tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430111450575356526.post2502304455510549774..comments2024-03-22T22:09:09.407+00:00Comments on Imperfect Cognitions: SeemingsKengo Miyazonohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01643685718519136099noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430111450575356526.post-75338650930336189372015-01-26T10:51:38.794+00:002015-01-26T10:51:38.794+00:00Hi Clayton,
Thanks for your comment, and sorry fo...Hi Clayton,<br /><br />Thanks for your comment, and sorry for taking so long to respond to it.<br /><br />What you say sounds right to me. Both 'This stick is one I believe to be bent' and, 'This stick seems bent to me' are about, in part, the stick. But I think they are both also, in part, about the speaker's mental states. Does that sound right?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01599577716849507933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4430111450575356526.post-44043548531746311422015-01-10T14:01:18.874+00:002015-01-10T14:01:18.874+00:00Hi Jonathan,
I thought that this post was really...Hi Jonathan, <br /><br />I thought that this post was really useful! I agree that talk of how things seem is messy and it's difficult to work through the papers where people put seemings (ick) to work because they often don't help sort the mess out. <br /><br />One quick question about something you said: <br />"In everyday speech it is common to talk about some of our mental states by using ‘seem’: the stick half in water, for example, seems bent to me, and it seems that this winter will be colder than last winter."<br /><br />Why take this talk to be talk about mental states? Why not take the talk in your first example to be talk about the stick? If I said, "This stick is one I believe to be bent", it seems that this talk is at least in part talk about a stick. Clayton Littlejohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05596200828134402805noreply@blogger.com