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Note that just as one can have a visual experience of an object without seeing an external object, so too one can have a visual experience of a colore...

There are cases where nothing will help. Again:

Okay good, and this is true even if their percepts are identical, yes? Therefore to see an external object is not merely a matter of percepts, yes?

@"Michael" So when the blind dream are they seeing? They are obviously interacting with percepts, and you think percepts are seeing, so apparently the...

You've claimed that the "hears" in "hears voices" is just like the "hears" in ordinary predications about hearing, which is false, because "hears voic...

But who is arguing that persons can hear without brains?

No, "hears voices" is a euphemism for "hallucinates." You are confusing yourself.

Does the "electrode" result in sight or a hallucination? (And why is this question important?)

Of everyone with a brain, there are some blind and deaf people who can be helped by aids to sight or hearing, and others who cannot. To understand the...

Yep. :up: It's odd that we even have to have these sorts of conversations.

This is equivocation on "seeing." For example, a blind person does not see when they dream, as your verbiage would have it. Sleeping pills are not a c...

Then do it. Defend either of those two claims. :roll: "To break the law is blasphemy." This is the sort of nonsense that most 10 year-old Christians o...

They are the priestly caste, and the priestly caste is always taken seriously both by others and by themselves, in part because their function within ...

Feel free to defend either of these two claims. The second claim is more truly <It was considered blasphemy to claim to be the messiah>.

- You are making things up left and right, and I see no reason to reply to such bizarre and unsubstantiated ideas.

- Yes, I very much like the way you set this out. A contradictory word and a contradictory intention/meaning are two different things, and a capable t...

Sure, but this is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Psychiatry could be the Devil himself, but even so the whole system would collapse without...

- What exactly are you disputing? This?: Mental illness is surely a problem, no? And how do we approach it? Psychologically, sociologically, medicinal...

Outlander answered this for me privately. My Stylebot settings were hiding the option. :blush:

Yes, and I find the roots of this in Aristotle as well. Whereabouts in Spinoza could this be found?

I suppose my point is that social approaches to mental health need not be conspiracy theories. Describing social theories with the example of, "worldw...

Founders of that tradition such as Alfred Adler would have a more nuanced take. I think many people recognize that mental health cannot merely be redu...

You asked about slaves without masters and masters without slaves. If a master is not isolated from slaves then he is not without slaves, and vice ver...

- Probably the most basic evidence for Jesus' claim to divinity is the fact that the Jewish authorities arranged to have him executed for blasphemy.* ...

Two quick questions. 1. Is there a way to delete private messages? If there is, then encouraging people to delete their obsolete PMs would free up som...

A lot of it is on point for me, even though he is going deeper than I have seen others go. It is also bringing together a number of disparate interest...

In 's thread on Irad Kimhi some of the same issues that were present in this thread are coming up again. For example: This thread quickly turned into ...

Reading more of Kimhi's book, I am appreciating it, especially the way he explodes the Fregean paradigm over and over. I think Kimhi could help clear ...

Before looking at affirmation and negation I want to revisit this part of the OP now that I have a better understanding of the context. Colloquially, ...

Informative review. :up:

I see you are back to your schtick of non-responses. I will take this as a concession, and move on with the topic of the thread.

Okay, I grant that it is a beginning. My point is that formal considerations cannot answer the OP. "There are no true sentences that are not about som...

*mispost*

- What I find in the U.S. is that Protestantism tends to be narrow minded, and those that reject this tradition desire to be broad minded, in much the...

- Good luck!

Have you now reduced a historical question to an exegetical question? The number of ex-Protestants in this thread is not coincidental. Of course he di...

And your statement seems to have nothing at all to do with it. So again I ask, What does this have to do with the topic at hand?

And the one who actually reads the OP notices sentences like this one: The one with a predetermined interpretation has to ignore sentences like that o...

The one who is engaged in the attempt to formulate and justify rules is not engaged in mere rule-following. This false charge is common. No, it is an ...

Good, we are in agreement on this. I think Aristotle's answer to both would be, "Poorly." If humans are social animals, then flourishing will require ...

Thanks, . :up:

How would this be an answer to the OP? The question we are considering is whether all true sentences are formulable within formalism, and it seems a f...

This strikes me as an important truth, and one that is missed on TPF (and in analytic philosophy generally). Granted, I do see a measure of separabili...

Yes, I agree. These strike me as good points and good philosophizing. Perhaps, but there are probably more contemporary and focused treatments of the ...

Moral principles are part of moral deliberation, and thinking to them and through them is part of ethics. Else, you fall into caricatures and strawmen...

Right. Sure, I agree. Hah, I like that quote. I have a love-hate relationship with analytic philosophy. I was trained at an analytic school that stron...

You leave out the other thing that Plato and Aristotle knew: thinking through ethical questions aids us in arriving at good judgment. No one has ever ...

Right, and when I tried to bridge your thread with the thread discussing whether we see colors or only our perceptions of colors I ran into this same ...

You did say that, but you obviously didn't follow through on your word. Remind yourself that not two hours later you showed yourself untrue by continu...

I am of the opinion that Banno at least somewhat derailed your thread on QV by immediately shifting it away from Sider's ontological realism and towar...