distinguishing physicalism (a linguistic thesis) from materialism (a metaphysical thesis)

Tags: materialism, physicalism

"In the title essay of For the New Intellectual, discussing modern philosophy's concerted attack on man's mind, I referred to the philosophers' division into two camps, "those who claimed that man obtains his knowledge of the world by deducing it exclusively from concepts, which come from inside his head and are not derived from the perception of physical facts (the Rationalists) -and those who claimed that man obtains his knowledge from experience, which was held to mean: by direct perception of immediate facts, with no recourse to concepts (the Empiricists). To put it more simply: those who joined the Witch Doctor, by abandoning reality - and those who clung to reality, by abandoning their mind."
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Poll #18568 Emp/Rac
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Tags: empiricist, perception, rationalist
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A usage is a custom, practice, fashion or vogue. It can be local or widespread, obsolete or current, rural or urban, vulgar or academic. There cannot be a misusage any more than there can be a miscustom or a misvogue.By contrast, a way of operating with a razor blade, a word, a traveller's cheque or a canoe-paddle is a technique, knack or method.
[..]Descriptions of usages presuppose descriptions of use
[..]We can ask whether a person knows how to use and how not misuse a certain word. But we cannot ask whether he knows how to use a certain sentence
[..]Sentences and clauses make sense or make no sense, where words neither do nor do not make sense, but only have meanings

Inter-theory negotiations can be and may have to be conducted in pre-theory dictions.
[..] philosophers, unlike other professionals and specialists, are constantly jettisoning in toto(entirely) all the technical terms of their own predecessors
[..]A theory is formalized when it is translated out of the natural language (untechnical, technical or semi-technical), in which it was originally excogitated, into a deliberately constructed notation, the notation, perhaps of Principia Mathematica.

Tags: "usage", "use", linguistics, ordinary language, philology, ryle
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"And might there not also be some reader who would say 'I accept A and B as true, but I don't accept the Hypothetical?"
"Certainly there might. He, also, had better take to football."
"And neither of these readers," the Tortoise continued, "is as yet under any logical necessity to accept Z as true?"
"Quite so," Achilles assented.
"Well, now, I want you to consider me as a reader of the second kind, and to force me, logically, to accept Z as true."
"A tortoise playing football would be -- " Achilles was beginning "-- an anomaly, of course"

Tags: football, lewis carrol, logic
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