What is this distinction between "act" and "content"? What does "concrete correlate of direct apprehension" mean? To me this seems like bending over b...
These passages from Lewis make a good impression, and seem less overburdened than those you’ve supplied from Reichenbach and Price. We don’t say we "c...
This distinction keeps rearing its head in our conversation. Does Lewis locate the given within experience, or prior to experience? How should we coor...
Based on your discussion and the passages you've cited, his discourse strikes me as rather confused, and it's perhaps exceptionally hard to tell what ...
It seems to me we need something like a distinction between sense-perception and imagination just to make sense of the fact that we dream, hallucinate...
I can't keep up with my own ramblings, or with anyone else's for that matter. If we keep putting one foot in front of the other, the conversation take...
I'll say, mathematics is useful in a given context insofar as counting and measuring and analyzing quantitative relationships are useful in that conte...
Some applications of mathematics are applications to contexts that do not involve "studying a subject" in the ordinary sense of that phrase. For insta...
That sounds right to me. If you want to do it, and you have the opportunity, go for it. If you keep at it, you'll make progress. Try it and see what y...
Everybody dies along every way. I'm not sure that putting it into my own words is a way of answering the question I indicated, which was a question ab...
In what way was Nietzsche's theory "based on etymology"? Was it his “theory” that was based on etymology, or only his interpretations of philosophical...
The argument is vulnerable on many fronts. For example: It's likely that at this early stage in your argument, you've begun to conflate "consciousness...
Do you mean to distinguish a concept of perfection from a concept of flawlessness? I'm not sure how I'd distinguish one from the other, and I'm not su...
A stark characterization of the options. Accept the world as it is, act to change it, or act to reject it by annihilating oneself. Is it even possible...
I'll agree that experience is always already organized. I’ll agree that a "manifold of sensation" is always already organized in perception. I'll agre...
While I'm still not clear on the meaning of your ontology, I'll register this agreement, that it's meaningful in general to speak about relations of "...
That sounds perhaps tautological. Do you mean to suggest that, if any non-ontological concept of a relation may be applied to two objects then there i...
I’m afraid my response is about as long this time around. A symptom of how much ground we'd have to cover to clear up our terms, sort out our agreemen...
At a quick skim the thread seemed alright to me. But I didn't catch this: I could see someone making a case that this counts as an ad hominem attack. ...
Right. We can't be too idealistic, and aim to reject, instead of improve, each and every imperfect institution. How does that pragmatism guide us in d...
Perhaps some conservatives do think along those lines. If any such advocate understands the significance of the argument in the way that you and I see...
In the context you cited, I used those terms to paraphrase a passage supplied by Kazuma, in an attempt to show how "strained" I found the passage. Con...
It may be our use of words differs considerably along these lines. I suppose the "properties" that enable us to experience music include properties of...
I mean, what steps have you taken, how have you approached the project of learning to play piano? For instance: It sounds like you've mainly been lear...
How did you begin to "learn the piano"? What kind of "research" did you get into? In what sense did learning or playing the piano lead you to "feel in...
In what sense is the model a model of one's ignorance? Suppose I've never heard of physics and probability theory, and I (incorrectly) expect the outc...
Is this definition in common use? To me it seems quite strained. As if one were to say, the "factual legitimacy" of oppression and coercion consists i...
What shall we count as “adequate” evidential basis for claims about how things really are? I would argue along lines just indicated above, that the se...
I hope to find myself aligned with Sellars in criticizing the strength of the warrant provided by claims like “I seem to see a seeming-red seeming-app...
Would anyone care to say something about “anstoss logic”? What does this phrase mean? Or perhaps less boldly: 2’: … such as that there seems to be a r...
It often occurs to me that repeatability is essential somehow to the conceptual, but I've never managed to satisfy myself unpacking that "somehow". Fr...
Wasn’t he a stoic? One of the great schools I mentioned. You’re not suggesting we cite only those speakers with whom we’re in complete agreement on ev...
Where is the left and where is the right? Not "existing" in any one place, but consisting in relations among various things existing in various places...
I've asked myself this question many times. When I started reading philosophy, in my youth, I had some vague, untutored notions about theological agno...
Skepticism is a philosophy. See Popkin's Skepticism anthology and his History of Skepticism, for instance. Or The Outlines of Pyrrhonism by Sextus Emp...
One question I overlooked: A question like, "Why does the world exist"? I think it's reasonable to expect this sort of question may be unapproachable ...
One might hypothesize on the basis of casual observation or on the basis of what's called common sense. I'm not sure that's the same thing as hypothes...
It does seem to belong to the process of interpretation whether we notice it or not. I enjoy building it into my method, and I like to pretend this im...
I wouldn't say a conclusion "has an effect on" a premise. Conclusions and premises are statements or assertions in arguments. The premises determine w...
I’m still uneasy in my grasp of your use of the terms “intelligence”, “being”, “mode of being”, and “understanding”, among others. It seems clear we h...
I'd be the last to want an apology for a divergence in views. What would be the point of philosophical discourse if we all agreed with each other at e...
This isn't so in the imaginary case of philosophical zombies, and I see no reason to expect that "improvising", or playing various roles, or developin...
Thanks. I'm afraid it's a clumsy, discursive way of working through a text. But it's my favorite way of traversing the hermeneutic circle. I won't be ...
The analogy is appealing. We say various subjects on various occasions undergo various “propositional attitudes” with respect to the same “proposition...
You're way ahead of me in the reading but I'll try a tentative reply. So far as I can see, a sense-datum just is (for the sense-data theorist) a sense...
Glad to have stumbled in. I've been meaning to work through this text for years, and the group's given me a nudge. I'll chime in when I can. Time's sh...
I see by virtue of the light that strikes my eye. So does the dog. I have a capacity to take that light as an object in its own right, to investigate ...
See, e.g., SEP on "Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Properties" Whenever I hear philosophers go on for long about properties, I get a little dizzy and recall D...
Need Sellars presume that the category's purpose is to explicate the idea of such an epistemological "foundation"? Perhaps it is presumptuous: The ord...
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