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Yes. It is odd that those theories are often classified as idealist. I can see your point. But it's only an over-view. It needs a slightly more detail...

I'm not sure whether you mean the Aristotelian solution or the Neoplatonist one. Either way, I don't think we can assume that we can lift one part of ...

I get your point. But eventually realized that the peculiarity of this discussion is precisely that it is conducted, to put it this way, de re and not...

Wittgenstein returns to the question. "What is the object of a thought?" (e.g. when we say, "I think that King's College is on fire"). (Page 34) This ...

Well, yes. Pressing one's eyeball and noticing a new colour is not enough. We have to see how other people describe the phenomenon. So I'm very puzzle...

OK. It's just that causal explanation, along with the metaphor of the machine, has been such an icon of what science is about that I find it hard to g...

I would be inclined to agree with you. But then I find that it is still alive and kicking. If you want to argue with someone, it is best to start from...

Yes, I get that point. Are you saying that we should stop talking about causes altogether, or that we need to re-think the concept of causation? Setti...

Yes. That's part of his appeal. The equation, in philosophy, of the self with the ego is a specialized locution. It doesn't reflect how the word is us...

I came across that about a year ago on another forum. I could see how he got there but was not sure how seriously to take it. It just goes to show tha...

Thanks. That's clear enough. I'll pick up from where you left off and go to p. 40. I don't think I have much to say about pp 32 - 35. The page numberi...

I don't remember that, but it is quite possible. I seem to remember that there was also a theory that the mind resided in the stomach.

Yes. It seems to me that Descartes and Hume both receive similar treatment - they are known as sceptical philosophers, when actually, the point of the...

I think that's very likely. That's true. Though I think the most influential point is that we see from a definite point of view, which just happens to...

It seems to me that "neither provable nor disprovable" is the beginning of the story, rather than the end. I mean that proof of the kind we require fo...

There's no doubt that "God wanted it to happen" is empty, as it stands. But if our framework is that God controls everything, we can produce different...

I don't get this. I think there must be a typo or something here. ? Broadly speaking, I see a tempting reading of the PI that is relativistic. But I d...

Perhaps I wasn't clear. The distinction I'm focusing on is the one that he himself adopts - between what he calls pyrrhonism, but which is probably ac...

I think you are right. I think that Wittgenstein must have recognized this. That’s why I emphasized the way the problem is presented. It seems to me t...

For some reason, a little while ago, I re-read Hume's Enquiry, and realized that he is not at all the sceptic that he is painted to be. His rejection ...

I'm pretty sure that our phenomenological perspective on mental phenomena is heavily conditioned by our culture. For example, it is very difficult to ...

That is an idea that makes complete sense to me. I've even wondered how to make a case for it. I'll have to work out a way of getting hold of it. Than...

This seems to me to contradict what you were telling me about the nature of the sun.. I'm completely bewildered.

I'm sorry I shan't have time to respond to this until tomorrow. :sad:

But But It may prevail in the circles that Peter Lloyd moves in. But it is very rash to generalize from that to the world-wide community of philosophe...

Well, there are good grounds for saying that the mind is existentially dependent on the brain etc.. The nature of this dependence is not yet clarified...

So the system worked, in the end. True, one has to be patient. True also that there is no time limit on such waiting. In the mean time, opinions will ...

This is not a proper question, because there is insufficient context to define a correct answer. It's like asking where space is. That presupposes tha...

The topic opens on p. 30. “How can one think what it is not the case?” The discussion of this will go on for the next 9 pages. This is too big a chunk...

|I'll do something on that.

There's an awful lot going on here. I have to be selective. I don't think swopping assertions about tables and chairs, or relations is going to help m...

I'm not at all sure that historicism etc. are about justification, though I suppose it might be. That is, sosmeone might take a historical account of ...

I've always been a bit puzzled why he didn't take the obvious step from forms or life to historicism, relativism, or even perhaps naturalism. It's alw...

You are setting quite an agenda here. We don't experience tables and chairs through representations of them. If we can't compare a representation with...

The answer depends on what you mean by your question. Each word needs dissection. However, one might start by asking whether A and B exist in the mind...

That's about right. Though what counts as simplicity can be complicated. I mean that once you have learnt to drive a car it seems quite simple. But wh...

I have some questions about this. I hope it is not too disruptive to raise them. 1. What happened to falsification, which is based on the argument tha...

OK. I see what you are saying. The discussion of the toothache is set in the context of practical use, and Wittgenstein's point is that the doubt is c...

I thought it was interesting and clever because, with a dictionary and a flick of the wrist, you turn the conventional trope (conventions as arbitrary...

Thanks for this. I can see the difficulty. You adopt a possible interpretation of "coincide", but I'm not convinced that it is valid in this context. ...

That's a splendid example. Formal logic depends on treating language as a structure - unless someone has begin devising a logic that includes speakers...

That's right. The problem with the ice/bridge argument, IMO, is although one could argue that the first premiss tells us that the wider sense applies,...

Absolutely. It seems to be true. Though one could also argue that the ability to do that was conferred by evolution and it looks as if the planet is t...

I conclude that your position is somewhere in platonist territory, and that you think that nominalism amounts to denying their existence. I don't agre...

This is getting boring. There are no extra relations. They are spatial relations, so they must be in space, if anywhere. There is very little to be le...

Yes. I keep getting myself into arguments that leave me wondering what definition of independence is in play. A lot of people seem to think that anyth...

I don't understand you. All I'm saying is that "water" is ambiguous and this makes it easy to fall into error. To be sure, we usually manage the ambig...

I won't argue with that. ... or, alternatively, that one of them is further away than the other. The mind does make mistakes, but it is a lot cleverer...

Would that, perhaps, be the sort of agency that has enabled us to warm the climate and devastate much of the world?

Very good. What's your criterion for something to exist in the world? Colours, for example, occupy space - admittedly in two dimensions - and have def...