{"id":10897,"date":"2011-02-24T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T14:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/24\/how-could-i-be-wrong\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T14:39:08","slug":"how-could-i-be-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/24\/how-could-i-be-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"How Could I Be Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I say that there are beliefs.&#0160; An eliminativist contradicts me, insisting that there are no beliefs.&#0160; He cannot, consistently with what he maintains, hold that I have a false belief.&#0160; For if there are no beliefs, then there are no false beliefs.&#0160; But he must hold that I am wrong.&#0160; For if there are no beliefs, as he maintains, and I maintain that there are, then I am wrong.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">But if my being wrong does not consist in my holding a false belief, what does it consist in?&#0160; The eliminativist might say that my being wrong in this instance is my uttering or otherwise tokening of the sentence type &#39;There are beliefs&#39; or &#0160;being disposed to utter or otherwise token the sentence-type &#39;There are beliefs.&#39;&#0160; But a parrot could do that and you wouldn&#39;t say that a parrot is wrong about the philosophy of mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Utterances, inscriptions and the like, if they are to mean anything must have mind behind them.&#0160; See <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2011\/02\/the-primacy-of-the-intentional-over-the-linguistic.html\" target=\"_self\">The Primacy of the Intentional Over the Linguistic.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Eliminativism is absurd.&#0160; If that&#39;s too quick for you, see the posts in the <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/eliminative-materialism\/\" target=\"_self\">Eliminative Materialism <\/a>category.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I say that there are beliefs.&#0160; An eliminativist contradicts me, insisting that there are no beliefs.&#0160; He cannot, consistently with what he maintains, hold that I have a false belief.&#0160; For if there are no beliefs, then there are no false beliefs.&#0160; But he must hold that I am wrong.&#0160; For if there are no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/24\/how-could-i-be-wrong\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Could I Be Wrong?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372,267,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belief","category-eliminative-materialism","category-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}