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For sure. :up: I think I have that book stashed away somewhere. Well, a boulder does not have a substantial form because it is a composite object, but...

Thanks, In common speech I think ‘ought’ lies between indifference and necessitation. If the doctor tells me, “You ought to drink more water,” he is n...

I would point with to Descartes, as I think that distinction is what underlies the "objective domain" cited by the OP. So when <talking about> the min...

A proposition that we have agreed upon is not a proposition that is being asserted/imposed (link): But it does address that. If what we experience as ...

I replied <once>, but let me revisit my <initial post> since I don't think I will end up writing the thread on this topic any time soon. I find that t...

I understand that, but if he is writing a book on the mind-world relation then in my opinion he is a philosopher. Being a mathematician does not preve...

Thanks. That's alright. I'm not sure how long I can carry on this conversation, but let me reply: If X is a prerequisite for Y, then X must be in plac...

This is how I view it: Philosophers like Pinter or Hume come up with theories, often abstruse, and then they interpret reality based on their theory i...

- Make it three. :monkey:

My edit: "For the classical realist the extramental world can be known in itself precisely through the rational, perspective-grounded mind." S(b): The...

Oh, I assumed he would do something like that - define 'shape' as a sensory phenomenon. I think it only sidesteps the issue, begging the pertinent que...

Your line of approach reminds me of the Meno:

- Sounds right; I agree. :up: It seems like we are pretty close, but I'm sure we'll manage to find something to argue about one day. :razz:

Earlier in the thread I gestured towards a possible equivocation on "mind-independent reality," but here it is occurring explicitly. Note that if you ...

Okay, sure. I have no truck with this sort of phenomenological approach. Makes sense to me. :up:

Good, then we agree. I was mistaken. :up: Well, we fix flaws in concrete acts of understanding, but not foundational flaws in the faculty of understan...

Well, is that a "fear of criticism that leads people into sophistry and opaque argumentation"?

I said: Courage is the ability to overcome fear. If there were no fear, there could be no courage. We often think about courage as overcoming irration...

And the scare quotes were precisely for you, because of how you responded to my comment in a different thread: There you fixated on contamination and ...

I just explained to you why he doesn't do that. You seem to wish he had.

Hello , I'm sort of planning an exit strategy so that I can take some time away, and for that reason I'm trying not to initiate a lot of new dialogues...

This is precisely what we are disagreeing on. The disagreement is somewhat subtle, so at times I am characterizing it in a somewhat imprecise way to g...

I never used to like this song, but now I can't get enough of it. It's grown on me like the South, and it rings like a Southern belle. (official video...

Yes: no concealed premises or motivations, and no lack of clarity about one's position. For example, <this post> was an urging towards transparency. B...

- Seems right. :up:

Probably, depending on what you mean by 'empirical realist'. I haven't said much about adjudication (apart from those quotes from Aquinas). I have onl...

- :up: When I came to this forum I was in the process of creating my own philosophy forum, and very nearly did so. For this reason a lot of my thread ...

Thank you, creativesoul, that was very helpful. :up: --- I tend to agree with you. S holds that, "The clock is functioning," not that, "The broken clo...

Right. And thus, as I said, you do not enter into metaphysical disputes. The closest you get is disputing metaphysics itself. Right, but the former is...

The first reason I would resist such a re-naming is because I think it is better for truth and soundness to be separate and distinct, rather than over...

Exactly right! I grant everything you say, and it does not invalidate my analogy, it accentuates it! Recall that the central issue here is whether we ...

Your argument is well-made, but I actually disagree. I actually have a thread drafted on why epistemology is always posterior to metaphysics, but I do...

I think the easiest way is to follow your lead and talk about a pre-human age. Or a post-human age. Or if one thinks non-human animals possess knowled...

Classically, a sound argument is an argument that possess both validity and true premises. An unsound argument lacks one or both. Fair enough. I under...

No, I most certainly do not think that, nor does the view that "the mind cannot know mind-independent reality as it is in itself" necessarily entail t...

I agree, although I don't really mind if people predicate truth of arguments. I don't think I've spoken about arguments as true or false anywhere in t...

Which of the two responses do you prefer? Yes, I can see it. On my view people should be forced to submit to sound arguments, but experience shows tha...

:up: Oh, I wouldn't want to go that far. I think there is a lot of legitimate confusion tied up with consequentialism, and not merely ad hoc excuses. ...

Because he is inquiring into wisdom, and rather than artificially stipulate a definition of wisdom, he looks at what we already mean by it, and who we...

This is great stuff, @"J", thank you. Bernstein is definitely on my reading list by now, as everything you are bringing up resonates with me. I am not...

Hello, @"plaque flag", Yes, we learn about shape through experience. My earlier comment may be worth quoting, "Opposing various forms of idealism, I w...

But you seem to be holding to two conflicting principles. Either the mind can know mind-independent reality as it is in itself, or it cannot. If it ca...

Historically morality has been concerned first with "Thou shalt not." Prohibitions. Consequentialism obviously takes a different route, and Hedonism i...

For William Paley "teleology" is purposive and intentional, but not for the Aristotelian tradition. Given that you talk about Aristotle in your OP, I ...

Well, it's not a directly empirical matter, because it could never be directly empirically studied. But if we can have knowledge about the mind-indepe...

So again, here's the argument in question: So you are saying that boulders will only treat cracks differently than canyons when a mind is involved? Ye...

I haven't worked that out either. Call me old-fashioned, but I think it would be helpful if @"creativesoul" provided a compass like, "Banno believes X...

I think you are committed to the idea, or something like it. For example, "By investing the objective domain with a mind-independent status, as if it ...

Right, but it seems that you would then go on to draw a further conclusion, "...and therefore there are no mind-independent objects," and that is wher...

For what it's worth, Banno's position is much more clear to me than creativesoul's. Creativesoul's posts aren't providing me with a great deal of insi...