...is hypothetical. ...the actual use of which is hypothetical. ...which are hypothetical. ...hypothetical ambitions. ...not even going to dignify thi...
This is where you keep equivocating which perpetuates the confusion... It's not 'hard' to grasp. It's just an option. Unargued for, no evidence, no re...
Yes, it would be. The difference is that Russia's threat to 'the West' is entirely hypothetical, as is the efficacy of war as a tool to deal with it. ...
"These lunatic conspiracy theorists, with their anonymous sources... Can't wait to see the pro-US goons jump on this... What a joke!" There. Just addi...
Pretending the world is something it's not. I ought not have to worry about bad drivers, but if I send my kids out to play in the road, are you seriou...
The thing that is being ignored is that none of us are Russian. This isn't about blame. It's about what we can do (or pressure our leaders to do) to e...
Absolutely. How grossly offensive then, when one very minor group of such 'oppressed' people (who just happen to be mostly rich and white), ask for th...
Then why make (and benefit form allies who make) such copious use of it? It's clearly nonsense to say that a group of people are so opposed to censors...
Bollocks. You've done none of those activities. All you've done is use the spectre of them to pour cold water on any counter-arguments you don't like....
Perish the thought... https://scheerpost.com/2023/02/21/patrick-lawrence-totalized-censorship/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=patrick-lawr...
Well, yeah. That's a major problem for both sides. The more Putin portrays this as an existential battle for Russian pride, and the more the West port...
I don't know, it's a complete mystery. It couldn't possibly be because I disagree with you about the definition, because the notion of anyone disagree...
Intriguing. So does enlightenment give no information at all? If 'the world' is more than just the sensible objects, then any form of 'revelation' tak...
Perhaps you could link to some? Despite truly bizarre assumptions to the contrary, the various governments are actually quite sophisticated in their '...
Oh, indeed. I wouldn't want to be read as denying that. But they are all thought-based, they all rely on some 'data-harvesting' method, be it meditati...
I've often heard the view I subscribe to called model-dependant realism, but I don't know if that's the right term. It's interesting to me that most o...
Is there then a reason why you'd expect your "informal assessment" to be the same as anyone else's? You seem affronted by the fact that other people's...
I can't find in there a single reference to... ... nor... Can you reference the source of those claims more clearly. A wall of text just looks like de...
Yes. That it is something we cannot talk about is one of its properties, you are therefore talking about it. I listed a few other properties. That it ...
Yes, that's right. We cannot at the same time conceive of such a thing as a 'world as it is' and claim such a world is independent of our machinery of...
Then what is... ...? That sounds an awful lot like someone talking about the way things are that is independent of us. You're describing one of its pr...
That's the concept that's unclear. What do you mean when you say that a thing can be some way independent of us. What sort of properties could it have...
That's not remotely what Searle is saying there. He's saying that one does not 'experience' pain because pain is an experience. Likewise one does not ...
Direct doesn't exclude the possibility of error, so it in no way assumes perfect knowledge. You said yourself... Does that directness mean it is impos...
Right. So when the vaccine scientist sees the result of their test in the pertri dish, it's not the way the result 'really is'. We ought doubt it. So ...
You said... Are you also quite certain that vaccine researchers are not seeing the results of their tests as they really are? That they may well be wr...
But the context in which 'see' means to get signals from an internal model absent of any involvement of the eyes seem entirely a fabrication of philos...
No. If your claim is about likelihood, you need to provide some metric of likelihood (or prove that your record of 'what has been reported' is exhaust...
It's very hard to follow any of your arguments (as it was in your responses to me) because you keep vacillating between disproof, proof and plausibili...
I've always thought this position really odd. I mean you've literally zero evidence either way. There's no behavioural indicator of questioning selfho...
Exactly my point. You have trouble with the tree, yet when considering, say public health policy (over which you've become quite hysterically opposed ...
Absolutely. Part of the process of 'seeing' we can be fairly sure about now is that it involves what's termed 'construction'. We take all those patter...
What is 'seeing' as a process for you? clearly it doesn't involve eyes (since you don't use your eyes to 'see' the model). It also doesn't involve ext...
We've heard talk from self-described indirect realists that contradicts this, including from yourself. You questioned whether we know what we see is t...
This just misuses the word 'know'. In no other case is 'know' used other than simply having sufficient warrant (putting aside for now arguments about ...
I'm beginning to wonder if it's something about trees, some type of Agnosia (I'm going to here coin the term Arbagnosia). The thing is, I recognise ma...
If you need that explaining you may want to seek professional help. But there's nothing causal here. Not knowing whether A caused B has no bearing on ...
It's this kind of wording that doesn't help the 'direct' account. there clearly are barriers and intermediaries. None of these change the object of th...
A really nice article. This in particular stood out... It ties in really well with the understanding of perception I use (largely a Bayesian inference...
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