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So you don't believe that your mind has a location, either?
February 12, 2019 at 16:14
We could call this a premise, okay. Followed by two questions . . . Which is fine, but of course questions are not logical entailments. That doesn't f...
February 12, 2019 at 16:10
Per the online etymology dictionary, the "literal" definition of "unnatural" is "not in accord with physical nature," where the etymology of "nature" ...
February 12, 2019 at 15:55
I consider any organized control by (at least threat of) force to be sufficient for government. Given that, I don't believe that anarchy is possible. ...
February 12, 2019 at 15:45
it's irrelevant how many people something is compelling to. Appealing to that is the argumentum ad populum fallacy. And the person who is claiming som...
February 12, 2019 at 15:34
Here's a simple formalization of a reductio ad absurdum: Assume P is true. From this assumption, deduce that Q is true. Also, deduce that Q is false. ...
February 12, 2019 at 15:27
If god exists and then the rest of everything does (your options are either that, or god existed and everything else did, too, or everything else exis...
February 12, 2019 at 15:18
You set forth your view in a number of claims. The claims weren't an argument (nothing followed from anything else). You didn't state a reductio ad ab...
February 12, 2019 at 15:12
And particularly phrases like "and that's that" aren't going to do anything in an argument. You might as well say, "My view is that P. I'm right, and ...
February 12, 2019 at 15:08
They're only contradicting the realist view. Which of couse they'll be the first to admit. And the realist account isn't compelling to idealists--or t...
February 12, 2019 at 15:03
Music is at least as old as any other sort of art, by the way. Art wasn't always for "communicating" in the practical sense of that term.
February 12, 2019 at 14:57
So you were talking about your initial post in this thread. What, exactly, is supposed to be absurd about the idealist stance in (1)? The first part t...
February 12, 2019 at 14:49
If anyone ever didn't seem to understand something, ever asked for an explanation, clarification, etc I explained things again, and in other words, tr...
February 12, 2019 at 14:40
Yeah, I basically have an endless amount of patience, which was beneficial when I taught, which I did for a number of years. Thinking of conversations...
February 12, 2019 at 14:34
If you were interested in me knowing what you're referring to, we could just point to it in some way.
February 12, 2019 at 14:28
What happened to this subthread, by the way: "Employs it in any manner. However you want to think of it. "Do you think that people do not use meaning ...
February 12, 2019 at 14:27
You might be reading that into it, but I can only keep repeating that I don't at all believe that there's anything "special" about it or anything to s...
February 12, 2019 at 14:19
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February 12, 2019 at 14:16
I've had to tell Harry what my definitions are about 50 times, and I'm still not sure he gets it. I'll gladly tell him again, in as many different way...
February 12, 2019 at 14:11
"We think them up"--okay, so you're not saying that meanings don't occur in minds. So what am I supposed to be "proving." You already agree that meani...
February 12, 2019 at 14:09
No, I'm explicitly NOT saying this. It's nothing about "deserving" anything. And I didn't invent the terms. There's nothing special about it. It's jus...
February 12, 2019 at 14:08
All it teaches me is that you don't care enough to not do the same stupid thing everyone does in conversations like this. You don't care about actuall...
February 12, 2019 at 14:05
What would be the motivation for not either exerting the massive amount of energy it would take to point to the post or to simply copy/pasting it?
February 12, 2019 at 14:02
Specifically as "non-planet," not that it just happens to be that. Whether something is mental or not is an evergreen topic in philosophy.
February 12, 2019 at 14:01
I'm not making the case that anything is "special" . . . the distinction comes up often especially in philosophy, though. We could make a distinction ...
February 12, 2019 at 13:57
Mind/not mind
February 12, 2019 at 13:51
What? Where are you getting anything like that from? Could you answer what/why you're asking re "it matters how many brains"?
February 12, 2019 at 13:48
Harry brought up my views in posts directed at me. I have no idea what your definition of "objective" even is.
February 12, 2019 at 13:47
Re the things that I'm an antirealist on, re the stupid "burden of proof" convention, you're not arguing that we don't think things like meanings, are...
February 12, 2019 at 13:47
Right, I didn't answer because I wanted you to just address that first part and not skip it. Re "Why would it matter how many brains?" I don't underst...
February 12, 2019 at 13:45
Per how I use the terms, how I define them, it's what you said.
February 12, 2019 at 13:41
Minds are a non-mind feature of reality?
February 12, 2019 at 13:37
LOL (quite literally)
February 12, 2019 at 13:36
Cool.
February 12, 2019 at 13:32
Again, I use the word "subjective" to refer to brains functioning in mental ways. (Well, or anything functioning in a mental way, but so far there's o...
February 12, 2019 at 13:31
Still no idea. You could spell it out (or at least reference what you're talking about so I can look at it again), or I can just not worry about it. L...
February 12, 2019 at 13:28
Employs it in any manner. However you want to think of it. Do you think that people do not use meaning in some manner?
February 12, 2019 at 13:26
"Meaning depends on understanding" is not a view I hold. No idea what you're talking about there. So I guess you can't point to the objective properit...
February 12, 2019 at 13:25
Well, do you have an idea of what I'm saying if I say that "Joe utilizes meaning"?
February 12, 2019 at 13:22
So you'd say that there's nothing in the world that doesn't "do" meaning? Like bacteria deal with meaning all the time in your view?
February 12, 2019 at 13:18
Right, and meaning is another one of those things. We simply disagree on whether meaning is one of those things. So your challenge would be to point t...
February 12, 2019 at 13:14
There can't be anything to cause the universe, because that necessarily implies that something exists prior to the universe. But that can't be, becaus...
February 12, 2019 at 13:11
If you think that it doesn't have a location, then you think that it's located nowhere. The only way to think that it's not located nowhere is to thin...
February 12, 2019 at 12:56
That's a definition, not a meaning. They're not the same thing. Objectively, the definition is just marks on paper, or activated pixels on a computer ...
February 12, 2019 at 12:44
"Quantum fluctuations" can't be both quantum fluctuations and nothing. Quantum fluctuations are something. If they exist, then they're part of the uni...
February 12, 2019 at 12:34
What it is for anything to be better or worse is for an individual to come to that judgment about the thing in question, a judgment based on their pre...
February 12, 2019 at 12:23
That fact that you're alive is located wherever you are, as (long as) you continue to breathe, metabolize, undergo cell division, etc. How in the worl...
February 12, 2019 at 12:12
Us evaluating something and us valuing something, our personal perspectives, our perceptions, etc. aren't properties of the action itself. If the mora...
February 12, 2019 at 12:08
No. It matches what the world is like extramentally. Namely, no matter where you look, moral properties only occur in persons' heads.
February 12, 2019 at 12:05
And any evidence at all of the moral properties we're corresponding to?
February 12, 2019 at 12:03