Hume's view does not lead to skepticism and it does not make science impossible. Hume's view is merely a very accurate description of what was already...
It is according to your misconception of my conception of what counts as a lie. In your example, you are describing reality before proceeding to use t...
History does not constrain possibility other than in the epistemological sense i.e. our method of reasoning relies on history to tell us what is most ...
You don't understand what the question "why the sun would rise hundreds of billions of times in a row?" means. That's the problem. When you ask a ques...
Perhaps you find it impoverished because you are used to thinking that causality is something that it is not? See, I think that sounds perfectly sane....
That's a horribly shallow understanding of what a lie is. What is a lie? Any declared description of reality that has been formed with the purpose to ...
If people are unequal it is only fair to treat them unequally. If someone is wrong, you don't want to treat them in the same way that you treat someon...
That's why you should use your intelligence to pick the best candidate for the job instead of throwing a dice to pick any. Also, once you pick the bes...
The point is that people are unequal. Some people are better at certain things than others. This applies to legislature too. Some people have a better...
I think that the idea of random selection is childish. I can't believe that someone can say that governance does not require expertise. We don't choos...
That's not true. Beliefs that have been formed with the aim to deceive others are lies regardless of whether the deceiver believes in them or not. Tha...
The opinions of deceivers were formed with the goal to deceive other people. Self-deception is when these opinions that were formed with the goal to d...
You are nitpicking. Noone cares what THEY are aware of. What matters is that WE are aware of that the beliefs that they currently hold to be true were...
Conscious intent is simply one's own intent one is conscious or aware of. There are intents whether we are conscious of them or not. Why? Is it becaus...
So when you say "that's a tree" that is just as precise as saying "that's a red tree" which is just as precise as saying "that's a trunk with a number...
You don't have to describe Game of Thrones in terms of pixels unless it is necessary to do so. For most purposes, it is unnecessary to do so. You desc...
It's not merely about talking. It's about which one of the two descriptions is more concrete or precise. When I say that a tree is a single object rat...
Nate Robinson is short. LeBron James is tall. Pixels are simple. Computer images are complex. Words are simple. Sentences are complex. Bricks are simp...
Yes. The question is what makes that difference. How do we differentiate between the two? What is the logic behind this process of differentiation? Wh...
There may remain a difference, I don't disagree with that, the question is what would make the difference. For example, is it something within the VR ...
For example, you don't think that video game graphics can ever become perfectly realistic? Even if you had all of the resources in the world, there is...
But there is no VR headset. You are not getting your VR experience from some kind of physical screen. The process is entirely biological. You took a V...
Maybe one day I will wake up and realize that this forum discussion was only a dream. But until then, I have no reason to think that this is the case....
The experience of seeing a tree when we're awake is not mental. The experience of seeing a tree in a virtual reality that is so realistic that it is i...
Again, I agree that there is a physical world that exists in space and time regardless of whether or not human beings are around to perceive it. My qu...
I think that most people would agree with that. I am not a realist, I am a phenomenalist. And I agree with what you're saying. I agree that there is a...
The God's eye view would be the all-encompassing view i.e. the view that allows us to see everything there is in the universe. That's quite different ...
A fundamental particle would also be an object of experience. Even if fundamental particles were unobserved they would still be potential, or at the v...
What is this tree that is causally responsible for tree-experience if not some sort of tree-experience? I think this might be the place where our reas...
I agree with Michael. Even if the two experiences, the experience of seeing a tree with your own eyes and the experience of hallucinating a tree, were...
That's simply what prediction (and also retrodiction) is. It concerns itself with what we did not experience, or at the very least, what is not within...
What does it mean for a thing to have certain properties when noone is looking at it? I can and I will give you my answer. But I am interested in your...
I disagree. The universe isn't a mechanism. Its particulars, or facts if you will, are not produced according to some set of rules. Rather, the univer...
The problem is that people confuse actual experience (i.e. sense-data that we possess) with potential experience (i.e. sense-data that we expect.) Eve...
It applies to any kind of experience. When two men look at a wheel and agree that its shape is circular what that means is that their "shape" experien...
The word "external" means "outside of (some set)". Similarly, the word "internal" means "within (some set)". The set (or more accurately, category) al...
Each one of us has his own experiences. When we say that we both perceive something (e.g. that the sky is blue) what we mean is that we have similar e...
Reasoning is by its nature indirect. The purpose of reasoning is to make guesses regarding something that is unknown (i.e. something that hasn't been ...
Without concepts, you cannot make predictions. You can only live in the moment. Roughly speaking, to conceptualize the visible (i.e. what you have exp...
That's true. But we do the same when we're dreaming. When we fall asleep and start dreaming we forget that we fell asleep and started dreaming. Instea...
I agree that there is such a thing as an instantenous classification of sensory information the mechanism of which we are largely unconscious (e.g. fa...
The purpose of reasoning is to make guesses regarding something that is unknown (i.e. something that hasn't been experienced or at the very least memo...
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