Gareth Evans and P. F. Strawson - Philosophy of Language

[@JonSebastianF]

This is from the 1972 philosophy series, _Logic Lane,_ by Michael Chanan, episode 5: “Language and Creativity”.

[@DigitalGnosis]

Wow thanks for uploading this. The kind of university experience I wish I had!

[@JonSebastianF]

I agree - I wish I had been chatting with P. F. Strawson & Gareth Evans in armchairs all day :D

[@davidcook4777]

Very touching rapport between the two of them. And where the discussion tends, is towards the faculty or capacity of imagination, the fact that its existence cannot be captured by algorithms or an explicit rule based description, and that it is therefore mysterious. How is the ‘leap’ of imagination made. How the leap from a cat running to water running, or from a river running to it being a ‘ great brown god’. And to suggest analogous reasoning also doesn’t explain the leap. Humans can do it, in the main animals cannot 39:06

[@victorsauvage1890]

Good