Thoughts on Epistemology
That is, there is a meaning that is seperate from the public utterance.
That is what is being denied. — Banno
The folk view would be that you have a meaning in your head that you cannot quite translate into English.
But perhaps instead what is happening is that the thought is incomplete, the meaning unfinished, until the right words are found.
That is, the words make the thought as much as the thought makes the words. — Banno
So you cannot conclude that just because one could not find the appropriate words to say, that there was no thought there, because there still was thought there. Nor can you say that the words make the thought. — Metaphysician Undercover
What do you think would constitute the completion of a thought? — Metaphysician Undercover
As I said, we would use the resources of the communal language, but would be free to create private words. — apokrisis
Who is this person really? Is s/he a social construct or is s/he a neurobiological individual? — apokrisis
So I am focused on what it could even mean to be private - in any sense. Or public, in any sense — apokrisis
You need an actual theory of wholes which makes sense of the forming of the parts. Which is the issue I am focused on. — apokrisis
I agree that it wouldn't be properly called language, but that makes it no less real. — Metaphysician Undercover
Is belief irrelevant to epistemology? I think not. — creativesoul
I'm increasingly intrigued by externalist ideas - the notion that thinking occurs outside of heads. Counterintuitive, but interesting. — Banno
I think, and it seems like my thinking is going on in my head
As Wittgenstein responded to his own question of whether he was really just a "behaviourist in disguise" and whether, for him, "everything except human behaviour is a fiction", he said, "If I do speak of a fiction, then it is of a grammatical fiction." — Luke
I think suggests that your perception that thought it is going on in your head is part of the multi-sensory unity of your body has created, and your mind's dependence on that unity for its sense of self ownership.
So what is, is what can be said?
That's it. — Banno
A source mentioned before.
http://www.nybooks.com/topics/on-consciousness/ — Banno
If so then you as a multi-sensory being who's locus is your body, your body in this limited sense thinks. — Cavacava
Saying that the cat is on the chair and saying that "the cat is on the chair" is true amount to much the same thing. — Banno
I don't see how the referred articles describes thinking as going on anywhere other than within the person who is thinking. — Metaphysician Undercover
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