Wes Alwan
speaker
6,050 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard yesterday
Wes Alwan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I guess that makes it easier.
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I don't know.
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you
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Take another case from this sentence, right?
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He uses the word problem and it's not necessarily something I'm going to put an image to, right?
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So what does it mean to say I know the meaning of it?
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Well, I have dispositions to use it in certain ways in certain sentences and to know if you're using it the wrong way in certain sentences, it'll be like, what?
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What's he saying?
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And so that's the beginning, you know, of sketching out a dispositional account of what it means to have a concept in this case.
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And it's, of course, you know, I think it runs against our intuition.
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Well, you know, if I have the word, I just, you know, I have a.
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there's kind of a platonic idea behind it or there's at least something in the something floating around in the mind that it refers to and it can't just be dispositional it's got to be it's got to be there in some sense but i think um that's probably not the way it works
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So I believe that the cat is on the map because my wife told me that and I'm not thinking about it, right?
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Yeah, we have to divide this into two, right?
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Because I could believe it without even thinking about it.
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It's just a belief that I carry around.
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Then I could attend to the belief.
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But in any case, I don't need images necessarily to attend to the belief.
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And then if I'm wrong, if I've been lied to and I've just believed it, okay, that's fine.
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But I'm not, I could say, but I wasn't wrong that I believed that.
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