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Ontological anti-realism is just some level of skepticism about ontology in general.

So you're a soft ontological anti-realist, which means you don't put much stock in metaphysics. Reality, or whatever may be the case, impresses itself...

I agree that introducing jargon should only be done when there's a really good reason for it.

Experience with mandatory diversity training, yes. My co-workers and I had reason to use the training with respect to a person in our care. They had v...

Playing chess would be analogous to using language? If using language by yourself is a social construct, then all language use is socially constructed...

That's fine. I had a feeling you wouldn't be able to answer. I think Mww will say whether he thinks reality is a social construct.

Gender fluid people want to be talked about using the plural pronoun, and at the same time, using "they" is being used to replace "he or she", as you ...

There have been a few cases of feral children. In some cases they never learn to speak. If private speech is primary, you'd expect them be able to ada...

Interesting. So would you argue that the set of things we declare to be real is largely produced intersubjectively and has the stamp of culture on it?...

Probably because it's not saying much more than that language, like individuality, requires a social setting as a launch pad and touchstone. So what?

Point is, your private language would be built off work done by others, so it wouldn't really be your own personal thing. If you were feral, I don't t...

Maybe no one in this thread is actually talking about the PLA. We're just talking about subjectivity. If I tried to make a personal language (so we di...

Could you help me understand this? Isn't it drawing on common sense? Does "private" mean untranslatable even in principle? That's a thumbs up, right?

True. What's the PLA's take-away? It's not actually an argument. It's just a handfull of reckons. It suggests that linguistic structure is reinforced ...

Face recognition is innate. Dogs have forward facing eyes like a human, so dogs should be stand out to babies.

Locked in. Your speech production center is separate from your sound interpretation area. You can talk to yourself.

But think about someone who's locked-in (they're conscious, but can't signal out in any way). The language of their thoughts isn't native to them orig...

This is Meno's paradox. Plato uses it to show that some knowledge is innate (that's one way to put it).

A mutation could happen to a dominant gene or a recessive gene. Either way, the mutant doesn't have to mate with a fellow mutant to pass on the change...

No. Visit your local emergency room. If you think you're feeling the pain of the patients, you're deluded.

Public and private are two sides to the same coin. Can't have one without the other.

What ontology are you expressing? How does the statement differ from a grammatical fact so that it's ontological?

The logic was: it's a yellow cup, hence there exists a yellow cup. Seven is a prime number, hence there exists a number 7. Same thing.

Ok. But then, the same logic applies to seven. That sounds like some sort of zen mantra. Is there an ontological commitment behind it?

I think we agree that we have no truth-apt ontological statements to make about either cups or numbers. As for sharing ideas amongst ourselves, we hav...

So is wearing pants. True. The vague universal is just one example of how we can't do without talk of concepts and notions. That doesn't imply anythin...

I was hoping you'd take the stance that we can do without talk of concepts, ideas, and notions. If we think of universals as an aspect of investigatio...

Yes, but the notion of a coffee cup doesn't. The notion of a coffee cup might be part of an inquiry. You see an object on the table, but the lights ar...

Notions aren't the sorts of things that have locations.

I think you've turned your brain into a pressure cooker.

My neighbor has unruly sons who do stupid things. One of them bashed his car into my mailbox, and its concrete anchored 4x4 tore up the front of his c...

Aw shucks. :blush:

Strangely enough, that makes for good conversations. :chin:

Twinings makes a tea called "Soothe". Check it out.

Don't you occasionally grant that there's ineffable stuff?

Primacy?

I think most normal people assume both. You demonstrate that you assume you can know what people think by asking questions. You don't act like you can...

It's assumed. You make this assumption regularly, that you know how others feel or what they think.

Yep. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Math is also not dependent on being shared. Would you call it objective?

Just kidding

That wasn't very compassionate of you.

Let's call that Compassion A. It has to do with awareness and doing the right thing relative to correctly perceived issues. This is not the Dalai Lama...

Sort of.

You can't have compassion for yourself?

You might enjoy The Reign of Wolf 21

Maybe you could get a compass out of it for your great sailing adventures. Remember, Schopenhauer was a determinist. He saw compassion as springing na...

People just assume that we all have the same kind of subjective experience. This assumption is essential to morality, and seems to hold up to some ext...

Is it recyclable?

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