Harman posits a dualism of a hidden reality of the object and one of their relations with other entities. The hidden substance he identifies as "subst...
I guess I meant, "overused".. used to refer to too many vaguely related but not quite necessarily related things. Not sure what to make of this. What ...
Sure, but the controversial element is whether "roundness" is a thing outside that concept. In this theory, it is, as long as two objects have some "s...
Not quite. Rather, I was trying to show that specific instances (of objects) have their own form of interaction that manifests roundness in a way that...
But let's move on further. @"Moliere", I like your ideas, but you jumped ahead a bit. I want to read this page by page to get all the analysis from it...
So this started from a discussion I had with @"RussellA" in the Chomsky thread. The dialogue is below. Basically, we were originally discussing how co...
Yeah I guess, can they be discussed in reference to themselves without it being how humans frame the objects. It seems to be what SR and Harman in par...
Perhaps it’s the capacity for quick symbolic reference and syntactic generation, not necessarily content. E language can’t be acquired but through a b...
This overlooks the person themselves for some abstract notion ("I am fond of life, so I shall burden someone else. Prior to X time, there was no perso...
So you are red herring here. I asked to go back to my arguments presenting what unnecessary means. You skipped that it appears. https://thephilosophyf...
I laid out my definitions of all this. So if you don’t think the argument apt, you’d have to reference where and why. Otherwise, it is you gesticulati...
The topic is whether or not it is moral to unnecessarily burden someone. The contingencies don't get to be, "I can burden someone if I myself also bea...
I think this can be answered in various ways, one of them referring back to Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology. Let's start a different thread on this ...
It is not known. It is manifested in the interaction of ball with ground. It doesn’t need to be apprehended. The object does as it does in relation to...
But that’s what I’m saying, it doesn’t matter how it is labeled- an object manifested the property of rolling by its action with other objects. It may...
But some philosophy points not to upward dialectic of Man but of the inherent perennial suffering nature of existence. See: Schopenhauer (suffering Wi...
It isn’t judged, it is an event. Object rolls down a hill. The object interacts with the ground in the way round objects act. It’s manifest in how the...
Wouldn’t degrees of roundness suffice? Whatever relations that interact with that object will interact with it in relation to the round-like feature o...
A utilitarian might look to Hare's "two-level weak rule utilitarianism". That is to say, follow the general rule, but make exceptions for instances wh...
Yes, I am somewhat familiar in passing with Lakoff's idea of metaphor. Something to think about for sure! I'd have to look to see how deep the studies...
Oh I get it and basically agree, but I present it because it is a common defense in arguments about morality to couch one's own morals with ad populum...
Ok, but this thread is about using the appeals to popularity as an indicator of whether something is a moral intuition: “X is a moral intuition becaus...
Really good questions! I think this is a matter of just more empirical studies on cross-cultural societies and psychological experiments. However, int...
Conventional morality, if taken to mean "what most people believe" can be a form of social control in that it can be used to shut down arguments becau...
It's hard to really. I think a lot of this comes down to thinking in terms of armchair evolutionary psychology. We think that if a particular belief a...
@"NOS4A2" :up: I think this is the strongest argument for many people, because it is a prevalent belief (in everyday ethics, not politics) to think in...
Metaphor? Can you explain? Do you mean simply that it is an ambiguous concept (ironically) :smile:? Yeah, it is tricky defining concepts. One can argu...
:up: Yes, I just think it goes back to what counts as a "concept". Are primitive concepts concepts, or are they just primitive epistemological tools? ...
From that SEP article, the reference to Quine " Rather, there is simply no such thing as that to which our words refer." Is pretty much my own encapsu...
Yeah, the inferotemporal (IT) cortex has been demonstrated to be linked to object recognition (though the feature of "what" is being recognized to dis...
So you are doing your own motte-and-bailey here. You cannot explain to me what my understanding of Buddhism is so you provide vague notions of "going ...
Agreed as far as importance. Not sure if intended name has any real meaning if no one uses it. Not sure how causal link theory would respond other tha...
Yeah. Something about baptizing an object provides a causal link between name and object. You don’t need a description, just this link to make the nam...
Agreed here but… Though I agree often a description is needed to differentiate people with same name, that the name is referring to that particular pe...
I do think there is a case for rigid designators for specific objects and entities though. There is a causal link of a name and a person that transfer...
Yes these are points I was trying to present between the difference of the statement X is not not X and bachelors are unmarried males. One is conventi...
Not sure what you’re getting at. Suffering and death doesn’t occur if not born. Again doesn’t matter how you define that. It’s slowly moving the argum...
Also, mind you, to not throw stones in glass houses. Many people are pretty disgusted with views like Marxism. I've written pretty extensively about t...
It’s like that only if that situation is brought about, no? I’m not a fan of is making a contingency into an inevitability. Can’t one both provide the...
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