I'd say you're onto something deep! The appeal to reason works because it is appealing. (or doesn't because it fails to meet the standards of reason -...
Something I cannot decide, not even with an aesthetic guess, whether it is or is not mind-independent is individuation. It's a phenomena which is unde...
Language-as-organ puts it in a similar category to eyes-as-organ -- both organs of perception which compose a body. So rather than semantics as someth...
I agree with your deductions. I think I'd have to remain agnostic there. I can't know if it's misapplied because it's not known. And I'm not sure how ...
Put like that -- I believe it to be the case, but I do not know it to be the case. And I suspect the whole is not knowable, so knowledge cannot settle...
Hrm this is sounding similar to my discussion with @"RussellA" now... I'm getting stuck on the parenthetical comment since you're wanting clarity -- c...
Heh. That's not a thought I want to dissolve. I'm admitting it's the weak point in my thinking! :) -- it's something I see as a serious problem if I w...
Sounds good to me. I actually was wondering so I'm glad to have clarified. I'm not so sure -- but it'd be nitpicky and off the beaten path, since I've...
Sounds about right to me. So no need for a mind at all to hold them, right? I think that "giving sedatives" would count as the body still. It's a mole...
:up: I think that's a worthy pursuit. One might even go so far as to say that it's in the vein of knowing yourself. :) Spot on. It's easier to fool on...
I think that's partially true, but also there's the whole Cartesian history up to Russell's neutral monism -- looking for the substance of everything ...
In my scheme so far, thoughts could be entities within time with their own kind of causality. We know how thoughts work because our bodies have though...
Pain clearly indicates something about the world -- a small part of the entirity, but the small part that I happen to care about most. It's the "outsi...
Yes! Or, at least, this line of thinking is going in that direction. I don't have it all worked out, of course. I don't have much problem with illusio...
That one's easy -- pain is tied to the world. :D So far I've said there are events, relations, time, the surface, entities -- and certainly relied upo...
The way I've been saying we know cause-and-effect is that we learn it from our culture. We know of black holes because they fit within a wide body of ...
Mind-independence and indirectness, as concepts, have so far been my target as bothersome notions -- the former because we don't know enough about min...
Well -- maybe we need new terms then. Perhaps the way these have been distinguished isn't true of what people believe. What I've been calling a set-up...
I had seriously considered a higher degree in either the sciences or philosophy, and had that opportunity. One of the reasons I respect the institutio...
Once upon a time I worked in a kitchen. They really are amazing. Thems was an electric one with 4 sections like a stovetop without barriers between th...
O right. I'm thinking more grill like what a bar and grill or restaurant uses -- a table-sized flat surface you heat up to stovetop temperatures -- ra...
There are definitely good criticisms to be made of the university, especially in its modern incarnation. I suppose I just feel the need to stick up fo...
Well, yes. One thing that cause and effect naturally invokes is time -- and the way scientists, philosophers, and historians treat time varies greatly...
True. But then we can point to the different notions of causality in the sciences. And we can contrast those notions of cause with notions of causalit...
Also it's worth noting, especially in light of the notion of popularizing philosophy, that the prototype was an aristocrat -- that philosophy wasn't f...
I don't feel that way. Though I have an expansive notion of philosophy, too. The academics are those who dedicate their professional life to it -- whi...
I can see the kind-of aspect, because a lot of us try to get back to the original texts and such -- so it's not quite at the same level of, say, Alain...
One bit of pop philosophy that I still pretty much adore is Socrates' Cafe style meetings. I used to run those back in college, and I thought it was g...
The story from evolution to concept isn't understood. But, even more, I agree with your first sentence, and note that people unable to figure out how ...
If Realism is the thesis that there is a sub-stratum then I'd fit anti-realist. Just not sure what to make of the belief that the tree exists whether ...
In the set up I think I understand the distinction between direct and indirect realist. However, I think I'd call myself a realist, rightly, yet deny ...
It's all good. I'm still behind myself for the same reasons :D -- two weeks behind, at this point, and still at work during class today. Work picked u...
Seems to me that in the example provided they're all apples. That's because you're putting the apple to use to argue against a particular position. Th...
Finished up p 515 today. I can see why the 21MAR23 lecture was a bit big picture now -- this section is a detailed counter pre-history for the rise of...
Seems myopic. Philosophy is huge. And if Marx is correct, then philosophy isn't written in journals alone (which means Bunge is certainly a poor judge...
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