similarity between language and thought expla...

Happy to announce that my paper "How Language-Like is the Language of Thought?" is forthcoming at Ergo!

Thread with a TL;DR below!
philpapers.org/rec/MURHLI-3

20th century philosophers didn’t have bad citation practices, they were just really good at subtweeting

is Hulk Hogan really the biggest wrestling star of all time?

not even close—nobody has ever claimed that "the safest general characterisation of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Hulk Hogan".

Gettier: 1 like — 1 counterexample

If classic adverbialism is that I perceive that p iff I’m “appeared to p-ly” or something like that, I think the view db sketched for belief was different: representing beliefly that p (db’s sketch, looks representationalist) vs things belief-appearing p-ly (which is closer to classic adverbialism)

I think some representationalist views could be glossed this way, if they say to believe that p is to have a representation that p with a certain belief-y role. It’s the representation whose content is p; the agent believes that p because they have the representation in the beliefy way

You’ll be the first acknowledgement

Potential weather conditions, interestingly, are the only kind which *may* affect but never *actually* affect

Great, now we’re going to have a bunch of little modal realists running around

where do they FIND these people?!

Regrettably, for reasons of space we'll have to pass over these questions, sticking to examples straightforward enough that they do not arise so urgently. (But see Hall 2006—the extended version of this paper from which the present version is extracted-for extensive discussion. Hereafter, "the extended version".)

In “Structural equations and causation,” Ned Hall makes frequent reference to an “extended version,” but with no indication of how to read it

I also would have thought that isn’t a crazy revelation

Actual footage of EJ Green and Noam Chompers in the wild

I suppose we have Kripke to thank for that

IMO analytic philosophy is super cool in the way that prog rock is super cool, but that comparison probably wouldn’t give it a boost in most people’s eyes

My entire life, I bored people, talking about shit they didn't care about (so lonely). Until Analytic Philosophy wrapped me in her sinewy embrace and said "Child, everyone here is just as boring as you. Probably even more boring, actually." And I Wept, for I was Home