Ironically, not only does Johnson's 'refutation' of Berkeley miss the the point, but his non-representational demonstration of the meaning of "real" b...
Yes, i believe you. And i would even argue that it is obligatory when following the logic of idealism for the idealist to accept any realist claims to...
In general I understand George Berkeley and his philosophy of subjective idealism as being a precursor to twentieth century Phenomenalism. For I can o...
The question isn't relevant to the idealist. For the question conceives of an unperceived object, which isn't what the idealist is taking issue with. ...
"Natural Selection" seems analogous to "Lawless Sequence of Numbers" in arithmetic. We never see a completed infinite sequence. So "Lawful" only refer...
Artificial selection is derivable from natural selection, while natural selection is derivable from artificial selection, yet their distinction is mer...
Consider that the ancient greeks identified numbers with visual geometric constructions obtained using a compass and a straight edge. If our concept o...
It depends on what you mean by "determine". The mathematics of quantum uncertainty refers, at least according to its most literal interpretation, to t...
I believe that the overall sentiment expressed by Aristotle's view is vindicated by the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle, which expresses his sentimen...
Yes, in own case I cannot understand my desires in terms my personal behavioural history. But if my attribution of motives to others is considered to ...
I haven't had the time to read the book link you posted, but it is certainly the case, as the author states, that Wittgenstein was an anti-transcenden...
If they are diametrically opposite worldviews, constructivism says they cannot be so in the sense of the presence or absence of construction, because ...
Metaphysics is what everyone denies doing, whilst accusing everyone else of doing it. I think metaphysical statements are best understood as being spe...
Wittgenstein draws a sharp distinction between understanding how to use a word according to public convention, versus the personal attribution of mean...
Consider the sentence "Animals eat in order to survive". How is this different from saying "survival tends to follow eating"? In a given situation, to...
Realism is a type of constructivism. For otherwise the statements of realists would not exist. The difference between realists and idealists is in wha...
sorry, perhaps i should have been clearer. I'm referring to change within the context of 'phenomenal change' and it's relationship to the A series, as...
My original point was that I cannot make sense of the notion of unchanging phenomena, so "phenomena changes" is a tautology that says nothing. One mig...
Yes, because if y cannot fail to have x, then x is part of what y means . "Phenomena is always changing" is analogous to "Every rod has a length" So j...
Isn't the idea of essential phenomenal change nonsense rather than true of false? To say "phenomena is always changing" is to assume the meaning of "p...
There isn't such a thing as 'physical phenomena', for no physical concept can be given a persistent interpretation in terms of experiential phenomena,...
(t) transitivity: aRb & bRc => aRc (s) symmetry: aRb <=> bRa (r) reflexivity: aRa (s) & (t) => (r) via substitution of (s) into (t) Therefore: (s) => ...
But how do we know what adherents have in mind? Isn't the only way to determine this to establish the environmental conditions under which they make t...
Not necessarily. For if transcendent referents are ruled out of semantics, this does not preclude the word "transcendent" being used to refer to thing...
It doesn't make sense for the presentist to think of the past as being immutable, for the presentist does not interpret his memories as referring to a...
I'm not sure how you get the impression that the later Wittgenstein believed in psychologism. For he rejected the "picture theory" of meaning, arguing...
Lets think of a specific example, for example let's imagine a god who created the universe and who exists outside of space and time. Now in one sense ...
linguistic reference is only demonstrable within a language-game. Wittgenstein made the therapeutic suggestion to include percepts and actions in the ...
Yes memories have content, in the same way that a digital image has pixel values, but it is a vacuous tautology to say that information is intrinsical...
I cannot fathom a hard distinction between memories and present experience, for i cannot see much of a distinction between memories and photographs. A...
In my opinion, the objective of science is the simulation of behaviour, with the aim of inventing efficient and understandable languages with which to...
Aren't tastes and personal preferences also truth-apt? For isn't it possible to doubt our own tastes and preferences? Don't we often say that we want ...
Only if epistemology is premised upon a hard object-subject distinction. Or put equivalently, that one's epistemology is based upon the correspondence...
Necessary statements are commands or policies, i.e. speech acts, whose origin of force is the intentions of the speaker or institution who asserted th...
Anyway, doesn't the semantic under-determination of the word "determinism" render the question meaningless? Consider the following circular definition...
I don't think that Quantum mechanics is helpful or useful in this sort of discussion, because of it's many conflicting interpretations that parallel t...
In my constructivist opinion, what is impossible cannot even be thought. Impossibility refers to the sentences of a language that have no application ...
Recall Wittgenstein's analogy for verbal definitions in terms of occasional sign-posts that are placed to guide walkers along a route. The sign-posts ...
Interestingly Lewis Carroll's paradox concerning the meaning of logical deduction in "What the Tortoise said to Achilles" came 50 years earlier than W...
Yes, the concept of intelligence is anthropomorphic, for we understand intelligence to be the capacity to solve problems of relevance to ourselves. Th...
i am unable to visualise or demonstrate a semantic notion of logical inconsistency. I can demonstrate what might be called psychological inconsistency...
It is inferences that are uncertain, whereas a report can only be considered to be false in the sense of violating our conventions for communicating r...
I understood Wittgenstein as insinuating that one's private experience of red, i.e. phenomenal red, is neither a necessary nor sufficient estimation o...
The obvious yet strange thing about predictions is that they cannot be future-referring in any physical sense since they are only expressed in immedia...
To the best of my amateur knowledge, there isn't general agreement as to whether Kant meant to posit anything literal that was a-phenomenal. After all...
Is hearing voices qualitatively different from hearing your own thoughts? Or are there intermediate cases, where the voices are semi-controllable and ...
You are free to call a hypertask the motion of an arrow by saying "this moving arrow is a hypertask", which says nothing other than "this is a moving ...
Zeno's paradox even applies to each of the infinitesimally small elements of a supposed hyper-task. Suppose we use a non-standard calculus that define...
Sadly one cannot appeal to mathematics without begging the question. Sure, a normalised infinite geometric series equals 1, which is to say that it is...
But aren't depression and anxiety treated as beliefs produced by cognitive distortions in CBT? And what is the definition of a cognitive-distortion? C...
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