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My tendencies are towards formalism. What I primarily care about when it comes to paintings is shapes and textures and colors/hues, overall compositio...

It seems nonsensical to me. I have no reason to believe that Marx was exhausting the possibilities of how we can do things, and I have no reason to be...

Sure. Again, the only point I was making was that science (and journalism, and other fields where this is an issue) isn't ignoring human perspective. ...

Sure, again "That would only be the case if you're defining 'based on' as being about contributing factors that aren't identical to what we're talking...

I agree with you, but what I'm focusing on is the fact that there is a belief that we can overcome bias, and I gave a couple examples of people with s...

Re the developmental issue, by the way, what a lot of people with objections to what seems to be an "it's all socially constructed" view are getting a...

Preferences are brain states. Mental phenomena are identical to particular brain states. Brain states/mental phenomena are not identical to genetics a...

I'm glad you explained this more. My first reaction to your fist post in the thread was, "What are you talking about? What mistrust over cultural infl...

I don't agree with that definition, by the way. I only steal something from you if I take something that was yours, against your consent, so that you ...

That would only be the case if you're defining "based on" as being about contributing factors that aren't identical to what we're talking about. But o...

That seems like one of those things that amounts to someone saying, "Hey, check out this trick: I can interpret everything, to my satisfaction, so tha...

Again the mental is "merely biological." It's a term for a subset of properties of brain function. Brains are biological, obviously. Why anyone has th...

Your initial post was nothing about that. So you were wanting to talk about God as an "institution" as well? Why didn't you mention anything about thi...

You're thinking of the conventional colloquial definition of the term. Think of it as a sound applied to interaction.

I don't understand what you're saying there, unfortunately.

They're certainly not based on something that's not one's preferences. That would be deriving a normative from a fact.

What else would it be based on?

"Direct" is opposed to "representational" basically. Basically, representationalists believe that you get data via your senses, that that data is proc...

His personal feeling/taste is a mental phenomenon, right?

It's a synonym for mental phenomena, yes. Maybe synonyms are unnecessary, but they're going to arise and be in usage whether we like it or not, and it...

It's just making a distinction. It's not attaching any valuation whatsoever to that distinction. The reason to make the distinction is that it's somet...

Here are a couple examples of a belief that we can eliminate bias: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2917255/ https://baselinesupport.campu...

I'm not asking if you agree with the belief. I'm asking if you agree that there is such a belief, whether you agree with the belief or not.

I'm a big fan of Donald Palmer's books, including Looking at Philosophy, which is suitable for any interested 12 year-olds. At the moment it's availab...

So do you disagree that there's a common belief that humans can be impartial/unbiased, at least in conjunction with each other?

The way I use the terms, which is a common way to use them in philosophy contexts, is that "subjective" refers to mental phenomena (which on my view i...

Taking what you believe to be a "literal" meaning of a dictionary definition, and approaching philosophy as if everyone must be using the dictionary d...

No. The idea is that any interaction functions as an observation or measurement. That's contra the conventional, colloquial connotations of those term...

Yes.

I'm positive that StreetlightX explained to you at least once before (I can't recall the thread, but I know I read it not too long ago) that observati...

Rising global temperatures are different than beliefs about rising global temperatures.

There's a belief that humans can be impartial/unbiased, at least in conjunction with each other. That's not rejecting human perspective. It's seen as ...

"Experience" works just fine. "Lived experience" doesn't say/tell us anything additional to what simply "experience" would tell us.

The distinction is that the preference for Darjeeling only occurs in brains, whereas the temperatures occur elsewhere. You don't find the preference f...

Mind is identical to a subset of brain function.

That's what you were thinking for the first post, I suppose, but didn't say. You're assuming a thoroughgoing, strong causal determinism to be the case...

No. I wish all philosophical questions were this easy. ;-) Your mind primarily has an influence on it via the way it controls the rest of your body. F...

You're ignoring the question I'm asking you. People can and do sometimes use "Canada" to refer to the land, where that's all they have in mind on thos...

Re science methodology 101, empirical claims are not provable period. So of course, since this is an empirical claim, it's not provable. That's not a ...

The justification would typically be something like one's visual memory of what the person looks like. If you ask for a justification of the visual me...

Yes. I think two things often happen that lead to confusion about it: (1) People tend to mistake or conflate "objective" with ideas like agreement/con...

When I made the book comment, for some reason you were focusing on the semantic aspect of that. I didn't bring that up for that reason--I wasn't think...

So on your view you can't visualize a shape as shape, you necessarily have the word "shape" in mind?

So first, we need to clarify that on my view there are no shared meanings in the sense of there being a numerically identical meaning--in other words,...

So an internal dialogue of shapes, colors, etc. is a language in your view?

I think it couldn't be more obvious that there is, and I see the view that it's a problematic question as pretty juvenile/sophomoric if not infantile ...

Okay, but if that's thought then some thought isn't linguistic, right?

"Internal dialogue"/"critical internal dialogue" isn't thought?

What about visualization? For example, visual artists thinking in terms of shapes, colors/saturations, textures, etc.? Isn't that a way that people ca...

Here's something that marshill wrote: That's attempting to deduce a normative from a fact, no?