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I don't think it's that simple. Of course I see why one would say so. But are mountains mountains in the same way without us grasping them as mountain...

But you only associate representing with brains due to what you've seen in mere appearance. It's circular, perhaps a slipknot, seems to me. You are sm...

The classic problem is that you are trapped on the side of appearance with no way to compare. You end up with (at best, IMO) a kind of instrumentalism...

I'm a direct realist. I quoted Hume to give an example of what I oppose. What I finally escaped !

Wait a minute, are the Bob Ross -for Bob Ross or the Bob Ross -in itself ? Can you trust logic if you are the first ? Or why should a realm of appeara...

Let's try this. What right do you (do we) have to believe in the brain-in-itself ? Why can't the hidden reality be 57 dimensional ? Why can't we all b...

:up: :up: And possibly we can't. Maybe we can get clearer ? Or do we only ever keep reminding ourselves that it's not an entity, but that there is tha...

I think you may have a 'naive' view of phenomenological direct realism. I went out of my way to spare you the confusion. Note also that my 'one-level'...

Is the hard problem of conscious just (or equivalently) the hard problem of being ? The being of the ashtray is ultimately mysterious, but we can't ta...

Yes. And I for one think philosophy is largely about clarifying meaning, getting a better grip on our basic concepts...or getting a better on grip on ...

Your comments on language all seem quite reasonable to me. You might like these passages.

Consider the larger context. You wrote : If you want to articulate the structure of reality, my view is that your aspiration is doomed from the start....

Yes, exactly ! But I'm assuming they are. And such rationalists are a weird little minority. I play one on TV myself, but I take off the costume now a...

I hear you, but I like to think of the hero concept as very flexible. Yang heroes, yin heros. Even anti-heros. What I have in mind is any relatively s...

Yes, Heidegger is a huge influence, but it's fun to reach for synonyms, pull in Apel (who loves Peirce). I think Habermas is about this kind of thing ...

To me, knowledge requires a justification is very much an ontological claim -- proposed as knowledge. (I'm not trying to be difficult, I swear.) Kant ...

I think that'd basically be some version of mysticism. I love 'since feeling is first' from e.e. cummings, , for instance, but I couldn't justify it, ...

The 'special' rationality of the heroic philosopher is, in my view, exactly and particularly and essentially ethical. As philosopher (or scientist, ba...

I think the member of one community would have to regard the member of another community with a sufficiently different logic as insane. @"Banno" could...

:up: I take that as a worthy ontological insight. Different regions of entities play by different rules.

What I get from Karl-Otto Apel is that we mostly need to disallow performative contradiction. But there's got to be some categorical imperative in the...

I may be an eccentric in my use of 'ontology,' but I'm hopefully within the limits of decency. I'm focused on ontology as the study of the basic struc...

Fascinating point, which touches on whether Enlightenment rationalism is truly universal or ethnocentric hubris. Possible objection, your honor. From ...

In my opinion, the hard problem is made harder (pointlessly harder) by the confusions of dualism. I will perhaps please the Spiritual crowd by agreein...

I'd say that people who haven't dipped their nose in the texts have a mistaken view of phenomenology. There's a mundane use of 'pragmatism' that's far...

I'm definitely more interested in what we think and ought to think. As a phenomenological direct realist (a phrase I may have made up), I don't believ...

This sounds like the default 'nomenclature' theory effectively criticized by Saussure and Wittgenstein. I think language is far more complex than that...

Don't you think culture is somewhat constrained by biology ? Translation seems to be common and relatively successful. Is it by chance that invented l...

How much can we say about the blueness of blue ? Blue is just blue. In the same way, assertion might be something so fundamental that assertions about...

This looks like a performative contradiction. You present the ontological thesis that articulation is inherently subjective. That is of course an arti...

Yeah, the deflationists are probably mostly right. Being able to call a statement true has certain metacognitive uses, but mostly 'P is true' doesn't ...

I use 'ontology' as a synonym of 'philosophy' in its more 'scientific' ambition to articulate the structure of reality. I think you are making the poi...

I take it -- and I'm hoping you do too --that the point of the philosophical enterprise is getting clearer on reality. Paraphrasing Kant is related to...

I can at least agree that approaching the discursive self as a mere piece of clockwork (a cog in the amoral machine or causal nexus of Nature) is a pe...

To me the same kind of thing is maybe be said by being is not a being (the famous ontological difference.) Both Husserl and Heidegger had their own ve...

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Nice. And let me say that I count myself as a transcendental philosopher. Like you, I'll quote to clarify my meaning. As standardly conceived, transce...

You quote David Hume to argue that David Hume does not exist. I get it. I understand what's potent in Hume's attempted reduction of us to a stream of ...

I don't think you understand me. Of course we currently living ( embodied ) subjects can make that move. The issue is whether some isolated worldly tr...

Why say the 'I' is never an object of cognition ? You are making claims about it. Much of philosophy is an attempt to clarify the discursive self. Sti...

The problem is semantic. What is this 'I' ? The unity of a monologue ? How is such an assumption justified ? Why do we not just have a stream of words...

:up: An important insight. Taken too far, one has a self-subverting relativism, yet culture clearly plays a role in perception. We might say that a co...

This quote from Hume is what I have in mind: We may observe, that 'tis universally allow'd by philosophers, and is besides pretty obvious of itself, t...

, We might reflect too that evidence can only make sense as belonging within such a public world. Rational inquiry presupposes the world.

:up: Feuerbach is great on the beauty of this plurality, writing of a belief in the infinity of Spirit and in the everlasting youth of humanity, in th...

That sounds good to me. And there are real things that no everyone can see. A biologist or a mathematician has seen patterns that others haven't. Thos...

:up: To me that sounds like direct realism. Respectfully, what work is being done by 'as they appear' ? Are you thinking in Flatland terms (a great li...

First let me support me claim about indirect realism, because I think you raise a good but different issue. https://iep.utm.edu/perc-obj/ Just to clar...

In my estimation, it's much cleaner to say that we'll never run out of things to learn about the brain. Given that we can't look around our own cognit...

:up: Hermeneutic circle comes to mind. Also early Heidegger's talk on 'prescience' about coming into the circle the right way. It'd be weird maybe if ...