Why wouldn't having or possessing data be knowing it by acquaintance? How would you have or possess data without knowing it by acquaintaice? I don't a...
No. I'm not talking about making distinctions. When I mention "just the tree" for example, I'm not implying thinking of the term "tree" or a concept o...
This is going to be a mess for us to sort through, so one thing at a time, and hopefully we won't have to rehash any of this. I believe both of those ...
This is getting to the questions. I hate going on and on though, so I want to figure out why we're doing that. So we don't disagree on whether the wor...
Reading over that section, it's a major hurdle for me that you seem to be talking about "intelligibililty" (I'm not even a fan of that word, really, b...
You'd have to make the difference clear. ? That's just introducing more confusion. Now we'd need to get into the ontology of possibility, too. Okay, I...
Again, there's a difference between what's present for one phenomenally and what's really the case ontologically. Of course there's a reference point ...
Right, so I say so, because concepts ARE something that you construct personally. If you don't agree with this, then we disagree on what concepts are ...
We don't just do that arbitrarily. We do it because we observe the world to be different than how longwe thought it was. Re that other comment, again,...
The etymology of "metaphysics," by the way, is simply that it was an untitled book placed after the book entitled "Physics" in Aristotle anthologies (...
In my experience in school, science and mathematics contexts often had no time for philosophy because a common approach was to simply not care about t...
It's not immoral in my view. No consensual actions are immoral. We just need to make sure that assisted suicides are occurring consensually, so there ...
It's not determined by minds, but by what the world is like. We couldn't just decide to assert that P, where P would then be the case. No one is sayin...
That's the sort of weird, anxious/neurotic dialogue I imagine most antinatalists going through frequently. Maybe try just try chilling out, not worryi...
The past is changes/motion that happened but that are no longer happening per some frame of reference. The future will be changes/motion that haven't ...
So, we just went over this a handful of posts ago. Here's what we said: ======================================================== Not per a decision. P...
Re optical illusions like that, that's really what something partially submerged in water looks like from a particular reference point. You're getting...
So first, hallucinations and illusions are real hallucinations and illusions. (Where we're not using "real" in the traditional manner to refer to some...
The simple answer is that in order to have the belief that reality can NOT be directly perceived (insofar as its perceived, re what's perceived, etc.-...
So we don't agree on what concepts are or how they work. Also, I haven't the faintest what "find them latent in my sensory representation" or "actuali...
Again, my view is that perception gives you things in themselves at particular reference points and everything is always relative to some reference po...
Sure. So first, I'm confirming that you're saying that a chair doesn't really look like a chair from a frame of reference that's however many inches o...
I asked you "How would you know that you've perceived something other than it is? Could you give an example?" And then I wondered if the chair was you...
Was that your example? So a chair doesn't really look like a chair from a frame of reference that's however many inches or feet away from it and that ...
It gives you the things in themselves at particular reference points and everything is always relative to some reference point or other, with there be...
To us, no. Again, it just depends on how faculties evolved for the creatures in question. That usually has a lot to do with what's survivally advantag...
Yes, spatio-temporal locations. You can't consider anything absent a spatio-temporal location, and all property changes occur relative to spatio-tempo...
You asked how fast they'd need to be moving in order to detect doppler-shifted light. The answer is not very fast. We can detect doppler-shifted elect...
You're it aware that visible light is part of the electromagnetic spectrum? Microwaves would be visible light to creatures that evolved sensitivities ...
How would you think that the properties of an orange (or anything else) don't change? You wouldn't be able to have orange trees flowering, some of the...
Not very fast. Radar guns work via doppler effect measurement, for example. Radar guns use microwaves, but it's all just part of the electromagnetic s...
It's not that the orange is emitting light. It's reflecting it. Reflected light is doppler-shifted just as well as emitted light. You could say that i...
You asked "Put forth a duration." I explained what time is: The changes/motion that are happening. A duration would a measurement of the changes that ...
I'd agree that maybe not all properties change at different reference points, but I definitely wouldn't say that color and texture are among them. Col...
Right, it just seems like a very odd thing to think. I was reviewing his motivations for arriving at his view a bit, and they seem like really poor re...
I'd say that space and time are inherent in the physical world, which is everything that exists, including your mind. It's been so long since I read K...
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