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Why do you think it's warranted?

Because: I mean, if this is true, then how do you know about mind independent objects? What source of knowledge do you have other than your senses? Ho...

Why do you have confidence the standard model if you learned about it through your senses?

You agree with phenomenalism because of subatomic particles?

So science has access to the properties of mind independent objects? How is this possible if those properties are not present in experience?

Isn't the scientific data about things that are past your senses?

That's phenomenalism as I understand it. I guess my question would be: what supports this claim?

That metaphysical claims are nonsense.

In the TLP, he cautions against making claims of that kind (that's the overall message of the TLP, anyway). Russell did believe that direct experience...

"Every modern philosopher accepted some version of the theory of ideas—the view that we immediately perceive certain mental entities called ideas, but...

Hume was a phenomenalist. Why would exploring his ideas go in a different thread?

On precious metals? Like what?

I don't think that's what Hume was thinking. Would you want to explore his ideas more? By going through the logic of bundle theory?

Population growth is around zero in Europe, China, and the US. It's actually threatening to start going negative. Why do you think that is?

Of course. Why would you think I don't know that?

Phenomenalism just advises we not invest too much in the idea of concrete objects which possess ever changing properties. It says that an object basic...

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Running out of precious metals to make phones doesn't affect the climate. Burning any fossil fuels at all does. We either need to come up with a good ...

True. That doesn't affect the climate, though.

There really isn't anywhere for it to go. It all just goes round and round.

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The solution is a profound technological shift.

I see. Withdrawing from drugs can be fatal, so an addict probably should take drugs to avoid death. Same thing: If we try to abruptly withdraw from fo...

Paywall. Could you summarize?

In the TLP, language can be used to talk about the world. The world is whatever happens to be the case. If the proposition that I saw a red truck is t...

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I think this video will help: https://youtu.be/I7JBAcxreBw

The title of the OP is phenomenalism, not phenomenology. Hume was a phenomenalist.

Oh. There's another interpretation after that. If I understand it correctly, it says that the Tractacus can be taken as a demonstration. No one climbs...

Who are you directing this question toward? Wittgenstein? Us? Yourself?

David Hume will still be famous after I'm dead and buried, so I'll hold back on calling him a philosophical novice. :grin:

So we have interpretations by decade: 1960s:. mystical readings 1980s:. metaphysical readings, some insisting on realism 1990s: the "resolute reading"...

For some interpreters, TLP 3.3 foreshadows the private language argument: "Only propositions have sense; only in the nexus of a proposition does a nam...

Reading Schopenhauer left me pondering the limits of the intellect, at how some intellectual avenues seem to be dead ends. This is a theme I'm picking...

This is just garbled.

I wasn't saying Kant was a mystic. I was saying that the metaphysics Wittgenstein offers would be compatible with a lot of different ontologies. He's ...

Yes. An inference regarding a hidden state is never called an "observation." I'm glad to see papers aren't being written with that kind of confusion.

If you recall a specific case of a hidden state being referred to as "observed", could you point that out? As I mentioned, in Markov analysis in gener...

In the uses of the term I'm familiar with "observed" and "hidden" are very distinct. Could you give an example of the two being used to refer to the s...

Sorry, I wasn't talking about perception. I was talking about hidden states in general. It makes more sense to me to say we have some degree of confid...

Cool!

I think phenomenalism is from Hume's bundle theory, isn't it? You can't imagine an object that has no properties. And somehow we get from there to: an...

.'The nature of his new philosophy is heralded as anti-systematic through and through, yet still conducive to genuine philosophical understanding of t...

"To sample the future, what you do is first sample the last state, given its distribution. Then sample the next hidden state, using the transition mat...

Nah. There's an 80 percent chance of rain. I don't know it's going to rain.

So we're not trying to be serious here?

You can read it. If you don't like it, fine. If you think his message is mystical, fine. If you think he was a materialist, fine. I'm going to turn my...

You know what happened when you tested the model. That gives some degree of confidence in your subsequent inferences. No need to overstate things.

Yes. I'm not sure why Wittgenstein bugs you. If you're a Schopenhauer/Tolstoy/Kierkegaard fan, it seems to me you'd at least be curious about what's g...

I guess the metaphysics he presents would be compatible with Kant. It would be compatible with some kind of mystical view. Does it matter though? In t...