--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Chris asks:
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> That's Davidson, not Hume.
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I know. I'm a philosopher by training too, you know.
:) My knowledge of Anglo-American philosophy however
doesn't go much beyond Two Dogmas of Empiricism, which
is to say, it barely exists.
Thanks for the post. I had forgotten all that Quinean rabbit stuff. Man am I glad I studied Heidegger instead!
Really, all the stuff about how "there are no mental states" reminds me of why I turned off to analytical philosophy in the first place. Despite all the talk about how Continental philosophy is woolly-headed, it's things like that really make my eyes roll.
So -- before acquiring language, KoKo the Gorilla (or Helen Keller) was incapable of thinking. Then they discover a means of communication and lo and behold thinking is born. Give me Heidegger and the pre-theoretical understanding of the world any day. ;)
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