Terrapin Station

"Fact," in philosophy, and more generally in an academic context, doesn't refer to anything about agreement either, though. "Fact" is a word for "stat...

I think it's important to realize that there isn't universal agreement on the vast majority of claims about objective, factual matters. "Objective" do...

Does he give an argument for that? I don't recall. At any rate, I do not agree with him.

The issue as I see it is that for the posits of solipsism, or even any sort of idealism, to make sense, we have to posit the realist view of there bei...

Again, there's no way in hell that you actually have a philosophy degree. You have no familiarity with or understanding of some of the most basic idea...

No, of course not. It should be obvious that I do not agree with that. Again, to even ask this in the first placfe implies that you do not understand ...

Did you ignore my "argument" that fits what you call an argument? "No numerically distinct things are identical. Outputs are never invariant."

Gah--that's a CLAIM. It's not an argument. Again, arguments have premises and conclusions that are supposedly implied by the premises. I'm not saying ...

Yeah, that's not actually an argument. It's a more verbose explanation of what the claim is. Arguments have premises and conclusions that are (putativ...

Ah, okay. I think it's wrong to say that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is wrong, though. As I said in my first post in this thread: The judgm...

So then by virtue of what are you saying that the 95 people in my example simply haven't seen the work's beauty yet? Are you saying that the other 5 p...

So there's a possibility that I'm mistaken that I've been interacting with people in venues like this pretty much daily for 20+ years?

So would you say that every work is beautiful, it just requires understanding the history/narratives behind it, seeing what is important about it, etc...

What about my questions though? Is that work beautiful for the 5 people in question, or are they wrong? (And are the other folks wrong for being indif...

No tactic like that will make me change my tactics.

In other words, say that 100 people witness some work. Let's say that just a handful of them, let's say 5 of them, say that the work is beautiful, and...

I don't agree with your argument because I don't agree that anything exists that isn't dynamic. The problem, in my view, with what their argument is t...

So you require some sort of community agreement for something to be beautiful? Also, why woudln't that be an argumentum ad populum (the population in ...

Per the views you express, you'd not be able to justify why you're not a solipsist.

But you can't experience that only your consciousness exists, either. So why wouldn't you just as much doubt that claim? Likewise with "only my mind e...

Not that I agree with that view (which I can get into in a moment, although you should already know why I don't agree from comments I've made previous...

And me. I'm a physicalist/identity theorist, though I'm not an eliminative materialist. We know it to be a biological property at this point, and ther...

So assuming that we were to agree on that for a moment, and ignoring that we're not actually saying what the relation is, but instead we're just sayin...

Did you understand my previous post/the question I had asked you?

Re what I mean, there has to be some relation between DNA and the information content of DNA for example, right?

Just to keep this simple to start, the relation can't be one of identity because of other things that you would say are not identity relations? (Part ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqOWopNNBYA

I don't know--mental degradation maybe? I don't know why so many people are seduced into believing solipsism more or less.

What does it mean in your view to say that "we are all one"?

Okay, but if the idea that there's just one mind is in doubt, would you point out that the existence of other minds can not be refuted, lending suppor...

One example for me is that things I take to be externals seem like externals qualitatively. They do not seem to be qualitatively like the things that ...

The negation of solipsism is just as impossible to refute. Hence why logical possibility isn't sufficient for belief. You need to have reasons other t...

The judgment that such and such qualities are beautiful is in the eye of the observer. The qualities in question are not.

If identity is the case, they're both subjective experience (I don't know what "lived" adds to that) and an object in the world, of course. What's cau...

I would think the first step would be to survey the reasons we have for believing one thing or another. Logical coherency certainly isn't all there is...

It wasn't meant to be inciting either. That's my honest opinion of the majority of the folks protesting in the last 24 hours. I can see how it would u...

No, it wasn't at all aimed at you. It was basically a response to "The harm of your organization or country being run by an incompetent or wrong-heade...

I expect this in general, but particularly on a philosophy message board, I expect people to be able to think for themselves a bit, to be able to make...

Ignoring nominalism for a moment, they are the same from a particular reference point in the relevant properties (that is, the particular range of ele...

I don't really see this thread as one that makes any sort of philosophical point. (And I dont think there's anything wrong with that, by the way--it's...

I agree that brains do not cause conscious experience. Rather, brains, in particular states, ARE conscious experience. It's not a causal relationship....

There was no "mix up" there.

A lot of them are trolls, I suppose.

Perception is going to be different than the world around you in that the world around you isn't perception, for example, but that doesn't imply that ...

How about the harm of spoiled-brat/coddled/fragile millennials who don't reason very well, who are kind of paranoid, and who have a victim mentality n...

In my view this is conflating your perceptions/experience with what you're perceiving/experiencing. In my opinion, the concept of perception doesn't e...

Ah, I can see that making some sense from a much different ontological perspective than my own (well, and as long as I ignore thinking about details o...

So now you're positing unconscious beliefs too? What do you think the motivation for "willful ignorance" would be?

So I'm just being dishonest to aggravate you or something in your view?

Apologies if you explained this already, but I don't see how one could conclude that one is having an experience that is beyond the capacity and conce...