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Pfff. All philosophy is word play.

What? An appeal to the supposed authority of Kant will not carry much weight here. Have you an argument? Your claim is that we cannot have veridical a...

But you made the claim that we see the reflected light from the tree. That's not so. What one sees is the tree. That seeing might well involve reflect...

Usually. What is risible is to suppose that one never sees the tree.

But that's not what you said. You said one does not see the tree, but the light from the tree. That's not so.

Bang, The bad argument.

You are referring back to one of your other threads, which shows that the three ought be merged. And Gert is defining morality, not normativity. Here'...

, , I want to again emphasise that Chat bots are bullshit generators.

Yep. Searle sets out with great clarity the difference. When one sees a tree, there is a tree to be seen. When one hallucinates a tree, there is no tr...

You've been presented with a better way of viewing the problem. If nothing else, see Searle's account and the piece from .

It's just glorified predictive text.

Yep. Yep Yep.

Indeed, three threads by the same person, repeating the same error.

Yep. Those transformations are part of the process of seeing, not what is being seen. What one sees is the tree. Your point is much the same as Searle...

If these do not contradict one another, they are at the least contrary. So again, sure, it's nice when folk cooperate. But morality and ethics do not ...

You want me to defend direct realism, but insist in misdefining it. I have no need to play with your scarecrow. Consider: Or instead of intentionalist...

I'm not sure that what you are saying here is much different to what I phrase in terms of direction of fit. Except that the subject-object approach lo...

You prefer a dualism? Then its over to you to explain the link between the two. How a decision moves a hand, and a bottle of plonk changes a decision....

I'm not surprised.

I didn't reply to your post, and I should have. I see the difficulty in expressing these ideas without appearing to give solace to metaphysical notion...

Sure, it's complex. And you? Do you think that there is indeed a tree with leaves? Is there something about your view that opposes it to direct realis...

I've been watching, but I wasn't much interested in joining in. The progress here was predictable, with those who reject realism insisting on expoundi...

Rubbish. You've been around the forum long enough to know we talk of cups and trees and kettles.

Pretty much.

Well, the core of the bad argument is pretty much what was done with 's picture: the supposition that there is more than one tree in the picture. Seem...

Well, yes. The very simple site Truth Tree Generator gives the correct answer. It does so by applying the algorithms of the logic it is enacting. Chat...

Your theory provides an answer to what we might do derived from what we have done in the past. But is that what we ought to do? Again your answer seem...

But there is only one tree in that picture.

A very stretched metaphor, at best; not an equivalence. But sure, Russell's paradox lead to further developments in logic, not to its demise.

Ok, an odd, apparently historical, terminology for the rejected notion that every property determines a set. Cheers. That was avoided in ZFC by the se...

What could unrestricted comprehension be? Comprehension is not a term in set theory.

Thing is I don’t understand much of what you are claiming.

Yep. What are dimensions doing in set theory?

:sad: What are dimensions doing in set theory?

Disproving a theorem... Later... Frankfurt defined bullshit as a state where the truth or falsity of a statement is irrelevant. These Chat AI's are Bu...

There's of course nothing amiss with an infinite regress. Hence there is no need to accept the conclusion.

It gets pretty complex - that is, dependent on the details. There's a tendency amongst those of the neuro-scientific* persuasion to sell books by maki...

Pretty much. The discussion moved on in the eighties to a more formal (logical) play between realism and antirealism, where realists claim that senten...

I think it worth emphasising our agreement here rather than our differences. I suspect we (Wayfarer, Tom, Isaac) see mind as embedded in the world, an...

@"Isaac" sees the act of seeing in the scans of the neural networks he deals with. In the third, not the first, person.

An excellent series of posts. Seems to me that commences with, and insists on, a division between perceiver and perceived. But your replies, Isaac, sh...

I can't resist the urge to reply "No it isn't!"

, Assuming that 1 and 10 are included, and that fractions are rounded, and given that it's past my bed time, I think 1 is the Nash equilibrium. Assume...

, Meh, failure to commit.

Well, there are issues here. It's just that the discussion in Theaetetus is not of much help.

:grin: Plato has Socrates ending the first discussion of Justified True Believe describing himself as a midwife to nothing but farts. Yet here we are ...

Yep, justified true belief vs. feeling certain: Don't you hate doing that?

Arguably, once they had left the ally, neither had a justified belief as to the location of their car. The conclusion in (1) is based on the seperate ...