Greg Detre
@10 on Tuesday, 23 October, 2001
North School, Lizzie Fricker
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Hume was a sort of verificationist � Ayer puts it most clearly
consistent with supervenience
I�m in pain vs you�re in pain (said to me) � different verification-conditions, yet same meaning(???)
2 halves of the epistemic profile � first and third person
first person priority theories
third person priority theories
no priority theories
Putnam � Spartans and super-Spartans
Spartans don�t show pain or stress, but they at least admit that they feel pain
whereas super-Spartans don�t even admit that they feel pain
he claims that this is a coherent thing to imagine � they feel pain but it is not correlated with any behaviour � if you agree with this, you�re a Concept Cartesian
3 questions when evaluating a theory which only gives one half of the epistemic profile of our mental concepts priority
Concept Cartesianism: pass, fail, fail
can we make sense of my �pain� that I do not feel? no, according to Wittgenstein (PI 249-315)
priv lang argument � haven�t got enough constraints on a private sensation to really fix the thing � take it very seriously vs verificationist rubbish?
univocal
is the private language argument sort of about inductive argument, and its impossibility without public verification conditions???