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By: Jeff Huggins
Please allow me to interrupt, briefly, to ask a quick question, the answer to which will help me understand the various arguments in this thread: Do the various parties in the discussion here believe...
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I can’t speak for others, but I take myself to be saying something about the way things are, not about our words or even our concepts. The most natural way to ‘get at’ reality, of course, is to examine...
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By: Jeff Huggins
Ruth, thank you for your helpful response. I understand most of it, but please allow me to clarify what I was getting at and, based on that, ask one or two more clarifying questions so that I can...
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Thanks for the clarification, Jeff. I hope I’ve got your point now. The trichotomist and I, I think, aren’t just stipulating different meanings for words we use in common. If we were doing that, both...
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By: Jeff Huggins
Ruth, thanks very much for your time and clarification. Very helpful. Given where my understanding now is (much better but still incomplete), I have another question. I <em>apologize</em>...
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By: S. Matthew Liao
Welcome Ruth! And thank you very much for your very helpful responses. Iâ€m very delighted to have the opportunity to sharpen up my arguments in light of them. I should also thank Richard for his...
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By: Ruth Chang
Thanks for your replies/queries Matthew & Jeff. 1) First horn of ‘trilemmaâ€. Here is your original argument: “Suppose by Taste, we mean sweetness. Then the Small Improvement Argument would...
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By: S. Matthew Liao
Thanks for your replies, Ruth. Here is a way to think about why ambiguities might be at issue. If the Parity Conclusion can be defended by using ‘with-respect-to†claims that involve comparing...
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By: Jeff Huggins
Dr. Liao / Matthew, I would be very interested in your answer to the question in my Post #29 (July 22), in which I seek to understand what realms of thought or phenomena (the physical, the aesthetic,...
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Jeff, thanks for your note. Please do call me Matthew. I think that the Trichotomy Thesis, as it is typically understood, applies to all three. This said, when applied to C, one may want to distinguish...
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