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We could change what we are asserting and interpret it as discovering that we were wrong. If two people are at about the same spatiotemporal location,...
August 05, 2019 at 11:55
This merely hides the fundamental issue and does not address it in any way. If most people were blind, reports of visual perceptions wouldn't be linke...
August 05, 2019 at 11:33
There would be no issue if they didn't make metaphysical claims about what's possible and what's not possible, what the world is and what it isn't, wh...
August 05, 2019 at 08:34
I generally agree with this, but one problem for instance in fundamental physics is that practicing a lot of theory-learning and problem-solving can l...
August 05, 2019 at 06:47
The problem with this characterization of hallucination is that for instance until a few decades ago we could also say the following: We can know that...
August 05, 2019 at 05:28
Okay. So now my question would be, if anything anyone experiences is reality from a particular reference point, how do you ever get to a distinction b...
August 04, 2019 at 12:04
Yes. To separate philosophy from science is to make science a religion. They think they have eliminated metaphysics from physics, but all they have do...
August 04, 2019 at 11:41
Sure, but it seems to me you still arrive at the same result as Dfpolis, that both in your theoretical account and his theoretical account everything ...
August 03, 2019 at 16:19
But if you say reality from some reference point is how things appear from some reference point, then I suppose you agree that when the reference poin...
August 03, 2019 at 16:06
Fair enough. I guess one of the main reasons I'm not a realist is that I have noticed how what I believe changes in profound ways what I experience, s...
August 03, 2019 at 14:18
If we say that what we call the physical world stems from minds, that objects do not exist independently from minds, that's not realism no. And "The p...
August 03, 2019 at 08:24
edit: double post
August 03, 2019 at 06:27
Same with me :up: I feel that I addressed all your points while you didn't address some of mine, but maybe that's how you feel too from your side (tha...
August 03, 2019 at 06:27
And how does the realist get to conclude that what he experienced was a hallucination or that he had a false belief? For instance if the realist sees ...
August 03, 2019 at 06:09
The problem is not calling some things science and some non-science, it is calling them science or non-science arbitrarily, and then using that label ...
August 02, 2019 at 18:58
If only we could address even one thing. It's not just plastic pollution or air pollution, it's our ever-growing consumption and destruction of natura...
August 02, 2019 at 15:39
Are people frightened because they have analyzed the evidence and the assumptions behind the predictive models used and concluded that there is very l...
August 02, 2019 at 14:25
I'm not missing that point because in that post I put on the realist shoes, so to speak. Remove the "out there" if you want, the point still stands, i...
August 02, 2019 at 14:02
Saying there is no object that is perceived as it is independently of the perceiver is not saying that there is nothing beyond perception, of course i...
August 02, 2019 at 13:57
But if you say that phenomena (experiences) refer to real things, as in the phenomenon of a tree refers to a real tree out there, and the phenomenon o...
August 02, 2019 at 13:47
Ok I understand you agree that knowing something is at least partly believing it. But when we say "X is true" we're not even saying "I know X is true"...
August 02, 2019 at 11:57
But I'm not sure that's a useful distinction. For instance, someone can claim their faith in God is based on experiences they have had or on some argu...
August 02, 2019 at 11:55
How do you define belief then, if not by "acceptance that something is true"? If you believe that the Sun is going to rise tomorrow, you might say it'...
August 02, 2019 at 11:41
And belief is also separated from empirical evidence and logic to some extent, saying "theory X is true" basically ignores the problem of induction. A...
August 02, 2019 at 11:33
I don't see a fundamental difference between belief and faith, dictionaries define belief as "acceptance that something is true", and faith as "someth...
August 02, 2019 at 11:21
And then you make a breakthrough when you realize that many of the people who criticize man-made global warming or the theory of evolution are not ign...
August 02, 2019 at 10:55
It's Laudan not Lauden (you made the mistake twice so I'm mentioning it). I don't think you understand the problem if you think that one has to rigoro...
August 02, 2019 at 10:33
If that's your relationship with truth then okay. But plenty of people do not equate "I believe X is true" with "X is true". In "X is true" there is i...
August 02, 2019 at 08:45
Which is still not what he says, he says "X" is true because evidence supports "X", not that he believes "X" is true. No I wouldn't say that. However ...
August 02, 2019 at 02:31
That's not right, he doesn't have to rigorously define what 'science' is if his point is that it can't be done (or at best that despite all efforts th...
August 02, 2019 at 01:57
But that's not what he said. He said "X" is true because there is evidence that supports it: The believing isn’t what makes evolution true or not, it’...
August 02, 2019 at 00:38
Read the beginning and the end of Laudan's paper, he explains it probably better than I could. But in my own words, it matters because scientists dism...
August 02, 2019 at 00:06
By "A sufficient condition is a superset of a necessary condition", I mean that a sufficient condition for something respects all the necessary condit...
August 01, 2019 at 22:23
Yes yes yes, and that scientism runs deep. Look at this link from Richard Dawkins' website: https://www.richarddawkins.net/2013/09/why-i-dont-believe-...
August 01, 2019 at 09:01
I said "at worst", as in not necessarily responsible. What a bad analogy again. Choosing whether or not to have a child is not analog to a teacher cho...
July 30, 2019 at 20:48
At worst a little responsible for their suffering , and greatly responsible for their joy (in the case where I do my best to bring happiness to the ch...
July 30, 2019 at 09:32
I don't necessarily agree with that though. Let's say that in this 'reality', there are no laws that are set in stone, but rather some beings have cre...
July 30, 2019 at 08:30
Who gets to decide what counts as "sufficient evidence"? Scientists talk about other universes and about dark energy, yet I'm sure you don't treat tho...
July 30, 2019 at 07:15
That's not far from my own point of view. Where I differ is that I would say it's possible to have the experience that other things exist besides our ...
July 29, 2019 at 16:57
But is your certainty on this a rule or a law? And if it is a rule, how can you know that gravity is a law, and thus that we will never find a way to ...
July 29, 2019 at 16:42
Yes, that's the idea of science I grew up with, but then more and more I realized how keeping an open mind is precisely not an attitude that character...
July 29, 2019 at 16:20
But you could assume that Einstein's theory of gravity is complete, it is precisely this assumption that leads astrophysicists/cosmologists to suppose...
July 29, 2019 at 15:46
The problem with that characterization is that people can then claim that "emotional and social needs" can be controlled or fulfilled through "predict...
July 29, 2019 at 13:53
The concept of time stems from our perception of change, and time is defined relationally. For instance I might say "time runs slow today", because co...
July 29, 2019 at 13:01
Indeed :up: "Scientific facts" change as well as religious metaphors. The stories that scientists used to tell are very different from the one they te...
July 29, 2019 at 09:27
Interesting train of thought. To make sure I understand you correctly, "law" is often defined as a "system of rules which a particular country or comm...
July 29, 2019 at 08:35
Yes you understood that correctly. Strictly speaking I wouldn't say emergence doesn't exist, for instance I do agree that there are laws of biology an...
July 28, 2019 at 05:27
It depends how we define life. We could have self-sustaining aggregates of molecules that follow the laws of chemistry and that we call life forms, in...
July 27, 2019 at 20:34
Don't worry about the physics or maths, they don't explain that either. Basically the concept of energy stems from assuming that there are laws that d...
July 27, 2019 at 08:39
I'm talking about the impossibility to explain consciousness in a materialist framework (by consciousness I refer to what a being experiences: percept...
July 27, 2019 at 06:35