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It seems to me to be a bit of a sideshow, but doubtless that's because I haven't been exposed to it in sufficient detail. If one drops notions of mean...

I'm not so familiar with Derrida. There's something to be said for viewing Wittgenstein as seeking to break logocentrism, despite what a cursory readi...

But that's the point. The cogito is framed in language, so one can't start just at the cogito without already being involved in a community. Try a mor...

I'm concerned that if we can't soon find some basis for disagreement, ours is going to be a monotonous conversation.

Anything beyond a T-sentence is wrong.

Indeed. Language not just on vacation, but on acid.

Peirce, not so much. His notion of truth approached asymptotically is as bad as anything in idealism.

Yes! Reason is public.

Some folk seem to take The Matrix as an argument for Idealism. I've not been able to follow this. The argument seems to go something like that we migh...

Plenty of folk have tried to explain how things work to you, no one has gotten through the wall. Cheers.

But if you don't like the law, you just change it.... Wikipedia ought fall into chaos, unless there are more than some critical mass of folk who are w...

Not to you.

It's a special case of Wittgenstein's argument in On Certainty. it's a good answer to the skeptic and to the solipsist. The choice between realism and...

You and I are samesayers, it seems. :wink:

Cheers, . All I did was invite you to consider what arguments an idealist might offer against solipsism. You are not obligated to do so. But you might...

Well, you've identified the source of the problem. Cool. Try this for a line of reasoning. Descartes supposed he could doubt everything, and decided t...

Oh, come on. You are better than such trite shite.

And again, any argument I offer will be accused of being a homo paleas. But if you insist that I am in error, try it for yourself. See how you go.

That is indeed apparent. So, if you would continue, I'd suggest attempting to form an idealist argument against solipsism. Try it and see how you go.

No. I am proposing that the world is all that is the case. You might have heard that phrase elsewhere.

:lol: "P" is true IFF P ...unless you are an idealist, in which case for there to be multiple minds, the truth "there are multiple minds" must be a me...

Again, any argument I offered in defence of idealism would be open to criticism as a straw man. So, let the idealists amongst us show how their claim ...

And in so doing they act in much the same way as the realists they critique.

If there are only mental phenomena, and if there are true statements, then true statements are mental phenomena. Hence idealism holds that all truths ...

What? Either idealism entails solipsism, or it doesn't. If idealism does entail solipsism, then idealism is merely one form of solipsism. Hence, in or...

Thanks. Wet weather combined with parochialism.

Not I. The OP asks us to consider the relation between idealism and solipsism. So it is worth considering how an idealist reaches the conclusion that ...

Wikipedia has, despite the misgivings of observers during it's inception, reached a certain level of stability. Consider a nation in which the laws we...

Just so! The odd thing for idealists is that this "big mind" mysticism is supposedly a better idea than that there is a world that is independent of o...

How does idealism avoid solipsism? We have: "only minds and mental phenomena exist" Now reach the conclusion that solipsism is false. This is the hear...

Good to see you exercising your comprehension skills. Yes.

Ah, wisdom dawns! You only own property if we say you do. From there, the whole edifice of individual sovereignty collapses.

But if you would fix democracy in the USA there are a couple of other things Australia does that you might borrow. Firstly, set up an independent body...

I agree. If someone does not turn up to the polling both, you can't know if they were protesting or lazy. In Australia we can keep tabs on protest vot...

Now follow that through. How is it that an idealist can conclude that there are other minds? Work through the argument. See what the conclusions are.

Folks, that is what philosophy amounts to - finding a good way to say tricky things.

This has become a platitude, often followed by antirealist meanderings. The claim is that science aims to remove the observer, yet the observer cannot...

Those who would posit Stalin as a leading light of the left? And who think that the solution to poverty is charity?

Except they too often get elected.

Yet idealism is prone to fall into solipsism. Idealism holds that for a statement to be true it must stand in some relation to mind - observed, known,...

"Photosynthesis is what takes place in plants" is true only if photosynthesis is what takes place in plants. And generally, "P" (note the quote marks)...

You only just worked this out?

57 58 and still going...

Wonderful, isn't it!

The great absence in USA's labor movement is a Labour Party. That's why it is absurd to claim that the unions were politically powerful in any real se...

That's risible.

Unions are a reaction to incorporation. Folk group together to form corporations, combining their resources and limiting their liability. The balance ...

What is arbitrary doing in that sentence? If something is an algorithmic process it's not random, and hence not arbitrary. If something is physical, i...

Imagine someone being astonished that sentences featuring the marks "Doru B" can be used to talk about you... How could that be? What is the relation,...

Seems to me you are describing an intuitive disapproval for negative numbers that you cannot quite make clear. It's as if you expect there to be somet...