I did. How do you know that? You can’t read the dog’s mind and the dog can’t talk to you. The dog could act in ways that you interpret as the dog being pleased, but trying to interpret it that way here would be circular reasoning since you are trying to show that the dog’s actions show that things are pleasant to it.
What are you claiming—that a dog is inherently unable to have “pleasant” feelings, or that humans have no capability whatsoever to judge the what’s happening in the mind of a dog on the basis of its behaviour?
In this context, you are claiming that “when animals have a strong tendency to do certain things, those things tend to be pleasant to the animal”. Judging what is happening in the mind of the animal on the basis of its behavior, in order to support this claim, is circular reasoning.
I did. How do you know that? You can’t read the dog’s mind and the dog can’t talk to you. The dog could act in ways that you interpret as the dog being pleased, but trying to interpret it that way here would be circular reasoning since you are trying to show that the dog’s actions show that things are pleasant to it.
What are you claiming—that a dog is inherently unable to have “pleasant” feelings, or that humans have no capability whatsoever to judge the what’s happening in the mind of a dog on the basis of its behaviour?
In this context, you are claiming that “when animals have a strong tendency to do certain things, those things tend to be pleasant to the animal”. Judging what is happening in the mind of the animal on the basis of its behavior, in order to support this claim, is circular reasoning.
Nope, that’s not me, that’s entirelyuseless.
But you haven’t answered my question.
Sorry. Make that “you are supporting a claim that...”
If you want the literal answer to your question, the answer is that I’m not claiming anything.
Note that disputing a claim of X is not itself a claim of not-X..