Is this not a violation of the beetle in the box thought experiment: "That is to say: if we construe the grammar of the expression of sensation on the...
You're not following. If we can discuss the differences between the two different cups we each see without the other seeing the other's respective cup...
This is entirely non-responsive to my post. Your claim was that if we spoke only of the phenomenal, we could not meaningfully speak because we would b...
I've acknowledged that my claim the noumenal causes the phenomenonal was a departure from Kant. Kant wouldn't allow any claims be made of the noumenal...
How could what you say possibly be true, considering we are talking about the same thing, yet reading entirely different words. That is, the words on ...
As noted in a prior post to @"Ciceronianus", he asked why the obsession with an evil demon, a world denying entity. But of course the Meditations was ...
From a Yahoo article: Here's the top ten countries ranked by the number of times respondents from each country said they got drunk per year: Australia...
They are talking about their perception. They aren't talking about the cup. That they think the cup and their perception are the exact thing and there...
The point of such debates isn't to prove an ultimate winner. The question of scientific realism is one pretty much accepted as unanswerable. https://e...
Under this construct, there's a cup , and I impose upon it a certain shape and color, and then I have a phenomenal state. The cup is what we have impo...
Perceiving is the act, perception is the thing. I can't think of the phenomenal state I possess of the computer before me as a verb and something that...
My worst job was washing dishes at a Chinese restaurant. They hung fly strips with this molasses stuff on it to catch the flies in the kitchen. Someti...
My favorite job was delivering pizza. It was like driving home, except you went to someone else's house. Oh, and you handed them a pizza. That was the...
In college, I'd order anchovy and onion pizzas so no one would steal my pizza. I'd also only drink PBR before it became hip, because back in the day e...
This means: we have 2 things: (1) planes and (2) perceptions of planes. (1) is the plane. (2) is the plane + my interaction with it. Am I right so far...
Alright, we have 2 things: (1) the plane, and (2) (a) an interaction between me and (b) the plane. What does #1 look like? What does #2(a) look like? ...
But lack of credibility and lack of relevance are different objections. The question we're addressing is the probative value of evidence, which presup...
There is the plane and then there is the word "plane," so I'm counting 2 things here. There is the plane and then there is the perception I have of th...
Because when one has a perceptual problem only that portion of the body that perceives need be addressed, much like when you are having a digestive di...
If my objective is to keep blips on the screen, then I'll do what is necessary to keep blips on the screen. That's a pragmatic pursuit. If I want to k...
Very well, then let's work from here. The blip on the radar screen is indirect evidence. If we were to challenge the accuracy of the statement "the pl...
In the law, there is what is referred to as direct evidence and then there is indirect evidence. The latter is often referred to as circumstantial evi...
If the dot disappears, I think I'd say "the dot disappeared" as opposed to the plane disappeared because typically planes don't do that. I'd then radi...
They aren't worlds. They are objects in the world. You deny objects? You think they mean it's the plane or they mean it's a representation of a plane?...
This again. Alright, where is the metaphoric computer screen properly positioned for my analogy to be correct? Is it at the watery surface of my twink...
It's not men of straw, it's naive realism I describe, but not the naive realism you accept. Very well. I see your post above, and I'm not sure what yo...
I'm aware there are flowers and perceptions of flowers. The flower is in the garden and the perception in my head, up until I blink, at which time it'...
I don't see how you say this though. We can remove our arms, legs, many of our internal organs, and on and on and see that our ability to perceive is ...
His post, which did seem to come out of no where, started by describing his love of the Jew, which I was happy to hear because often "who do you hate"...
You can still be a living organism and not have the ability to perceive even without eviscerating it. You can simply fall asleep. I'm not sure what yo...
You can remove a pancreas and a nose and still perceive. It's not the entire entity that perceives, any more than it's the entire entity that bends. T...
Your argument that society would be less violent if we disarmed our citizenry sounds hopelessly unamerican. We're probably fairly closely aligned in w...
I think so. i really don't want to misstate the positions here, but my understanding of a challenge with the direct realist position is that it cannot...
The only word I disagree with in this post is the word "know." Remove that word, and we're in complete agreement. Knowledge = Justified True Belief. T...
Provocation through presence alone is a problematic concept, and it's probably the defense Rittenhouse would have used to justified his killings if it...
That there are multiple points of entry for the sensory data and that they are at some point processed into a single experience doesn't seem to offer ...
From the evidence I heard, Ritten I have no idea what the guy really thinks about black people, but I don't think he's a psychotic murderer. From what...
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