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A person is thought of as being in a relation to a mental state, such as believing a proposition, imagining Paris, etc. Conceiving of thought as havin...

Do you think faith in rule of law could start to erode in the US due to Trump?

My charitable reading is that direct realists believe a representational theory of mind entails mind ghosts.

Turtle saves other turtle. https://youtu.be/nhScpa_fGZw?si=6bZX5VwYQRy3utUr

Ok? I'm not sure why you're repeating that.

I agree that this is what indirect realism is saying, but it makes more sense to me to say that pixels is one way to divide up the world. There could ...

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Kripkenstein is not skepticism. That's your first failure to understand it. It's merely the insight that the issue uncovered by the PLA generalizes. I...

Any thoughtful examination of the PLA will produce Kripke's same insight. If you don't have that insight, there's some thoughtfulness missing. :razz:

I suppose so, but the GPS in your phone was designed using math invented by Descartes. It's so weird that your GPS works even though math does not exi...

I'd be curious to know how you interpret that text if not in the way I described. Oh good grief.

A nominalist would provide an argument for why we can use math without committing to abstract objects. I guess Meta is a math skeptic.

No, they weren't. People use the PLA to conclude that meaning is dependent on public verification in the form of successful social interaction. I lear...

Both Chomsky and Kripke offer good reasons to doubt that you learn language purely by watching others use the terms. Your own childhood language acqui...

I think it's important to keep in mind that the Private Language Argument only pertains to one theory of meaning, that being rule following. If words ...

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Ok. I'm probably wrong then.

Yes. Nominalists believe we don't need to posit abstract objects to make sense of math. It's generally considered that they have the burden of proof, ...

I don't think it's that simple. It really comes down to which view best accommodates what we do with math.

He's saying that 2 isn't a thing. It's a modifier like pink. You can't count pinks because it's not a thing you count. It's nominalism.

I am a Neoplatonist, and I don't care whether you capitalize the P or not! :grin:

I think you're discounting the importance of community. If it's not stretching your spine out of shape, you can go along with the rest of the phil of ...

It's called nominalism. I would ask one favor though. Stop capitalizing the P in Platonism. The phil of math view of platonism. Plato pitted opposing ...

So apples are countable, but numbers aren't. :grin:

Aristotle is not set aside by calculus because it does not deal with actual infinity. Set theory is a different matter.

I know. There's also a homunculus problem with using Cagney as an example, but I wasn't trying to say that watching a movie is a comprehensive analogy...

I don't understand what you're saying here. I'll leave you with a painting by Magritte (I had a poster of it on my wall as a teenager.) It's about ind...

There are a couple of issues here, but what I'd like to first square away is the notion that philosophy results in delusional behavior. Jimmy Cagney i...

This is Aristotle's finitism. Finitism is like this: if we put you in a spaceship that has an odometer, you will never see any but a finite number on ...

Say you watched a Jimmy Cagney movie. You report that you saw Jimmy Cagney in the movie, though you also know what you saw was a representation. Is th...

We know data comes into your brain in discreet bits. What you experience is a seamless whole. The architecture of the nervous system testifies that wh...

Ok.

Your view is called finitism. It's from Aristotle.

Nobody cares

Neither is word smithing.

You have an awe deficit.

You completely missed my point. Oh well. :grin:

Take a moment to stop and take in the world around you: the sights, sounds, movements in time and space. Now take in that all of it is generated by yo...

More word smithing.

Many people think this, but there's probably a very good argument to the contrary.

Telephony creates an illusion, and so does television. There's no tiny Donald Trump inside your TV.

You don't have access to your wife's voice. If you did, you wouldn't need a phone. Think of your sensory nervous system as technology that allows that...

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My contribution to your word smithing would be that we do need to speak in terms of experience. Sight is not an isolated activity. It's integrated int...

I don't think experience has any particular location. It's something creatures with nervous systems do. A flood of electrical data comes into the brai...

Sure. You experience the cat indirectly. You experience the ship indirectly. You experience the smell of the coffee indirectly. Welcome to indirect re...

Ok. The content of your experience is neural representations. Happy?

Direct realism is also subject to the decomposing effects of skepticism. We all get by with pragmatism.

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You're an indirect realist. You allow that humans experience neural representations, whether we call that seeing, hearing, tasting/smelling, touching ...