Yes, like I mentioned, if we both were standing in front of a tree, I am directly experiencing you looking at a tree, I don’t directly experience your...
I believe you would say that we do not directly experience electrons and proton but only indirectly. If I follow your views, I believe you will also n...
Lets say we both are standing in front of a tree. I look at you and see you directly looking at and experiencing a tree. I don’t see you directly expe...
“We directly experience the idea of a tree and indirectly experience the tree as a physical object.” Lets re-word this a bit and say: we directly expe...
From John Searle’s “Seeing Things as They Are” “A mistake of nearly as great a magnitude overwhelmed our tradition in the 17th century and after, and ...
A is A is kind of boring, but it gets a little more interesting when we think about such things as Water is H2O George Washington is (fill in your des...
“My view is that ideas already exist in the mindscape, just as trees exist in the landscape. Seeing a pair of apples may awaken our mind to the idea o...
“Suppose you see a hurricane on TV. You directly experience the TV's light and sound; you indirectly experience the hurricane. Similarly, you indirect...
“Our five physical senses limit us to experiencing sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell. So, we don’t directly experience concrete objects. (I have n...
Physical objects and Abstract objects, what do these two things have in common that we want to call them objects? A shared essence or some family rese...
I like to think this argument is successful at proving its idea, however, what we are left with is a rather shallow and dull view of existence. The co...
Yes “someone can believe something that has been proven false”. Here is the proof: I believe “someone can believe something that has been proven false...
“Water” does not have an essence but “H2O” does have an essence. Both are concepts and both can refer. And both could be used interchangeably in many ...
“I can as a philosopher talk about mathematics because I will only deal with puzzles which arise from the words of our ordinary everyday language, suc...
I thought this quote from Daniel Dennett might be useful and somewhat amusing for the current discussion at hand: “Happily, in those days before tape ...
I believe Wittgenstein was trying to convince Turing of the following: 1. If you arrive at a contradiction the result would be inaction 2. If a bridge...
Recognition of evil comes before knowledge and belief of evil. First, we need a group of human beings to experience and react to situations they would...
I think a simple passage from Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations can be a reply to the sentiment being explored in this discussion: “71. One ...
So, we give a “rigorous” definition of reality. Some things are excluded and some things included to our liking. I suppose someone can come along and ...
Ok, I am not my body. Let us say I am just a sum total of all experiences up to some point time. The brain is just the collector, organizer, and repos...
Bob: Hey that was a great idea, where did you come up with that? Mary: When I was studying Philosophy at the University of Sunset. Therefore, in this ...
“To others I am a part of their objective observable universe just as a chair or the sky is. I am outside of them. They cannot prove that I’m aware an...
“Perhaps while we’re asleep we first think of a cool sequence of events and then forget the order so that we can visually re-enact it. Then our subcon...
Consider this thought experiment how such thinking could be problematic about “moods”. Let us say we hooked up a device to someone and asked the subje...
“In the laboratory, when subjected to an electric current, for example, someone says with his eyes shut “I am moving my arm up and down” though his ar...
“When people talk about the possibility of foreknowledge of the future they always forget the fact of the prediction of one’s own voluntary movements....
I think it worth considering what Wittgenstein said in his later philosophy in Philosophical Investigations: “Suppose everyone had a box with somethin...
So, if I understand this correctly, if we can’t prove without “perfect” accuracy the outcome of some predicted event, this is evidence the world is no...
I guess the mind is not “arbitrary and whimsical in nature” when we determine the physical structures we observed so we can make the claim “the mind i...
This is a fascinating claim, "Our power is limited in this world whether it's real or not". From an anti-realist perspective, this claim does not make...
“If you look at a photograph of people, houses and trees, you do not feel the lack of the third dimension in it . We should not find it easy to descri...
“ We can describe our thoughts through language but some of the experience of emotions are not readily describable.” The first part of the sentence so...
What are these kind of paradoxes suppose show us? 1. That something is dubious about reality because the logic is sound. 2. That something is dubious ...
“It seems to me that they can if beliefs or the forming of beliefs take the form of brain states or changes in the structure of the brain, but I’m not...
“when you look at a star, you are actually seeing what it looked like years ago. It is entirely possible that some of the stars you see tonight do not...
“The starlight we see are light years away. This means we’re not seeing the real stars as such but a perception of them as they were years ago.” This ...
“The third world breathes our air tomorrow We live on the time we borrow In our world there's no time for sorrow In their world there is no tomorrow O...
The choice between “realism” and “anti-realism” should be decided based on ethical and/or practical consideration rather than some decision of the ver...
Wittgenstein wrote this in his last section Philosophical Investigations “The confusion and barrenness of psychology is not to be explained by calling...
“Suppose everyone had a box with something in it: we call it a “beetle”. No one can look into anyone else’s box, and everyone says he knows what a bee...
“It's a subject we rarely mention But when we do we have this little invention By pretending they're a different world from me I show my responsibilit...
Some thoughts: Words like “God”, “Space”, or “Time” are concepts that have some use for people. They can accept the use and go along with its implicat...
I would recommend John R. Searle “Seeing Things as They Are: A Theory of Perception”. This book will provide an alternative view that it is not all in...
"God talk is a Platonic discussion, interesting but useless." Similar to how some Mathematicians talk about the existence of abstract object and the b...
2. “There is a possible world in which god does not exist.” But this contradicts the concept of God: “a necessary being who exist in ever possible wor...
First let us assume determinism is correct, consider the following: 1. Individual A says “I have free will.” 2. Individual B says “We don't have free ...
“4. Therefore you don't know that you are now sitting at a computer/phone screen.” I learned how to sit, recognize a computer, and type out these word...
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