[my] logical positivist claim [...] has been completely rejected by every school of philosophy in the world for the past fifty years. Indeed, now [is?] held as an object of [ridicule...]
Now you're making it sound cool as well as intuitively obvious. Of course, those criticisms are debatable; and universal pragmatics attempts to construe utility in "metaphysical statements", not evaluate their meaningfulness.
This has been fun, but I think my five minutes are up.
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Re: Quibblings or quislings?
Date: 2005-10-03 09:49 pm (UTC)Now you're making it sound cool as well as intuitively obvious. Of course, those criticisms are debatable; and universal pragmatics attempts to construe utility in "metaphysical statements", not evaluate their meaningfulness.
This has been fun, but I think my five minutes are up.