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"That statement is factually incorrect" is a judgment that someone makes (if they're using correspondence theory that is) about the relationship of th...

The most reasonable thing would be to doubt that odds of that sort imply that one can't win.

You're forgetting that moral judgments are simply a matter of individuals feeling however they do about interpersonal behavior. You're assuming that f...

You're equating people posting on philosophy forums with philosophers in general?

The property only obtains as a judgment.

Nope. You're wrong. You don't understand what direct realism posits, and that includes that you're not understanding texts such as the SEP entry that ...

Your perception occurs in your brain, or it "occurs of your brain." Again, direct realists are not saying that perception doesn't involve perception. ...

I'll explain it in more detail if you need me to but the nutshell version is that truth is a judgment that individuals make about the relationship bet...

No, it isn't. That's why I'm telling you that you're arguing against a straw man. Direct realism is still perception. You're presenting it as if direc...

No, that's not part of my body. It's not the same material, either, but that wouldn't matter. My neighbor's fence and the Eiffel Tower aren't a part o...

I don't understand why you're adding the part in italics. It's not "and then we see . . ." It's rather "the above description (more or less, just beca...

As I phrased it in the post you're responding to, the second one should be (B2) "having a property that enables seeing the object behind the transpare...

I'm the anti-Sturgeon--I say that 90% of everything is pretty good.

This is a good example of something I was saying to Wayfarer in another thread. He was asking why I didn't give an example of/quote some other publish...

Again, what tends to make the difference there is to what extent we're talking about observables rather than abstractions including strictly talking a...

That I certainly don't agree with. I agree with the tested/potentially falsified part, but that doesn't mean that theories etc. are not read instrumen...

Wow, no way I'd bother with a couple thousand of something if I were to feel that only four of them were good. Heck, I'd have a problem with much less...

Anyway, have to split for awhile, and it could be a day or so until I can post again. See you then.

In my opinion, at least re the genre films I watch, the vast majority of films are good, including new ones. I don't really have a "best ever." I don'...

So you agree with that?

Heavy as something negative is definitely subjective. No disagreement there.

So you agree that negative or positive connotations or normatives are subjective?

There are no objective positive or negative connotations. No objective normatives.

Well, is that what you're saying? It's just a name for some set of properties (properties which you'd have to specify) and that it has no other connot...

Again, it doesn't matter what we call it. It's just a name for that objective property. It has no other connotation. You could call it anything.

The problem is that I can answer that for the rock. All that we're saying is that relative to other rocks, when we put the rock on a scale, it weighs ...

Why is stunted delivery not acting well rather than acting well? What makes that count as not acting well in other words?

Anyway, how is "not acting well" in the film itself. Just what properties of his acting are "not acting well"?

You didn't say he's not acting well, you said he can't act. Acting poorly would be acting, wouldn't it?

How is "can't act" in the film itself? First off, what is he doing if he's not acting?

Hence why I asked you in the first place to attempt that. So provide an example. What would we "point to" re where the quality interesting or good wou...

I'm assuming you wrote that prior to the comment that taste is about likes/dislikes, etc. The difference aside from that is that in the one case we ca...

Taste is an assessment of like/dislike, preference, etc ., so no. I didn't say that. I said it's also an expression of something they feel.

That's fine. But we at least know that they feel the film is excellent, as long as they're being honest. So that's why if we want to claim that it's s...

What happened to you? (And by the way, I'd say the person at least feels "that rock is heavy")

We know that at least the person feels that the film is excellent, right?

So for example, if you want to claim that the "excellent" property is somehow in or of the film itself, you'd need to support that, show evidence of t...

If you want to claim that it's something more than what they feel, despite beliefs the person may have to the contrary, you need to support that that ...

No to your no. I'm not saying anything about them explicitly saying "I feel", and I am not saying anything about their beliefs per se.

A particular person says them. That particular person is telling us how they feel about the thing in question. That's what personal taste is.

I explained this already. There's zero evidence that those sorts of quality assessments/value judgments are anything but personal taste, and it doesn'...

Like someone saying "Such and such is an excellent film," or "Such and such is awful," or "Such and such is sublime," or "So and so doesn't display th...

Empirical evidence re what's occurring and where it occurs when those sorts of judgments are made.

Because the evidence shows that those sorts of assessments/value judgments obtain nowhere else or in nothing else. It's difficult to even make sense o...

Unfortunately I'm not at all familiar with it beyond the fact that I've heard the name of the show mentioned before. I do watch plenty of fictional TV...

How do you propose that anything about quality in the sense of assessments or value judgments could be not about personal taste?

Purposes in that sense of the term are simply overarching goals that one has in mind. As with everything else, that is going to ultimately obtain, if ...

Hmmm, okay--still not sure I get that, though. For one, it doesn't make any sense to me to suppose that "I" am somehow different than something like a...

Well, yeah, it's possible that someone has racist, sexist, etc. views in any situation we could describe. In my case, part of why I'd do it (that is, ...

I don't think I understand that comment. "A genetic predisposition for survival in your thoughts" is confusing to me. And then I don't get how "your p...