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OK: Metaphysics is either trivial or wrong.

Did she contemplate the kettle sitting on the heat and yet not boiling? What do you think? Well, yes; and indeed, she was correct to do so, as evidenc...

It can be amusing to watch someone defending their theory against obvious falsification.

Yeah, no, that does not address the issue. Polly's belief was not at all tentative.

Sure. There's a whole literature around rule following that derives from PI, and then again from Kripkenstein, that makes a related point. Notice, tho...

As the article I linked above points out, the information from our senses is brought together into a unified whole. The resulting integration is indee...

Well, first off, Hume uses induction extensively in his writing. Funny, that, if he thought as you do. And then... Every time I put the kettle on, the...

No, I mean that induction as such works. You and I use it to make tea. And that's the problem with this thread, and the OP. Explaining things that do ...

I've no idea what you are asking. Is it profound, or just muddled.

Presumably, metaphysics.

The kettle will boil when I put it on the hotplate - unless something else happens, such as not turning the power on. Denying induction is also irrati...

Mere mysticism. Here the conversation must end.

...and the little guy watching all the machinations and taking it all in? What's his world look like?

Meh. You should keep in mind that circular arguments are perfectly valid.

Why the fuss about the gormless bimbo. What about Little Boots? https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRuG0ZHXgRk2V29jHt47L_A-PnZnqXBpB...

Five?

One is left with the impression that you don't actually have anything to say.

Ah, you're a Thatcherite. That didn't go so well. Nor does individualism seem to be of much help in plague times, as we can see in the appalling situa...

Anamnesis?

In that case, welcome to the forum.

Cheat! You said I could decide! So your was a lie!

Me? Ok, you don't exist.

It's a strange loop, feeding back between individual and society. Hence putting the blame on the individual alone, or on society as a whole, are equal...

Are we doing memory now? We ought take some care as to what we are referring to. There's short term and long term memory, of course. he concern here i...

Oh, no, nothing so profound, but perhaps more useful. I wrote a short thesis on methods for corporate bodies - educational institutions were my exampl...

OK - but the basic idea that episodic memory is reconstructed rather than recalled seems uncontroversial.

Interesting... Where? I'd like to read some more. I did some stuff on narratives as corporate memory, long ago.

Oh, is that all.

what does that mean, and why is it so?

Why does it follow? That last sentence is odd.

That what.

What?

...so we should digress to reasons as causes. That might be interesting.

That surprises you?

...burp.

...while I mean that it's red.

Meh. It's not systematic, so much as metaphoric. There is not a causal chain starting at the apple and ending at a mind. Minds are a different sort of...

Like, is the apple red?

I see. :rofl:

Oh, that was not in doubt. I was checking that you agreed there was an apple. Why not? It's an odd way of talking, but...?

indeed, indeed. All of that.

Seems then that we agree that there is an apple ot be seen. Thought it worth checking. I wouldn't want the apple to just be in my mind.

It's a nice version of Stove's Gem, of course; countering the mooted argument that we only ever see the apple through the mediations of optics and neu...

Nice.

...eliminative materialism... Folk suppose that if they can't sensibly talk about qualia then the eliminative materialists have won. But that ain't so...

When you look through thermal imaging goggles, are you seeing the cat or a thermal image of the cat...?

@"Olivier5", But not black cats. Black cats cannot be seen in the dark. Unless they open their eyes.

@"Andrew4Handel" Consider: Private Language

That doesn't follow. All you can conclude is that what you think is right or wrong depends on what you know.

Pompey worked out how to use the Roman army to intimidate his way into political power. Julius Caesar adopted his method and worked out how to manipul...