Educated and nuanced is how they see themselves, but then they repeat almost verbatim the propaganda they’ve been spoon fed for the last few years, as...
You also said that the nervous system was the medium. So if both perceiver and nervous systems (in general) is the medium, then I’m left to assume ner...
I don’t think it can be established that a perceiver is both perceiver and perceived. I suspect that, given the indirectness theory, that you would sa...
I’m not so sure. I cannot see the difference between the body and a bodily process. When I point to either, or both, I am pointing at the same thing. ...
Why do you think other adults require your brand of protection, unless you thought they were children? You advise taking their weapons and then turn a...
I get that. But we are perceiving light, not electrical signals. We are our eyes, the signals, the brain, etc. We cannot be both perceivers and medium...
I ask because nothing in biology shows that we are viewing our own eyes. Rather, eyes are included in the act of perceiving, as necessary components o...
I know how eyes work. The question is: how are you able to view the medium of your eyes? Usually we use our eyes to view mediums, such as light for ex...
One problem I have with your obvious and unmistakeable example is routine biology. One usually uses her eyes to view mediums. So how does one view the...
He makes the point clear enough. It is a “fatal enterprise” to use the word in the way Ayer does. If us ordinary people need our hand held in what the...
That’s a good guess. The indirect realist position presents itself with a problem of self-hood, among others. It implies the perceiver is like a littl...
He quibbles throughout, but then says that, according to the argument from illusion, sense-data is perceived directly. So whether we are perceiving a ...
It’s not only the leaf, but also the binoculars, the window, the garden, the chemicals and particulates in the air that you are seeing. To the questio...
To be fair, as Austin intimates somewhere, all perception is direct. It’s just a question of what it is we are perceiving. In my opinion there are onl...
Given his ability (or lack thereof) I can’t say Biden is really running the country. He even needs direction on which side he should leave the stage. ...
The “directness” describes the relationship between perceiver and perceived. By “direct” one means there is no causal intermediary between the perceiv...
I would propose that a state is successful wherever it is considered sovereign, while the people who it nominally represent remain dependent and subor...
I think Austin is wrong to quibble about the terms “direct” and “indirect”, because both succinctly describe the relationship between perceiver and pe...
I think you’re right about that. I would go further and say the nation-state is just a repurposing of the Ancien Régime, not a repudiation, and the id...
Saying that one can feel tactile sensations is a bit like saying that one can feel feelings or sense sensations. It’s a kind of question-begging. It a...
The problem with the assumption that people are pushed around by “narratives” is that it should be just as easy to push them in the opposite direction...
I just mean we literally don't have them, ontologically speaking, that we are not in fact considering "conscious experience" as such, we are only cons...
The difference between the scenario of vibrations enveloping you and vibrations enveloping a rock are the objects involved. The same difference occurs...
It's called government. Foreign aid is in the billions of dollars for most Western nations. Whenever the unfortunate ask for a dollar, you tell them t...
Sorry for the silly jargon. By ontology I mean our beliefs about "the nature of being" or "that which is". It's like a list of that which exists, and ...
Things act; acts are not themselves things. We can see this empirically. Though we treat acts as things in language (and it’s extremely difficult to d...
From what I’ve read he leans towards “property dualism”. I’m not sure what his views are these days. But yes the language used to abstract the descrip...
Experience is an act, not a thing. So while people are conscious and do experience, they do not have conscious experiences. There is no need to invoke...
Exactly right. The argument makes two assumptions: there is a property of persons called “conscious experience”, and that we can conceive of beings id...
Alcohol is a link to Eros. It is a component of culture, spirituality, celebration, and general merrymaking. So though it could be used to deny realit...
Thanks for taking the time to explain. Myself, I do not think there are any insurmountable problems regarding the body, the self, and personhood. I sa...
I think retribution is an appropriate act where injustice is concerned, because only then can justice be maintained. The problems occur invariably whe...
The idea that we exist beyond the surface of our body is absurd, so I was hoping you might expand on this point. We can explain how technology allows ...
It’s not surprising that you’d blame Trump for someone else’s crime, but that’s only because it’s obvious your sense of justice has been perverted a l...
Most say Biden has acted either illegally or unethically in his son’s business dealings The idea of impeaching the corrupt Joe Biden is wrong, in my o...
You can't disparage a prosecutor in the United States of America, I guess. The mistake is to think that Trump's words, and not their own actions, "imp...
I’m not answering whether they deserve it or not. I’m saying they do not deserve it, therefor it is immoral to bomb them. It is not moral to bomb peop...
They have done nothing to deserve it. Since they have done nothing to deserve it, any conscience or sense of justice disappears and is superseded by m...
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