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Seems you have entirely missed what was said. On your account, you have already entered into the game about Prefflings. What can we say? Well, it's a ...

Here's the thing: I do not have to have an alternative explanation in order to show that qualia are not helpful. But since you asked, it seems to me t...

Well argued. I'd add that the 'view form nowhere' argument seems to me to be non more than sophistry. Consider instead that third person speech is the...

Read intuition pump #4, #5 and #6.

Trivial. Let's make a game about Prefflings; were the game is to answer the question "what is a Preffling?" The game spins by itself, never making con...

Indeed; and in much the same way that the subject of Antigonish is the little man who wasn't there, or the Jabberwock the subject of Jabberwocky.

Indeed; nor do I care. Turkey is so overrated. Give me a lamb leg.

They seem to me either irrelevant or just colours and tastes and so on.

There is no sense in which the notion that "the quali could be different" could be meaningful. It cannot have a role in a language game. Or it's no mo...

It is interesting that there is so little critique of @"Enrique"'s overreach by the supporters of qualia. Again, I will cite it as an example of the s...

How could you possibly ever determine that? You can't, and hence it is an irrelevance. When my wife tells me it is violet, the conclusion is not that ...

As in, "no", or "to the delight and justified exasperation of dualists everywhere"? But re-introducing Goodman is a good move.

I agree.

I like that. You might use the "@" button when naming someone; then they will receive a notification. I am not guilty of the reductionism that you des...

I agree, but would add that this might not be down to Frankish; that notion of qualia is ill-defined is part of the issue here. Advocates of qualia se...

One assumes conscious sensations are to be contrasted with... unconscious sensations...?

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It's an amusing cliché. Seems to me again that Kierkegaard would provide the sort of Christianised Nietzsche you are looking for. Kierkegaard’s Religi...

Seems to me that much of this discussion is based on a misapprehension of what antirealism means. See Scientific Realism.

It answers the question indirectly, by pointing out that it's the wrong question. Nozic treats rights as constraints on how we might proceed towards o...

A general criticism of Nozic might be built on his reliance on rights - see . After all, why should property be central to our concerns of justice? Bu...

That's risible. You selectively quoted Wittgenstein and when challenged used another misplaced quote to defend your misreading. You're better than tha...

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Whether qualia exist or no, they are of no use if they cannot enter into the conversation.

Can you show that he rejected that aphorism? Because there are plenty of folk who will argue that it is one of the things he carried through to PI and...

Wittgenstein's point is not that we cannot talk about pain. Read the whole of ?304. Better, read thru to ?309 - the fly and the bottle. Pain is not a ...

Is it? OK, then qualia are not ineffable, and we can talk about them. So, what's the next step? What do we infer? I made the claim: This seems to me t...

Why?

No. It means nothing. Make a point.

If you prefer; I don't see it making no nevermind. But yes, that is the sort of Wittgenstein that puts qualia out of business.

Exactly.

It's senseless to talk of inverted spectra.

Come on! Qualia, and it's all quantum. End of story. Wave the words around and nod your head. Nitwit.

Oh. Ok. Tell me again how talk of qualia clarifies things.

oh, @"Marchesk", when you gonna listen? Tell me again how talk of qualia clarifies things.

Case in point. Well, the first answer to her question is Kierkegaard. Then skip to Sartre.

Doubtless you've seen this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Db_MPgsW4AAsmBM.jpg Nietzsche is existentialism for children. Or, more commonly, the more pret...

I've listened. An illusion happens when something is mistaken for something else; the illusion of a magic trick, the illusion of movement in an optica...

Hitler went beyond Nietzsche's philosophy, so it's said. Hitler's work was not well thought of for many years after his death, but there seems to be a...

Perhaps. Colours ain't coming from in here, either, since we overwhelmingly agree on them - except that my wife says those sheets are violet, not blue...

So... what? State your conclusion.

So the issue is if, when people do things together, there is a something that is worthy of it's own name. I think there is. But then, Why ‘there’s no ...

Who, me? Where? I don't recall mentioning Aristotle. Nor claiming that identity was all there is to logic. And I have a feeling this will end badly.

Philosophy is a jigsaw puzzle.

You want a scientific understanding of fear and shame, but one that is not reductionist...? Why not a round square while you're at it.

Addenda - twenty odd years ago I would pretty much have agreed with you. But I was wrong.

You put up a theory for critique - and when it is critiqued, cry foul. No pleasing some folk. And that strategy of claiming that you have already addr...

Yep. Or better, metaphysics can't say anything, can't tell us anything we could actually make use of. If it did it would be physics.

In so far as this stuff is right, it is physics, and hence trivially not metaphysics. In so far as it is metaphysics, it's at best undecidable and at ...