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Davidson takes truth to attach to individual sentences [Davidson, by Dummett]
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Full Idea:
Davidson, by contrast to Frege, has taken truth as attaching to linguistic items, that is, to actual or hypothetical token sentences.
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From:
report of Donald Davidson (True to the Facts [1969]) by Michael Dummett - Truth and the Past 1
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A reaction:
My personal notion of truth is potentially applicable to animals, so this doesn't appeal to me. I am happy to think of animals as believing simple propositions that never get as far as language, and being right or wrong about them.
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The brain is not passive, and merely processing inputs; it is active, and intervenes in the world [Cobb]
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Full Idea:
A number of scientists are now realising that, by viewing the brain as a computer that passively responds ot inputs and processes data, we forget that it is an active organ, part of the body intervening in the world.
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From:
Matthew Cobb (The Idea of the Brain [2020], Intro)
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A reaction:
I like any idea which reminds us that nature is intrinsically active, and not merely passive. Laws are in nature, not imposed on it. My preferred ontology, based on powers as fundamental, applies to the brain, as well as to physics. No free will needed.
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