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When you open your hard drive, and look into all the parts inside the drive, you will see nothing which even remotely resembles the data you stored in...

Good point, but a daft question. It is like asking why tables and chairs don't work as phones or computers? They are not designed / made to do those j...

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Could it be the past memory of the individual and reasoning ability in the brain, which tells and confirms the person with the self identity? Past mem...

I am even thinking that mind could be physical in its nature, i.e. mind is not different existence from our bodies. Because mind can only exist when b...

I don't think it was a reduction of any sort. When you reduce something, you make it less or simpler. I didn't make anything less or simpler in the po...

But without body, our consciousness evaporates into nothing. Our brain falls asleep every night, and when it does, the whole world of ours disappears ...

If there is no human mind, then there is no time. Time will end, if the last human dies on the earth.

My ideas seem to be based on natural logic rather than science. I don't deny science, but always be aware of the limitations of science. But yes, I do...

Why would it be impossible?

Problem with phenomenology is that it is another Kantian idealism without Thing-in-itself.

Most folks wouldn't need such information in their life on the earth. Especially if you were a Zarathustra in the remote mountain cave living alone, t...

I would rather agree with the world of Heideggerian or MP's, of which the structure or existence is disclosed or revealed by language. The world will ...

Science can only describe what are observable. The hidden and unobservable parts of the world for them are same as metaphysics i.e. conjecture, infere...

It is an interesting idea of W, but not sure if it is 100% correct. I feel the world has nothing to do with language or hinge proposition. The world i...

It is definitely the case that the Moon doesn't exist in me when I am seeing it. It exists out there in space somewhere. It also is the case that the ...

You need more than language for accurate understanding the world i.e. rational thinking and inferring with the observations on the reality. Language a...

Like the formal logic cannot capture or cope with the whole reality, language alone cannot capture or understand the world. Free reasoning based on in...

Not sure if being able to ride a bike should be regarded as knowledge based on the theory of knowing how. It should be regarded as an ability to inter...

Problem with hinge proposition is vagueness of its definition. There are other propositions that I don't doubt at all, and they are not hinge proposit...

Are you certain about the fact that you are not certain about anything?

There is your certainty. We don't normally make claims using hinge propositions in daily life. We only discuss about them in the philosophy games (as ...

They believe that doubts are also simulation.

I have heard about "lived experience", but not "lived truths". What is "lived truths"?

Descartes doubted everything including even his own existence. But one thing he could not doubt was the fact that he was doubting. The fact that he wa...

When we exit the language game, we are in the philosophical game where we discuss about all types of propositions if they make sense.

Revisiting on hinge propositions, they could still be doubted in theory since doubts can be methodological like that of Descartes, or psychological. A...

What are the philosophical / epistemological / logical grounds for hinge propositions being exempt from doubt?

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Isn't evolution from living biological species to the same living biological species but for the better adaptation for the survival in the given envir...

You don't. It was a suggestion for W if he used the word "impossible" rather than "exempt", it would have been clearer in the point. "Exempt" is norma...

:ok: Seems to be delicate nuance in the uses, but the gist of the claim seems it is impossible to doubt? FYI, USA has 23 towns and cities called Paris...

What is the illocutionary difference between the two expressions?

I understand W said that hinge propositions / certainties cannot be doubted or are not allowed doubting. I don't agree with that. Anything and everyth...

There are different types of doubts too i.e. rational doubts based on reasoning, and psychological doubts based on feelings, emotions and beliefs. Whe...

But it cannot explain the origin of existence of the Earth and life, can it?

There are different types of "I know". I think I know, I feel I know, I believe I know, I am sure I know. I know I know. IOW, "I know" always comes wi...

The big-bang theory must have had been inferred from the observations on the other galaxies with their old stars dying with the explosion, then the ne...

Excellent explanation. :up:

When someone is pointing out on the the possible misuse or unclarity of the concept in use, they are not necessarily seeking for help. They were looki...

Refer to 1) The Oxford Companion To Philosophy Edited by Ted Honderich 2) Philosophical Logic by Sylbil Wolfram for coherence concepts. Bye~~

You need to read this post to understand the concept of coherence. Anyhow, I am stalked by the emotionally motivated poster here, so I am not going to...

OK, it is up to you, whether accept it or not. Just pointed out the unclear use of the concept "coherence". Carry on~ :)

You need to read some basic philosophical logic books.

Please refer to the book on "coherence theory of truth" by by Cybil Wolfram, Philosophical Logic (London 1989)

I have already given you a clear explanation on coherence here.

Your way of argument is just keep denying everything blindly. You don't accept or see the rational points.

I don't need help. You do need help. :D

Your seeing a cup in a location is a subjective visual experience. It has no truth value. It is just a perception. When you make up a statement "I see...

Magic is the created illusion. As long as the illusion exists, magic exists.