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Yeah, and I addressed that. Then you brought up the "naked eye" phrase and I asked you why, because that didn't have anything to do with anything I ha...

This was what I was talking about. In fact, you quoted me: "Also, in order to know that something is an illusion in the first place, you'd need to be ...

Why would we be talking about "the naked eye" all of a sudden? Who mentioned that?

You have to know something about the relation of caricatures to something that isn't caricatures. You can't know that if you can't experience what peo...

Also, in order to know that something is an illusion in the first place, you'd need to be able to know what it's really like in contradistinction to w...

Here are a few of my favorite "What is philosophy" quotes: "The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest ...

As with logic, it's a way we think about relations, including with reference to experience, on the most abstract, generalized level. So yes, it has to...

Rationalist for mental issues, issues of understanding mind, thought, concepts, things like mathematics, logic, etc. Empiricist for knowing the world ...

Or in other words, you're not at all a realist in the conventional sense of that term.

I and I are, yes. (Which doesn't mean I'm Jamaican. Rather I at T1 and I and T2.)

It would probably do everyone better if you tried to explain it, not to mention that that would much more easily take us to philosophical territory. B...

Hey now.

Yeah, I like Rorty's writing a lot. Re Sartre, I can't stand Nausea, either, but I'm not much on realist fiction/"drama" in general outside of a handf...

Yes. I hate continentalism. Not so much because of the views--I don't agree with analytic philosophers' views any more or less than continental philos...

"The Internet confuses me if we're not arguing." (just kidding by the way, although sometimes it seems like that's what most people think)

Ah--thanks for the explanation. I was getting more at "it's all just art to me," but yeah, that would be another way of dismantling "fine" art, so to ...

Why would referencing 9-11 as that commercial does be offensive to anyone? That makes no sense to me.

. . . I can't say I understand this as a response to my post, but okay.

Not at all a fan of "high art"/"low art", "fine art"/whatever-the-opposite-would-be type distinctions, first off. What does art do for me? Provides a ...

Probably the fact that so much confusion arises due to people not realizing that some things are only the result of individuals thinking about things ...

You're using "relativist" in place of "subjectivist" there. They're not the same thing. Relativists can think that morality is relative to cultures, f...

It just seems random to me.

I don't think that's obvious at all. From a human perspective it can simply be observed/perceived.

Yes, that's a good example, actually. I didn't read through the whole thing yet (obviously given the time between you posting the link and me posting ...

Well, I could detail everything in your posts where I think, "I don't know what in the world he's saying, really," but that would be pretty tedious an...

apokrisis, when you start waxing poetic I often wish you'd provide references to companion literature, as I typically can't figure out what the frick ...

Well, is it just identical to the world and the mind? In that case, calling it a "deeper structure" doesn't make much sense.

What would that even mean. Just what is the "form of thought" first off? We'd need to know that to know whether it's the case that the world is always...

I wonder where the heck that "deeper structure of semiosis" is supposed to be located in that case.

If they're not focusing on people mentally judging the relation, that would require some sort of mapping or comparison mechanism, too. But more import...

There are no objective truths in my view. The distinction doesn't have anything to do with whether something is publicly verifiable. It has to do with...

Okay, but then there's a problem with the idea of natural language somehow being either the same or at least mappable to facts aside from judgments th...

Well, my idea, at any rate, is that the relation between a proposition and facts, say (if we're using correspondence, and I do) is something that requ...

"What is the case" would normally be another way of saying "fact" or "state of affairs." The reason that analytic philosophy stressed that "truth" is ...

One thing that I think causes confusion in these discussions is differing interpretations re whether the term "objective" in "objective truth" or "obj...

I don't know if there was any confusion about the subjective/objective terms. I simply use them this way: "subjective" is something that occurs in or ...

Why wouldn't "ethical good/bad is an individual's preferences about interpersonal behavior (behavior that they consider more significant than etiquett...

I'm a noncognitivist/emotivist. I don't believe that ethical utterances have truth values.

I typically see those questions as a combination of (a) ontological questions--just what the ontological make-up and properties are of the thing in qu...

Standardly in analytic philosophy, truth is a property of propositions. And namely, it's a relation between a proposition and something else. The some...

The problem is that it's not objective. It's subjective.

I can't really imagine how that would be the case, though. How could something be a logical necessity just because it's a metaphysical necessity? The ...

If only I thought that were conceivable. ;-) That doesn't actually follow. You'd need the additional requirements that (a) there are indeed laws of ph...

Yeah, I think there's a benefit to it in some contexts. I try to keep the audience in mind.

For me, it's due to the reasons I mentioned right above the post of yours that I'm quoting from. "Feminism"/"feminist" seems to me to be a term like "...

I'm not at all clear on what you're referring to in that part. What is "benevolent" or "good" sexism/racism?

These are very good points, and I agree for the most part. When you claim some broader "ism," different people often have different things in mind reg...

At least you have confidence I suppose. Well, or at least attitude/arrogance. Not sure that's the same thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-QV-9JTN3w

Yeah, it's going really well so far, 50-something years into it.