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Yeah, we do. It consists of chairs, dogs, rocks, mad presidents... stuff like that. You might well say that - but reality doesn't care if you are well...

You are positing a... something... between your idea and your hand, and then have the temerity to call it a reality? Looks like brillig to me. How cou...

Do you? You seem to be enjoying yourself.

Well, it might help the mad fool out of the fly trap... But only if he wants out.

How are you using "idealism" and "realism" here? That strikes me as quite backwards. Dreams are influenced by the physical world.

I was surprised to see you entertaining the discussion.

@"TheMadFool", sometimes language appears to be making sense when it really isn't . Much of philosophy is built on this. Consider, again, Alice's resp...

Indeed, there is. This world is real, in contrast to dream worlds. See

What if I miscounted the number of unreal marbles in the bag? How can I know for sure how many unreal marbles are really in the bag?

You've never dreamed you had a fall, and in that dream found yourself to have cuts and bruises?

:rofl:

No, it isn't. 99 people seeing a ghost does not make the ghost real. Reality is not a popularity contest. And see the mess that the notion has made he...

No, it isn't. I have a bag of marbles, two of which are real and one of which is not real... What are the chances of my pulling out the unreal marble?

It's a common mistake. A consensus of belief makes money real, but is irrelevant to gravity.

Your dreams are not real? So you remember dreams you did not have? How could you know this?

Exactly wrong. Real is there regardless of what you decide. As is truth.

...so you are not trying to perform some sort of Bayesian calculation? Then what is it you think you are doing?

That's four times the answer has been presented, and ignored.

The faux statisticians here seem to have forgotten that Bayesian inference - if that it what they think they are doing - is about belief, not truth.

Indeed, they have a whole new set of absurdities to play with...

...yep. And they think this reasonable - to punish a child for the offence of it's parents.

Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers

Ever noticed that physics had to invoke the creative bookkeeping of potential energy to make the equations work? And they do. What it really means is ...

Far too much time and hot air is being spent here. The case against Christianity? They can't tell the difference between wine and blood. Their theolog...

Here's his paper: http://www.pas.va/content/dam/accademia/pdf/sv48pas.pdf page 563. Enjoy.

Here's the full quote: The bolding is for you. In the Privilege thread there was mention of The Origins of “Privilege”, and interview with Peggy McInt...

:rofl: Such choice prose. But so defensive. I'm just pointing out that for the rest of us, and I include the physics community, the issue remains unse...

Quantum Hegelianism. It's curious, but I remain unconvinced.

As says, there is no reason to conclude this. Indeed if the phenomenon "is not encompassed by the rules of physics, chemistry or computation", what po...

So Peterson is replacing Ayn Rand as the go-to pseudo-philosopher of choice.

Proof of Jesus' resurection: https://blog.f1000.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/JesusOnToast2.jpg It's at least as good as the argument for Christianit...

It's a bit of a classic misuse by philosophers, a textbook case for Austin. Is it a real painting, or a reproduction? Is it a real coin, or a counterf...

So either the sees he refutation, or he does not. If he sees it then the issue becomes one of psychology rather than philosophy. He's nailed his flag,...

That's a question we might subject to some useful analysis. See the tree example above. Has a view been refuted when its protagonist still adheres to ...

You were refuted. You just can't see it.

You'll have seen this: https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/how-many-faces-do-you-see-in-the-photo.jpg?quality=90&strip=all Can you see the ...

It might be worth giving some more consideration to the place of ideology. Ideology is a pretty central to issues of law and culture - see Law and Ide...

The point of my post was to have you think about your response. Try answering my questions, see what you think of your answers. No need to post them. ...

I did. What you are doing now is special pleading.

I didn’t address the OP. But for the record my great fathers were a blacksmith and a carpenter, my father a factory worker who escaped the city.

It's what I do.

Ah. So you are not coerced into following the traffic rules. You choose to out of a sense of utility. You would follow then even if they were not atta...

Do you stop at the red light?

Why would one bother with a set piece such as this?

That's it? Laughable. Enough.

Suitable provocation. Where did I talk about your race? Justify your claim.

As I said, that repeats the accusation without adding any support. Repeating the accusation is not a justification. I am the primary carer for a perso...

Asked twice, you have failed to present your notion of racism and explain why what I have written is racist. Nor have you rescinded the accusation. Th...

Thank you. Few things are as deeply pleasurable, on a philosophy forum, as being called a Troll by one's interlocutors. Here's the intellectual ancest...

Again, either present your notion of racism and explain why what I have written is racist, or rescind the accusation.