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It's not so much about description, but about how identity is assigned. If a group of people think of it in the way that you describe above, and assig...
March 05, 2017 at 12:13
I agree with this answer.
March 05, 2017 at 11:53
@"protectedplastic", perhaps you'd like to be a dominatrix. That way, you'd still have a job where you get to pull a creature around on a lead, give i...
March 04, 2017 at 16:08
It's a bit boring without Agustino. Maybe we should create a new one to replace him with. Who wants to be the new Agustino? Or maybe we could have an ...
March 04, 2017 at 14:56
Or such statements are simply incorrect and false. That is, if you reject his pluralistic relativism and only accept a monistic relativism in which on...
March 04, 2017 at 13:59
He also influenced Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Karl Popper, and others.
March 03, 2017 at 03:06
His explanation had to do with custom or habit. To address just the first of those, he advanced the bundle theory of the self, which gives a sceptical...
March 03, 2017 at 02:42
That plays a big role, but then, so does the fundamental role of experience. He set out on an enquiry into human understanding, to make some headway i...
March 03, 2017 at 01:55
But the quality of the evidence is what matters more than the existence of the evidence. I doubt its quality. And there's a semantic element to this t...
March 03, 2017 at 01:15
Whether or not a virus is living is an ongoing debate, as far as I'm aware, and it is controversial to give that as an example of a life form.
March 03, 2017 at 00:59
We're going around in circles now. That's a false dilemma. It needn't be either. And addressing "X is red" seems like a red herring. I'm not claiming ...
March 02, 2017 at 23:17
It's neither. It's not a contradiction, and it's not a category error, but it is more like a category error than a contradiction. If I were to state t...
March 02, 2017 at 21:07
Then you're rejecting something I never accepted in the first place. It may well refer to some qualia sort of thing. And if so, then it'd be right to ...
March 02, 2017 at 20:58
That's not a problem for me. It is sensible. Test it out on people, they'll agree. Things aren't always what they appear to be, whether we're talking ...
March 02, 2017 at 20:36
You're blaming me for a problem with your philosophy, which stems from artificially creating a logical connection between appearance and reality. That...
March 02, 2017 at 20:28
Sure, if there are taste illusions or errors, just as there are optical illusions or errors. That really doesn't follow without a mistaken hidden prem...
March 02, 2017 at 20:22
Okay, let's say that it's the same meaning. It still makes sense to say that X appears red, but X isn't red. It's just saying that X isn't how it appe...
March 02, 2017 at 20:08
Then go back and address my prior criticism: here. By the way, I accidentally posted my unfinished reply. I didn't mean to do that, since I had more t...
March 02, 2017 at 19:55
It matters in general, but I question the relevance to my point. The former isn't a valid option, and you've denied conflating them in that way. "X is...
March 02, 2017 at 19:53
What is your ultimate aim in making money? And is that more or less important to you than happiness? We can't answer this for you. Or is your ultimate...
March 02, 2017 at 19:16
I reckon that we can agree that we're seeing the same thing, whatever it is, and that this speaks to some external reality. But unless you've retracte...
March 02, 2017 at 19:09
Because they're not analogous in important respects, as I've explained. Why is that beyond you? You want me to accept a general principal based on a f...
March 02, 2017 at 18:54
Does it matter? The important distinction is between appearance and reality. Whether "red" means the same thing in each instance, or whether in one in...
March 02, 2017 at 18:44
You don't actually see Johnny Depp, but it's acceptable to say that you do in a typical context, and those around you will understand what you mean. Y...
March 02, 2017 at 17:36
Unless you're suggesting that atoms are visible to the naked eye and have colour and shape, then that's a false analogy. In this case, I described wha...
March 02, 2017 at 17:21
>:O You're supposed to play along! Michael already clarified this issue to Metaphysician Undercover. It's a reflection, as you know full well. And ple...
March 02, 2017 at 16:57
It's not irrelevant - in what I am addressing - that there were any pixels at all. No pixels, no words. Yes, structure is relevant. That's where numbe...
March 02, 2017 at 16:29
I mean something beyond appearance. I'm talking about the thing itself, at least inasmuch as I'm talking about what it is not. Whether it has no colou...
March 02, 2017 at 16:04
You said that "in this context", "appears" and "is" mean the same thing. But they obviously don't mean the same thing when people say things like "My ...
March 02, 2017 at 15:57
What we say isn't always what we mean and anything can make sense given the right interpretation, so your question doesn't get to the issue. It can se...
March 02, 2017 at 15:48
And that is also irrelevant.
March 02, 2017 at 15:34
What are the dark shapes? Do atoms have colour? I see the dark shapes, and the dark shapes are pixels, therefore I see the pixels, or I see the pixels...
March 02, 2017 at 15:27
My phone has a retina screen. But although I cannot differentiate one pixel from another with extreme precision, I am nevertheless seeing a number of ...
March 02, 2017 at 15:17
That talk may be ordinary, but if you saw a ghost, that would be extraordinary. So that talk doesn't reflect reality, otherwise it would be a relative...
March 02, 2017 at 15:08
There doesn't have to be a single meaning. There can be multiple meanings, and some can be more sensible than others. I have highlighted the shortcomi...
March 02, 2017 at 15:00
Irrelevant.
March 02, 2017 at 14:55
If by that you mean only the way that you're using them, then sure. In that context, they mean the same thing. And I can create a context in which thi...
March 02, 2017 at 14:51
No, as I said, they're not analogous. The pixels are visible to the naked eye, but the atoms are not.
March 02, 2017 at 14:45
Nope. If you can get away with that, then I can get away with stuff like this: I think I saw a ghost, so I saw a ghost. But that's codswallop. I know ...
March 02, 2017 at 14:40
And if colour is just an appearance, you can't claim that anything is red and really mean that, because "appears" and "is" don't mean the same thing.
March 02, 2017 at 14:34
Colour is not just appearance, if it is appearance at all. Otherwise I couldn't appear red without being red, but I'm not red, and your red tinted gla...
March 02, 2017 at 14:27
How can you see the words if you can't see the pixels? You cannot. The words would not appear to you if not for the many tiny black pixels which form ...
March 02, 2017 at 14:20
Whether you're right or wrong can be put to the test. Do you think that to look red is to be red?
March 02, 2017 at 13:51
No, I saw both. The words on the screen are the pixels.
March 02, 2017 at 13:47
Interesting that you've targeted what you call the "naïve understanding" of colour, rather than the ordinary way of speaking. What if my understanding...
March 02, 2017 at 13:45
What an odd thing thing to say. If so, then how did I just read that? I did so because I saw the pixels, and the pixels aren't nothing.
March 02, 2017 at 13:41
Whatever the answer to those questions, I know this much: if you reach Hanover's conclusion, then you've gone wrong somewhere along the line.
March 02, 2017 at 13:19
Wrong. If I am looked at with red tinted sunglasses, I will look red, but I will not be red.
March 02, 2017 at 06:24
White and gold. And they're not strawberries, they're a dress.
March 01, 2017 at 23:25