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As you can see, you may find litte enlightenment on this forum as everyone seems to have an axe to grind, including me. I find it very astute of you t...

By tradition propositions are represented with "P", "Q", "R" ... but it really does not matter what you choose as long as you stick with the same choi...

Although socialists have a rather more complex conception of what it is to be an individual human being within a society than an anarchist, the goal o...

I had a Trotskyist friend once who said an anarchist is really just a liberal with a gun. @"NOS4A2" What socialist societies have there ever been that...

:up: You have put pithily exactly what I was trying, but obviously failing, to put across. I certainly didn't mean to give the impression that I belie...

It might of course be a misunderstanding on my part of the notions of representation and representing, but I won't get any clarification on that point...

By "the basis of the account being given" I presume you are referring to the author's positive account of what is going on, and not the account which ...

So the author agress with me that there is nothing systematic and appropriate for psychological investigation? Why not just say that then, instead of ...

On what grounds? The vast variety of ways of displaying anger and other emotions. Why assume there is some one thing in common with them all? I have n...

There is not muh too it really. I'm simply expressing some scepticism that, psychologically, there is anything systematic and appropriate for scientif...

Nearly but not quite. More like "We don't always have emotion experiences, even when we are being emotional."

I do not think you are likely to get it. As far as I recall Wittgenstein himself did not in the end think very highly of his lectures on the foundatio...

Re Wittgenstein's finitism, for me it always just fell out from his view that mathematics is nothing over and above a human activity, and since we are...

I presume you do not mean that abstract entities are generated from our talking about what we do, since that would make them things anyway. So what do...

:lol: This is both funny and profound.

Well, after more than a skim read I see where the real problem with all this lies for me. Let's start with the first three sentences of the article: S...

Not sure, didn't catch that myself when I skim read, it was in the quotation cited by Streetlightx: "Like beliefs and memories, however, emotions are ...

Maybe I will, but I expect to find as much difficulty with the idea of an emotion being a state as I do with emotion being an experience. I can be in ...

Skim read it, I would like to be convinced it is worth spending more time on but on the basis of some of the things the author writes, I feel my time ...

Indeed, much of it sounds like reheated Wittgenstein. Does she acknowledge the influence at least?

Actually, I wouldn't mind pursuing this a little further, i.e. Einstein versus Kant, it might help me get clearer on Kant. As I understood Kant, we do...

That's a bit pompous on my part. Einstein's scientific reputation does not need saving by me.

I think you might be confusing Einstein with Bohr, or some other early quantum mechanist. Let's have another stab at this, if only to save the scienti...

Some examples of who am I talking about: Grace and Theodore De Laguna. Grace even wrote the companion piece to Quine's "Two Dogmas of Empiricism". The...

:up: Even some who found themselves on those peaks at the beginning of the 20th century ended up being thrown down the mountain. Something very sinist...

I'm no expert on Kantian exegesis, but I'm aware that some people understand Kant in ways that make his position coherent with General Relativity.

Special relativity: The laws of physics are the same for all inertial frames of reference. I.e. there is no difference in the laws of physics no matte...

Yes, I already allowed for our lives being more complex than a leaf's. Perhaps I am misinterpreting Wittgenstein, but I presumed his example is there ...

At least superficially there is a distinction to make between two questions: 1 What kind of person am I? 2 What makes the person I am now one and the ...

There are many things I cannot explain that are not nonsense and which do matter: why the Covid virus seems to have more of an impact on people with t...

Examples of sense: "What causes measles?" "What caused the Second World War?" "What caused the dinosaurs to die out?" "What caused the lights to go ou...

Wittgenstein had a nice example, I cannot remember where it is, perhaps the Philosophical Investigations, perhaps elsewhere. Imagine a leaf falling fr...

Just a few final parting remarks. First, I do not have a particular philosophy. I was trying to get clear about yours. Second, what do you mean by "co...

Luke got there before me, but I thought we were agreed that we know that pain is a certain type of feeling. Now you are suggesting we do not even know...

I would be hoping more for a virutous circle than an infinite regress :wink: Some people read Spinoza as using the principle of sufficient reason to j...

I'm still trying to think about the idea of explanations of explanations, but am not getting very far. In the meantime: I will be honest, I am tempted...

No I do not agree, not yet anyway. Premise 4 makes a general claim that the cause of no pain can be known. I have presented counterexamples of cases w...

Is it? Why should I accept that seeing something is a sensation? Seeing something can cause me to have sensations, a tingle up my spine for instance, ...

That there are scientific laws that are used to predict and model observable behaviour, no one would deny. Philosophical contention begins when one ad...

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I get the point, which is why I hinted at the possibility of a category mistake. It's late where I am, after some sleep I will try to think of some ci...

Hilarious, I'll be passing that joke off as my own very soon! I might get away with it too.

Agreed. And not just this thread.

That I am inclined to believe is the consensus amongst physicists, hidden variable theories having had their day. But I'm not sure it is causation tha...

Funny, but a bit flippant. The easy retort is that what causes you to wonder where your handkerchief went is your finding nothing in your pocket. But ...

Claiming that virtual particles are a something out of nothing might be a bit of a metaphysical stretch. Please correct me if I am wrong, but virtual ...

I think part of the salience of virtual particles here is that they are offered as explanations for why events occur, but have no explanation for why ...

That is a tautology. That needs an argument. What are your reasons for thinking that causality relates events rather than, for instance, facts?

If the principle of sufficient reason is true, it applies to all events, processes, facts or whatever you want to call them. If you delineate the prin...

In the particular instance of my pinching myself, why is it not a sufficient account of my feelingthat specific pain? I can strike a match and it prod...