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And then Spinoza? It has the same temptations. I've a great deal of sympathy for such ideas, but...

Sorry - https://philosophynow.org/issues/154/An_Encounter_with_Radical_Darwinitis thought it had been shared earlier.

Sure, scientists cooperating to do philosophy badly. All the more reason to keep close track of their arguments. It's worth noting the connection, and...

Who are we discussing here, Hoffman or Kasturp?

Yep. That's Tallis' criticism, which remains unanswered.

The realist/antirealist discussion pretty much reduces to whether you want to use a bivalent logic or not. Realists say that all statements, even thos...

No.

But not truth. The assumptions and the conclusions can be true, but not the argument. Do not attribute to me arguments I have not made. I have written...

Yeah. That's a common condensation. The approach he is advocating is rather than trying to do philosophy by finding the meaning of terms, to look at t...

Statements are the things that can be true or false. Arguments are valid or invalid. I've no idea what the remainder of your post says.

Actually, this is right on the point. Very often those who espouse idealism are defending a god of one sort or another. Further, something like this i...

Yeah, it is. Fitch’s Paradox of Knowability. Idealism implies that everything that can be known is known. Again, stuff we have dealt with previously.

And as Wittgenstein pointed out in the first few pages of PI, you would thereby, already be participating in a language game, and so trying to explain...

That made me laugh. What is that, if not an absolute definition of truth? Or this: Seems to me you have your diagnosis arse-about. Its not I who is wo...

Cobblers. You are making the cosmological argument again, with all its implicit logical flaws, but replacing god with a vacillation between energy and...

"Ngoe" means at least a third of the picture is green? Or the picture is an odd number from the left?

Thank you, although I disagree. I wrote a large part of the article, most of which still stands, back in 2006. But it now has multiple issues and real...

The core of realism, probably also to no avail, but for comparison, is simply that there are statements that are true, yet not known or even believed....

slides to It isn't as convincing as you suppose.

And what is it you think this oft-quoted piece argues? Space and time lost their status as phantasms of the mind at least as long ago as special relat...

:wink: There's the rhetorical slide.

How odd. I must say I'm disappointed. What is it you found positive...?

But a realist could - would - agree with this. An idealist worthy of the title goes the further step of saying that only through the way objects affec...

...and immediately I regret having made the offer. So the world is intelligible only for those for whom it is intelligible. Yep. Not exactly Berkeley,...

...and few have the courage to set out an argument. So I'll steal one from Tallis. Idealism, one way or another, has it that there is nothing that is ...

Trouble is, idealism is incoherent. Hence it is incompatible with science. How can one reconcile the scientific view, say that the the universe is bil...

In summary, seems to me that the realist/antirealist distinction and the objective/subjective distinction are very different, but that your account do...

Why? I think we can make true statements about the unobserved tree, based on our other observations. So we look at the tree, and see it has three bran...

Yep.

Well, I wouldn't count that as a fact... Or as anything, much.

Oh, I agree. But it might serve as a pedagogic device against certain over-stimulated interpretations of Hoffman - for @"Art48", and @"Janus", perhaps...

Cheers. I was most intrigued by the idea of future LLM's writing and then implementing their own code. I'm not sure how to think about this. As they s...

Well, since the unobserved tree is "unknowable" and all that, and given that we can still talk about it when our backs are turned to it, why not just ...

"But it is not the word document itself". What exactly is the word document "itself"? The one in RAM? The one saved? The one printed? The one emailed?...

I wouldn't have thought you would be so keen to give primacy to quantum mechanical descriptions over our regular intentional descriptions. Isn't he ju...

Just a suggestion. Let's call whatever it is that is behind the appearance of the rock, a "rock".

Meh. Not to be taken too seriously, either. Your thread is a classic of how language can lead one up the philosophical garden path.

This eternal return to the apple appearing red fucks up the discussion by trite repetition. Try talking instead about the apple "appearing" smooth.

This is the slightly mad bit. That 'something that has caused me to perceive a "tree'? It's a tree. That's what a tree is.

This is a misreading of the private language argument. He is not arguing that no one knows antoehr's private sensations, so much as that if there are ...

To reiterate, in one version of the argument the indirect realist claims what we see is a model of the tree, while the direct realist says what we do ...

If a person is a homunculus then they are a homunculus. If you think you are just and no more than your brain, all I can offer is pity.

ChatGPT struggles with Wordle puzzles, which says a lot about how it works

Yep. , , , Here's an extract from Hoffman's book. Hoffman makes this out as showing that we are nto sufficiently critical of our perceptions. I think ...

And what do you conclude from this? Everyone also agrees that it is an illusion... And what does that mean? Put it together!

Well, no. Atheists believe there is no God, or theists believe there is a God. Will has little to do with it. Why? As in, why must there be a commitme...

That's the bit that needs to be filled in. Folk around here are reticent to do so. I suspect that's because when they do, reality makes itself apparen...

But we can and do talk about the very same snakes and trains. Hence his conclusion is wrong, and there is an error somewhere in his theory.

Materialism - the view that all that exists is matter - hasn't had a place since Newton. So what do you think the "materialism" Hoffman is arguing aga...

\ "There are ideas" just places ideas in the domain of the discussion. But you erroneously take this to mean that they have a place or a time or some ...