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Gotta dig the nonchalant righteous melodrama of the beatnik chill. I think that'd be me if just born sooner. I'd wear a beret, sip absinthe, and carrr...

If I want you to understand red, I show you a red card. If I want you to understand sweet, i give you a piece of candy. If I want you to understand ma...

Seems like an outdated way of thinking.

This strikes me as special pleading and a category error, holding a special rule to the sense of sight as opposed to touch and then asking why we can'...

I was eating dinner last night and a crown came off and I bit down on it, cursed really loud, spit it out, put it on my son's napkin, and just kept ea...

I too have that same glass. The tray is the same one I had on Rikers Island.

This strikes me as incorrect. What we both see is the beetle, which would include its properties, including its redness. I speak of my beetle and you ...

It's not solipsistic at all. My comment referenced an external object. Solipsism says I only know my own mind. He can't know my beetle, so we don't ta...

You changed what I said to salvage what you said. I didn't make any claim about types of statements, performative or otherwise. I said it odd to sugge...

I said I liked the suggestion, not that I thought it correct. The idea that a whole movement has been created from misunderstanding sarcasm is an ente...

I think he revealed it through his working it through to its conclusion. I didn't take him as a critic of analytic philosophy though, just more taking...

I had an 8:00 am class in college that I'd go to and come back home and sleep. I was half awake and half sleeping and I knew I was asleep so I'd fly a...

You say you use words in some way other than saying them? Doubly odd.

Your argument reduces to saying that my use of the term "red pen" is incorrect because no one uses it that way. My argument is that they do. The physi...

But we're not in the shop. We're here. Use is contextually based. Maybe a tomato is a fruit, but I'm asking the shop owner to direct me to the vegetab...

If you cut off someone's foot, the person might still feel pain in what they believe to be their foot. This phantom pain is caused by the severed nerv...

If Witt is correct, then the engagement in language games is inescapable. It's not like I get to be a Kantian metaphysician and you a Wittgensteinian ...

I asked ChatGpt about this analogy. She says: "The analogy compares "his bread" to "the warmth of morphine after a stressful day." In this comparison,...

I asked ChatGpt to evaluate my true story. It nailed it: "Your story weaves a complex and rich tapestry that blends fantasy with a deeply personal con...

When I was a child, I was so short that my feet didn't touch the ground. I was in charge of making bread, which required going into the field of amber...

Your experiment takes as a given that asking the subject is the gold standard for determining color. That is, you take their word as truth and you try...

Your repetition of the name "Amadeus" in your reply reminded me of this song: https://youtu.be/cVikZ8Oe_XA?si=hy8_ftFsgWJs2wd3

Science reliably predicts the behavior of my perceptions. Physics is the study of the way physical objects are observed to act.

If you're conceding our perceptions might just be a pragmatic stimulus to navigate the world, which may or may not bear any resemblance to the object,...

I don't see how that suggests that color of the pen is part of the pen and not the person's perception. It just describes how perceptions occur. We ca...

The fact that we know that phenomenal states can exist without external stimuli and that phenomenal states can be manipulated to provide varying perce...

If I have a fear of dogs and I feel that fear every time I see a dog, is the fearsome dog an object like a red pen, with the fearsomeness and the redn...

You should always be like me if you're looking to improve. I never thought Trader Joe's was inexpensive. Sam's Club and Costco are the cheap leaders, ...

Your post is motivated by the clutter of cars interfering with your favorite past time of bike riding. But that is an aside. I hate bicycles. They occ...

I don't think we can know about things we cannot know either. That's what it means to be noumenal. The red is what you perceive in your mind. It is th...

In this analogy, the code is the noumena and the color is the phenomenal. The point being that there is no reason to claim any property on the noumena...

Consider 2 sets of computer code, one that projects an image of a white pen on the screen and a second that projects a red pen on the screen. Which co...

I don't understand the reasoning behind this question. You're asking why speak at all if our speech isn't 100% accurate and complete in terms of what ...

Kind of like I should be impressed with Jeffrey Dahmer. He set out to murder and then eat people, and by God he did it. What's not to like? Feels trol...

The typical response to critics of Marxism who refer to Stalin is to try to distinguish true Marxism from his brand of mass murder and destruction. Yo...

As your eyes met his in deep admiration, he'd have murdered you too.

I think Stalin, for example, failed because he only pursued happiness. That and he killed 40 million people. Did you have another communist in mind?

So you know, I took a picture of my foot against the starless sky just past dusk. I can't upload it, and you'll now never know it's glory. https://you...

If you define bad faith as anything less than open, honest communication, then you're in bad faith by not having the conversation with your wife that ...

Heavy emphasis of "partially." Words aren't useless. They are massively important to communicate with one another. Words are an interpretation of ment...

I've not argued that communication is worthless. I've only said that it can't be used to precisely convey my mental state. Whatever is expressed will ...

I know that others don't know what I feel when I tell them about it because I don't know what they feel when they tell me about it. I could question t...

I don't think any amount of talking will convey to you the first person experience I have of anything. It will always be a rough estimate. Experiences...

So that the other person can be informed, more of less, of what I see. It's true that I assume the listener understands me, but I don't think he fully...

I recognize that I'm not going to sway your opinion because it's fully committed to the Wittgensteinian model, but there is perhaps value in pointing ...

Nothing compares to this: https://youtu.be/j9_8zjdcUAY?si=cDHRaxuSdHq1_oGV

You are reporting upon what you see. Maybe you want to be provided the red pen The noumena isn't known.

You're forever caught up in language games and not metaphysics, and so you ask these sorts of questions. I'll give you props for consistency, but your...

That we can't know everything doesn't mean we can't know anything. We still landed a man on the moon even if we've not figured out Xeno's paradox.

Assuming it possible the planets moved differently prior to human perspective, it does not follow they moved differently prior to human language. I ca...