Richard B

Correction from the “public realm”…thats how it should be

This should not be a surprise. They ask us to retreat into our inner private sanctum with the hope of emerging with all sorts of revelations to be sha...

Ok, why are you arguing when you should be bracketing. Why are you trying to convince someone, when you should be detecting the pure presence of pheno...

Thanks for minimizing the philosophical jargon, this helps to improve the dialogue. Not exactly, another human being is part of this world and they ca...

Please sing with me: I have decided to follow Husserl; I have decided to follow Husserl; I have decided to follow Husserl; No turning back, no turning...

Not exactly, from “On What There Is” he says “Here we have two competing conceptual schemes, a phenomenalistic one and a physicalistic one. Which shou...

What can I say but that: This passage has an ineffable quality of sophistry Thank you for the list!

Furthermore, in one of my references on philosophy, they indicated that Husserl, toward the end of his career, wrote that the dream of putting the sci...

Indeed. I am open to evolving language; however, pragmatism, parsimony, and a sprinkle of aesthetics will put pressure on what is accepted.

Please list the presuppositions that I have to consciously dismiss that give me the familiarity of the world in a perceptual event.

This may be limited characterization of Anglo American philosophy. W. V. Quine, one who belongs is such a tradition, said the following in Word and Ob...

Are you making a claim here? Something that is either true or false. But it can't be either by the very way it is defined. If someone's experience is ...

No wonder anglo American philosophy is such a dead end, so busy trying to squeeze meaning our of ordinary language. Well, the world is not ordinary at...

As Frank Ramsey so humorous said of early Wittgenstein, "What we can't say we can't say, and we can't whistle it either." I like to consider how later...

Why metaphysics is not legitimate? Spendings time dwelling on whether “unactualizable impossibles” exist or not.

There is a world not external to anything nor internal to anything.

The study of physics, energy, mass, space and time, is how we make prediction of the objects around us. Not the study of mental phenomena.

Ultimately, Hume is trying to convince his perceptions that they are perception. And this demonstrates the absurdity of his position. Our starting pos...

The problem with this conclusion starts before we even need to analyzed these theorems. Specifically, how do we define the input to show a particular ...

Alternately, a believer might just say that it not “divine truth” that get us in trouble but the fallible human that gets confused. And the main point...

Yeah, and you can see the same kind of discussions about quantum mechanics and what is the “true” interpretation, or is “realism”or “idealism” and whi...

Here is another thought: There is no end at all for the self since there is no self that ends. That at each moment the individual dies because they ch...

To say “This rock exists in location X” is saying something about the rock and its location. Can this same something be said of the rock if it is move...

I think all that was said was that you exist in 2022.

It is true, that I am confused - like if someone ask me how many touchdowns were scored in a baseball game. And “This rock exist” does not do the same...

To say “This rock exists” is saying something about the rock. But have I said anything less if I just pointed to the rock and said “This rock”. And wo...

I find a watch upon the ground, and it so finely tuned of an object to make such precise movements, there must be a maker of such exquisite craftsmans...

Maybe we can start by agreeing that the ideas of “material object” and “sense data” are theoretical constructs. But how did we come about to learn suc...

I think we both would agree that Pragmatism is consider a philosophical approach that was expressed in the 19th and 20th century by philosophers such ...

This is strange statement that what matters is whether or not things independently have shapes….that they are perceived to have. Why should one worry ...

But “when” is space, so to speak? Position A and position B can be determined be measuring the distance between the two points based on some establish...

"Common Kind Claim: veridical, illusory, and hallucinatory experiences (as) of an F are fundamentally the same; they form a common kind. Thus, a verid...

As I mentioned before, the duck/rabbit image is the same sense data, yet we can report out there is an image of a duck or there is an image of a rabbi...

This is a very difficult debate when one does not understand what someone means by saying “direct”. From what I can tell, if it has to do with the fiv...

Before evidence and reason, we need to understand what we are talking about. The private world of sense data has some problems getting us to this poin...

Because they prefer the certainty of appearances and/or immediate sense data of their private world.

Let's consider a robot that can pick out objects and report out the name of such objects similar to how humans would perform. We place an orange and t...

I would not agree these ever could be the same kind of experiential event. An hallucinatory experience is private to the subject. There is no verifica...

Just because we can imagine something does not mean it is possible. Lets suppose one day a scientist demonstrates that the "brain-in-a-vat" is not pos...

What is interesting is why does he think it follows from his analysis. It does not look like it logically follows, nor can it follow empirically.

Indeed, Russell, in The Problems of Philosophy, says the following after talking about difficulties that arises with his analysis of senses: “Thus it ...

Lets give an example how you would directly experience a tree. Lets say you would like to determine if it is a tree and what type. The first thing you...

All this shows is that we need to do a little more investigation into whether it is a real tree or a fake tree. However, it does not show we lack dire...

Ok, your eyes don't see sense data of trees, they see trees. You mind constructs the idea of sense data of trees. This seems consistent with your view...

Ok, but this does prove there is anything we don't have access to when it comes to “the table”. Like my example with car painted in ChromaFlair, the c...

Let try the link again https://images.app.goo.gl/HXd9kw7vuDCTQ1Tq9

Is this quite a reach? https://images.app.goo.gl/HXd9kw7vuDCTQ1Tq9 I think we would both agree that the sense data is exactly the same whether you cal...

And I think there are two problems with this view: 1. Difficult to understand how a scientist would observe a subject’s phenomenal character of experi...

Lets look at another example typically given to say that we are only sure or our sense data but not the thing-in-itself. Take a table in the middle of...

Please explain what direct access means. What is an example of having direct access? If we want to confirm “Yes, we have direct access” don't we need ...