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Always. sure, all that. The point was to distinguish essence from definition for Smith. A definition is a statement. An essence isn't. Nothing more wa...

It happens sometimes. It's a pity that the thinking here focused on shame - I would of course feel nothing other than pride at the opportunity to disp...

An offer of hope from Dow Nunder, where after nearly a decade of incompetent, bumbling, fumbling conservative mishandling of government, a socialist p...

Letterkenny, anyone? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/Letterkenny_%28TV_series%29.jpg

I'll try again. The essence is in the thing. The definition is in the words.

See here.

A definition sets the essence of some thing in words. The essence is that aspect of the thing that makes it what it is, and not something else. The id...

The reading bit is about raising the point that perhaps distinctions such as direct, indirect, internal, external, subjective, objective, realist and ...

Consider, for a bit, the alternative sentence "the world consists of what you're most directly aware of". What does the word "real" do? What's an "unr...

There's more than just this one. But this one will do for a start.

Not sure I follow you. What is an idealism - that one deduces chairs?

Yep. You got it. Now apply that to the rest of the things around you. What can we make of "we immediately experience only our own existence, but can o...

That's not my claim. If it were "intersubjective agreement" that were needed, you would be asking others if you feel shame in walking naked through th...

What could it mean to read a statement indirectly? To have it reported, second or third person? To read it in a mirror? Those make some sense. But rea...

Sage advise, it seems.

I wasn't attempting to refute anything. Me, too.

Knowledge and belief are clearly differentiated in 187b–201c of the Theaetetus. Knowledge is not judging something to be true.

But you are experiencing the text of this sentence directly.

But that's not what one actually believes. Not "The people in the mall might have minds". Their gaze induces certainty. And it's not just in the mall....

There's a lot more going on here than just shame. This is about the relation between things like evidence, proof and certainty. That you will not walk...

Try walking naked through the local mall. You will be certain of the existence of other people looking at you.

I took you up on a previous previously recommendation:The Differend. Once bitten. Thanks, but perhaps not. :wink: Especially if that is an example of ...

I had it saved. It's extraordinary. The cat starts with the beast b ythe rump, but by the bottom of the fall has it by the neck. Physics is arbitrary ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgDHvl1wD20 Astonishing.

I have a rule not to reply to Meta, it's not worth one's while. But it is incumbent on me to point out that this is almost exactly wrong. The Principl...

Time to do the Austin chat about "real" again, it seems. "Real" gets its meaning by being contrasted to what is not real. It's real money, not counter...

Good response to @"Real Gone Cat". I think you have pointed to that magazine article previously. It's as if you were to argue that because a house is ...

I suppose what is happening here, @"Joshs", is the discussion where the idealist insists that it is words all the way down, while the realist points o...

Again, I don't know how to unpack that. One can't make a pot out of words.

Wherever I like, depending on what I am doing. Folk generally have little difficulty as to the distinction between clay, the stuff we make pots with, ...

Clay is dug out of the ground. "Clay" is a socially constructed word; the stuff we dig up and make pots out of is called "clay". This is a very import...

Sure, if you like. Communities construct cups out of clay.

Glad that made sense. "anomalous monism" is a dreadful term. It would put anyone off. But it is interesting, and surly not a coincidence, that it seem...

I've no way to unpack that; no idea what it might mean.

Here we may be getting down to brass tacks. You are advocating some form of Platonism, yes? Numbers and so on have a reality that is not physical and ...

I responded with an entire post on this here. Perhaps you found it inadequate because my response involves the logic at which you baulked. "Materialis...

Everywhere. We are embedded in a social world that is utterly dependent on mind. See my recent post to Athena, and my comments concerning Searle's not...

@"Athena" Something that is characteristic of human ways of life is our capacity to construct social institutions. This depends on language, in that s...

Yep.

Cheers. Indeed presented what claimed to be an account of idealism, but it was indeed missing the key ingredient, as you spotted. There was nothing in...

You count David Chalmers as a phenomenologist? Searle sometimes describes himself as doing phenomenology.

But what answer do we get when we ask what that "first-person nature of the subject" is? We are heading back to the beetle again, where phenomenology ...

Franklin proposes three "How-to-get-out plans". Earlier in this thread I joined in the first. And the Gem here is that because one cannot imagine a po...

I have. I suspect I introduced it to you. Then go complex. Perhaps the wall of words will hide its sins better.

Here's the damage done by philosophy, ... "...we can’t ever truly know what the universe is made of." Yet we do know what the universe is made of. Rig...

...which would not have happened if it had not been released. The denial here is of the need for effective journalism in a democracy.

That leaves me non-plussed. Perhaps if you go over what we've discussed again, you will see the point.

Self-correction only occurs when one knows one has done badly. Collateral murder shows the US doing badly, but instead of taking it on board and seeki...

For a start, not to think faith a virtue.

But consciousness is a process.