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It was my favourite, and I used it a lot. X-)

What do you mean here? Do you mean that knowing what proposition is expressed by the utterance of a sentence requires knowing something about the cont...

No such thing as the world! That's a good one. >:O

I don't think that the "have", which denotes the present, is necessary. I think that it would be sufficient that we had a particular kind of conceptua...

I might also say that a sentence isn't simply a pattern of ink but a pattern of ink that expresses a proposition. But reading it and it expressing a p...

Yes, it would be. That wasn't my intention. It's just that what is meant by "truth" is important, since it can determine the logical consequences. May...

Why would sentences be mind-dependent in any sense relevant to the debate? If I write a sentence on a piece of paper, then there is a sentence which d...

A question. The sort you ask with a raised eyebrow.

I think I might remember you from the old forum. Did you have a dog as your avatar? A dog with glasses? I very much relate with that sentiment. I am p...

Part II There isn't much I have to say about that. You haven't even stated what you think the conflict seems to be. They don't seem in conflict to me....

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You haven't made anything any clearer. What was clear remains clear, and what was unclear remains unclear.

That's fine, but then I don't get why you bothered to reply in the way that you did. I already knew that.

I said more than that one comment, and which addresses the above.

Part I Because it isn't impossible that one of the alternative theories is correct, and your theory is incorrect. It is possible that whether a propos...

In some way... Sure, in some way, but are they dependent in the relevant way? If there were never any minds, then there would never have been any ling...

Guys, please, I'm trying to talk about caffeine here. What's more important?

But I don't like that name, so I'm renaming it "Dave".

And yeah, maybe "objective idealism" isn't the best name for that position, but I can't think of a better one right now. "Non-intelligent-life-depende...

Oh! I thought you had a bigger point to make. I have no problem talking about minds in general rather than human minds. I just adopted the language of...

Can you remind me what that is, and how it allows that? I get the objective part. Is "objective idealism" the most appropriate term for such a positio...

The world doesn't exist separately from us, it just exists independently of us. We live in the world, and it is all around us. We are part of it, as y...

So facts don't matter? If I judge a factually incorrect statement as true, then it's true? And even if it's a fact that P, "P" wouldn't be true if no ...

There's nothing stopping you from defining it that way, but that isn't what is typically meant. Truth isn't a judgement, it's a property. We judge pro...

Sweet. 8-)

Well, I for one, do. (If that wasn't already as clear as day). And I think that most others do as well. It's only when these philosophers come along t...

We wouldn't need to.

The way I see it, the mind is like a car you need to get from A to B. You need it to start the journey, but you don't depend upon it. You could get ou...

It seems a bit weird to call caffeine a drug, but that's what it is. I've been drinking an energy drink, and I don't feel great. I associate the feeli...

I haven't been following the whole discussion, but I think that @"Michael" is a logical chap, so it will be interesting to see whether he is on my sid...

Okay, I've had a little break. So, back to the grind. Here is part II: continuing from where I left off. With regards to the last part, I simply ask: ...

So, what's the problem then? That in itself needn't be a problem. None of that necessitates a mind being there. It necessities that there was a mind t...

I split all of the relevant comments from that discussion and moved them here, so you shouldn't need to look at the other discussion. I think that the...

It seems I could accept your first premise, but reject the second. Why do you think that whether a proposition is true or false is a matter of judgeme...

No, there weren't. But that there needed to be intelligent life doesn't mean that there needs to be. And it's only the latter which is relevant. Do yo...

No, that's not my understanding. What are you basing that on? Facts, statements, truth, the world... none of that seems mind-dependent in the relevant...

So... care to elaborate?

Yes and no. If we assume that what the author meant is what they mean, then yes. And that is what I was assuming, so that's not a problem. The author ...

Why? I mean, it seems to me that they could or they couldn't. If they were just randomly written, or written in a purposefully vague and ambiguous man...

Slavery typically involves work. Would it even make sense without work?

You and your polls... :-} X-) Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, but I can still think of a million better ways to spend my time if it ...

Work for work's sake... Like in a concentration camp?

They don't live for any reason at all? Yeah right. Like I said, they have an odd way of showing it. Sometimes actions speak louder than words. And I a...

Look, I wanted to rule out one possible interpretation: that you were just saying that the one isn't the same thing as the other. That is what I said ...

Which enables a proportion of their political opponents to hold sustained organised protests. Thanks for footing the bill!

/uploads/files/jk/jgry7onoj3n2zire.jpg ...that that's ironic coming from you.

So you're a psychologist? And you've gathered all of that just from a few anonymous exchanges over the internet? With just some text and a picture of ...

I'm not sure if I've understood you correctly, because that seems like a trivial point. Apples can't be bananas and circles can't be squares. My count...

I think that that's either contradictory or misses the point. It would be contradictory if we're talking about having nothing to live for, yet having ...

That was what Tiff said Hillary said. I merely said that if that is so, then that's correct. Me? No, I'm innocent. O:) I did cherry pick some of the w...