Let me craft an example for you, then. Consider the following statement: "Pegasus conceptually exists in the context of Greek mythology, but it does n...
Eh, I would go that far. It beats Bunge's "line" of scientism, or his "version" of scientism, if you will. It doesn't beat my version of scientism (I'...
It's called evidence. As in, facts. Do I? I don't "owe" you anything. If you want me to craft a relevant argument, that's a different matter. You don'...
Fair enough, then I apologize. I will make a case for the falsity of something that you said. You said: False. I already told you what is required for...
Yes, it's Hegel's Spirit of the Age. I find that concept tiresome, though. He had a more interesting concept, the Ortgeist, the "Spirit of the Localit...
See, I don't understand that. I'm agreeing with you on some of the points that you're making. I'm telling you that I'm agreeing with you (why would I ...
That is indeed what he meant. But that is also what Frege meant, and what Russell meant, though each of them had different reasons for it. What are Qu...
Then I apologize if I was, because I didn't intend to. Do you intend to enforce backseat moderation with your last comment? If not, then could you poi...
Yes. It's one of his flaws as a philosopher. He fails to understand that his scientistic Crusade should drop all of the classicist sentimentalism. Eno...
Is disagreement possible, on a metaphysical level? That's what I'm asking you. What do you, as a thinking person, think about it? I think disagreement...
I agree. I don't agree with Bunge on that point, I agree with you, actually. Mate, it's not that I don't understand ya, it's just that you asked me to...
What can I say? As creatures of instinct, we speak in ways that sound pleasing to the human ear. Does that realization upset you somehow? I think it's...
Excellent question, I'm glad that you asked that. We do it instinctually, we're creatures of instinct. We have a proto-language, as creatures of insti...
I would argue that everyone has a private language, however you wish to reasonably define such a term. What happens next is that, because we talk to e...
Fair enough, point taken. Let me try something else instead. Quine famously said that the very reason why Pegasus does not exist is because there is n...
Bunge hated Hegel, and he hated him publicly as well as privately. That's no secret to anyone. He said that Hegel was a charlatan. He said it in lectu...
Right. That's why he says that before the 60's, you would have been ostracized if you were an existentialist or a phenomenologist. And rightly so. Tha...
Fair enough, then I'll quote the next paragraph of the same document, on the example of phenomenology. He says: What do you make of that? Should I con...
You're asking a question that falls within the domain of one of the most cutting-edge sciences of today, cognitive neuroscience. I am not a neuroscien...
Well, then allow me to clarify it to the best of my ability. Your brain is a res extensa and a res cogitans at the same time, to phrase it in Cartesia...
But you could, and you would not be wrong: for it is indeed the brain that "minds its own business" when it is thinking anything. You don't "have" a b...
Not quite. The brain is not identical to the mind, and the mind cannot be reduced to the brain. The mind (as a series of events, and as a series of co...
If the people gathered here would allow me to "set the tone", so to speak, as if I was inserting a quarter into the jukebox of a Honky-Tonk, then I wo...
Then I would direct you to the most controversial, scathing, irreverent piece of literature that he has ever written, which is something that I normal...
@"Wayfarer" I've read the article. How can I contribute to this discussion, now? What would you need of me, in philosophical terms? Is it something sp...
Why not? That's what science does. You argue things that you don't believe in, to see if they hold up. It's called putting a hypothesis to the test, m...
No it does not, since my table is arguably a rigid designator in the Kripkean sense of the term. I don't think it is, but you could in principle argue...
Well he was, he died a few years ago. We share "argenticity", (if that's even a thing), not "canadianicity" (if that's even a thing). OK, fair enough....
The Merriam Webster Dictionary definition for the word "definition" And I quote: 1) "a statement of the meaning of a word or word group or a sign or s...
@"Wayfarer" here's where the article gets it wrong, IMHO: Scientific materialism is not necessarily reductionist. Bunge's brand of Scientific material...
Liminality is quite the odd state. The metaphor that I have for that is from Macedonio Fernandez. Imagine the state of waking up, but not fully rid of...
Just sell me the damn fish, mate. I'll "teach you to fish" some other sort of "fish" in return. Fair enough, but you're the one that chose Merriam Web...
Then, for the sake of argument, I would say that there are only two logical options here. 1) Option one: you want to solve this problem (the dilemmas ...
Well but it's an odd thing to talk about, innit? (Hold up while I put on my best "King's Slang", if that's even a thing). How on Earth could the Princ...
He was a stubborn man, from what I gather. And he had a great sense of humor. But yeah, he put no stock in modal logic. I'm not sure that I do myself ...
I did not gather that, no. I don't even know what you mean by that, honestly. What is an "expressed vehicle of communication", exactly? And what do yo...
Hi @"Wayfarer", can I join in on your Thread? Can I kindly request that you put me up to speed here? What is the "Main Thing" that you are currently d...
I think you're wrong. I would like you to quote the Merriam Webster Dictionary definition of the word "definition". I disagree, from a metaphysical st...
I've somewhat averse to rigid designators as a concept, so I'm not sure that if I would "side" with the Kripkeians here. That's not to say that Kripke...
I think not, and allow me to tell you why I think that. The word "table" is a common noun, but the table in my living room is not a common noun, it's ...
Point taken. Granted. "Indescribable". I claim that my table is "indescribable", and by that I mean, whatever the Merriam Webster Dictionary defines a...
I'll take that bet. I claim that my table is inexpressible. And in saying that, I have not expressed the inexpressible. If you disagree with me on the...
But here's the problem. "Hard magic" is a term that people from the world of Fantasy literature just made up, on the fly, as the "Fantasy equivalent" ...
As far as semiotics are concerned, especially philosophical semiotics, and especially philosophical semiotics that lean towards scientism, I gravitate...
I know, I'm sorry. But sometimes I just genuinely don't know, so all that I'm left with is basic instinct, or "intuition", so to speak. I'd like to ha...
But that's what I'm saying, all of that is factual. And what is factual is contingent. However, from my personal POV they don't seem to be contingent,...
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