The realist isn't making a claim about an object there. They are making a claim about logic. Stating that "objects are independent" is not an argument...
But that's not what the realist is asserting his position on. "Ordinary language" is not a popularity argument, but a logic one. It's to say: "If we a...
For the very reason that false beliefs depend on the independence of things. Take the cup in the cupboard. What is true if we are wrong about that? We...
For sure, but that is what gets you in a pickle-- if every object is recognised, then unknown objects are impossible. Every object is, by you own admi...
No, there might be unrecognised objects out there-- the claim not that any particular unknown object existed, but rather that they could exist. I'm sa...
I'm stating the premise that we can't describe or detail the objects we don't know, yes. There's certainly no outside evidence or "deriving" from anot...
No, Michael. I'm not. Logic shows that it being otherwise is a contradiction-- it would require all objects to be necessarily be known by a subject. T...
By our very inability to detail or describe objects we don't know. With logic we can tell there may be things we don't know about-- the presence of so...
The problem is it can only be effortless. If one gets caught thinking they need to get to "total awareness," then one is obsessing over "me" and it do...
By nothing. To exist is to be oneself, not some other means. A logical distinction which is given not by anything else, not by any idea about what is ...
I don't know, you seem to manage pretty well on your own. You never engage with criticism of Peirce, even with the people you don't have on ignore. Th...
I'm afraid you are too caught up in Peircean worship to pay attention to what I'm saying, but that's the usual practice for you. Peircean semiotics is...
The point is hierarchical organisation is a misapplication of logic to casualty. One which mistakenly views logical expressions (e.g. gravity, "laws o...
You've fallen into the substance dualism Spinoza refutes here. Humans don't have knowledge in two realms of modes. Some states of knowledge are not "b...
That's only human's particular interest and thought. How can you say for certain that other animals don't have a similar language you don't speak? Eve...
That view is a form of reductionism which treats all other lifeforms as "matter" or "energy" in comparison to humanity's Being. But what of the Being ...
I can't agree to that. It equivocates the being of the world with the being of the of our theories, treating the construction of our thoughts as the s...
The point is the world is a construction. At any given moment it is constituted by itself. Not only is human thinking historically situated, but so is...
Indeed, and that's the problem with "universal" as used by you and many others in this thread. The "universals" are suggested to meet the standard of ...
Make logic possible? How is that a coherent idea? Logic is necessary. With the universal there can be no question of whether “it is” or “is not.” Univ...
Being a metaphysical debate makes it the realm or philosophy, not physics. Physics will no doubt understand different forms in 400 years, just as it h...
You want Spinoza's Substance. Not a cause of state of the world, but rather a logical expression of all states. A God that doesn't exist. Apo's "Vaugn...
Because they don't believe the self matters unless saved by Jesus-- follow or you are worthless unrepentant sinner. Mariner had a great thread on the ...
Demonstrateably wrong. People have thought such things over history-- societies engulfed in the instability of revenge killings, society which scapego...
I expected as much, for the self is the most vile, worthless thing in according to the "religious" texts and ideas you suggest are the requirements fo...
To have a final state misreads the point. No-one has a final state. By death they are gone, before death they have not ended. So called "transcending ...
Logically, it makes no sense. Countless simple examples show it to be false. Would it be ethical to have an endless cycle of revenge attacks if most p...
Contrasted with unenlightened's reading, I can't help but feel there's a lot of Western individualism going in the responses here. Most seemed to have...
The act of burning the book is external too-- the obsession with burning all the unnecessary ideas. He's attached to externals either way. So do we pr...
I would enjoy it... if it were about an individual casting off a burden they didn't need. But that's closer to the angtheist's (or religious dogmatist...
The correct argument though, for our world is just one of many possible ones. We are just lucky it's the we live in rather than one of the countless p...
It's not about looking for evidence. Evidence itself is the point of contention. What exactly is evidence? The term specifies something specific: a pa...
It can actually, where the subjective is the objective, rather than caused or constrained by it. Predications work because, in the future, there is an...
Philosophy is not the absence of wisdom, it's the presence of wisdom. Thought and understanding which has been attained. Wisdom is gained precisely wh...
Because you would have everyone be "troubled," just so they could be rescued by the transcendent. I say that the world is meaningful, that it is imman...
"Purpose" in these contexts functions as a difference to ourselves. Supposedly, it exists above us and resolves our inherent inadequacy. To put it int...
Given that metaphysics are fictions, I'd say that Hegel, Schopenhauer, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Kant would agree that they don't even count theories to o...
That's actually pretty good example of what I mean. You press Nihilism into to every philosophical context. I give an argument about the falsehood of ...
Nope. Nietszche is still seeking the beyond. Nihilism is still there for him, to be overcome by power and greatness. He pines for God even as he destr...
If you are content to ignore all context, for sure. I mean where is classical liberalism if it does not care for how society treats people? Is it one-...
Far more than you suspect, I think. Slotting people matters because every individual is someone who occupies a place. Classical liberalism appeals to ...
Many would consider them part of the conservative team, yes. I'm not so sure I would call them conservative so readily because it doesn't fit their po...
Classical liberalism is sometimes economically conservative too. It's only progressive and emancipatory at certain points when it's demanded (e.g. soc...
In a certain sense, for sure. But being troubled is not the same as asking a question or understanding something. To be troubled in this way is not me...
I'd say it run deeper than just right-wing conservatives defending it. Classical liberalism is understood to be incapable of dealing with many issues ...
That literature, drama and art is actually a manifestation of the understanding the world is purposeful. People are driven to explore it because they ...
I'd say the point of such "purpose" is precisely that it is beyond the world. A meaning that goes unaffected by the flux in the world. The idea or val...
Not really. The transcendental is maintained all over the place within modernity. People are frequently against the insight that there is "no why" and...
In taking the following position Kant doesn't. He's still treating as if the is an "unfiltered" reality out there we can never access. What we filter ...
Far from moot, that's the very equivocation with states of consciousness I'm criticising. The separation between states means that not all them are ac...
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