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Materialism to me has only one consequence, objective reality, meaning agreement between subjects about the nature of compelling external forces. Ther...

If you justify this presupposition as being evident to you, then there is little that can be said about it. It is not evident to me. Nothing wrong alt...

If there is just one mind, what would draw a boundary between the mind simply being compelled by unnatural forces and the mind being part of a physica...

The problem is that if you intend to include free will, B must also affect A. We need to corroborate this, and if we cannot perceive it, then it appea...

Solipsism denies an objective world. Materialism and dualism both require it. It can have implication about the mind, because it spiritualizes matter,...

I ask many times - why dualism and not solipsism, pantheism or panpsychism? You can have shapes and colors (which are just relations of some kind, not...

Some variants of dualism might be ontically distinguishable, albeit not in a way that can be corroborated. The differences might not be detectable on ...

I would claim that if a proposition is not elaborated in terms that can be experienced, witnessed somehow, we cannot truly call it a hypothesis. I con...

The point was that you appear to think of two different references "the feeling of love" and "the synaptic activation of love" as referring to differe...

Having the least amount of presuppositions is the most rationally correct approach, indeed. But it is also the least useful in practice, and philosoph...

You could say we all are oversimplifying the brain function, and that neuroscientists are incapable of capturing enough signals therein. You could rig...

I am not rejecting it whatsoever, of course. I consider it, in its strongest form as technically irrefutable and rejecting it is as fallacious as conj...

I think the hypothesis doubts the notions of objective empirical world and our community. It is indeed a hypothesis, but for some it is with a high va...

I am an armchair philosopher as you remarked in your original post. A software guy by education and a confused person by vocation. My opinions are not...

I generally steer away from metaphysical discussions. I made entry in the forum with a question of some such nature, but there are certain things that...

I am probably being technical, but is this dualism or idealism? I thought so far that the whole point of dualism is that the physical world is tempora...

I wanted to respond to some questions here, about the presuppositions of science (QM for example). Since I lack the command of written English necessa...

In all honesty, I am challenged to define my take on pragmatics. Contrasting it with correspondence truth, I would say that the latter is about knowin...

You exclude art and ethics, which may mean that you intend something truly uncomprehensible by this term. How do you define it? I could speculate that...

I now see better what was the meaning behind the last two paragraphs you quoted, but I am still not grasping their scope. In fact, reviewing this rema...

What I meant was that there are definitely two distinct questions, when it comes to the causes of an event. One is about the ordinary causes and anoth...

I claim that asking about reason involves sets of circumstances. With respect to some universal established order, the event was likely for the given ...

There is a philosophical stance called relationism, which considers time and space like relations, or in plainer terms, "sortings" of objects. In this...

I don't think that language is essential aspect of intelligence, but it is believed that evolution of human beings in terms of their communication and...

I agree with (and Wittgenstein). The idea can be taken a bit too far, if one implies that consensus on definitional meanings and their consistent use ...

Indicating as I did earlier, the hypothesis may lie outside of our current frame of thinking, but I am not against exploring it. Especially when one t...

I am not sure that I understand. You mean that any process that coordinates the progress of other processes is the embodiment of time? I fail to see p...

Well, this is about blame and the extent to which utilitarianism applies, I think. I meant to ask, as per my last post, whether on collective or indiv...

What I mean to say is, how much of the past is ignored to achieve a good end result? If a person dies happy as a result of their life choices, but the...

But what is considered the "end result"? If some act causes suffering at the time, but the eventual outcome is the furtherment of happiness, teleologi...

This sheds some light. But when do we consider a sentence truly "complete". Is the sentence's encapsulation related to us by the author? Do we realize...

It also occurred to me, that considering the entire timeline may not be consequentialist, but it would still be teleological in essence, shouldn't it?

I think that in the sense in which described it, those are different ethical aspects. That is, how you should judge your actions versus what are your ...

I asked because, even though your separation of ethical concerns into aspects resolves some of the contentions, it appears to me that a view of having...

I realized what you mean by this - that the measurements will be done only deferentially. The counterforce from the atmosphere is irrelevant, because ...

Clarke only stated that the sweat would have evaporated. I tried unsuccessfully to indicate by stating that "I assume" that it was my speculation that...

The wikipedia article includes a critical remark which was made by physician named Augustus Clarke, one of the MacDougall's contemporaries, according ...

How would they have been accounted for, given it would be difficult to do even today? Energy is a form of matter, because you can create a particle wi...

Apparently, in the experiment 6 people have been weighted in total, with the measurements of 3 being discarded, the remaining three varying. One lost ...

Do you think that different ethical systems, speaking of them as distinct and not as aspects of one total framework, differ in this regard? Do you thi...

Very nice. This gives a much better structure to the question. And from this angle, the different ethics theories emphasize some aspect, depending on ...

But isn't consequentialism focused on intended consequences. No sensible ethics can blame people for unforseeable consequences. I think consequentiali...

Just like every of our physics theories, my opinion lacks the complete information and thus may be inaccurate. I don't support mind-body dualism prese...

Actually, if Russell meant something more akin to Exists P (KingOfFrance(P, Now) and Bald(P, Now)) which will be rephrased back into ordinary speech a...

Actually, I failed to convey my remark. Meanwhile, I have also reviewed and revised my original position. What I meant was that the sentence, independ...

Either way, depends on how fundamental the question wants to be. On whether the debate assumes a point of reference of "human beliefs as commonly prac...

When you say "organisms incapable of articulating a belief", you seem to imply that having a belief requires the bearer to be able to articulate what ...

Again, rather out of cuff interjection. How do we know which parts of the sentence are existentially bound and which refer to particulars. The sentenc...

Sorry for interjecting and mentioning, but I will propose something related. I can speculate, without being animal behavior specialist, that at least ...

I didn't mean to overcome discomfort through self-improvement, but to suffer through discomfort resiliently (as if stoically, but not really.) In othe...