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Building community sounds like recruiting the disciples and converting folks. but in different wordings. I read the opposite stories - Please have a r...

We need to think about what religions try to achieve. If we agree that religions aim to achieve converting the ordinary folks in the streets into thei...

Dead body is not a biological body. It is a body. It is about logic.

When a death occurs, the biological body ceases to exist. The fact the death has occurred will exist and remain forever. Death is not the biological b...

Comparison to what? Do instruments know what to compare with? The instruments read what they are designed to read, and display the figures in numeric ...

Difference is not self-contradiction. Contradiction means true and false at the same time. Experiences are meant to be different, and it is the nature...

I have no idea what you are havering about. I don't agree with you.

I don't agree. Measurement is not comparison. Measurement is finding the numeric value of the measured objects or movements. Not true. Radar is not in...

I am not asking for anything. I am just stating that any act of reading measurements is involved with some sort of measuring tools. You cannot read si...

If you could think of some measuring instrument, you will change your mind I am sure. Think of the speed detection machine for detecting cars driving ...

It is such a simple explanation to understand for anyone. But you seem to be determined refusing to see it. Why is it so difficult to see it? Why do y...

It sounds crazy to me if someone cannot read numbers on the speedo meter or watch. Do you mean you can only read English words, but not numbers? I was...

Your confusion seems to be coming from the fact that you misunderstands the idea of "measurement". Please read the proper definition from my previous ...

Measurement is not idea. It is reading of the objects in number. Numeric value read by the instruments i.e in case of time or duration, it would be st...

You misunderstood my point. I never said or implied, just 2 folks agreeing on something is objective. My idea of objectivity means - widely or officia...

You seem to be taking things too personally, not reading the post properly. What I said was, copying and pasting internet definitions with no reflecti...

Measurement is agreed way of setting and counting the figures of objects, be it size, weight or time. If it is not objective, then everyone will have ...

I wouldn't be impressed with anyone just copying over the common definitions from the internet, and pastes to forum posts. No. That is not Philosophy....

Isn't the measurement objective? The feel, knowing and perception of time is subjective, but any measurements are objective i.e. by watch or clock, is...

If Buddhism is a religion, then without the supernatural and religious elements, it wouldn't be a religion. The supernaturals and religious elements c...

You know this by your instinct. It is obvious. The red is in the traffic light out in the street. The burning pain is on your body, and you feel the p...

Judgement can be made instantly when seeing the red. You don't require thinking to make the judgement. There are different types of judgements. If you...

The burning pain and colour red are totally different things. The pain is your feeling, but the colour red is in the space out there. The perception o...

Yes, we have learnt our language from the early age, and can communicate our minds with others. That is all we have. We don't have access to any other...

It sounds like Indirect Realists are imagining that because they are IRists, things must exist inside their minds, when it is just memory, imagination...

Seeing red from the traffic light, and stopping is a similar type of perception and judgment / action, as getting pinched on your cheek by your wife, ...

If we define life as the most precious and unique experience for the individual who is living, and also life can be suffering, then ending it abruptly...

We are only discussing driving license and traffic lights because you seem to think sometimes red colour exists in your mind. Hence I gave inductive r...

Driving licenses are issued under the untold presumption that the drivers will think the colours of the traffic lights are in the traffic lights, not ...

It won't work at all, if the driver thinks that the red colour is in his mind, not in the traffic light. Because he thinks that the red colour is in h...

Sure, I know what he means. But my point was that I don't know how other folks would perceive red post officebox, or wave length 700nm at all. All I k...

Yes, you can. But I don't know what you are actually seeing in your mind. I can only guess you are seeing same colour as when I see "red". Why do you ...

We are ordinary folks as far as seeing the postbox is concerned. We are not equipped with some super vision eyes, or we are not aliens from some other...

I have demonstrated my points on the issue in logical manner. Now it is your turn to demonstrate and present your points on the issue.

When you see colour of the postbox, and say it is red, and when I see it, and say purple. This is a a very peculiar case. Ordinary folks don't come ac...

Then, why are you an indirect realist?

This is a hard question to answer. Suppose everyone has different answers depending on what their thoughts are on their own life.

Thank you for your appreciation. :)

I thought the answer to that question was implied in my posts.

I think I have addressed this point some time ago to @RussellA. It depends on the mode of our perception - how we perceive the object. When I am seein...

Here is a simplest example, that we all heard in the elementary school. 1) The litmus paper turned red, when immersed into acid. This is a knowledge f...

I was seeking some knowledge on Astronomy. I bought a telescope, and watched the Moon surface in order to have some knowledge on the Moon. Is that a S...

My view has not changed. It comes from my own experience having witnessed my father's death. He was suffering from illness in the hospital. He didn't ...

OK, fair enough.

The OP's purpose seems to be discussing how we see these kinds of presuppositions fitting to our own understanding of how the world works. It seems to...

Sure, so I thought we could discuss on the meaningfulness of "absolute presuppositions" in critical way. The content of the absolute presuppositions s...

No, that wasn't what I was saying at all. I said that in order to hint you that knowledge of something can be subjective - not much to do with Science...

Knowledge sounds too subjective and loose. Science is a rigorous subject which pursues verified truth on reality and universe. My knowledge on Astrono...

I couldn't think of any of such situation. What could it be, for example? I always used to think killing oneself is committed when one is in deranged ...

But can thoughts reflect the nature of the reality in the external world? Or are thoughts purely mental states of conscious beings?