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I can use examples you've posted elsewhere if you like. Here's one: "I’m saying a human being’s life starts at its conception." What would be evidence...
May 08, 2019 at 14:20
It was justified, but the justification wasn't accepted, because you're appealing to proof, not evidence. What you're doing could be done with any emp...
May 08, 2019 at 14:17
It's not a subject change. Again, the issue here is understanding how empirical evidence works with knowledge claims. Your objection here could be giv...
May 08, 2019 at 14:08
So give me an example of empirical evidence that you believe couldn't be interpreted in more than one way, where you believe the empirical evidence in...
May 08, 2019 at 13:58
If you believe that some empirical evidence can support some conclusions, you need to look at why you believe that, so that you can adjust your view o...
May 08, 2019 at 13:53
It only equally shows that we experience our brain phenomena if you think that all empirical evidence equally shows every possibility related to it (i...
May 08, 2019 at 13:52
Nope. This is the subject (at the moment at least). What empirical evidence can show. You made that the subject.
May 08, 2019 at 13:47
Because "ruling out possibilities" is otherwise known as "proof," but that's not at all what empirical evidence is about. That a category error, a red...
May 08, 2019 at 13:44
No empirical evidence rules out any possibilities, does it?
May 08, 2019 at 13:41
I already answered directly and you already let me know that you don't understand how evidence works in relation to knowledge, because you're appealin...
May 08, 2019 at 13:36
Not at all. This is answering the question. But for you to understand the issues here, you need to understand how empirical evidence works in relation...
May 08, 2019 at 13:30
Yes. And I'm trying to help you figure out how empirical evidence works in relation to knowledge, because that's turned out to be necessary to the dis...
May 08, 2019 at 13:29
My point at the moment is that you apparently do not realize how knowledge works in relation to empirical evidence, and you're appealing to the idea o...
May 08, 2019 at 13:23
Because you're going to be OCD now? I'm explaining why, but by getting you to think so that you can realize the answer for yourself. So why would you ...
May 08, 2019 at 13:18
If you're going to get OCD, I'm bailing.
May 08, 2019 at 13:17
Why would you figure that it shows either? Why wouldn't you figure that it maybe it shows that the two are completely coincidental?
May 08, 2019 at 13:13
Which is not to mention the incoherence of even the idea of nonphysicals,by the way.
May 08, 2019 at 13:08
The latter requires evidence that they're different. There is no evidence that they're different though. What there is, however, is evidence that any ...
May 08, 2019 at 13:07
It's exactly the point. The evidence does not PROVE that the two are identical. But it does show that they are. As expected, you're appealing to the i...
May 08, 2019 at 12:57
What would be the evidence suggesting that the two are different? (By the way if you post a link I'll look at it instead of complaining that you shoul...
May 08, 2019 at 12:47
Sure it is. Why wouldn't it be? You're not appealing to the dumb idea that it's not proof of them being identical, are you?
May 08, 2019 at 12:40
I gave you a handful of examples. I couldn't care less that you either reason so poorly or that you have such ineffective psychological manipulation m...
May 08, 2019 at 12:29
That's not going to work. Again, if you're actually interested in the evidence, look at it. How many times do I have to tell you, in order for you to ...
May 08, 2019 at 12:19
Meaning isn't an object external to us. Meaning is the act (or event) of making mental associations. If I'm saying that meaning is identical to a ment...
May 08, 2019 at 12:17
This claim is based on?
May 08, 2019 at 12:13
So say that you have two rocks and a tape measure. You put one end of the tape measure on one rock, and stretch it out to the other rock. You don't ac...
May 08, 2019 at 11:59
Meaning is a subset of thought. In other words, not all thoughts are meaning, but some are. The existence of the thought in question (the thought that...
May 08, 2019 at 11:36
Sure, that's possible, but I don't know how we'd avoid that wholesale, as every word we use represents something someone might be unfamiliar with or s...
May 08, 2019 at 11:33
The "ism" is just a name representing the views in question. It's easier to say "Jaws" than it is to explain all of the characters, the whole plot, et...
May 08, 2019 at 11:26
I wasn't saying "mutually exclusive" either. Meaning is a mental event. It's a type of thought.
May 08, 2019 at 11:11
Meaning isn't something different than thinking, so what you're asking here makes no sense. You're talking about meaning as if it's something independ...
May 08, 2019 at 11:02
You can talk about P at T1, and I can talk about P at T1, and P at T1 is identical to P at T1--so what we're talking about can be identical. You're co...
May 08, 2019 at 09:44
No, it isn't.
May 08, 2019 at 09:39
No, it isn't. Truth is a judgment that an individual makes about the relation of a proposition to other things.
May 08, 2019 at 09:37
I'm definitely not interested in arguing. Correct. At least not arguing for its own sake. Again, what matters for empirical claims like this is eviden...
May 08, 2019 at 09:17
"Waah! I just want to argue! Waah! I'm not actually interested in information."
May 08, 2019 at 09:14
Evidence is what matters here. If you just want an argument clinic because you like to argue for its own sake, I'm sure a lot of other people are look...
May 08, 2019 at 09:12
You asked for examples of evidence. Those are examples of evidence. If you're interested in the evidence, look at the examples. If you're not really i...
May 08, 2019 at 09:09
As I said above, "If you're interested in it, look at the evidence and comment on it. There's no need to repeat what it says. Look at it if you're sin...
May 08, 2019 at 09:04
Why no links? Why would I retype what is said there?
May 08, 2019 at 09:04
I did this the first time you asked. I gave you five examples that were hyperlinked. At which point you proceeded to completely ignore it. If you're i...
May 08, 2019 at 09:01
For one, the fact that all of the evidence that we have points to this.
May 08, 2019 at 08:53
Can you sense the measurement?
May 08, 2019 at 08:48
Earlier when you asked this--well, or something very similar to it--you claimed that you were asking for supporting evidence of it . . . at which poin...
May 08, 2019 at 08:46
You already agreed with that. The only difference is that you're not agreeing to name a particular thing "color" that I'm naming "color" rather than t...
May 08, 2019 at 08:37
By the way, even if the argument you're endorsing didn't rest on a completely inane confusion between x and the experience of x (a confusion where one...
May 08, 2019 at 08:30
"But if the original statement" maybe? Again, could you read this stuff out loud and fix typos prior to posting it? Truth value is a judgment that an ...
May 07, 2019 at 22:34
Experience is mental, yes. What the experience is of isn't mental. The experience of x isn't going to be identical to x. Obviously, right? Thus forwar...
May 07, 2019 at 22:32
Of course it doesn't "appear red," if we're using "appear" to refer to experience of it, unless it's looked at. That doesn't mean that it's not red if...
May 07, 2019 at 22:25
Again, I'm pretty sure that you're not even familiar with nominalism. Note that what nominalists are saying is that this: A and this: A are not actual...
May 07, 2019 at 22:24