[lit-ideas] Re: New Program in Psychoanalysis and Culture



--- On Wed, 23/7/08, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Yet is there such a thing as "belief"
> without the content of the belief?
> 
> For example?

My previous post dealt with how this question is potentially misleading (viz. 
that we cannot exemplify or _specify_ such a belief without mentioning its 
(propositional?) _content_, would not show that our attitides to such 
(propositional?) content (which attitudes are necessasy to the state of belief) 
cannot subsist or exist without such specificable content.

Of course, anyone who know the answer here will also know how to reply to 
Popper's brilliant attack on 'Turing-Machines' as showing how human thought and 
language must be computers of sorts because _if we can suitably specify them in 
their contents_ we can get computers to ape our use of these contents to _any 
degree of specification we might demand_. This demand contains a trap.

So does RP's for "an example".

D  


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