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Thanks. So here is what I take to be the impulse of the objection to idealism from Fitch’s Paradox of Knowability. We agree that on the idealist accou...

Cheers. And by "Minds and mental phenomena" we mean roughly the things we are conscious of? The point of idealism is that the things that exist are th...

Forget about tomorrow. It doesn't matter to this: if idealism is the position that only minds and mental phenomena exist, then any truth about things ...

Not sure what that means. Seems we agree it is better to avoid correspondence theories of truth. Try this: if idealism is the position that only minds...

I didn't notice that you had already made the point. :clap:

Not at all. Isn't the idealist you mooted is committed to the future not existing, since everything that exists is perceived, and the future is not ye...

Of course. One might be a realist with regard to mathematics and yet antirealist in regard to a physical world or to ethics. Nuance, everywhere. Hence...

Meaning isn't found. Meaning is use. Give your existence a use. I'm going to do some weeding.

Well, my position is that there isn't one, or at best that it is arbitrary. But you, Wayfarer, need to draw a boundary in order to break the material ...

:smile: That quote suits as well. Why should I doubt Minds, tables , bodies , quarks and chairs - after all, they are a more apparent "other" than "re...

So, which is it to be - that there are things outside of our minds, or not?

Folks, are there things you don't know?

You keep your idealism by watering it down until it becomes realism. Hence: And on the other side we have @"Michael" apparently arguing that idealists...

It's a reductio. If idealism is true then we know everything. We do not know everything. Hence idealism is false. (This is a joke version of Fitch's P...

I think you are now saying that there is what @"Hello Human" called an "external material world".

That's pretty much it - at some stage the questions must end so we can get on with it. See, again, Quantum Wittgenstein.

That's about you, perhaps. It's not the approach most folk would take.

And we are back to the still unanswered question: constructed from what?

But money is real, as are mortgages and property. Yet all are conventions.

That didn't help. I gather you want to defend some sort of inter-subjective (a terrible term) agreement as a defence against relativism. Do you really...

Yet idealism holds as a minimal position that reality is mind-dependent. Reality is of course what is said by true sentences. Hence idealism must hold...

Your point, again, eludes me. What is the "constructionism" in your quote - it is introduced without explanation.

That's not right, of course. Neither you nor any mooted empiricists think that you will bump into a "5" around the next bend, or that they have a seve...

Then I will say again that your PoMo blade does not have a grip, that it cuts the hand the wields it as much as that against which it is wielded.

I've been building the second of four new above-ground garden beds. Progress has ben slow because of the unusual cold. I already have cauliflower, spi...

All quite familiar. Again, not all accounts are the same. The Tibetan Book of the Dead is of little use in iPhone design. Sure, some engineer might fi...

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2022/05/PF_05.06.22_abortion.views_0_0.png Pew Research.

Imagine thinking that religion was the friend of democracy rather than of fascism. Poor, stupid bastards.

Is your first point that post modernism does not address science? I'll go along with that. Is your second point that post modernism does not undermine...

From a previous discussion, in which you participated. We went to Devitt at "Devitt:Dummett's Anti-Realism", ending in a discussion of Davidson. The p...

When you can, take a look at the SEP article on Fitch's paradox. "...the proof does the interesting work in collapsing moderate anti-realism into naiv...

Sure. Again, that might be so, but not just any convention will do. Only some of what one might say actually works. There is a way in which reality do...

No. But it does mean that not just any principles will allow the plane to fly. So again, the idealist narrative is disengaged. Sure, truth only makes ...

Thanks.

It's about Fitch's paradox.

Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy seems to have been unavailable for a few hours. https://plato.stanford.edu/index.html Can anyone else access it?

Then why bother with it?

The GPS on my iPhone uses the equations of special relativity. Is that just a "linguistic convention and set of shared practices"? That is the conceit...

If it is true in an over-mind, it remains true in a mind. I don't see any accrued advantage in such speculation. Do you find it at all satisfactory, t...

Physicists agree that the calculations work. So they are happy. Yes, what you call the "genuine conundrum" is metaphysical, not physics. You article i...

Oh, and this, too. Commentary on my article “Quantum Wittgenstein” in Aeon Magazine An approach for which I have much sympathy.

...especially for those who would use it for nefarious purposes. It's a tad more complex now than in LaPlace's day. If meaning is use, then physicists...

I thought it was a good point. Think @"Real Gone Cat" is overthinking it. Nothing fun about having to explain a joke.

Special relativity and quantum mechanics are quite distinct. Care must be take not to confuse the two. Neither of us are, I believe, physicists - I on...

Relativity does to show that reality is dependent on the observer. It is based on the converse view, that the laws of physics are the same for all obs...

It's not pragmatism, but that's yet another story.

But that is only part of the story. You, on your rocket to Mars, will be able to measure your space ship and then calculate the length that the Little...

For me, at least in part, deciding this question is a the core of this ongoing... at least ten years... of discussion. In the process i've been able t...

Because, surprisingly, physicalists are human.