Just contemplate upon the fact that the feelings and mental-imagery that you associate with the future or the past, actually correspond to the present...
To clarify Wittgenstein's "epistemology", background historical context is required with regards to "Wittgenstein's Verification Principle" in 1930 th...
Not quite. Wittgenstein only criticised logical conceptions of meaning, especially in relation to the view that the meaning of a proposition is static...
Consider the propositions "The sequence x1, x2, ... is determined by the function f(x)" "The function f(x) is determined by the sequence x1, x2, ... "...
Nevertheless, one can still create the idea of 'change' by using an indexical such as 'this' to refer to two or more referents, as when recognising th...
But that is likely to be accepted as true by many non-pragmatists. Am I right in suspecting that what you are actually protesting about is the artific...
Change vs Difference: In terms of McTaggart's B series, every temporal referent, e.g. date, is different - by definition of "referent" . This is used ...
I'm not sure that we do disagree. You presumably agree that modelling assumptions , which are ultimately causal or logical, aren't empirically verifia...
One cannot justify the usefulness of a model of data without first making ontological commitments. The concept of usefulness only comes after committi...
On the contrary it very much does, considering the fact that all moral and ethical conclusions are relative to the premise of death that one adopts. I...
The presentist/idealist alternative doesn't speculatively assume a soul substance, rather it simply treats first-person experience as ontologically fu...
The point of the Beetle box analogy was only to dispel the idea that there could be a meaningful inter-subjective notion of sensations in the form of ...
Alternatively, to solve this sort of problem using the smallest number of brain cells and the least amount of graphics, restate the given premises for...
That 'we know' what happens after death in the sense to which you refer, is a valid, albeit tautological conclusion relative to the biological definit...
It's amusing how much air-time the BBC has devoted to shaming Boris's breaking of Covid rules, given that five years ago they barely raised an eyebrow...
Yes. Another way of putting it in order to sound less speculative, is to remark that the predicate 'being conscious of' has the grammar of an indexica...
Think of time as an umbrella concept for the following notions: P) Process. (meaning observable change and concurrency). H) History. (meaning memories...
I see "mind-independence" as theoretical equivocation that results from ignoring praxis, because whilst theories can be presented aperspectivally, the...
From a logical perspective, the beginning of time can be chosen arbitrarily. All one has to do is reorder their knowledge accordingly. One can choose ...
Sure. I am only suggesting to make things even simpler by dispensing altogether the idea that beliefs are properties of individuals, given as you say,...
I share your point of view, as I see Trivialism as a corollary of truth-conditional semantics, which can be the only scientifically respectable semant...
A proposition is usually taken to be the intentional object of a belief, by definition of both "proposition" and "belief". By this understanding, they...
Beliefs and other propositional attitudes don't objectively exist. For example, I notice a person standing at a bus stop. Unless I subjectively empath...
Science is a practical means for relating and translating different perspectives, and isn't descriptive of perspectives per-se, due to the fact that p...
You never lose awareness during sleep, for you cannot meaningful assert that you are unconscious in the present. Rather, when awake you have no memori...
To borrow from Berkeley's anti-representationalist ontology, all concepts, including "mind" and "brain" are reducible to ideas, where "ideas" (or in m...
You might understand the paradox differently to me, but for me the paradox concerns only the concept of length, and since points are volumeless they c...
Only finite intervals exist in the standard euclidean space, but this doesn't matter because infinitesimals aren't even quantities, meaning that limit...
But if meaning is use - which is essentially a structuralist standpoint - then it isn't clear to me that maths and physics aren't identical, at least ...
Differentials, i.e. infinitesimals cannot denote regions of Euclidean space, due to the fact the reals are an Archimedean field, which prohibits the d...
hehe You're welcome. But stupid or not, the paradox is due to intuitions that aren't compatible with the definition of the classical Euclidean topolog...
Tegmark's views are in part the logical corollary of swallowing the subjective-objective distinction, according to which perspective isn't real and on...
In my opinion, the philosophical paradox is only solvable having gained an intuitionistic understanding of the continuum and of point-free topology, d...
As the pollution of the supposedly sacred Ganges river demonstrates, the sacred lies in the realm of ideas and relates to the physical realm only to t...
" This pointing is not a hocus pocus which can be performed only by the soul " Does not support your thesis or yield the conclusion "Any sign, be it a...
Your logic is on the right lines, imo. In phenomenological application, "Nothing" is only used to refer to the irrelevancy of an experience with respe...
Another source of conflict and confusion, especially among Bayesian statisticians, concerns the distinction between uncertainty and imprecision. The t...
People have a confusing tendency to say "I believe X" when exhibiting doubt or a granting concession that one might be wrong - the very opposite quali...
Any interpretation of a social convention is subjective. Wittgenstein was especially clear about this (e.g how can I know the intended direction of an...
Quantum superposition has already been logically described without contradiction using Tensor Products in Categorical Quantum Mechanics, a form of Lin...
I'm tempted to say that Symmetry isn't true by correspondence, rather symmetry means "truth by correspondence". This is by considering symmetry to be ...
To sum up, Gettier Problems demonstrate that justified true beliefs can be fallible, leading to scepticism about the existence of knowledge. But I arg...
In an attempt to crystallise the differences of opinion in this thread, what is everyone's view regarding the relevance of the Private Language Argume...
You can have a belief in the manner you describe that refers to your psychological concept of "future". But from a physical and causal perspective, yo...
Right, but what has your present psychological state of uncertainty, including your memories, imagination and thought experiments, got to do with a fu...
Yes, I'm of the view that the object of a predicate loses intelligibility if the subject responsible for the predication is dropped or replaced with t...
According to a causal understanding of mind, each and every psychological state refers only to the situation that caused it, implying that "belief sta...
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