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Depends on how far one wants to obfuscate the relationship between word and meaning. If one considers basketballs as an exemplar of existence, then of...

On the one hand, fields are real and modeled mathematically: "The fact that the electromagnetic field can possess momentum and energy makes it very re...

I see some logic in that, insofar as we do not mentally operate in the same terms we prescribe to our composite elements as the means for them to phys...

Oh, maaannn.....this isn’t the ol’ “we’re all stardust” argument, is it? Say it isn’t so, Mr. Bill!!! Nahhhh....I wouldn’t go so far as to say conscio...

I’ll go with the former, indifferent cosmic drama. Nice wordsmithing, by the way. I guess I should say I don’t consider myself anything all that speci...

Oh fercrissakes, no I do not. I don’t give a crap how existence should be defined, in order to show the concept “existence” as it is already defined, ...

Good point, although I would add that a priori knowledge is not necessarily tautological. That is, synthetic judgements afford knowledge a priori, but...

You: Existence of experience is what defines the difference between conscious and unconscious human Me: Experience is what defines the difference betw...

I’m assuming the comment I was responding to implied that experience has some kind of existence. In the proposition, the logical judgement, “experienc...

So you’re asking: .......how I would know the thing of your experience exists...... (By experiencing that thing myself, which makes no promise on agre...

Granted, but still raises the question.....why would we care about what we are not? Existential Phenomenology: what academics do now, because Kant did...

If you insist, so be it.

I don’t think so. All I was asked was...... ......and the message was merely informing me he won the lottery. I wasn’t asked to determine an answer ba...

Good.

We could, and most likely would. But there was a question asked, for which an answer is called.

Probability of 1 is certainty. Only he has the certainty, thus only he knows he won or is lying about winning. If he just tells me he won, I do not ha...

Sure we can; he is lying or he isn’t lying. No such thing as a partial lie. The probability is exactly .5. As to whether I’d believe him, I guess I wo...

Whoa, hold on there, mon ami. I’m arguing the logical impossibility angle. You started this free-for-all by claiming....and I quote...”I am both drivi...

As well it should be, dammit!!!! A guy is dealt twenty cards, the probability of him getting those specific twenty cards is exactly 1!!!! It is absolu...

Hmmmm......So instead of splitting semantic hairs, we have successfully compounded propositional hairs. Be that as it may, you’ve deduced the correct ...

To answer the question, you don’t the thread. All the context you need is given.

Yeah, that is a common problem. But what about this, and pardon me, everybody, for stealing from another thread: “When someone shuffles a deck of card...

No. The probability is exactly 1. It is impossible to get any other cards except those first twenty you were dealt. The probability of getting specifi...

Ok. Driving but not driving is very much an argumentative improvement over driving and not driving. ———————— True enough, but one doesn't have to know...

OK, fine. If you’re not driving and your subconscious is, then it follows necessarily the dichotomy (I am both driving and not driving) is false, beca...

That’s one aspect of duality, yes. Feelings are not cognitions, but cognitions arise from rational thought. Ergo, rational thought and feelings sugges...

Ahhh....really? So you intend a falsification of A = A, insofar as some occasions permit A = not-A? I submit that if you’re daydreaming you’re not dri...

Yes indeed. Just as Kantian noumena requires a sense of intuition not belonging to us, so too does map/territory infinite accuracy require a comprehen...

You’re correct, of course. (I fixed it) We can’t actually prove anything, given the singular nature of our objective reality. I mean.....what do we co...

Yeah, I get it. I read Tegmark, 2007, when it first came out, where he argues, “....that, with a sufficiently broad definition of mathematical structu...

Lot of stuff in there, all predicated on the possibility of a 1:1 representation/existence correspondence. Disregarding the logical impossibility of p...

Yes, but it doesn’t have to. A priori truths are proved by pure logic (transcendental logic from one methodology), but a posteriori truths are proved ...

While I agree Nature has its dynamic procedures independent of our understanding, it is we that legislate the principles for them, as you say.... .......

“...There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement...”, spoken by Al Michelson, 1894, who...

Agreed. Humans: in particulars the more they differ, universally the more they remain the same. ———————- Nothing against iep, but that is one LOADED a...

Absolutely. The argument sustaining those is also the paradigm shift in epistemological philosophy. I don’t think anyone with a half-metaphysical brai...

Do you think the atman is supposed to represent what we would call consciousness, even if it is called the Self? We use ego to represent consciousness...

I, for instance, as the creator of half a communication, become immediately irrelevant with respect to you, for instance, as the receiver of that half...

Good. All we are allowed to talk about, with respect to experience, are the objects in the contents of it; experience is always of phenomena, because ...

There isn’t a “subject of experience”, per se, but only the representation of an inherent, dedicated, human capacity, which each your propositions hav...

Is this to suggest dualism got something right as the exception to the rule that is usually doesn’t?

Concepts exist in a system, yes. But the system is (mostly) used to make sense of the world, so to say relying on one member of the system to make sen...

Interesting passage. I can see the development of subsequent philosophies from it. But still, how closely did Thomist epistemology follow Platonic? We...

I‘ll be the first to say I guess I don’t get it after all. You said logical principles were higher reality objects of the mind. I said later philosoph...

That’s how I understand it as well, in Platonism. Enlightenment philosophy subsequently dropped objects of mind down a peg or two, making them equal i...

I won’t fight over that. Intersubjective still leaves concepts as purely subjective constructs with possibly real objects which conform to them, which...

Substitute any empirical unity. All trees are the unity of trees, but the unity of trees doesn’t explain why some are hardwoods and some are soft, som...

I don’t want to go too far afield here; it’s Tim’s barndance after all, and I’m not qualified to speak Plato or Platonic ideals. While I didn’t dig an...

Agreed, without equivocation or amendment. My rendering of concepts is not objective hence private, your rendering of formal concepts is, in a sense, ...

Thanks. The main reason for my comments, I guess, is your McDowell passage, which I find agreeable, followed by the saying of things seemingly diametr...