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Right. He's not getting metaphysical. It's along the lines of phenomenology.

They don't have to be uttered. Propositions are the primary truth bearers. I think what Witt is saying there is that he demonstrates confidence in the...

The justification is that you found the key on the table. Everything that follows the word "that" is a proposition. This sounds like you're misunderst...

Aesthetics starts with the way the world makes us feel. We're capable of discussing rules of aesthetics because we tend to feel the same about lines o...

Yes. And you can say the statue is beautiful while knowing that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

If you squash them together you get directly opposing truths.

Yes. We have the common figures of speech and then the narratives that help out in the areas of science and engineering, plus aesthetics: the statue i...

I guess so. We say the sun rises in the east when it's really that the earth is spinning. We say the ball is red when redness is really a product of t...

Isn't that like: we may talk about the sun rising, but that's a fiction?

Actually, I was looking for a discussion in which people explored the question for themselves. I first came across the issue in a book about jewelry d...

Seeing as in the visual sense? Or seeing as something the mind does, as in "I see your point."

Yea, it's a thing to take an issue and have Quine and Heidegger discuss it. You see the things they agree on, what the bone of contention amounts to. ...

No, just in general. Is there something you think is being lost?

I think the rudder of OC is that people could walk away from Moore's work thinking that because he used the word know, that his assertion is justifiab...

Do you think that's happening here? If so, what's getting lost? I'm asking.

Are you laying something like an x-y axis over your visual field?

I don't worry as much about "interpreting texts" as you do. I'm all up in the web of ideas the work is a part of. Every philosopher pings off others i...

So?

Read aaaaaalllllll the way to the end of my huge post.

Did you not know that Palestinians are a mix of religions? They're Greek Orthodox Christian and some were Jews, but they've been absorbed into the Jew...

The UK is a neoliberal power player due to having the largest financial markets in the world. They eclipse NY. Yes, they do offer bread and circuses. ...

If Moore knows, that would mean there's a sense of "know" that amounts to being unable to doubt. And per Hume, you can't prove what you can't doubt. S...

Interesting perspective. :up:

If you have anything to say, keep your mouth shut. That's my shoutout.

If you say so.

You love that story, huh? Whoever initiated it did you a favor.

Right. Forget about hands, you can fold a line over on itself and through that journey left has become right. If you prefer. Imagine a stone and a bou...

That would work

For Leibniz, innateness includes abilities that are only in potential at birth, but developed through engagement with the world. Like birds can't fly ...

Ok. Drop the issue of space. I only mentioned Kant and Leibniz because otherwise someone would have moved the thread to the lounge, failing to notice ...

Could you lay that out in broad strokes? I don't think a description of chirality will distinguish right from left for you. For that, you need a refer...

"6.36111 The Kantian problem of the right and left hand which cannot be made to cover one another already exists in the plane, and even in one-dimensi...

The question was not whether or not there is chirality. It was: how do you tell your left from your right? I don't believe that answer is found in any...

True

I don't think I uniquely endow space with directionality. I think directions come from the fact that each person has a POV from a body that's easily d...

There are a few kinds of possibility 1. Logical possibility, which is closely kin to metaphysical possibility. You're informed about this by your inna...

A possible world is an abstract object. It's stipulated. I don't know. :grin:

No, the relation is to a chosen reference. That requires an entity capable of choosing. Otherwise you just have points everywhere, some giving rise to...

:grin: If there are no people in a world, and it has directionality, that directionality is come from you.

Or maybe it's empathy. You put yourself in other people's shoes, but the basis is innate. Imagine a possible world in which there are no people. Are t...

And so you've joined the ranks of those to whom it's obvious that space doesn't have a left and right. We give it directionality.

Yes. It has to do with the fact that you're peering out of a body with ears that produce a sense of up and down. Left and right follow from that. Spac...

I don't think Liebniz or Kant meant there has to be someone standing there gawking in order for directions to exist. It's just that directionality doe...

What does have ontological import?

How do you tell your left from your right?

It's something we pick.

Are you saying space has a built in coordinate system?

Some points will make the glove right-handed. Some will make it left-handed? Correct?

I don't see what you're talking about. Where's the point?

So you have a point. Now what?