My position doesn't demand that I address such a possibility, because I have been fairly explicitly presuming all along that it is not the case. That ...
No, like I said, "what I accepted was that there are times when I can't tell whether or not what seems to be there is there", but in the wider context...
The dream argument works against anyone who takes what is evident in experience to warrant belief in anything at all. It is cogent insofar as one thin...
No, I don't agree. I was hallucinating then, and now I'm not. But wait, I can't know that I'm not now hallucinating either: what if it's all hallucina...
But I never said that I can't make that distinction. What I accepted was that there are times when I can't tell whether or not what seems to be there ...
When you say "your theory", do you mean the following claims taken together? Subjectively, I can't tell the difference between a hallucination and a g...
Like I say, subjective indistinguishability does not entail that I cannot successfully make the distinction based on what I know hallucination to be, ...
I don't know why my answers haven't been enough. Maybe I just don't know what you're getting at. And I've already said I had no interest in defending ...
If we agree there's a difference, then I don't know what the problem is. Knowing there's a difference between hallucination and perception doesn't dep...
I pretty much agree with this, but I think there's another way of looking at it. Kant regarded metaphysics as a natural disposition, and if this is th...
I don't see the difference. Can you explain it? As far as I can see you're saying that the realist is not warranted in drawing a distinction between h...
Done. I suggest first reading the Preface ("Introduction" in Bennett's version) and Preamble and then comparing notes. Looks like you're already there...
It strikes me this discussion would work well as a more formal reading group, especially if @"Moliere" is on board. So, you'd agree to read a section ...
@"The Great Whatever", you make three important accusations: 1. That I misrepresent indirect realism or ignore its strongest versions 2. That I falsel...
Are you saying this from the point of view of someone thinking about how best to do metaphysics? In saying that metaphysics is non-empirical, Kant is ...
But wouldn't we then say that we're doing natural science when we go by empirical evidence, but when we ask, e.g., about what is beyond them--for whic...
This is a great idea; I similarly struggled to understand his posts but liked a lot of what he had to say. I'll add it to the list for December. The o...
In the old PF you also have to scroll to find the post you want to quote, and then you would click "Quote" and it would take you to the reply page. He...
Not sure what you mean about the menu bar. And as for having to scroll up, are you talking about in discussion threads? Isn't it inevitable that you h...
By the way, @"The Great Whatever", work is getting in the way. I'll reply to you as soon as I can. I'm going to address these accusations: 1. That I m...
Yes indeed. There is much more than mere line, colour, texture and so on in most abstract paintings, and I haven't done justice to that in my comments...
Personally I find abstract art far less confusing than figurative art. Confronted with a scene by Caravaggio, for instance, I struggle to work out wha...
On the face of it, abstract art seems even more naturally suited to channel a perception or contemplation of the Ideas than representational art is. T...
Your linguistic analysis looks good to me, but I still don't see how it goes against my criticism of The Argument. To see this, here is Russell's vers...
For what? I.e., for what search term? That's what matters. After all, we're at the very top of the search results for "thephilosophyforum.com" (with t...
See the thread for feature requests: thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/30/feature-requests. The OP has a continually updated list. I've asked support ...
First I'd like to say--and I don't say this to absolve myself of the responsibility for defending the article--that I wrote this article a couple of y...
I really like square and abstract too. Those are great. Me, I started taking photos of people this summer, which I've never done before. /uploads/resi...
Hi @"Agustino" We'll be setting up a thread here on the forum for artistic work, and we don't intend to publish poems or stories on the Articles site,...
Two others have mentioned this as well so I've added it to the feature requests here: http://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/30/feature-requests/p1 ...
I'm not surprised someone pounced on the weakest sentence in the article, "If I think about my own perceptual experiences, it is obvious that...", whi...
By the way, I didn't include these because I thought something longer and meatier would be more suitable. And my guess is most people have read the Na...
Personally that's the one that appeals to me least among those mentioned. But once we have a couple more suggestions, including one on ethics, I'll cr...
I'd like to give some anecdotal evidence that for me lends weight to the thesis that the mind is not bound by the skin and skull. As some of you know,...
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