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You'd say that we can only think in terms of language?
June 12, 2019 at 19:06
So you're saying that the reason you endorse this view over other possible views is that you only value thinking about human relationships/relationshi...
June 12, 2019 at 17:56
First, "should/should not," "allowed/not allowed" and the like aren't going to be part of traditional logic. Those are normatives. You'd need some sor...
June 12, 2019 at 17:54
Are you not familiar with direct (aka "naive") realism? I'm not saying I'll agree with every sentence of the following, but these provide some basics ...
June 12, 2019 at 17:46
So when people use "Canada" to refer to the physical extent of land (and buildings, trees, etc, on it), you just say what, that they're wrong to use t...
June 12, 2019 at 17:41
Are you trying to say "the fact that there is a thing in a box" versus "the thing that is in the box, conceptually abstracted from that situation, so ...
June 12, 2019 at 17:38
If we're saying that existence is a special case here, we need to justify why it's a special case.
June 12, 2019 at 17:32
No, that wasn't obvious to me. I'm not sure what comments you're referring to. When I searched for "human relationship" over the last few pages I didn...
June 12, 2019 at 17:30
I really can't type more than one sentence with you, or you'll ignore stuff. At the risk of a second sentence, what's the difference between the fact ...
June 12, 2019 at 13:02
Can I ask you again why you're endorsing that view? ("Things require thingers" etc.)
June 12, 2019 at 13:01
What can it refer to that experience alone can not, if experience is necessarily lived? Just in case that's supposed to be part of the answer, no, I d...
June 12, 2019 at 12:50
Why are you talking about neglecting experiences in that section anyway? That part wasn't about that. This quote: "You completely ignored that referri...
June 12, 2019 at 12:33
What? What is the non-lived sense of experience that you'd be referring to there? Let's just solve that first, because this is going way too many roun...
June 12, 2019 at 12:21
A more important question might be: if we are constructing reality, why did we construct brains so that they seem to only receive electrical impulses ...
June 12, 2019 at 12:18
West Virginia is still working on it. https://sgcweb.s3.wasabisys.com/roadsbridges/s3fs-public/styles/content_image/public/WV%202.jpg?itok=tXMP2aKG (A...
June 12, 2019 at 12:16
Quacking is the male equivalent of queefing?
June 12, 2019 at 12:10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VkrUG3OrPc
June 12, 2019 at 12:09
Just when people say wonky things in relation to it. And they often do. It's one of the more common confusions.
June 12, 2019 at 12:06
They need to do that if they want to get out of the film what the filmmakers are putting into it.
June 12, 2019 at 11:29
Absolutely zero humor taboos here. That some people have humor taboos helps the impact of some humor, though.
June 12, 2019 at 11:27
You completely ignored that referring to experience is referring to something that was necessarily "lived," necessarily processual. It's like running....
June 12, 2019 at 11:24
First look at the etymology: One thing it's handy for, especially in the context of the scholastic philosophy from which the term emerged, is talking ...
June 12, 2019 at 10:55
Sure. Things are subjectively better or worse to particular individuals.
June 12, 2019 at 10:42
I'm confused at you asking if there's such a thing as religion and then proceeding to explain a cluster property characterization of religions, where ...
June 12, 2019 at 10:37
That's an abbreviated way of referring to processes one has gone through which were "lived." It just seems like a stupid term, where we're adding word...
June 12, 2019 at 10:34
That's fine that that's the case for you if it really is. The problem is that just because it's the case for you, it doesn't imply that it's the case ...
June 12, 2019 at 10:18
Everything, except for maybe elementary particles, supposing there really are any, and imagining that any could obtain in isolation, is, and is thus d...
June 12, 2019 at 09:29
Any news yet on why you'd endorse or stress that point of view?
June 12, 2019 at 09:21
The reasoning is this: in what way is devising character personality traits, for example, thinking in terms of one of these sensory patterns: visual, ...
June 11, 2019 at 23:29
What would be an example of discourse that's not what we think or say?
June 11, 2019 at 23:27
Why would you endorse or stress that point of view?
June 11, 2019 at 23:23
Strawman, strawman, strawman. And can we stop saying "lived experience"? What other sort of experience is there?
June 11, 2019 at 20:02
Could you explain why you'd believe this?
June 11, 2019 at 18:38
On philosophy of perception I'm a direct realist. I don't buy representationalism. You observe the external brick. There's no good reason to believe t...
June 11, 2019 at 18:32
I use "subjective" to refer to mental phenomena (which again, in my view is a brain functioning in mental ways). "Objective" is the complement of that...
June 11, 2019 at 16:58
If you think we need to, sure. Re the content being objective, the content of a judgment such as "Frank Zappa is a better composer than Haydn" is that...
June 11, 2019 at 15:19
So if you believe there are objective judgments, what is any evidence for them? Er wait, later on you're saying that you agree there are no objective ...
June 11, 2019 at 15:10
Exactly. So we'd no longer be able to peg any particular properties, any particular functions, to any particular part. Chemistry textbooks, for exampl...
June 11, 2019 at 15:05
Sure, but then this would just amount to, "You're going to have a Visa problem if you don't have a social media account or two that you can reveal." W...
June 11, 2019 at 14:38
Awareness/consciousness/experience are not taken to be "secondary." They're taken to be real (in the sense of "existent"), physical things, just like ...
June 11, 2019 at 14:34
The mistake is to believe that everyone is talking about language qua language.
June 11, 2019 at 13:51
There's no way for them to know whether you use social media or whether you're listing any particular names you've used. If they could know that they ...
June 11, 2019 at 13:04
Societies aren't built on (the work of) politicians. A lot of politicians seem to do little that has practical impact, actually. That's one of the pro...
June 11, 2019 at 13:00
Yes. I tackle (what I consider to be) one issue at a time when responding. Sometimes people do just mean the land, though. It depends on the occasion,...
June 11, 2019 at 12:57
If you're merely recording an objective fact, then there needs to be an objective judgment, right? Otherwise you're not merely recording an objective ...
June 11, 2019 at 12:49
What's wrong is that you're attempting an idiosyncratically gerrymandered distinction ad hoc-designed to support a dubious claim--a claim you're forwa...
June 11, 2019 at 12:43
Subjective/objective are location terms. Objective things occur in locations other than minds (that is, locations other than brains functioning in men...
June 10, 2019 at 20:01
Non-human creatures that are capable of valuing things I'd consider people. I wouldn't say that persons are/personhood is necessarily limited to human...
June 10, 2019 at 19:15
Sure, since mattering is a type of valuation. Only people value things.
June 10, 2019 at 18:40
People say "Canada" and refer to the land all the time. When I say "I'm going to Canada," I'm saying that I'm going to a particular physical location ...
June 10, 2019 at 18:33