Skepticism is the tendency for beliefs in representational theories of perception to collapse into beliefs in direct-perception and vice-versa. I don'...
But that would appear to assume that the target of the person's opinion has been identified correctly. Suppose for example that you meet a stranger wh...
Isn't "indiscussibility" the very definition of subjectivity? On the other hand, what isn't ultimately discussible? For one to claim that another pers...
Yes, we can *demonstrate* provided we carefully understand that our "demonstration through a series of trials of the unlikeliness of an outcome" refer...
I don't see any reason to suppose that a person's self-reported beliefs when narrowly considered as a form of verbal-behaviour are qualitatively diffe...
I think the confusion is caused by conflating universal statements over an open domain with propositions. Consider the statement A. "All Creatures dis...
One potential point of difference between Wittgenstein and Hume concerns the notion of "habit". For Hume, are his remarks concerning the psychological...
Your notion of fairness seems to assume that individuals make independent and voluntary choices that are independent of their environment, peers and u...
I believe that the Later Wittgenstein would have understood causality more through the lens of epistemological behaviourism in the sense of it being d...
The only definition of 'real object' I can think of that isn't a circular definition and that doesn't beg-the-question of the existence of a mind-inde...
Yes, i think it is a deeply flawed analogy, for we don't possess a single form of reasoning but have evolved many different games of reasoning-behavio...
I mean it deeper than that. Even what we call 'pure logic' and its mechanical application is a matter of us following normative principles that are no...
Yes, and the definition of the standard metre is no longer the length of a particular platinum bar contained in a Paris vault, but the distance light ...
Like our principles of morality, we learn what rational thinking is through reward and punishment. Therefore doesn't the justification of all applicat...
If neoliberalism is merely synonymous with the monetization of all human activity, the automation and outsourcing of human labour, and the coercion of...
Why is neoliberalism undesirable? lol. what on earth was bad about the fall of the Berlin Wall? Wasn't that even the bi-product of america winning the...
While i'm not myself within this camp of opinion, there are many self-proclaimed Wittgensteinians who interpret Witty's supposed "private language arg...
Yes, video-gaming, artificial intelligence and the information age are likely to be causing a metaphysical shift in our default cultural assumptions, ...
yes, *I* have direct access, in the sense that I cannot imagine what it means to have indirect access in my own case. Yet it is natural for me to desc...
Of course, your version of "my" corresponds to "you" - an object over there- in my field of perception. And of course, MY version of "my" corresponds ...
I'm not quite sure how that follows, for neuroscience and machine learning are both representationalist and neo-Kantian in the sense of being function...
According to utilitarianism there seem to be two ethical arguments for committing murder: 1) The "Utility Monster" argument: Perhaps it is the case th...
All forms of pattern recognition involve a priori representational assumptions. Unsupervised learning is no different. In fact machine learning nicely...
LEM is irrelevant, since Godel's Incompleteness theorems don't use it, that is to say, his proof is entirely constructive and syntactic without invoki...
Since it is nonsensical to imagine proving the consistency of an axiomatic system that captures arithmetic, it is equally nonsensical to imagine the e...
No that is generally false. Lucid Dreams can be appear to be as equally real as reality. I think you are only thinking of spontaneous, low quality luc...
As i said, my understanding of SR is that it inter-translates local frames of reference that are causally connected within the speed of light of each ...
Yes it is, strictly speaking, nonsensical to speak of "true empirical contradictions", including the empirical consequences of special or general rela...
The anti-metaphysical stance of verificationism suggests that the most logical position on the "afterlife" is that of a soulless immortality that resu...
This idea of absolute or relative "levels of awareness" sounds highly implausible given the close correspondence of OBEs, NDEs and lucid dreaming and ...
Why should the idea that the existence of the world is not independent of first-person experience conflict with the observation that the world continu...
Yes in a sense and No in a sense. This type of mind-body-problem is caused by the surface grammar of our language suggesting to us the idea of there b...
If i say "now and here" for no apparent reason while pointing at a tree, what information have i conveyed? Haven't I at best, merely named the tree "n...
I think Eternalists are temporal realists who believe that our physical notion of time is fundamental and represents mind-independent and psychologica...
All stated rules are given their sense only by our application of them and not by their syntactical definition, since a stated definition is in itself...
I'm simply saying that how I cannot see how the finite syntax of mathematical statements can represent a super-task so i cannot see why mathematics sh...
I'm not doubting what we can "know", I'm only doubting what we can mean to ourselves mathematically. I don't see how Zeno's paradox can be represented...
again, in line with my previous post, one can question whether zeno's paradox is actually conceivable, for it assumes that it is meaningful to talk ab...
Another way of thinking about the probability of infinite sequences is to reject the assertion that it is meaningful or even possible to linguisticall...
your intuition is correct, or should i say, formalised to be correct by definition in classical probability, as, informally speaking, as you imply, th...
i'm not sure what can be drawn from these experiments to understand human psychology in the medium or long term, since the moral choices of those expe...
yes, and of course the general question of what meaning is then needs dissolving into its vast family of uses without veering into the rocks of any pa...
I think Wittgenstein's Blue Book is a good starting point of investigation of this question, where he begins to address the problem of the location of...
To me, the ontological argument for god is reminiscent of Cantor's "diagonal arguments" for the existence of uncountably large sets. This is because n...
Well, you could certainly model "true" yet opposite conclusions using paraconsistent logic, as i imagine might be particularly useful for complex supp...
"It is what it is" When giving a causal explanation? Here it looks like an admission of ignorance. When giving orders or reasons? Presumably it means ...
Presumably the question of non-conceptualism starts with the semantic intuition that we each have only a finite number of linguistic categories at our...
My contention is, that a proper understanding of the various senses of lawfulness and randomness cannot lead to the conclusion that randomness is "imp...
According to the Tracatarian or logical notion of objective probability, objective probability is a normalised count of the number of states of affair...
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