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Isn't that what we call "corruption"?

So you want to say something like that the source of the concept "the rock is hard" is not a predication but an identity? That seems to me to be just ...

Ok. So what is "identical"? Aristotelian logic failed to clearly differentiate "=", ? " and the "is" of predication. Returning to those ambiguities is...

That doesn't seem to help. "the rock is hard" sure looks like a predication, despite your protests to the contrary. The upshot is that your reversion ...

Thanks. There's very little difference across the filters. Even Continental Europe scores 75% realist, 7% idealist.

Damn filters. 76.37% for all regions and all respondents, "endorsed this answer exclusively (excluding multiple-answer endorsements)" 77.92% chose rea...

...hence meaning is not a discrete, individual entity passed from speaker to hearer.

In the PhilPapers survey, one might choose more than one option. That was not possible with the Forum survey tool. Setting the filters to all response...

Yep. It's too early to claim that the "Standard Model" fails. In addition, going back to Aristotle doesn't look much like a way forward. "The rock is ...

Not at all. The issue here is the difference in frequency of certain esoteric metaphysical views in the population of this forum compared to other com...

IT was apparently , being the contrarian's contrarian.

Is it necessary to point out that what is legal and what is ethical are two quite different things?

As I agreed, it is not enough for a statistical analysis. There are some differences I find interesting, though. Again, it gives some perspective to t...

:grin: Thank you.

Ok, but I'm not sure what we might conclude from that. Again, this thread was simply to reinforce the point that the forums are not representative of ...

Keep the aspidistra flying. Why? The longitudinal results are there, too, for the PhilPapers survey, showing a tiny swing since 2009 away from idealis...

Interesting that folk seem to feel the need to address themselves to me, personally, rather than the topic at hand.

The argument you presented for your existing cannot be utterly private without losing all meaning. Membership of a community is implied by your use of...

The ethical issue isn't so much to do with the consequence, as with the act of breaching the social convention of property. The community in which a h...

Doubtless. And it is apparent that my prejudices are not as uncommon as it might seem, were one the think of the folk hereabouts as "normal". Very dro...

Twenty four responses. That might be enough to make some observations. The obvious one is that the number of folk advocating realism is half that of t...

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Then I am content.

My preference; https://www.africanmiddleeasternvariety.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/DONE-Dark-Roast-Negrita-The-Original-Middle-Eastern-Style-Cof...

I'm perfecting the art of denigrating them obliquely.

Your first problem would be finding secondary sources. The best thing about TPF is, nobody cares. We have brought forth wind, and that the offspring o...

Good luck with meeting the notability criteria. Rude. I'd never mistake you for a philosopher. - i've read some of your posts.

AN article relevant to this topic in Philosophy Now: One Logic, Or Many?

Oh, sure. It's just that if you take as your criteria for a thing's existing that it's listed in wikipedia, and if this forum is not listed on wikiped...

Yep. ...cis white hetro middle class males... Mark apparently can't see the joke.

I gather it's like the Trinity. Not anything to do with number.

There's a problem there...

Cheers. :grimace:

You've made a pretty puzzle for yourself. Seems you can't tell that this post from me is a post from me - just by seeing this post, "one cannot know, ...

When they stop doing philosophy and pick up the pruning saw, things are presumably different. They have no trouble with only being to cut a branch ind...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APZEhv-3xDw

The varieties of bad Stoicism

Oh, that's good. Should save plenty of paper, then.

Only one?

I'll try one more time to show how this is a mischaracterisation of realism. Realism holds that the sentence "the tree has leaves" is about the tree, ...

We've discussed previously how I share a disquiet with much of the scientism assumed in analytic philosophy. But we part ways in that, if I've underst...

Fair enough. For my part I could apply the first few sentences of the Searle article to myself. That's mighty unfair on the likes of Midgley, Anscombe...

There's the misrepresentation of realism again. Yep. The pretence is that our only choice is between a direct realism that does not recognise a causal...

I'll take your word for it.

Yours is pretty ordinary at the moment.

The point is methodological. The view of and is oddly passive. This becomes very clear when one starts to talk about our interactions with the things ...

This:

:wink: Presumably I can only prune the light from the tree and not the tree-in-itself...?

It's not @"NOS4A2" who has the fundamental misunderstanding.

"Only"? No, we see the tree. We see the tree as a result of the reflected light, sure. But we do not see the reflected light. Your statement was wrong...