Banno

I'm heading in that direction, but that might be a bit too far ahead.for those here to see.

1+1=2. Banno thinks that if two distinct numbers are made compatible through an equation, then they become one. What Banno doesn't recognise is that t...

Idealism.

Because the god of the bible is a bit of a dick.

Cheers. It's a loaded term, and I suspect many of those using it - ? - do not see the baggage.

Thanks for weighing in.

Yeah, might leave it. I think we agree more than not. Agreed?

The One True Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church is extended in space - it's in Italy, Canada, Brazil - how odd that you should deny this. The traffic ...

Yeah, they are. So they match your definition. Look, it ain't my fault your definition seems to include odd material things.

You get paid? I used to get paid to do philosophy, back when I were a lad. Once, long ago, amateurs were held in higher regard than professionals, bec...

:rofl:

All three are extended in space...?

It has an extended place in the world. It is more than just what I sense, because you see it, too. It is more than just what I sense, because I once m...

Yes, I know that is what you want to say, but it still looks odd.

...so, European Autonomy is a material thing? The One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church is a material thing? The traffic code of New South Wales is...

Sure. Existence as being the subject of a predicate. A grammatical, not an ontological, fact. I" m using "Here is a cup" as an ontological statement. ...

I can't avoid the image of you sitting there saying "Ah, my c-fibres are firing - I think I might move my arm!" Or on my asking "why did you move your...

I didn't say otherwise. "Material thing" - what's that , then? Is temperature a material thing? Light? Let's drop that word, for fear of it leading us...

Yeah - on reflection I agree: it's a bad idea t mix descriptions - poor grammar. No; your decision was not based on your knowledge of the firing of ce...

@"Bartricks" might re-think things. We might proceed to: 1b. My arms move because certain neurones fired, 2b. I decide to move my arm, causing specifi...

Why? Are you supposing tht all universals have the very same ontology? Why should that be so?

Two descriptions: 1. My arms move because I decide to move my arm, 2. Certain neurone fire, causing specific muscle fibres to contract. One event.

Oh, I do - it's a yellow cup. Hence "there exists a yellow cup" is a true ontological statement. The idea is the sharing.

Much as I love you, you are not saying enough to entice me into a continuing discussion. So what? Pass me that yellow cup, would you? Are you wanting ...

Sure, epiphenomenalism is a possibility. I think it might be a bad description, and so haven't gone into it in much detail. Now, what are the implicat...

Psychologist and their fellow travellers have pretty much dismissed the notion fo passive receptivity - @"Isaac"? Nor does there seem to be any diffic...

Universals - they are medieval. Nor need they be vague: "seven" is not vague, nor is "odd number".

Thanks for not describing me as having ripped off your topic...! Yep, I think you hit the nail on the head. So is quite happy to bring intersubjectivi...

Just noticed this. I've had to Do The Things over the last few days, so have been less active. Think that will continue for a while. Not too sure what...

No, I spelled it correctly.

Makes you proud to be a 'mercan.

So what?

Coffee cups do.

A neat statement of the myth. Translation occurs between languages, so if translation is the correct model, then there must be a subjective language t...

Yeah, we do. I have a clear notion of my coffee cup, and it is not inside me.

Yep. Strange, ain't it?

Types and tokens - here's a can of worms. I like worms. When you and I look tot he Newton's Cradle before us, do we see a type or a token? Is your cla...

Well, no. It's the fact that we can all talk about the same thing. It's the fact that we all share a public world which is the basis of commonality. I...

Not sure of the relevance of this - but it seems to me that solipsism, in saying that I alone exist, simply rules out any other thing existing, includ...

Nice. Now, what about

A glimpse? So art is ineffective? It tries to show stuff, but never properly succeeds? I think you are opening up a space for a contempt for art that ...

That's the erroneous model, yes. What has happened is that as soon as philosophers admitted the ineffably sibjective into their menagerie of concepts,...

Ah, Frank - I love you more than words can say.

Of course there is! Adding "intersubjectivity" only serves to confuse the two, making a nonsense of the whole.

But let's go back to the topic of this thread. Suppose I allow that there are things that cannot be said, that are properly the domain of a subjective...

Oh, all the time. I don't like to talk about it, though. :rofl:

But that's not right. We do talk about the beauty of the balls; the way in which the conservation of energy is so astonishingly evident in their clang...

Yep. Why else would so many folk feel the need to defend such a view?

Well, perhaps; but it seems to me that this is the tip of an iceberg of philosophical nonsense. Giving primacy to a posited subjective, ineffable, pri...