Isaac

Nope, still wrong. The person being born was not forced to live. they cannot have been because they didn't exist until after that event. A gamete was ...

They do know, because if scenario 1 is the case then they cannot be wrong (we must know the contents of our own minds, as they conceive them) they fin...

Yeah. I went through that as well. You can answer that nothing exists. If you want to say that anything exists (and all that exists is on your mind) t...

Why would the aspects of a peacetime environment all disappear during war? If gravity forms part of a peacetime environment, does it disappear during ...

2 says that all that is the case is in our minds. To reject 2 either some things which are the case are not in our minds (mind-independence), or nothi...

Yes, which reverts to my point made earlier. If the epistemological solipsist were to entertain 2, then they cannot be wrong. They want to be able to ...

Depends on your belief about when life starts. It doesn't matter. Whatever point one becomes a person, that event cannot happen to a person as there's...

You're just restating your original claim, you're not addressing the argument. 1. We must know our own minds entirely - what is in them and what is no...

Nonsense. There's no 'you' to be forced until you already live.

None. As I said, one way out is that nothing exists. I don't think solipsists make that claim though. Barring that, you must know your own mind. that ...

Fair enough. I thought the rhetoric was clear, but my apologies. What you've actually been saying is... ...are you claiming that is all empirical scie...

We're going round in circles. We've just demonstrated that. If god (should he exist) only exists in your mind, then it is impossible for you to be wro...

No. It's implausible that if god exists he only exists in my mind therefore if god exists he must do so independently of me. The only way out of mind-...

Neither it's controversy, nor its originality were my target. Meat is uncontestedly empirical. Bound by the laws of physics, chemistry, biology... We ...

I thought I'd explained that. If it is implausible that things only exist in our minds, then we can know that mind-independent objects exist. They mus...

Yes, I understand that (primarily because you explained it earlier). But to claim we can't know that other minds and mind-independent objects exist, i...

Because all that exists is their mind, and so God must be in it.

How? If God is in their mind, how can they possibly believe one thing about him, when in fact another is the case. What would it mean for something in...

Exactly. But if the solipsist says "God exists" when God doesn't exist, then they are just lying, not telling a falsehood because God (and his existen...

Well yes. We argue about the properties that piece of meat has, but a piece of meat I certainly am. Or... we could say I'm a mind, some metaphysical c...

There are two sides to that expression. One is currently a proposition, but we're assuming that it is a proposition representing the belief of the sol...

My argument has been that the value of the outcome in any war is necessarily disputed. Argue against this first point we'd have to divide all the worl...

I'm asking about the "...it isn't", "...he doesn't", "...it won't" parts. What do any of those propositions mean for a solipsist? How are they any dif...

Yep I agree. I'm quite happy with your claims that one can take into consideration the well-being of a future person and act accordingly. That has no ...

But you've not given an account of what it would mean to be wrong for a solipsist. It's not about them knowing. I gave the example of comparing one's ...

But you've never seen a mind either, yet you infer their existence quite happily. I'd have thought even the butcher's slab was better evidence for the...

It's true if enough mathematicians agree that's the way things will be. Otherwise they might say (of the proof) "Ah if 1+1=2, the the Reimann hypothes...

Eh? 6 deaths per thousand from profiteering. 0.25 deaths per thousand from war. War + profiteering = 6.25 Just profiteering = 6 I don't know what kind...

The one used by mathematicians is right. We just ask. Not a course open to the solipsist. I'm enquiring as to how. If not by some sort of comparison t...

Well if we're 'fessing up to our plagiarism, mine's basically a paraphrasing of active inference accounts of self-organising systems. I didn't even kn...

OK, so how do we know if not by comparing the wrong belief to the right one and finding it not to match? I believe so, yes, though I'm far from expert...

So against what measure am I comparing my belief that the square root of four is one, in order that it is wrong?

Yeah, I think your version works socially. It also explains ideas like belonging (I have responsibility for this item), offenses against the person (i...

I believe the square root of four is one. But it isn't, it's really two. The belief is in my mind. Where's the real fact?

Interesting. My personal view is that the self is a modeling assumption used to delineate non-entropic forces from entropic ones. It locates the bound...

You observe minds? This is the empiricism creeping in. Once you let it in, any talk of 'mind seas' has to go. You can observe brains are embodied. But...

The Russian offensive is less harmful than the Holocaust, so what's your problem with it? Of the list of stupid things you've said to avoid conceding ...

But I can't see how I'd even get past the preliminary consultation. "Doctor, I can't remember what my beliefs were" "What makes you think that?" "Er.....

Exactly. I can't even remember why I came into the kitchen, and you're trying to sell it as a route of access to the truths of the universe? Oh, and t...

There seems to be this sense that because we can imagine a horse, the concept of a horse must be private (I needn't tell anyone what colour it is...sh...

Yes, I think people are, wary of relativism ("the Nazis were right, from their perspective"), but it's never something I've found in the least worryin...

Mmm. I asked because I happened to be reading this thread in the middle of a conversation I was having with @"Janus" about mental events. It struck me...

I don't think so, no. It can be created collaboratively by process of trial and error. I can merely live my life, including using words to get others ...

Interesting. What's the cup, in this analogy?

And the evidence you have for this is?

Apart from the total lack of evidence that it's anything like that? OK, so shall we add those consequences to the tally for capitalism too. What kind ...

We don't formulate sentences that way. We can actually see sentence formation and have a pretty good idea of the way it works from various cases of pa...

Over 30 times higher? Don't be absurd. The point is not to claim that war zones are no worse than peacetime communities under capitalism. The point is...

Do you? How would you know? OK, but you said that we have a private understanding of the concept 'exists' and your argument seems to be that mental ac...

Which figure do you dispute?