"Red" and "green" are 'distinct enough', but when it comes to seeing colour, both are necessary, and not obviously distinct. Both are colours, and bot...
I think "wrong" is such a thorny concept that even this (above) can be wrong. Think about it for a few moments and you will be able to develop a parti...
I think "intelligence" is one of those words that we all understand, in general terms, but prove difficult to pin down when we try. There are lots of ...
This smacks of the position that some objective/science-oriented philosophers go for, whereby even the tiniest step away from Order is deemed to place...
All I am saying is that there is mental activity of some kind, a conclusion I derive from simple inference based on empirical observation. I surmise t...
I don't. :up: But I observe, by inference from empirical observation, there is mental stuff of some sort going on when, for example, we drive home wit...
They're phenomena that have to do with the brain, and its activities. This is about vocabulary, not more. "Mental" is the word we use for this purpose...
Empirical evidence. Our brains control many (all?) aspects of our physical behaviour. We call this "mental", presumably because it's the brain that do...
The driving home involves some sort of mental control. The physical body cannot achieve such things unaided. Deduction beyond this simple observation ...
I think you have misunderstood the idea of the subconscious. The word, and its intended meaning, stem from the fact that our conscious minds are unawa...
I don't think there is anything here to believe, only a definition to be understood. There are things we know that we do that we have no awareness of....
I think this may revolve around what you consider to be "a solid basis" for beliefs. Would you care to define what such a "solid base" might be? :chin...
Is there ever a need to describe something to yourself? I don't think so. We only describe things "to other people" because we only need to describe t...
And yet we have many words - and "God" is a good example, but far from the only one - whose definition is general, at best, or downright vague. Why do...
Yes, I'd love to agree with this ... but I believe in God, Someone I cannot adequately describe or define.... I'm human; sometimes we're "incoherent"....
Isn't that what I said? :chin: ETA: I.e. France exists in a European context, but this does not exchange the One and Only Context that France can occu...
That looks to me like you're simply observing that contexts can be nested. France exists in its own context, and within Europe (...the world, solar sy...
I think it's a bit difficult to wholly disentangle X from the 'meaning of X', and from the language (labels, etc) we use to describe or define X. I te...
Interesting question! :up: :smile: Do I think existing-things are constrained by my ability to describe them? No. Do I therefore think that there coul...
I care. :smile: :up: I am a little worried about you, though. You are alarmingly willing to dismiss things without evidence. I thought you were a scie...
As you can't justify this opinion, I wonder why you assert it as though it was a proven fact? :chin: Oh, yes. You're human. We often assert the truth ...
No, I don't think I will. I haven't observed you doing anything unreasonable. I have offered empirical data: humans behave rationally, but we also beh...
Why not? :chin: The reasons why we believe stuff are many and varied. Why do you think we should believe based only on "evidence" or "reason"? Genuine...
Indeed. But why would/should we? People say these things on philosophy forums, but they don't seem to notice how uncommon reason is in our real-world ...
For nothing? Aside from the religious perspective, we can observe that people who have died still existed. They don't disappear without trace when the...
I think a society is a collection of humans, so I expect it to run as though it was comprised of humans, not Vulcans. :wink: I don't think it's useful...
Is design a subject you could follow? Or maybe some aspect of art? There's so much concentration on science these days that almost anything else, as a...
There are things that exist. Some of them exhibit mental (non-physical?) qualities, and some exhibit physical qualities. Some exhibit both. I would no...
Ah, the Eternal Question. :wink: I'm autistic, so this question has been central to my life. Sadly, the answer has not. Making friends is very hard. I...
Yes! :up: The things we need to do are many and urgent. Although recycling is a Good Thing, it is very far from enough. We must reduce cycling (if you...
But Occam's Razor is a rule of thumb, a guideline, a way of guessing. Denialists are looking for something certain. Now I consider this an unreasonabl...
Then you are doomed! :smile: I'm pretty sure Descartes' demon is not as effective as you describe, but there seems little point in pursuing the matter...
I didn't say it was universally agreed. But if thinking is going on, something is doing it, and that *something* has Objective Existence. Therefore, a...
Actually, many people (myself included) believe that we can justify the existence of Objective Reality via Descartes' cogito. Despite the difficulties...
Are any of the proposals posted here easy ones? No. The problems we have are Big Problems. There are no easy fixes. To save the world, we will have to...
My understanding of this nihilistic realism is of throwing our toys out of our pram. :smile: We discover that there is no (Objective) proof of anythin...
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