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The refusal of Westerners to follow so-called Western values and the hypocrisy that results in their behavior isn't much an argument against the value...

I have no problem understanding the argument, only the entities we’re dealing with. And that the indirect realist cannot point to any of these entitie...

I don’t think I’ve misinterpreted anything. As I’ve argued we’re just multiplying nouns at this point, and in a question-begging fashion. Now it’s a p...

"We identified evidence that the president willfully retained classified materials after the end of his vice presidency when he was a private citizen....

I'm not claiming anyone claims such a thing. I'm claiming our senses point outward, not that indirect realists claim they point inward. The point is: ...

The senses point outward and interact with the mediums found in the rest of the world. Since they point outward, you cannot see into your own skull, f...

Questions arise regarding all the nouns of indirect realism, what places and things the indirect realist believes he is interacting with when it comes...

Good musings. On an empirical analysis, from what I’ve gathered the only direct perceptual relationship one can have with the world is with himself. M...

It’s more of a pluralist or nominalist account of communication, and in my mind possesses less self-interest and solipsism than your own theory becaus...

Absolutely, and idealism in general. Maybe it is inappropriate to question motives, but the question-begging character of each entity, substance, and ...

I would argue that states arise out of conquest, confiscation, expropriation, and the introduction of a slave economy. The Genealogy of Morality would...

We can take any adjective describing human bodies and apply the suffix “-ness” to it and create a quality out of thin air. But because a human can be ...

We’ve looked in all the objects involved and have found no thing nor substance worthy of the noun-phrase. So perhaps it’s all a fiction after all. In ...

Right, the variation probably has something to do with the senses of the perceiver, perhaps his tongue. But the 70% of people with those tongues know ...

70% of the time, sure. 30% of the time, not so much. Do bitter representations or sense-data have phenylthiocarbamide in them?

Yeah, any statement would be just fine in my view. Would you say something of the object makes it appear green, or makes you perceive it as being gree...

I would. You can contrast the object with other objects of similar or dissimilar colors. So it’s clear to me that something of that object makes it gr...

Now I’m not too sure. I’ll defer to your judgement. At any rate, rather than litigate sentences how about we examine the evidence regarding green obje...

Well sure, one implies a little more certainty than the other. A little more examination ought to suffice and relieve any doubts. What is it about the...

I don’t think so.

Yes, the term “green” describes the object. We know the object is green because that’s what it looks like. I can point to green objects as opposed to ...

Many millennia of being embedded in the world have granted sapiens in particular, and biological sight in general, the ability to receive information ...

It works when there is no longer a republic, nor any people or institution which claims rights and dominion over the lands and the people that reside ...

I don’t have much to add, but it’s reminiscent of Orwell’s essay “Through a glass, rosily”. Journalism today is the suppression and distortion of know...

The populist narrative wouldn’t be required if the state was truly democratic. Instead we get a representative government and a vast administrative st...

I’m not sure how something can in fact be orange but appears blue, so I cannot suppose it. I would argue you have to experience the world as it is or ...

Thanks for the explication. I would add that the meaning is found in the people of your examples, and that any possible meanings of signs is in direct...

Some examples given take the distance between the perceiver and perceived to be evidence of indirect realism. With this they can extend the causal cha...

The question arises, what is the “self”? I have to ask because you place it behind “multiple domains” of the self itself, for instance the senses, ner...

You quoted the concurring opinion, yet said “the majority said”. Maybe quote what they actually did say, or properly quote who you were trying to quot...

You're quoting the concurring opinion. The majority said: They go on to show that it was, in fact and in practice, Congress who has historically enfor...

Repeat all you want. Who cares? The majority mentioned the laws already in place to jail and disqualify insurrectionists from office. Maybe try there....

There is one issue brought before the court and decided by the court. Per Curium. 9-0. And that was whether those who tried to remove Trump from the b...

“The case hints…”. Sorry, but the case is pretty clear. Per Curium: (bold added) Concurring opinion of the three justices: The anti-constitutional, il...

Well, it was a 9/0 slap-down of the unconstitutional and tyrannical attempts to keep Trump off the ballot. Thankfully the justices can all read the pl...

Quite well. Now I concern myself with the rights of flesh-and-blood human beings rather than for the rights of the abstract concepts in my head.

I hope you realize one needn’t agree with everything an author believes in order to agree on a few points. I thought Marx’s along with Hobsbawm’s acco...

Clearly consciousness extends beyond the brain due to the simple fact that brains aren’t conscious. Consciousness is a direct one-to-one ratio with co...

You’ve convinced me, ssu. It clearly happened because of population growth, which would have followed rather than proceeded the rise in industrial emp...

It wasn’t until the 17th century that enclosures became acts of parliament in England. So What did Marx write that was wrong? I’d be interested to hea...

It isn’t trivial if perception involves the body. If perception involves the senses, and the senses are in direct contact with the rest of the world, ...

I’m surprised you’ve never heard it, given your education. Is it your opinion that the enclosures movement had no effect?

It’s out of Marx’s Das Kapital. The Enclosure’s Acts expropriated the land from the peasantry, creating out of a class of peasant proprietors a class ...

So long as the environment is presented under the conditions of voluntary cooperation there ought to be no problem. Voluntary conditions makes of empl...

I don’t see how the term applies to anything else.

I just wanted to add another question (if you would allow it) regarding the so-called “content” of thought. Can the content only ever describe the thi...

I argued that the best technology can do is mimic the biological activity. This is for two reasons: technology isn’t biological, so mimicry is all it ...

Anything that isn't human cannot do what a human does by virtue of it not being a human being. Whatever sapiens build in their pursuit of artificialit...

not my fault. You elicited the response. The force and content animated me.

Yes, private persons, the unskilled, laymen and those unconcerned with the state are all idiots. There’s that concern for “our commonality” revealing ...