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Everything that you sense. Such is the nature of indirect realism. That's why it's called representationalism. Your phenomenlogical state of the flowe...

It's all symbolic. You can't just remove the instances that show indirect realism and call them the indirect sort without having some basis for that.

I think we all see flowers fairly consistently cross-culturally, indicating the way in which we perceive relates to biology as opposed to culture. Tha...

I like the concept of a prompt as well, which is why I think (but I'll let you guys be the judge) my story about the dead baby's shoes was my best ent...

If I were to see a small blip on a radar screen showing me an airplane, would that be an airplane or a representation of one?

I think an interesting short story competition would be to provide a storyline you have to start with and then see where everyone takes it. I got this...

This just seems doubtful. I would expect that an infant sees what I see when it looks at a flower, despite it not having any sense of what is socially...

I have a phenomenological state that seems to me to be elicited by an external stimuli, but I know that it can be elicited without it because people d...

I like my coffee like I like my women: tepid, infused with cream, and with a nice head on top. Where the similarities between my preferred women and c...

That's just a restatement of naive realism. Then re-read it and see if you can better understand what I said.

Any inconsistency between the flower and the perception is defined as distortion. If the radio transmits a song filled with static, we don't say the s...

I've been online here 8 years and I have posted 11,385 times, meaning I've posted roughly 4 times a day, every day, for 8 straight years, no days off,...

I should weave that in to the upcoming short story contest.

Accurate for reflecting what is really there, with the term "really" being used in the sense you use the term "real" in the terms direct realism and i...

The point wasn't to determine the liklihood of how a forgery might or might not occur, but it was to point out that a forgery is a purely subjective d...

The huimble thing to say is that those who have stumbled but then struggled and succeeded are stronger than those who never stumbled. This comment doe...

Never. Such is a gateway to @"Baden"'s fags.

The forgery example makes clear the significance of subjectivity. That is, the distinction between a true dollar bill and a forged one does not come d...

My greatest addiction is austerity, a beigeness I require to avoid anxiety and depression. My plainness is a neurotic reaction to the stress I would f...

On December 1999, I was 33, minimally your senior but much your wiser. I had a 2 year old and a 3 month old child,. To be clear, I had 2 children, not...

Please, for the love of Yahweh, tag my name when you use it so I can insert a witty reply. I fear I might overlook it because even I, a serious and di...

My only regret is that I didn't think of this idea first. Other than this, a life perfectly lived, regret free. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8PbbfQg/

Overshoot seems a rationale for eliminating as many as possible so we can take their shit. In short, I like this idea. I like it a lot. Let us now fin...

It will split the Democratic party and hand Trump a victory.

Doesn't this example show the opposite of what the OP hopes to prove, namely that we have no reasonable basis to challenge the veracity of our senses?...

I have a story similar in many ways to @"javi2541997"'s, but different in a number of ways as well. I was standing on a corner with a man from Columbi...

Owed largely to your mastery of ornithology, your Shotboxian scholarship is uncontested, but the reason your invitation has been delayed into the High...

Given his consistency in living without fail 365,000 days previously, it's logical to assume the same will continue to happen. Like the sun coming up ...

Truth be known, it's likely the case that most American whiskey can trace itself back to a backwoods Scotsman.

Shoutbox scholarship: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/miller-high-life-champagne-of-beers-france-laws/

If there is something we do not know, then by definition, we are not omniscient. Your question, as I took it, was why we should ever doubt the accurac...

If you use different spellings within the same conversation, it would be expected that they have different referents, even if in different contexts th...

This statement doesn't logically follow. The fact that you like to drink whiskey does not provide a basis for why you drink whisky because I would ass...

Such is the problem with the way many post.

I did consider that right after I wrote it. If you are a happy, upbeat scholar, you're clearly not doing it right. Maybe the best way to drink whiskey...

Jesus Christ. Whatever fun there was in Scottish Whiskey you have destroyed by turning it into a mid-term exam. Whiskey is not meant to be consumed by...

An update on my calf fungus. I've been treating it with Lotrimin. It looks to be working. I thank you for your cards, prayers, and well wishes, but mo...

Shoutbox scholars must always have a meaningful response at their fingertips. I remember seeing a noodlebutt bouncer some years ago, and I thought the...

I only eat noodles made by a traditional ass bouncer. Knowing that my lunch resulted in a cluster of angry hemorrhoids makes the noodle eating experie...

I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people admit they can't smell an intruder like a dog.

We are in fact "blind in some regard" whether you believe. You can't see ultraviolet, hear high frequencies, taste certain flavors, feel minute variat...

I think it's unlikely that we are not blind in some regard we don't know about.

My perception of the apple is blurred without the glasses. If I never had glasses, I would assume the apple and the blurriness were one in the same. M...

I ran this through Google translate and I chose From: "English Spoken by a Guy from Spain" To: "Hanoverian English." This is what it spat out: "Where ...

This leave some uncut, whole, round, cored apples with the peel on them.

I got an eye exam the other day, and it was relevant how I saw things, with an objective standard being assumed that I varied from, so I was prescribe...

The rapes were the result of their actually sending soldiers over and invading the country. It established a much higher risk to personal safety of th...

It's obviously a myriad of factors, but the paratroopers marked an actual boots on the ground invasion which certainly gave Israel a basis for the att...

Very well. But, so you know, my objective wasn't just to be contrary. I find your position as absurd as you find mine. Worldview difference maybe.

That's not an argument. That's just a wrong evaluation. The invasion of Gaza absolutely had to do with the invasion by Hamas, which was, as I recall, ...