“ Scientists have developed a way to scan the brain and investigate the brain states. They have performed an experiment where a person is asked to cho...
Would not Wittgenstein say that when you hit “bedrock” we are not talking about evidence and fact but acceptance and trust on what is presented. At so...
“The mythology may change back into a state of flux, the river-bed of thoughts may shift. But I distinguish between the movement of the waters on the ...
“We never encounter physical reality outside of our observations of it.” AF, MG and ET I have experience reality and I have made observations of this ...
What is interesting is even “purified” water is not 100%. And this is due to our limitations of purification and testing. Again, this shows the challe...
Although I do not know what is intended when one says “Nothing is necessary truth” Did not Quine suggest or say even logic could be revisable if our w...
Are there an practical consequences accepting “solipsism” is true vs it is not. I would venture to guess no one would do anything different in this wo...
I am merely providing a pragmatist approach to the concept of causality. If I place my hand near the fire and I get burned. I am going to use this ide...
Let us analyze this a bit. “1) You cannot apply our notions of causality beyond physical reality.” We don’t figure this out by experience. I don’t go ...
My Mom was named “Mary” from birth to death. Did we name one object here. If I took a picture of “Mary” when she was 1 day old, 20 years old, and 100 ...
“Go get me a cup of water” He gets a cup, turns the faucet on, and fills the cup with water. He seems confused and says to me “which is the water and ...
In my previous post, I described an imagined community of language users remarking to someone defending Kripke’s view in the following: “The communiti...
To further clarify may concern of such identity statements as “water is H2O”and saying “if such an identity statement is true, it is true in all possi...
I think I could round up 10 people and you would think you were talking with a computer. Than the test is not whether a computer can think like a huma...
Going back to Putnam’s support of Kripke from “The Meaning of Meaning” in which he says “In fact, once we have discovered the nature of water, nothing...
Let me try another way to show the claim that “water is H2O” is a posteriori necessary truth is problematic. First, it seems to me, that if we learn t...
The other issue I have with Kripke is the following: In Naming and Necessity, Mr. Kripke says something interesting, “If there were a substance, even ...
Kripke, N&N says the following “I have the table in my hands I can point to it, and when I ask whether it might have been in another room, I am talkin...
1. I agree with your “Mom” example in this respect: If I point to a glass of liquid and say “water”, “H2O”, “agua”, I may be showing I understand thes...
Hilary Putnam says something interesting in “From The Meaning of Meaning” in which he says “In fact, once we have discovered the nature of water, noth...
There is no need to argue here, I think. If biology determines us, than it follows that biology determines that I think “I have free will” or “I am de...
Reminds me of the philosophical puzzle “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” I wonder if a virtual part...
“Rather, he talks about a historical chain of reference transmission, and he is pretty clear about the mechanism by which the reference is historicall...
The first alien world I visit the population has the same symbolism for math, develop the same proofs, and apply the math the same way. I think to mys...
. . + : = . : If one invented symbolism “2 + 2 = 4” for the above reality, they may not find much success. However, “2 + 2 = 3” might have some use. M...
I have invented the following symbolism “1 + 1 = 2” and I discover that it has many applications in life. What else is there say? Do we add anything o...
I could imagine a life form similar to us but only sees the differences in objects and thus has a primitive concept of “one”. Not sure how successful ...
If we said mathematicians neither discover or invent but act mathematically in a harmonized way, would this suffice to give it the metaphysical founda...
How to verify a causeless effect, consider the following: 1. Some large stone is at rest, and at the very same time one person on one side of the ston...
Theists, atheists, and agnostics are trapped in a ill conceived language game. They long for the comfort of language about every day objects that thei...
Would Kripke say a proper name refers to the same person in all possible worlds or a proper name is stipulated in all possible worlds? I think the lat...
In each scenario, the same object walks into the room. 1. An object walks in a room and I name this object “Gell Mann.” “Gell Mann” could not have bee...
Though not know as “Common Sense” philosophers I believe these two quotes show a particular compatibility between two lines of their thought: 1. “Don’...
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