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:wink: Rhetorical excellence! My interest here is as to the extent to which Christians (and Muslims) ought be allowed at the table when ethical issues...

And think of the good you will do when you explicate Lewis' errors!

That "someone" is he whom your present interlocutor habitually refers to using the perpendicular pronoun. Perhaps you could make your point more direc...

And so to the issue of faith - of believing something despite the evidence; or in the case you posit, of committing an erstwhile evil act in the firm ...

Yes; yet these advocates of evil will pretend to the moral high ground. They take themselves to be the model of righteousness. Take as evidence the pr...

What exactly is your claim here - that god will punish only those who commit evil, not those who do not believe in him? Two responses: what is it that...

Indeed, we adjudge bocketibonders by their interactions with those shared things around us on whcih we can agree - the dundereekies. That's the point;...

Sure, all that. But you without you mind is a diminished you. Of course; but they are not real spiders. An odd thing about denying realism is that it ...

Again,

:blush: (Don't tell people I can be nice. I have a reputation to uphold.)

I'm not seeing a point to this conversation.

That's it. We might finesse the account, but that is probably unneeded.

On this I agree. It's an anachronism, and over-simplification. I don't think we "have access" to our own minds; we are our minds, at least in part - a...

Useless. Just to repeat what I have been saying for years, qualia seem either to just be seeing red and feeling a smooth surface, things already accou...

I'm working on what is involved in the intentionalist approach. It fits with Wittgenstein via Anscombe, and seems compatible with your comments about ...

The "it' is nothing more than a failure of mine, to express the notion clearly. The it is just the cup, the expression the difference being direction ...

That's cool. You are not obliged to respond. Take care - get some sleep?

Yeah, you've avoided any criticism using that tactic a few times. If you are not going to engage productively, don't bother to respond to my posts, an...

A more straightforward question relating to the OP: Do you see a place for some notion like "qualia" in your work? Putting you on the spot...

I think that a mischaracterisation*. But @"Isaac" will speak for himself. I've found that he is unusually careful with his choice of words and found t...

https://mattsko.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/fireman-2321.jpg Sound advice.

Where's @"TheMadFool"?

Read the Dennett article - even if only the first few paragraphs. Get back to me.

I quite agree. I would add that what we are engaged in, at least to begin with, is finding an effective grammar, a way of talking. All realisms take i...

The differences of opinion concerning naive realism, direct realism, indirect realism and so on gain traction from failure to adequately set out the v...

That's what I thought from our previous chats. :up:

Yep.

So you will be able to address the criticisms listed directly. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/629929

In the article cited, there is a discussion about the ambiguity of "qualia". Treating colour as prior to the things that are coloured is presumptuous,...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/629929

Of course not. It's made of chairs and cups and trees and people. And that some (you?) might suppose otherwise is why qualia are a bad idea.

But you did not make use of qualia in your description - you described what you saw in terms of circles and size and colour - all stuff that is part o...

, No sense of humour. I won't labour the point.

You can think about the product of your thinking, as you can digest the product of your digestion. But in both cases it's probably not something to do...

Your notion of 'philosophy proper' is a nonsense. Cheers.

Nor can you think thinking.

You can digest the product of digestion, as you can think about the product of your thinking. Eat shit and die. So to speak.

That's good - is it yours? If not, what's the source? Searle makes the comparison that mind is to brain as digestion is to stomach. This does not fall...

Thank you for those responses. I don't see anything here to criticise on philosophical, conceptual grounds. It is consistent with what I would call a ...

Yep.

Why do people hate Vegans? They taste like broccoli.

Then there are far more variations in mathematics than the few that are used. We select the mathematics that suits our purpose. Hence it would be odd ...

It isn't "formulated in a priori necessity in the armchairs and heads of mathematicians". That's a relatively recent image of mathematics, a consequen...

Nothing about you without you...

Yes, that was were I would have gone next; that explanations, even if in a sense arbitrary, need to be made; that cutting the flower and arranging it ...

Cheers. Understandable. I find myself trying to protect those around me at a time when booster vaccinations are available but in short supply, while t...

I don't understand how an otherwise reasonable fellow can hold to this. We know vaccination works. We know that flattening the curve of infection allo...

Yeah. Folk sometimes lock themselves into a loop of rationalisations in such a way that every criticism of their belief can be twisted into a justific...

Unfortunately, in philosophical circles it sometimes is. I rather like that. And ...and now I can see the sense in your earlier comment about homuncul...

...that worked well.