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I'm not. I'm trying to put your ideas together coherently. I agree that physical reality is in an important way and that the physical world is not pur...

So here we are in agreement?

I think you had best start a thread on Ryle.

...perhaps you are doing it wrong?

Odd, then, that the conversation continues in your absence...?

As @"Pie" pointed out earlier, a proof is supposed to bind everyone, not just oneself. A proof that only you accept is perhaps a faith... Yes, the oth...

Yep. The fact of this thread puts the lie to solipsism, without argument...

Then all he has done is to decide by fiat that I am a part of his self; such a solipsism loses any differentiation. My point, in a nutshell.

Indeed. It's at the core of Wittgenstein's approach to philosophy. It's not about providing a proof, but showing that one behaves as if other folk hav...

@"GLEN willows", in the end, rejecting solipsism is choosing a way of talking about the way things are, and one that better matches how one interacts ...

The point of the Hümdinger's cat thought experiment is to show that the choice between realism and antirealism is a choice of grammar. So is the choic...

Ever hear of Schrödinger's cousin, Hümdinger? He had a less physical, more philosophical bent. He also put a cat in a box, but without all that radiol...

The "basic point" of relativity is that the laws of physics are the same for all observers. Your two people will objectively agree that time is slower...

Oh, I think he does. The very notion of "getting it wrong" is language-dependent. @"creativesoul" is pointing this out. Dummet wants to have a level o...

Nor I, you. At some stage the talk must give way to doing things. At that point, what remains of solipsism?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKc_1gc1pLg

When does a thread cease being a conversation and become a comedy?

Quine's criticism of Popper, in a nutshell, is that basic statements already involve theory. Popper of course agrees, but thinks all he has to do is p...

something like this... Popper's basic statements are simple existential statements: "there is an X", used as potential falsifiers for universal statem...

Meh, no for me. Quine and Feyerabend took care of that. I'll go with Wittgenstein's hinges and Searle's institutional facts.

Have a read of "what the Tortoise said to Achilles". There's a point at which further demands for proof lead only to the ridicule of the skeptic.

Yep. It can't be proofs all the way down; at some stage there must be an acceptance. Eventually solipsism becomes a parlour game. One's engagement wit...

I still don't see how. We "grasp" periods of billions of years and billionths of seconds, and calculate accurate relativistic times. Not if I use a cl...

Nor I. Not sure why you raised the issue.

Philosophy is not exegesis.

:grin: Indeed, the greatest problem with discussions about idealism is to induce idealists to express their view clearly.

One of the contributors who forced me to really work at my arguments. A very astute defender of post modernism.

Well, as I said to @"Michael", (Thanks for allowing me to use "homo paleas" again. )

This, from a long-ago debate with Landru Guide Us, of loving memory.

The kernel of truth in idealism is that we construct our world. The flaw is that we construct it from other stuff.

I'm not following this at all. I've no idea what that might mean. "the internal logic of our human perception"? Where? What could an "internal, human ...

Hmm. "derived" might not be the right word here. Russell's project failed. We know that for any mathematical axiomatisation there will be truths that ...

Phenomenology as the basis for quantum physics...?

Ok, so do we have a difference here? My suggestion is that compulsory voting, especially in combination with proportional representation, leads to gre...

Sometimes autocorrect is astute.

The short, rough answer is that both solipsists and idealists hold that mind alone exists; idealists claim there is more than one mind, solipsists don...

That 40%... who are they? If they did "turn out", how would the vote change? What is the systemic bias here? There's also the difference introduced by...

Polls have been notoriously inaccurate in Australian Federal Elections.

Bert, the Mod comment in the OP asked for answers only. But if you wish, start a new thread, or even a debate - I'm fond of debates. I'm happy for you...

No, he won't.

More an implied critique of your social contract theory, following Searle. Something counts as property only in so far as there is an acceptance among...

Oh, understood. I was just expressing a certain puzzlement about it's relation to idealism.

Just what LaMDA would say. I'm on to you.

Now I'm beginning to think you are a rendering of LaMDA... Perhaps seeded from my posts.

Another place in which we might disagree is Davidson's conclusion, in On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme, that This, so far as it goes, is the ba...

It seems to be trying to solve problems that are no longer problematic. Hence, not high on my reading list.

thanks - will have a read. You are not the first to commend Sellars, but I have not so far found anything sufficiently riveting to encourage deeper re...

No - have you a link? You choice should be preferable to Google's.

A more direct attack on solipsism is found in Sartre's gaze of the other. You are acutely aware of the reality of other minds when seen doing somethin...