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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot The Greeks had a word for those who consistently engaged in fallacy, and it wasn’t “philosopher”.

Thanks for the input. But the premise of “doing things with words” still stands out as mistaken wherever it is mostly focused on the so-called acts of...

That’s one part of it, yes. But we also touch and taste things, and so on, so we need not limit our relations to other things to just the light alone.

It just means there are no intervening factors when it comes to perceiving the rest of the world, or that perceiving the rest of the world is not indi...

Good stuff. Then we share common grounds. Is the variation in colors a direct perception of internal qualia, and not a direct perception of external o...

For all you know our color wheels could be exactly alike, and thousands of years of evolution might have produced an anatomy very similar, with only s...

Which features would those be?

I’d be interested to read a direct realist using such a phrase in their arguments, if you know of any quotes. I guess we can say the indirect realist ...

I was under the impression, perhaps mistaken, that the direct realist believes he views the external world directly, while the indirect realist views ...

Where does the perceiver end and the mediator begin, in your analysis? In my thinking the perceiver and your mediator, the visual system, are one and ...

He led the Nazi party, which is responsible for millions of murders and war crimes. One doesn’t need to believe speech causes harm and pushes people t...

I suppose my confusion lies in whether the “representation” is a product of the perceiver or the percieved. Are we viewing mars indirectly via the lig...

I did something with a keyboard. I can watch myself do this. Rather, you did something with the words. You read them. This appears to be the only thin...

I’ve always understood the indirect realist to say they directly perceive sense-data, representations, perceptions and the like.

The “directness” of perception refers to the relationship between the perceiver and the perceived. The contact between the perceiver and the perceived...

I would argue against the last one because I performed no action worthy of the verb, and no one in particular was the direct object of my act. I simpl...

John will perform the act of smelling and report that he does indeed smell it. We can watch smoke go into John’s nose. What more do we need? You see a...

A subject (you) smells some direct object (smoke, for instance). The word refers to an external object. If you were to point at that object you would ...

I agree with a lot of what you said there about the over-concern with the language. But what it is one is seeing, and what object in the world that no...

“Directly acquainted with perceptions” seems a roundabout way of saying we perceive perceptions, which is to assume the initial point. We cannot perce...

The doctrine I am speaking about is your defense that words are responsible for a person’s actions. If the words are responsible, how can the officer ...

The mechanical act is not identical because the act of writing B takes longer than writing A. More letters and punctuation is used. It’s becoming more...

People communicate with each other. If you’ve learned a language you can understand the language and words coming out of someone’s mouth. What causes ...

I performed one visible act, did one measurable thing, but you saw two visible acts, or me doing two visible things. So did I really perform two acts,...

That’s right, because the teller could also do otherwise. The teller could also not give the money, trip the alarm, run away, or perform any number of...

The agent can affect the world and be affected by the world by virtue of him being embedded within it. But the genesis of all his acts occur within hi...

If you're not asking a question when you ask "Any advice?"then what are you doing? Are you quoting a question? Maybe you're pretending to ask a questi...

It is indistinguishable from the locutionary act. So which one is it? Either there is one act, or two acts and one is invisible. Your response is no a...

Yes, words cannot animate other human beings, and to believe they can is magical thinking. All causes, responses, motivating factors, knowledge and un...

Speech act theory proposes that language is often used to perform acts, like getting married, making promises, or christening a boat. According to Aus...

I’m drawing the opposite conclusion: that the teller is responsible for her emotions. I’m trying to understand why you think the robber is responsible...

So he is responsible for making her calm?

The teller is the one who becomes frightened, or calm, or whatever the case may be. What she is frightened at, or terrified of, is the robber and the ...

If he didn’t hand over the money, is that the responsibility of the robber? Maybe he just wasn’t good enough at frightening people? The teller handed ...

The consequences of having a gun pointed at your head could be fatal. Of course one would be terrified, at least if he knew what a gun was. You are re...

What terrifies you may not terrify me. The difference is not in the sight, but in he who beholds it. The question is not "why is that sight terrifying...

Anyone who supports state power, aggrandizes it with their votes, up until and including signing their name on the dotted line come election time, leg...

One can try to leave the matter ambiguous, I suppose. There is no "universal force", but particular beings who have come to understood what a the bang...

That’s a good point, thanks. Though I would argue all acts are bodily, a central problem would be what constitutes an “act”. To Austin, promising is a...

It’s a play on the title of JL Austin’s “How to do thing with Words”. Over your head and below your knees, I suppose.

It’s like an idea or an argument. If you can read you can usually understand what someone is trying to say.

Your point isn’t clear from the letters you put on the screen.

That’s what I am genuinely unclear about. Are they talking about acts I am doing, or about acts somehow derived from the words I am writing? Am I or i...

Yes, one act. I wrote. Speech act theory proposes multiple other acts, does it not?

I didn’t just make marks on a screen. I wrote purposefully with the intent to express my views and questions. Is there some other act occurring here?

It is a bit of writing we call a question. The act of writing produces the question. The act is the writing. Or are more acts occurring?

I asked questions and made statements, yes. However, writing is the full extent of my actions here. Have I performed any other act?

Clearly I have made many acts of speech. I wrote words. As far as I know this is the extent of my acts, more or less.

My point was that he was ensuring the law was faithfully executed, which was his job, not that he was being charged with state crimes. https://www.fbi...

Then it's good thing you are nowhere near a jury. Why would anyone convict Trump for a phone call in which he is taking care that the laws of the land...