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Yes an odd view from Harman at first glance, but perhaps there is something to it. I can see them being "something" in terms of their causal effects (...
September 27, 2023 at 23:51
Eh, this gets awfully close to the problem of a hidden dualism. The mental quickly gets covered up with behavior or process, trying to hide evidence o...
September 27, 2023 at 23:45
He said the box can be empty no? Potentially all those boxes can be empty…leaving just use.
September 27, 2023 at 23:24
Shared meaning doesn't need to be based on personal pain, but that a person is "in the beetle-box" understanding "something" about the word pain, need...
September 27, 2023 at 23:16
But my claim here is "think" has to be part of it, otherwise "meaning" loses its meaning, and it is simply a "function" (like in a program). Imagine a...
September 27, 2023 at 23:13
Yes yes, I acknowledged that here, but somewhat more snarkily (I see you ignored to quote): If indeed everything is conflated to ordinary language and...
September 27, 2023 at 20:13
How is it he is advocating for anything other than our inability to be accurate, or our ability to possibly be in error of what others are saying? It'...
September 27, 2023 at 19:51
No I am not saying we judge others' private activities, but that "use" needs an internal mental component for there to be meaning at all. I don't have...
September 27, 2023 at 19:42
Thank you for the clarification. It makes sense to me. If Kant represented the Copernican revolution to make everything limited to "for-the-human" (wh...
September 27, 2023 at 17:57
Sure, but this language game (the uses) learned from a community is not some Platonic "thing" but is rather the various instantiations of understandin...
September 27, 2023 at 17:44
That may be what he is "saying" but he rarely "says it" because he's busy trying to ask question after question. You may think that's cute and clever ...
September 27, 2023 at 15:14
But my point is that most philosophers never asked for certainty of things like "pain". This is a false assumption, and thus becomes a strawman that W...
September 27, 2023 at 15:05
This is the problem with computational understanding of consciousness. Process without mental is not conscious though intelligent. A computers monitor...
September 27, 2023 at 13:58
my point, or @"RussellA" rather, is that Witts premise about “use” cannot be solely what picks out meaning. You mentioned “state changes” implying som...
September 27, 2023 at 13:50
Here is the second video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srtq3rM8UTs&list=PLk0yL-_RNygNSC6M86JguAaQTZxsmlVKC&index=1 My own commentary forthcoming...
September 27, 2023 at 03:52
Yeah, it is interesting he can prove anything besides his best hunch. I will put up the next video to see if he goes anywhere with it. So far, his ide...
September 27, 2023 at 03:51
Except Harman isn't just calling for scientific naturalism (or scientism), because science is human-centered (it relies on human experience). He is ca...
September 27, 2023 at 03:46
See, I'm not interpreting RusselA that way. At least, how I see how he is formulating it, he poses a problem for "use" if it is just "use" without any...
September 27, 2023 at 03:04
No I get Witt's claim (use), but does this really satisfy you that someone "understands the meaning of a word" based on the scenario if all were zombi...
September 27, 2023 at 00:21
Ok bot. Same sarcastic remarks when a point is made you don’t like. What’s funny is you anyone can play that game all day on anything. Posturing at it...
September 26, 2023 at 21:31
I commented based on what I thought.
September 26, 2023 at 21:23
Can’t follow at this point. Can you give the gist in easy way? Who said they are looking for exact certainty of someone’s pain? It’s an assumption we ...
September 26, 2023 at 21:12
Actually no, @"RussellA" has a point. He said: Unless I am reading him wrong, this parallels an idea I had when answering in the Kit Fine thread:
September 26, 2023 at 20:30
So Harman I believe is trying to say that objects (other than humans or even animals) have their own way of being in the world. He doesn't discount ou...
September 26, 2023 at 20:13
When I hear "meaning is its use", I sometimes see this as a normative statement, and not a descriptive one. If everyone were zombies, and/or if no one...
September 26, 2023 at 17:33
My guess is Harman would say this is the "vicarious causation" or "surface level interactions" but not the essence. He is very much non-process (contr...
September 26, 2023 at 17:24
While I agree with you about relativism, I think the point is that speculative realism is trying to refute "correlationism". In this framing, which is...
September 26, 2023 at 15:04
It's almost as if Witt, in his enthusiasm for Frege's new project of logic realism, (during Tractatus period), took the opposite approach to Schop. Fo...
September 26, 2023 at 13:48
I'm not going to make a commitment on any of those, but as you see, the question is open-ended and perplexing.
September 26, 2023 at 13:14
What is existence without an observer? What’s the relation of observer with the world. These kind of things.
September 26, 2023 at 04:56
Indeed, in a sense the idea that something tangential to the object itself (causal connection or the set of itself or something like that), seems to m...
September 26, 2023 at 04:06
I am not saying that the world doesn't exist without an observer (necessarily), but the explanation of what that is (ontologically).
September 26, 2023 at 01:39
Yes, I think this accords with what you were saying of Witt's idea of "responsibility" perhaps. Indeed and this goes right to the heart of what I am t...
September 26, 2023 at 01:34
Are you wanting an answer for why Witt admired..., or indirectly showing your dislike for wanting to learn any Schop (or at least his influence)? I kn...
September 26, 2023 at 00:45
This looks promising: I do enjoy Brian Magee's analysis of Schopenhauer, and wrote some well-known secondary literature on Schop, so he is a good plac...
September 26, 2023 at 00:38
Not that Stackexchange is any authority, but this answer seems apt: But just as anyone can take potshots at anyone, it is well to consider this next c...
September 26, 2023 at 00:31
Many philosophers shit-talked each other. That doesn't prove much. Schop on Hegel!
September 26, 2023 at 00:19
Recognizing that this is all personal sensibilities and such but... :up:
September 26, 2023 at 00:18
My critiques of Witt proper had to do with ideas that his critique of certainty really made sense more in the context of early analytics and logical p...
September 26, 2023 at 00:11
I was commenting on Linguistic Idealism there, not so much Wittgenstein proper. And within Linguistic Idealism topic, I was offering an alternative id...
September 26, 2023 at 00:03
Got it. Yeah, I was looking at it this way: Language Idealism presumably means that language shapes reality for humans. That humans in a way, "can't e...
September 25, 2023 at 16:23
I mean this is essentially what I’m saying I just add that one can synthesize one’s own philosophy, using one’s own ideas or ideas from others too. Al...
September 24, 2023 at 22:52
I don’t see that at odds.
September 24, 2023 at 21:43
I mean, now we are just word-parsing but "evil" can mean many things. Some common ideas: 1) Evil is a judgement about certain acts or intentions peopl...
September 24, 2023 at 19:55
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September 24, 2023 at 19:34
This seems a bit dismissive... But I will grant you analytical philosophy. But look at someone like Schopenhauer.. His philosophy though somewhat tech...
September 24, 2023 at 19:02
But do all "philosophies" really do this, or just some? There are some that are all about the immediate, personal, social, etc.
September 24, 2023 at 18:45
I guess defining Linguistic Idealism as saying that language is what shapes our understanding more than pre-linguistic or meta-linguistic faculties (l...
September 24, 2023 at 17:08
I'm not sure how you are getting a "why" from the quote. I think we are saying the same thing? I can't really see where your critique is coming from, ...
September 24, 2023 at 16:51
Indeed, a lot of philosophy can revolve around this issue. I've listened to some of his lectures and generally like his survey of the philosophers, th...
September 24, 2023 at 16:34