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Thank you. Helpful. SO my take-away is roughly that if re-incarnation is taken as the self entering into a new life, then Buddhism does not hold to re...

Not helpful.

"Re-" in reincarnation is once more, afresh, again; what is it that is once more, afresh, again? Why "reincarnation", not "incarnation"? A question no...

(Y) So... if we can't make sense of self, then we have no hope to make sense of reincarnation?

A bit too new-age pseudo for my taste. Even given that our brain structure (memories?) is encoded in a 2 dimensional membrane at the edge of the unive...

Where are we supposed to go with that? Or do you just want to end the conversation?

Sometimes it is worth pointing out the obvious.

What sort of thing is a soul?

What makes it the same person? If memories, then not.

The brain is not the whole universe.

SO there is some evidence in support of the holographic theory of the universe. But the brain is not a hologram. At the best, you might be able to tak...

Metaphors. They are not the real thing. The brain is not a hologram.

It seems odd to suppose that ostensive definitions lead to nominalism. "That thing over there is nothing but a name..." Is the OP asking only for exeg...

And Kant's relationship with space and time is fraught. Einstein went to rather a lot of trouble to show that the laws of physics, including space and...

There is also quite a distinction to be made between something being true and being known. they are not the same. Of course it takes a mind to know. B...

Kant is quite convincing. Shame that he was so wrong. Can you prove that he is wrong? Johnson refuted it by kicking a rock; Moore by waving his hands ...

Idealist apologetics.

Why would it? Existing and being thought about are not the very same thing. So why can't something exist, without being thought of?

4.3%.

Perhaps. Can you explain what it is you think Wittgenstein thinks is only names?

The Philipapers survey found that 81.6% of professional philosophers accept or lean toward: non-skeptical realism. Only 4.3% accepted idealism. Overwh...

Yep. I would add that if you put the key in the box, wait a bit, and then open the box to find the keys still there, then it seems to me unreasonable ...

Nominalism has many meanings. The core is that something is no more than a name; that it has no independent existence. To use the term effectively we ...

Arguably... To understand the Tractatus is to transcend the text, to see the whole picture.

I don't see that what you said differed from what I said.

Interesting. No, i had not seen it before.

No, but this will take a longer post and I am off to lunch. It is enough for an observation to be called a fact if it is true. It is enough for an obs...

And yet the keys are still in the car. There is more going on here than "The keys are in the car".

Then we are using "fact" in different ways. I don't see why.

I think it a fact that you are writing to me in English.

Hm. This is more difficult. I submit that some things must be taken as undoubted in order for discussion to take place. Roughly, on can doubt anything...

So facts do not exist only as representations. Hence it is not necessary to "freeze the world". But I'm puzzled that freezing the world would be consi...

Excuse me for breaking this reply into seperate bits. I have no objection to there being unrepresented facts. All that would mean is that there are th...

From the OP: Would that we could avoid "...isms"; it's not clear what sort of nominalism Q. meant. I don't think that Q's conclusion follows. As I men...

I try, but I am a fragile being.

I wasn't directly addressing you. I just dropped in a comment that came to mind after reading your post.

Meaning is use. A consequence of that view is that meaning is embedded in what we do. It is tempting to say that language is both in us and in the wor...

Indeed, if it does not you might explain how it does not. But it seems instead that you expect us to take your writing as "concise and clear", and hen...

So, I would think that there is something more going on here than just language. If, regardless of how the fact is represented, it remains true, than ...

There's a knot that philosophers sometimes get tangled in. They set themselves the task of explaining the stuff around them. They notice that both the...

...because if it is, then surely it is misguided. It is true that the kettle is boiling; we don't need to list the physical states of each particle in...

Is the argument here that unless a statement fully represents the action that occurs, it is not true?

Nevertheless, it is correct, no?

What would an explanation look like in this case? More words. I could throw spit balls at you until you agree that there are indeed spitballs. Would t...

Wolfram|Apha: Fact

They played up, so I locked them in a pen out the back.

I am a freedom fighter. You are a rebel. They are terrorists. Terrorists are always the Other.

I tried it at chess club, and now they won't let me back in.

Hello, Tiff. How are our kids?

The trite reply would be to point out that it seems you think it a fact that there are no facts. But it might be better to say that there is a remarka...