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But just to be clear about this . . . I do think that Popper's World 3, which refers to abstracta in general, apart from any particular physical/menta...

I think (non-behaviorist) psychologists would be surprised to hear this! And just to be clear, I doubt whether there's a "mental world" that exists ap...

It didn't seem as if the other "m2m" thread was going in the direction that interests me, so I haven't read it carefully. I think the paucity of liter...

Absolutely. The "birth and death" imagery is constant across cultures, for good reason. I know it seems that way. But we have to beware of such claims...

I think so. The key phrasing is "can be verified," not has been. The bird in the tree was in principle verifiable by anyone looking; your thought of X...

One helpful way of using the terms might be: an objective fact is one which others can verify, whereas "I'm having thought X at the moment" is a fact,...

Thanks, on my list.

Everything you wrote about Hart and Vervaeke is fascinating and on point for me (though I don't see Hume as the diabolus ex machina they do). My parti...

Thanks, but what are you quoting?

Sure. I don't want to get ahead of myself, as I'm still drafting the OP, but one of the difficult issues is that you need to first lay out some plausi...

Yes, this is a big part of what I'm trying to write about in the OP I'm drafting. Does logic connect thoughts, necessarily or otherwise? As you perhap...

Well, you've packed a lot into that question! To begin simply: "God exists" as a proposition is surely meant to state an objective fact, and that's re...

Yes. Thanks to you both.

No, it's worth a look, thanks for the reminder.

Thanks!

Are you talking about the "association of ideas" thing? I'm looking for someone who actually tries to explain what that means, how it would work, espe...

Thanks, I'll check it out.

I'm sure this is true. But if we could translate our concepts for St. Thomas -- and I see no reason why he wouldn't be able to understand us -- and as...

Is this right? I don't know Scholastic philosophy very deeply, but I thought that the concept of intelligibility meant that we can know what is real i...

Yes, it wasn't very well put. I only meant that, in addition to the possible explanations you named, it's also possible that the universality of mysti...

A thoughtful response. I have no opinion about the meaning crisis; my earlier comment was meant to point out that standards of truth, as they may vary...

All true, if you mean "offer as possible explanations." But another way we can explain it is in the accuracy or correspondence-to-the-facts context --...

Yes. We know that such an intuition has been with humanity since there were civilizations, and no doubt before. Whether it's true or not, isn't really...

It's unclear to me if Kant thought noumena were static in this sense. I don't see why they would have to be. At any given moment of perception, we hav...

OK, I see that parallel. True, but I bet we all would affirm that our own consciousness is real and (perhaps) indubitable. As you say:

Yes, my comments about certainty were meant to cover both the occurrence of the experience and the interpretation of it. So I'd call it highly likely,...

A lot depends on how much certainty you want to pack into "knowledge." Suppose I said I was pretty sure that I'd had a genuine mystical experience, bu...

OK, thanks. I have some reactions to that but gotta run now. I'll circle back later.

Well, I think both @"Wayfarer" and myself, in our different ways, are positing a non-mental self, a self that not only thinks but animates and, perhap...

It may be the case that both dark matter and consciousness are inaccessible to current scientific investigation. But I don't think we know about them ...

Of course, no hurry. This is a welcome improvement on Harman, as I understand him. (I'm still balking at "hammerness as a property," but that's second...

Yes, and as @"Astorre" has proposed, the affordance (or "mode", in their terminology) provides a realist-friendly link with the external world. That s...

Fair enough. I wonder if the so-called human sciences might offer some options. Some versions of psychology, for instance, offer themselves as hard ex...

Yes, this is what I was getting at, or trying to, when I said: "There's an intuitive rightness to what you're proposing -- that our language for talki...

And here's a 60s blast: remember "Douglas Traherne Harding," by the Incredible String Band?

Yes! Haven't thought about it in years. And I'm sure you're right that "being in the head" is learned (with some help from the proximity of the sense ...

@"Janus" @"Ludwig V" I find that fascinating because, as y'all have pointed out, it seems irresistible to me to locate my self or "I" within my head. ...

Getting back to this . . . Is this the piece you're recommending?

Didn't Aristotle say that the mind resided in the heart?

I like your approach, which has the virtue of preserving realism (the mode is an actual internal structure of the apple) while recognizing that the pr...

I agree. A key problem is how we know that a subjective experience is being had in the first place. We posit such experiences for everything from othe...

I admit, I did some head-scratching! :smile: This is similar to your response about being equilateral and being equiangular. In the case of triangles,...

I'm not sure. The problem seems to hinge on whether we can speak objectively about experiences that can only be had subjectively. A lot of traditional...

Right. None of this is cut and dried. What Habermas calls "communicative action" is never a simple process, if engaged in good faith. I can imagine so...

I wish that were true! For me, the question of what sort of economic system can be considered just is the great ethical question of our time. I don't ...

I haven't read the New Atheists because I wasn't aware they were taken seriously as philosophers. Nietzsche and Russell, sure, but my question stands:...

I would put it differently. We (and the Greeks) already know quite a bit about justice, and quite a bit about why drawing a line under the subject is ...

OK, fair enough, as long as "knowledge of X" can be acquired without necessarily being able to define X. Really? In those words? I'd say that was comp...

This is interesting but confusing. Is "Being in that set means having that property" different from "'Being in that set' is a property of the pebble"?...

For me, "snake oil" is another way of talking about "nonsense" or "anything goes," so my response is the same. There are reasons why snake oil isn't t...