[lit-ideas] Re: Socialist Beliefs
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:41:20 +0100 (BST)
This fails to make clear to me the advantage functionalism has, and the
disadvantage non-functionalism has, in handling self-deception - and I speak as
someone who thinks they are non-functionalist and yet who finds talking of
self-deception unproblematic (it becomes problematic, and apparently
paradoxical, only to a certain kind of philosopher I think - perhaps one with a
mistaken view of knowledge as Justified True Belief, as opposed to knowledge as
always 'conjectural', for if JTB then false self-knowledge might seem
paradoxical).
On a small note: should not that psyche-based operator instead be a
thymos-based one? [See Chapter P5, TSAIB.]
D
Who learned today we now have the first gapless periodic table (though more
gaps may appear later) - who ever forgets their first periodic?
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From: "Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx" <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx>
In a message dated 7/18/2013 1:30:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
OK. Let's revise the scenario. We are talking about Geary, a socialist.
More specifically, we take some further assumption.
Geary defines himself as a 'socialist'. An all-time socialist, "I've always
believed in Socialism", I think his words were. I.e. he held 'socialist'
BELIEFS.
To use Grice's symbol here, for 'belief', we use the psi-operator that
stands for Greek 'psyche':
ψ
Further, we replace 'Geary' (a proper name) by 'g'.
And 's' by the belief in socialism.
The logical form becomes a two-place predicate:
ψ(g, s)
....
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