Unlike the dream the real table has the property of being the object of your experience of a table. For example, its present features in your visual f...
But experiences are not objects of observation; it's trivially true that you don't observe whether this has dreamy or veridical features... and from t...
That's a bad argument. You shouldn't ask for justification of belief in the existence of an external world under the assumption that the external worl...
For example, by verification. That's not a principle of realism. Realists assume that the world exists independently of our beliefs and statements. Yo...
For a realist reality exists independently of his/her beliefs or statements about it. The idea that reality would somehow exist in itself adds nothing...
What is an example of a realist who would disagree with a rejection of the idea that the world exists in itself? No-one says it needs to denote Kant's...
Yet we don't just invent things to say, out of nowhere, for maintaining them in a linguistic system. We also discover reasons to invent and say them. ...
The word 'created' seems wrong, because to create is typically a conscious act of putting things together, or in motion, such as designed objects or m...
I'm not obliged to list anything from nothing, nor explain an absence of necessity. Those who believe that purpose is necessary for a good life, and k...
That's not my comment. Why don't you reply to what is written instead of your own rephrased misinterpretations? My claim is directed at the anti-intel...
Life can be good exactly because you're free from having something to live for. In fact, having something to live for will likely prevent you from hav...
Ideologues on the left typically circumvent the inconvenient truth of an opponent's words by smugly diagnosing it as a function of an assumed ignoranc...
People live good lives regardless of whether they live for something or nothing. A good life doesn't suddenly arise from having something to live for....
I'm not discussing whether something to live for seems necessary for a good life but whether it is necessary, sufficient, both, or neither. I say neit...
For example, some people find their pet worth living or dying for. But living for a pet is neither necessary nor sufficient for a good life. You could...
What's it like to be senselessly undergoing a state of negating something? Please feel free to describe a senseless experience of an immaterial intera...
You can also wake up from the bang, or pain, and experience a shock which causes your heart to stop, regardless of the physical damage caused by the b...
You can die from experiences as well as knives, which result in physical ailments and death. In the case of a knife it might be loss of blood, in the ...
To deflate something merely because of its authority is clearly not philosophical. You're campaigning here against the authority of anything scientifi...
Deflating the best explanations because of their authority is adolescent, not philosophical. And reductionism is not assumed in my talk of a biologica...
It's not a point of view but an explanstion, your campaign to deflate the authority of the sciences, and the best explanations, seems ideological, or ...
Consciousness is obviously a biological phenomenon, caused by the organism as it interacts with the world in various ways: e.g. as perceived, remember...
You don't need a special web-site management program for showing your CV online. If you wrote your CV with a word processor, then save it as an html f...
Right, and why talk of one's death in the first place under the assumption that a part of oneself lives on? Reminds me of talk of ghosts assumed to be...
What's the assumed problem? Collectives as well as individuals thrive on shared infrastructure, shared built environments, division of knowledge and l...
I also find people like Dennett, Dawkins & Co. somewhat insensitive. But I don't think that their dismissal of religion is a dismissal of spiritual ex...
It's easy to name harms, harder to say whether they are actual. Some people find the mere presence or absence of others harmful, or a reality which ex...
Your questioning of 'brain' is unwarranted, I write 'biological', recall, and brains are literally biological. You can't get more precise than that. E...
Consciousness is a biological phenomenon, it arises from conditions of satisfaction such as a brain and things to be conscious of. So, I would describ...
That's a good point. One might add that when you see a woman you see the woman, not a portrait. Unless she's acting in a theatre she represents neithe...
During the historical era called The Enlightenment, which led to the industrial and scientific revolutions, more people began to rely on the explanato...
Libel is a legal term, recall, not a constitution of harm. Courts of law investigate whether a case of alleged libel is unlawful. You don't get to det...
Why do you rephrase what is open to read? I've said none of those things. Your argument is clearly unsound, and the above is an informal fallacy (load...
Clarity of thought is possible. Some have a talent for thinking or seeing things clearly, seemingly without much effort, while others need a lot of ti...
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