Much as I hate to agree with him, @"T Clark" is right. It looks as if all you have is yet another hidden variable theory, waving the word "aether" aro...
Pretty much. Like pain, one does not know one is enlightened, one is just enlightened. The rest of us are left to decide if someone is enlightened bas...
(My emphasis) No reason. But the apple - that can be the same for all of us. Sure. Don't let me stop you. As I pointed out, there is much that can be ...
Or a family resemblance? Point is, there is no fact of the matter. One man's Guru is another's crackpot. So this thread can go on indefinitely, as the...
...then enlightenment is enriched by not being limited.... One can play all sorts of word games here, because there is no "intersubjective harmonizati...
If you can't put it into propositional form, your belief is not a belief that such-and-such; hence it is not a belief. As if one might have a belief t...
The account @"Hanover" presents has been shown to be incoherent. The arguments against it here have been presented previously, several times. Unless t...
You "subjectively" render the cup red? ? The red of the cup is not in any way caused by the cup, but proceeds entirely from your mind? And it is some ...
So there is a thing that causes us to have congruent sensations of plastic cups but is not a plastic cup. Failure to commit. Tell someone who cares.Th...
Here's the problem we were addressing: you claim that there are phenomena before each of us that are sufficiently similar that we can have a discussio...
They are shared phenomena? SO now you are saying that my perception-of-cup is shared with you? That you and I both feel the pain in my back? This conv...
The images on the screen are not the same. But they might be images of the same cup. Which is exactly what you cannot claim, since for you there is no...
Yes, you are right that your unshared phenomena drop out of the discussion, and what we can talk about is the shared world. But that's my point; the b...
SO you really haven't understood the beetle , either. The beetle would be to pretend that there was an unsharable mental object - perhaps, for example...
Yes, and hence you are talking about two different things. OF course it is open for us to take the daring path that you reject: to talk about these be...
Yep, following the meaning here, but I'll leave you to it, since qualia have long struck me as pretty unhelpful. See Nothing to do with Dennett's if y...
Despite having read this several times, I can't see what your point is here. I've no idea what that might mean. I gather you want to do something a bi...
If the name "Janus" for me can only refer to Banno's-peception-of-Janus, but for you "Janus" refers only to Hanover's-perception-of-Janus, then when w...
Perhaps a link to Cavell's article would help. It's unusual to see mention of the second part of PI. There's much there to unpack. Well worth further ...
No, they are not. They are talking about the Dell. If they were talking about their perceptions, then since your perception-of-Dell is distinct from t...
Hmm. I have a suspicion that the difference between our positions is more one of language than of content. The same is probably true for Frank, if he ...
As if the car does not have wheels. Again, if what you say were true, one would not be able to make true statements. But cars do have wheels. Hence, w...
I don't quite agree. Overwhelmingly, we agree as to what is the case. If that were not so, this conversation would not be possible. However, we focus ...
Nor can they be shown to be true. They're basically bad grammar masquerading as metaphysics. Doubt can only take place against a background of certain...
No, it isn't, since you can interact with, verify, the city outside the hologram. If all of your perceptions are an illusion, you cannot interact with...
That post is trite. But as to this: If what we have access to is nothing but illusion, and we follow your definition of illusion as that which is not ...
It's an odd disconnect from reality, taught in first year philosophy. It's a test to see who amongst the students can see beyond such poor arguments t...
Indeed, that's quite right. But the things around us are as they appear to be, and hence not illusory. The cup has a handle, the laptop, a keyboard. T...
@"hypericin", @"Hanover", 1. A thing-in-itself about which we can say nothing is vacant. Since we can say nothing about it, it cannot enter into our c...
That's just poorly worded. An illusion occurs when the senses goes awry. No. You are reifying the process of seeing, touching and tasting. Again, that...
But that's not what you have done. When someone else asks what size Dell is, they are not asking about your perceptions, they are asking about Dell. T...
Sure. But here's an important thing... those "phantom things" are not what we see, taste and touch; they are what our seeing, tasting and touching, at...
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