I think they dreamt in words.. and.. how can a blind person dream in images. I think consciousness and characterising the mind is of utmost importance...
The problem I am getting at is not whether words can capture mental states but the degree to which we can know other peoples mental states. It is also...
I had social anxiety for years before I had a name for it. So I didn't know what was happening to me or whether I was normal. The word is not required...
The relationship between mental states and language is interesting and puzzling.I think language is limited in conveying internal experience not becau...
I said the case of colour was trivial. It was an example however of how people respond differently and/or their brain behaves differently to the same ...
They are neither. When I am thinking I have no sound waves hitting my ear. Blind and deaf people learn language. The only thing that creates language ...
I am not claiming we can't talk about mental states but that we can never compare them to know if we are referring to the same thing. It is the proble...
I was interested on what a young woman said in a philosophy podcast. She said she had never experienced sadness until her mothers premature death. Did...
I am talking about comparing mental states not comparing verbal reports of mental states. I agree that you can talk about mental states and clarify so...
I have studied philosophy of mind at university and psychology and I often had a problem with peoples definitions of mental states and I couldn't reco...
I think there is a problem in that knowledge is about the past. If I say "My mothers names is Anne" That could be false because my mother could have c...
This notion of the truth seems to revolve around the meaning of words as opposed to states of affairs. A fact it has been said is a fact regardless of...
I think that science is not the best discipline to explore the nature of arguments, because it relies on evidence. But philosophy, for example, relies...
I don't see how you could have such an argument without evidence. Science seeks to explain things that exist. I don't see how you could argue somethin...
My idea is that arguments don't decide the truth. I am not sure what a hypothesis is exactly, but I would say that it was an interpretation of evidenc...
I am talking about arguments and not data. Data is evidence. If there is evidence, then the argument is less relevant. In the case of arguments about ...
Not really. Hypotheses are more like suggestions or speculations. Arguments are more a case of claiming what follows. Arguments rely on the truth of t...
That doesn't follow. Once we decided arguments had limited scope we would rely less on them. I think they do matter in some situations but not in asce...
I am not sure what method could discover the truth. A theory or argument can make predictions and these seem to validate theories. Consciousness seems...
I am not advocating realism, I am just looking at the role of arguments in knowledge. My position is more anti-realism. I think that whatever the fact...
The point is to correctly describe what happened. That our parents are responsible for us existing. That it wasn't inevitable that we were created. I ...
I am saying force into and not forced to. We can't chose to come into existence. I think creating children raises ethical issues indeed. The ethical i...
Being forced into existence isn't being forced to do some it is the whole process of starting to exist. How do things come into existence? Does everyt...
I don't know how we could coherently chose our parents. I have never had children so no one could choose me as a parent. So If noone has procreational...
Being forced into existence is not the same as being forced to do something. It is a case of going from a state of nonexistence to a state of existenc...
It seems to me that things could not arise if reality did not have the appropriate dispositions but then these dispositions seem implausible especiall...
I think that it is, or should be, easy to distinguish between the two types of argument. (But maybe it is just easy for me personally?) I feel that Ig...
Imagination is a strange faculty. Imagination seems to reside in consciousness and not as a physical thing in the external world. So it is in a strang...
I have the position that facts can entail things such as if someone tells you that the building is on fire acting like it was not would be irrational....
I haven't got an overriding motivation other than basic survival to evade pain and discomfort but coloured with an overriding sense of depression and ...
I am concerned about justification for action and values. I am highly demotivated and also I need to have a good reason to act. On one hand life seems...
I think your scenarios are too benign and based on limited scenarios. You seem to be making assumptions about your imagined person that aren't warrant...
I cannot imagine a morality that was not based on emotion. That is to say I can't imagine someone either being unaffected by someone being tortured or...
I am not concerned with morality here. Morality happens to be the realm where people most desire ought's. In fact I am sure you will find that most pe...
If I had to weigh up the implications of every action I would not have time to act. The problem of action is Like that of Buridan's ass there are lot'...
I agree that science is studying our minds/cognitions and senses. I think there is a false sense of objectivity that is damaging where we separate our...
I don't believe feelings are a source of truth nor my desires and preferences. Imagine I enjoyed being selfish and causing pain or I was a nihilist (I...
I don't see on what basis there is to act. Including a basis to know whether an action is right or wrong. I don't see valid grounds for creating socie...
I did not really want to make such a long post so I will summarise the basic point here. How can we go beyond observations of what is the case to deri...
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