http://jed.jive.com/2006/03/solving-kuhns-problems-with-reference/ "We must imagine [him] happy." Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:01:59 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://jed.jive.com/2006/03/solving-kuhns-problems-with-reference/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Anomalous Presumptions » Thu, 16 Mar 2006 05:57:19 +0000 http://jed.jive.com/?p=7#comment-3 [...] As my earlier post says, what we actually have is a population. To take the story further, each member has dispositions (rules if you will) about how to use a term, how to compose terms to create more complex meanings, or decompose expressions to recover their meanings, etc. But the dispositions of each member of the population will in general be different in all sorts of ways from those of other members. There is no requirement that these dispositions be completely describable, any more than your disposition to shape your hand as you reach for a cup is completely describable – though they might be remarkably consistent in some ways. As a result, no matter how narrowly we define the circumstances, two members of the population will quite likely differ in some details of their use of expressions in those circumstances. [...] [...] As my earlier post says, what we actually have is a population. To take the story further, each member has dispositions (rules if you will) about how to use a term, how to compose terms to create more complex meanings, or decompose expressions to recover their meanings, etc. But the dispositions of each member of the population will in general be different in all sorts of ways from those of other members. There is no requirement that these dispositions be completely describable, any more than your disposition to shape your hand as you reach for a cup is completely describable – though they might be remarkably consistent in some ways. As a result, no matter how narrowly we define the circumstances, two members of the population will quite likely differ in some details of their use of expressions in those circumstances. [...]

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