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So are you saying that statements/propositions reflect facts, describe facts, mirror facts, etc? However, the statement itself is not "the fact?" "The...

I definitely wouldn't characterize the Golden Rule as an absolute. Some people really don't care what happens to themselves, for whatever reason or ca...

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. The three factors I pointed out are what make an immoral act objective, and not subjective. There is probably n...

Yes, I know, but that's not the point. The point is that when we say that people arrived simultaneously, we generally are not saying that it's an exac...

There are at least two ways in which we use the word simultaneous. I'll see two events happen and say that it occurred simultaneously, however, we kno...

Sorry Harry, maybe I didn't make myself clear. My point would be that you can experience change without any kind of measurement of change. For example...

Ya, I can agree with you on that, it seems reasonable enough. I wonder though if simultaneity is a necessary feature of time? My guess is that it's no...

As in change of thought, viz., moving from one thought to another.

Thanks, but can you have change apart from space?

Experiencing change is experiencing time - that's what it means to experience time. That's why I said earlier that change is analytic to time - you ca...

I didn't say, you said "...you can't experience change without measurement." I was simply adding to what you said.

There is no doubt that we do measure change, but there is also a sense where we don't measure anything, and yet we experience change. For example, I m...

You said "...if we did not perceive change in the world then we wouldn't have come up with this notion of a flow of time." My only point would be that...

What I'm saying is that the meaning of the concept of the predicate is included in the concept of the subject. For example, "All bachelors are unmarri...

I said just the opposite, namely, that change isn't isolated from time. Change is analytic to time.

Even if we existed as pure minds without physicality there would have to be change in some sense. For example, moving from one thought to another (pas...

Yes, we do perceive it, but there would be no perceiving without it.

Ya, it seems that time, at least to me, is logically impossible without change. Even to say that a universe would be empty without change is meaningle...

If you're new to philosophy you need to learn how to analyze arguments. If not, how will you know what arguments are any good? Also, you'll need to kn...

Well, I mean you can keep repeating yourself, but that doesn't mean you're correct.

I'm not talking about one mind. I'm talking about minds (plural) sharing a reality, as in the thought experiment above. By the way, thinking or though...

The point is to show that your awareness can be completely internal. One could even imagine, without contradiction, everything completely generated by...

I'm not sure I agree with this. I guess it depends on what you mean by external to thought. Let's consider a thought experiment. Let's suppose that th...

Since questions have become apparent in terms of how meaning emerges within language, I've decided to give a more in depth analysis of this idea in te...

How we use words tells us something about what we mean. My point is that it's not dependent on a dictionary or objects. It's dependent on the language...

Consider the following Harry: When we teach a child the use of certain words we sometimes do it by using the ostensive definition model, that is, by p...

Thanks Jupiter, I stopped posting in the Wittgenstein threads because I wasn't getting any responses, although that shouldn't really stop me, since mo...

I foresaw this in my argument look closer at the types of harm. If you have good reasons to cut the arm off, then obviously it's not immoral, which is...

Like I said, we're far apart, even your ideas of what Wittgenstein is saying in On Certainty.

My own view is that there is an essential property to an immoral act, and that property is harm. All immoral acts cause harm to the one committing the...

I definitely agree with this. Some religious people have bought into the idea that somehow right and wrong, moral and immoral cannot take root unless ...

I was just wondering because we're pretty far apart on some of this stuff, so I thought you may have been reading something other than what I was read...

But your replies don't to seem to fit with my understanding of the later W., and much of the reading I've done on W. Who are you reading? I haven't se...

The later Wittgenstein is not a logical atomist. I'll stick with his later philosophy when it comes to language, because, I believe, it clarifies ling...

In the Tractatus what Wittgenstein means by sign are 'perceptible sounds or inscriptions,' and symbols, are signs that have been projected onto the wo...

There is a lot of philosophy written in the name of Wittgenstein that's not really representative of his thoughts on language. I've done a lot of stud...

I'm sorry but you're way off on this. Read some Wittgenstein.

A new way of thinking about consciousness... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApXndYEpQhs

Is consciousness entirely physical... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApXndYEpQhs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eskWYOH-Oxs This is an interesting v...

This is my point, this idea, that all meaning requires something to be signified is just incorrect. Some things fall into this category but not all th...

Yes, if your view is that there is no afterlife (I'm not talking about religion here - just to be clear) and that this is all there is, then that chan...

The argument is a bit more nuanced than your interpretation. I'm not saying you don't feel pain. I'm saying that in terms of a higher level of reality...

Well, then you need to demonstrate that. I don't see how your argument works here.

I'll address both of these together. Basically you're argument is that since we refer to reality and mind as two separate things, then it doesn't foll...

I'm thinking of attending the conference on The Science of Consciousness in Tucson, AZ April 2-7. Those of you who are interested and can make it shou...

That would definitely suck, and I can understand why someone would want to change that outcome. My views on this are very unorthodox, because ultimate...

I'm thinking about attending a conference on The Science of Consciousness, which will be held on April 2-7, 2018 in Tucson, AZ. Those of you who are a...

Very interesting video by David Bohm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI66ZglzcO0

Getting back to the title of the post, what if everything is simply a construct of consciousness, then everything we're experiencing could be within t...

I agree with much of this Harry, and I agree that people make claims about reality thinking their claims are objective when they're not. I think what'...