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I know that you were directing these questions at Terrapin and his crazy views, but I'll give you the right answers. The question doesn't make sense. ...

And if you cling to that and don't step outside of it, even for just a second, then we won't get anywhere. It's a dead end.

I'm doing both, as ever. All the best criticism weaponises humour. Voltaire was famous for it.

But their contributions are still very useful in a very important respect, not just interesting for historical value or as an exercise in critical thi...

That's a pretty rubbish way of defining your terms. Realist idealists? Atheist theists? Anyway, at the very least, you're not a realist in the relevan...

I disagree. It think that it's your argument when exposed for what it really is, without the manipulation of language to make it seem like something m...

Idealism: isn't it just great? I must be a blind fool for caring about things such as plausibility and good sense! :lol:

A painted orange is a painted orange, and an experience of orange is an experience of an orange. But I'm asking what an orange is. What is it that's b...

There is by my account, which works to actually resolve the problems found through philosophy, instead of exacerbating them and getting off on it.

That doesn't mean jack outside of a sort of empiricism which is extremely unreasonable. If your epistemology only let's you say, "There might be an or...

Nice. I'm glad that someone is honing in on what seems to be an inconsistency in the reasoning between the two positions I call metaphysical realism a...

Kant, for example. :grin:

:100: Someone needs to break the spell that they're under.

No, it's a deception. No.

Oh god, not this again. Just because I can't imagine something, like an apple, without imagining it, that doesn't mean that it can't exist without my ...

Saying this is one thing. Demonstrating it with a sound argument is another. That's compatible with realism. The irony is that you kept calling me an ...

So, to be is be an object of experience. Except that this falls flat on it's face when it comes to rocks on distant galaxies that no one has ever expe...

Then how are they idealists and not realists? An object, at least in the context of things such as oranges, doesn't ordinarily mean an appearance or a...

How can it be an appearance if it isn't appearing to anyone, like the orange in my cupboard? The modern idealist makes very little sense, and if they ...

They may claim it to be false, but if my account makes sense and their's doesn't, then they haven't got a leg to stand on. Fear isn't much like an ora...

Good question. Maybe it's a goat like everything else. But do you not think before you speak? And are your thoughts not meaningful? If meaning did not...

Yeah, I've gone into overdrive lately, and my obsession has spiralled out of control a tad. I must answer all of life's most important questions, like...

Nonsense.

Sure, but they wouldn't mean what they say, and what they really mean doesn't make sense.

Ah jeez, Rick. I thought that you understood that this was just a bit of fun. Chin up, wipe those tears from your vagina. @"Hanover" would have known....

Bingo! And yet @"Banno" had the nerve to say that my analogies here lead to misunderstanding. Well, no, not if you are bright enough to get what I'm d...

I get the similarities between what early Wittgenstein was doing with his Tractatus and what Kant was doing with his Critique. Both are about limits. ...

I remember the word "sphygmomanometer", how to pronounce it, and what it means. I likewise remember "lysergic acid diethylamide". I remember the year ...

:up: I'm not just speaking common sense. I'm rejecting the Kantian distinction, shocking as that might be for some. There are things. And things are j...

I would say that there are just things. And I can talk about them.

Okay, well, if it is physically possible, then that would just make my tap water example a bad example. I realised what you were getting at, and that'...

My current thinking is that even playing along with that Kantian language game is part of the problem.

I'm a bit of a Humean on "laws" of physics. It's possible that tomorrow I'll turn on the tap and the water will flow upwards. This logic ultimately re...

But "decision" is the wrong word. It's not a matter of decision. It's a matter of figuring out. The meaning has already been made.

Oh no. Now you've gone and done it. We were doing so well until you suggested that there needs to be a "meaning-maker" to "decide" whether or not ther...

Your use of terminology seems more open to problems of interpretation. Logic is good for cutting out ambiguity.

There must be a question poser (meaning-maker), or there must have been one? It seems the latter to me.

I like that way of putting it. Zero possibility? Wouldn't there just be an extremely low probability - next to nothing, but not zero?

Okay, you get a gold star too. Although if you close this discussion I'm taking it back. I don't quite agree, but I like it, and it's a lot better tha...

You have a way with words. I doubt I could've put it like that. I like it. You and Janus each get a gold star for your contributions. And Terrapin too...

You're late to the discussion, so perhaps you missed me say about a trillion times that I'm only talking about linguistic meaning. What you're describ...

Exactly. Ask @"Terrapin Station". He has the answers to these kind of questions. :lol: Where is Tuesday?

It's awesome. Such a treasure. Yes, yes, and yes. There's a whole bunch of different aspects to this discussion. What was intended as my main focus pr...

See me after class.

You really don't remember? That there is meaning when no people exist is my conclusion, utilising the thought experiment. That conclusion leads to the...

It's only a problem if what you two agree on is true. Obviously I reject what you two agree on and put my own philosophy in its place. My philosophy l...

:brow: The expression of pain is not pain. I cry out or grimace - the expression - because I am in pain. I can make that same expression even when I'm...

People too quickly jump into thinking, "But how can that be so without me knowing about it?", as if our knowing about it determines the metaphysics. A...

Okay... So, do you agree with my point there being cases where the role of knowledge in relation to metaphysics is being overestimated?

Yeah, and I think that that can lead to some of the biggest problems in metaphysics. It leads to what raises big red flags for me. Sure, in that sense...