The important part: their cause, which you explicitly omit: (..and obviously no-one claimed that light would somehow occur inside the nervous system.)...
Why would experiences "need interpretation"? Seeing light is a 'basic action' by way of which anything visible is seen, but one does not need to inter...
Sure, why? And no, they didn't experience some false behaviour of neutrinos, it was their interpretation which was false due to a screwed up cable or ...
It is trivially true that beliefs or expectations could be wrong. Likewise, some beliefs or expectations could be right. Experiences, however, are fac...
Ok, but are you sure of fallibilism? Granted that statements and beliefs can be wrong as they are representational. But experience is presentational. ...
Objective truth means that a statement has the property of referring to something which is the case independently of our beliefs or statements. For ex...
By asking "what is the nature of truth" we might want to investigate and discuss conditions which satisfy the possibility that a statement is true. It...
If there is ambiguity in our talk we should debate how we should use the words. Or else we'll just end up talking past each other, using words in diff...
All perception is veridical, unlike hallucinations, in which nothing is perceived, only experienced. It would be unnecessarily ambiguous to speak of '...
Seeing it directly means that it couldn't appear red when it is orange. Only appearance as representation could be wrong, but naive realism denies tha...
Its theory of perception is obviously not a theory about the properties we perceive an object to have but about the nature of perception: that it is d...
That's a false dichotomy, for neither realism nor naive realism reject perception or its dependence to there being something with which we can perceiv...
That's a selective truth when referring to the book, but misleading when referring to Putnam's stance on realism. As I said, he ended up defending nai...
Feminism is, or ought to be, activism for increasing female literacy, social recognition of problems of sexual harassment and domestic violence, and f...
Obviously naive realism is true. Putnam decisively refutes the skeptic idea that we might just be brains in a vat. For example, in Reason, truth, and ...
The rejection of meaning has some illegitimate benefits which might explain its appeal. Without meaning anything goes, and any criticism can be dismis...
Hilbert's hotel is also fully booked, recall, and a paradoxical thought experiment. Moreover, if a finite hotel has nowhere to expand to, then an infi...
A finite hotel which expands can be fully booked at time t1 and take more guests at time t2. In Hilbert's Hotell of infinite rooms, however, it seems ...
It occurs to me that most of us are first attracted to philosophy out of genuine curiosity, for truth and beauty as ends in themselves, not means for ...
You said they were talking about galaxies moving farther apart. Now it's equations? Nevertheless, neither talk about equations nor the relation betwee...
The squiggles and lines are constituitive for written words, but insufficient for being words. What written, spoken, or otherwise signed words have in...
Many objective doctrines are assumed in our talk. For example, that we exist, talk, occupy space, share a network of things to talk about that have pr...
Should Mother Teresa have been tortured for being a sadistic religious fanatic? Allegedly she talked those who suffer into thinking that suffering is ...
The physicist is then not talking about the universe but galaxies in it. The distance between galaxies may expand or shrink regardless of whether the ...
The lack of good reasons won't stop some people and corporations from opposing fair use. Some lawyers specialize in protecting old monopolies by suing...
I take 'inherent meaning' to suggest some sort of presence of meaning, for example, in the use of words. To use words for rejecting the presence of me...
There is a sense of 'hacking' which refers to the activity of accessing relevant mechanisms and source code in technical devices so that the user can ...
Some art likes to challenge our habits of interpreting the meanings of things, for when something appears ambiguous, obscure, or meaningless we will u...
The use of an unconventional or more inexact way of expressing a statement does not make its truth into a different kind of truth. https://en.wikipedi...
Values relate to people's beliefs. For example, the belief that being charitable is more desirable than being greedy. A belief is personal, hence othe...
There was an interesting article about the history of creativity a couple of years ago in The New Yorker. Here's a quote from it: So, it seems that th...
Consider what Bertrand Russell says on the nature of thought: My everyday life consists of comfortable habits, relations to people and established ins...
The alleged benefits of listening to Mozart, for instance, is a popular belief. But the music of Mozart is often or always considered good; we might a...
Music interacts with the body and causes an experience in the mind. The experience connects the music with the mind. Anything becomes connected with t...
To believe that everyone in heaven is white undermines the relevance of skin-colour (including white); for then we're basically all the same. It seem ...
Right. A cliff-diver who learns a new dive may find the height and the risks involved unpleasant, but overcoming the fear and mastering the dive very ...
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