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What evidence do you have of that?
November 30, 2021 at 14:49
Yet he only killed white people. The judge threw the charge out before it got to the jury because the law didn't apply to the facts. The State makes t...
November 30, 2021 at 14:47
That's just scientifically incorrect. My nose doesn't see things, nor does my pancreas. You do in fact, regardless of how messy it makes philosophical...
November 30, 2021 at 12:32
I think you overlook a serious problem here. If you admit that the presence of Y between object X and perceiver Z distorts, modifies, or alters the pe...
November 30, 2021 at 11:42
A goat has a split hoof, and it grows a toenail that curves over it when overgrown, so you have to cut it from time to time, holding tight, occasional...
November 30, 2021 at 02:10
I copied that recipe, but substituted ice for the turkey. It was cold wet pasta, but pretty darn delicious. Thanks again for sharing your recipes. Kee...
November 30, 2021 at 02:06
If the flower is 100 feet away, there's that barrier, especially if it's foggy outside or if a tree is in the way, and then there's the lens of the ey...
November 30, 2021 at 01:56
If the perception of the bee of the flower is blue and the perception of the flower to me is red, what color is the flower?
November 29, 2021 at 23:11
"External world" simply references an object external to perception, which I assume you agree with, given your prior objection to solipsism.
November 29, 2021 at 23:04
Of course there's a reason to think it's a different for us and for the bee. The lens of the bee presents it in an entirely different way. There's als...
November 29, 2021 at 22:38
I think the question in this thread is how we know what the external world is (which was the part of the survey I referred to) and to a lesser extent ...
November 29, 2021 at 21:12
But there's no question that this happens in real life. I look at the eye chart to take my eye exam. There are the letters that are there and there ar...
November 29, 2021 at 20:54
Yeah, but you left out a key word here. Fill in the blank: "I would think direct realism would permit that different creatures, with differing biologi...
November 29, 2021 at 20:43
I can't see how there can be any proposition that cannot be negated. That is, for any proposition A, there is a proposition not A. That would hold tru...
November 29, 2021 at 20:29
I won't take full credit for my quote above: "Days pass and the years vanish and we walk sightless among miracles. Lord, fill our eyes with seeing and...
November 29, 2021 at 19:29
And realism, once we strip it of its subjectivity, reduces to idealism. All slippery slopes lead to solipsism.
November 29, 2021 at 19:26
The trick in dealing with the phenomenal is to understand that it makes a significant difference whether the phenomenal correlates to reality. There i...
November 29, 2021 at 19:22
Yet Descartes didn't reject the world in which we live, so that must not have been the implication of the evil demon thought experiment.
November 29, 2021 at 19:05
This misunderstands the analogy. We don't see the blinking light. We see the flower. The car sees the passing car and a blinking light is activated. D...
November 29, 2021 at 16:56
I count 4./uploads/files/vq/72ubo6muku7qwe2z.jpeg
November 29, 2021 at 11:05
I believe every blade of grass is exactly where it ought to be in order to fulfill a particular divine purpose, yet we walk blindly among miracles, mi...
November 29, 2021 at 00:27
If we adapt to environment A, we will avoid B if we're not adapted to it because we'll not compete well there. That's why tigers don't find a nice war...
November 28, 2021 at 14:39
The article was too long, but am I correct in interpreting that it says an experiment with mice showed the mice tried to avoid surprise, so that findi...
November 28, 2021 at 13:48
You're a blue blood then, your highness.
November 27, 2021 at 23:30
I get @"Banno"'s comment, suggesting that if all properties are subjectively imposed, then how can we speak of those properties of the thing in itself...
November 27, 2021 at 22:53
This is probably just a delusion of persecution because you must fancy yourself a working class stiff. https://youtu.be/Z5NC-x1_S1U
November 27, 2021 at 21:58
Self help is the predictable consequence of failed law enforcement. The decision of law enforcement to respond to street violence (whether justified p...
November 27, 2021 at 16:15
My car has this feature that causes a light on the side mirror to light up when another vehicle passes into my blind spot. Unless you wish to speak if...
November 27, 2021 at 15:19
Idealism wouldn't require anything external to the mind, so I'm not sure it's worried about other minds and what they see. In any event, if your basis...
November 27, 2021 at 15:05
There's a flower in your head and you're asking about the bee in your head. Idealism is strange, but not incoherent.
November 27, 2021 at 02:05
No, objects have properties.
November 27, 2021 at 00:31
If my perception and the flower are the same thing, that's idealism. There is no external to speak of, so you can eliminate that word as well.
November 27, 2021 at 00:30
"Uni" verse means one. It means everything that there is. That something is "external" could not mean external to the universe. If it did, the univers...
November 26, 2021 at 22:00
"KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The first man shot by Kyle Rittenhouse on the streets of Kenosha was “hyperaggressive” that night, threatened to kill Rittenhous...
November 26, 2021 at 15:37
No, neither deserved death if justice were served in a deliberate way. That is, had they not been shot, they would have faced some charges, not none d...
November 26, 2021 at 15:30
This conversation would be more meaningful if you read the facts. Instead it's just a continual correction of your factual errors. What data do you ha...
November 26, 2021 at 15:26
The second person had knocked him to the ground, beating him in the neck with a skateboard and was wrestling his gun away when shot.
November 26, 2021 at 15:16
Bullets has just been fired, so your insistence that R just opened fire on a peaceful civil rights crowd doesn't reference this case. They were also t...
November 26, 2021 at 13:52
The protestors were armed as well. The first guy who got shot was next to a person who shot a handgun as they charged him and the third guy who got sh...
November 26, 2021 at 13:41
This isn't the survey result that applies to the questions within this thread. From the same survey: See #21. /uploads/resized/files/mc/w0cauupilluk0m...
November 26, 2021 at 13:10
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/580073-detective-shot-fired-before-rittenhouse-began-shooting%3famp
November 26, 2021 at 12:45
If we're all one race, there can't be racism of course, but the evil is classism, with skin color just being an easy way to classify people as inferio...
November 26, 2021 at 01:06
The Wisconsin law allows a minor to possess a rifle as long as it's a certain length, so he violated no law there. The first shot fired was by a pursu...
November 25, 2021 at 20:50
I don't believe race based lynchings have anything to do with honor issues. Honor killings arise after insult of integrity, like occurred in Hatsfield...
November 25, 2021 at 18:25
Well, that is the Kantian position. I tend to believe a causative link between the thing and the experience. So, if the flower is knowable, it can onl...
November 25, 2021 at 14:15
None of this makes much sense. That nothing can exist external to the world is tautological, considering "the world" is being referred to as all that ...
November 25, 2021 at 14:05
Two great books I read on this: Cracker Culture and White Trash. Cracker Culture describes the Celtuc culture, its roots, and its impact on the south....
November 25, 2021 at 11:55
This is not how I understanf the honor culture to be. My understanding is that it is most prevalent among the Celtic settlers in the US, not of the En...
November 25, 2021 at 03:32
Must you be able to do something with the truth for it to be true?
November 25, 2021 at 01:29
Very well, what is the flower in and of itself?
November 25, 2021 at 01:14