I would say that the manner in which a thing exists is known to us. The apple is red, etc. That is the thing in itself, as described in human terms. L...
I commented on this a while back. One way to think of it is not that the universe didn't exist prior to sentient observers, but that its dynamics pres...
@"Dfpolis" was making an empirical claim about the 7-year-old girl. That she had a desire for water. Don't you think that is a claim that can be true ...
I'm curious about what the problems really are. It seems easy enough to modify the above argument so that it is sound. For example, in Greek mythology...
The problem is identified by the doctor at the end of Scene 5: "Besides, when one starts doubting one's own sense perceptions, the doubt spreads like ...
The way the term "see" functions in ordinary usage is that it relates a subject (you) to an intended object (the tree). That usage pragmatically abstr...
It's common knowledge that you can't see things without light. But then the expression, "I see a tree", doesn't imply otherwise. So what is inaccurate...
In reply to Dfpolis, you say: In your example you seem to be saying "you see a tree" but also "you do not see the tree", which is a contradiction. It'...
Anil Ananthaswamy's Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality also looks interesting. Especial...
Nice find. It's worth noting that the walking droplet experiments provide interesting quantum analogies (and intuitions) for pilot wave theories. But ...
Yes. There need not be a single ("the") causal sequence of some set of events - sometimes there are multiple causal sequences. I think it's philosophi...
Actually not knowing the causal sequence is not the issue in this experiment. What "indefinite" means here is not "unknown causal sequence" but "no si...
Per the earlier video (from 1min:32), that is known from the experimental setup. One component history has Alice applying operation A to the photon an...
This probably gets into interpretation territory, but I don't think quantum systems do collapse into classical systems (for example, even if one obser...
Unpredictability doesn't imply a violation of causality. Without knowledge or control of the underlying physical causes coin flips are also unpredicta...
I would say it's actually classical physical explanations that break down rather than causality. Events A and B are independent transformations which ...
No. The experiment can also be considered at a macro scale using Schrodinger's cat as Banno suggests above. If QM holds true at a macro level (as most...
There's no need to give up causality. The paper isn't saying that the cause can happen after the event. It's instead saying that a photon can have an ...
These references may be a useful starting point: As StreetlightX notes, matter and form are the paired aspects of an individual (per hylomorphism). Su...
As usual it depends on what the statement means. Conventionally, "snow" refers to H2O, so the astronauts are not seeing snow, they're seeing something...
Exactly. Per the bank account metaphor, identity is not applicable to the melted coins since they are not individual coins. So to ask whether the coin...
That's a nice paper - here's a link to a pre-print for anyone interested. Just to summarize the problem, Leibniz' Identity of Indiscernibles says that...
Part of the issue can also be with the perceived meaning of the question. While it says shade, perhaps some interpret it to mean natural color (which ...
Agreed. However if there is some reality that is determinately H2O then there is some reality that determinately has three atoms. The latter is simply...
No, it assumes realism. It seems to me that you could say the same thing about the particulars. That is, the referent of the sentence is the world whi...
I would agree that there is no idea of number independent of an agent's thoughts. Yet there would still be three atoms in a water molecule even if the...
Thanks. So to clarify, my claim is that there are three atoms in a water molecule independent of anyone counting them or even conceptualizing numbers ...
Isn't that conceptualism about universals rather than moderate realism? The term universal normally refers to what particular things have in common (w...
In this case you would be talking about assertability conditions rather than truth conditions. That is, those conditions that would warrant someone as...
It is simply a schema for what it means for a statement to be true. In this case, it is the cat being on the mat in the world that is the condition th...
Regarding "p" is true iff p, the statement on the left-hand-side is true (or false) if and only if the condition on the right-hand-side obtains (or no...
It is, unarguably, since you're talking about judgments. But Einstein's question is whether the mind is inextricably involved in every matter (includi...
So that is a question of what is meant by "snow is white". If you are talking about the reflective properties of snow, that is one meaning. If your fr...
I'm curious how you would describe a concrete scenario prior to sentient life emerging on Earth with respect to universals. For example, consider a mo...
You said this earlier as well but it's not correct. "p" is true iff p is an expression of how the word "true" is used. On that usage, a claim can be t...
They aren't problems for truth though. If the referred context of a claim such as "Earth is the third planet from the sun" is our shared experience (w...
For a deflationist, what makes "the cat is on the mat" true (or false) is for the cat to be on the mat (or not). More generally, "p" is true iff p. Th...
Yes, they are different things. But I think the point that the deflationists are making is simply that the explicit assertion of truth about a stateme...
I think you're drawing a distinction between scientific and ordinary claims here that has its own difficulties. I don't see why scientific statements ...
Right, the player doesn't have that perspective but we do when discussing hypotheticals with specific distributions. What is the source of the paradox...
The way I look at the problem is that the expected gain calculation depends on an agent's knowledge. Some agents may have more information than others...
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