Lexicon of Arguments

Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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I 192
Stimulus/Quine/Rorty: also stimuli are "Settlements" like all the rest according to Quine.
I 250
Def Observation sentence/Quine: a sentence that all speakers judge in the same way when exposed to the same accompanying stimuli. A sentence that is not sensitive within a language community to differences in past experiences.
>Obseration sentences, >Observation language, >Observation.
RortyVsQuine: Quine excludes blind, insane, and occasional dissenters.
(s)VsRorty: It is precisely Quine's view that makes it possible to identify deviance. This is not discrimination against otherness. Cf. the discrimination abilities of infants, which is lost after a few months: >Phonetics/Eimas.)
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VI 29
"Internal Representation"/Rorty: Representatives: Ruth Millikan, Fred Dretske, David Papineau.
>Dretske, >Papineau.
Biological interpretation. Evolution.
>Searle.
The ability of organisms to react differently to different stimuli.
Rorty, Armstrong, Dennett, SellarsVs: Perceptions are not "experiences" or "raw sensations", but dispositions for the appropriation of convictions and desires.
>Armstrong, >Dennett, >Wilfrid Sellars.
VI 170
Reality/Rorty: a statement like "The theory is successful because it advances to something real" is as useless as Dennett's example "We laugh because of the merriment of the stimulus".

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