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That would be a huge tangent from this thread, and I plan to do another thread on it in the future anyway.

How would we possibly find that, rather than just finding that we haven’t been able to answer them YET?

The nature of it may be unknown (I don’t think so, but that doesn’t matter here), but there is some true nature of it anyway. That true nature is true...

The principle under discussion here says no.

Interesting take on it, and it may help clear things up if I say I take a completely accurate map to become a copy of its territory. (In general, not ...

But every single datapoint matters, and all we have access to are a bunch if single datapoints. If they agree to consider empirical experiences as evi...

I can’t tell you that something in particular is true but unknown, because I would have to know that it is true to tell you that. But I’ve given sever...

I don’t see how this is relevant to what you’re responding to. In a sense, sure, but honestly I’m not sure I can make any sense of most of what you’re...

Something can be objectively incorrect, sure. And we may not in practice be able to eliminate all bias, but me can move arbitrarily far in the directi...

This is the main point of contention that you seemed to just brush past in the first part of your reply. Why can’t it go on forever? Every contingent ...

You can believe those things if you refuse to undergo the experiences that would test them and refuse to believe those who say they have undergone suc...

My point is that even if you're not actually experiencing a flower, your experience of what seems to be a flower is still an experience of something. ...

How many times to I have to tell you that there being an answer doesn't mean anyone knows the answer? I don't know the answers to those things. But th...

Objectivity means always proceeding on the assumption that things can be solved. It doesn't mean that you already know how to solve it. I don't know h...

The only thing subjective about your love of ice cream is that it’s about you. My height is about me. Both of those can be objective without everyone ...

Yes? I’m having a hard time following your sentence structures. There are objective answers to questions about those things. Where have I ever said ot...

Not at all. I am 72 inches tall. That is an objective fact about me. It being an objective fact about me doesn’t mean that everybody is and always has...

I'm not sure (and I'm not sure if you're sure) whether you're talking about the fact that you have those states of mind, or a moral evaluation of the ...

It is a correct opinion that you love ice cream (assuming you actually do). Whether you love it or not is an objective fact. Your love of it inasmuch ...

Exactly. If it is true that nothing matters, then it doesn't matter that nothing matters. If it doesn't matter that nothing matters then it's not a pr...

I'm not clear what you mean by "metaphysical truth" exactly but it's a truth of some kind, an objective one, in that any claim about it is either righ...

Pretty much exactly how you did. "I can doubt that there is anything physical, but I can't doubt that I exist, so I can't be just a physical thing". A...

:100: Because you want to. If you exist anyway and don’t want to die and don’t expect to live forever then may as well enjoy living while you can, and...

It’s objectively true that I’m conscious. I suspect like kaarl you’re conflating epistemology with ontology. Just because you don’t know for sure what...

I don’t know what some of those are, but the ones I do understand I would say are perfectly compatible with my principles here. I can’t understand thi...

In that case, every statement that something is your favorite flavor of ice cream is objectively false. Like every guess about the contents of an empt...

It is exactly the same. I try to account for everyone’s reasons, but that doesn’t mean trying to simultaneously agree with everyone’s conclusions. If ...

The hypothetical is a metaphor. “Drowning” is drowning in doubts and fears, figuratively. You do happen to exist, and the way to make peace with that ...

“Why not” is the correct answer. This is a common pattern across philosophy. People get into a cynically over-skeptical mindset and demand a reason fo...

Thanks! I do actually associate that “no unanswerable questions” position with a certain sense of “optimism”, and the “no unquestionable answers” with...

Every individual observation rules out some possibilities about what might be objectively real. An account of objective reality has to account for eve...

That they think it is an “is”, but the thing they think is an “ought”. I’m talking about either replicating their own experience to get your own copy ...

That has been attempted already, by Descartes himself. It’s the whole foundation of Cartesian dualism.

All the particulars of the physical, but not any physical whatsoever. One cannot imagine experiencing nothing at all — that is simply to not imagine —...

It’s not that I reject answering certain kinds of questions I deem “unanswerable”, it that I reject ever deeming a question “unanswerable”. It’s a pri...

If I told you that your favorite flavor of ice cream was pistachio, would I not be wrong?

That Paris is the capital of France, and that chocolate is my favorite flavor of ice cream, are both states of France and of me, respectively, and are...

Preferences are subjective inasmuch as they are states of subjects. It is objectively true (or false) that a given subject is in a given such state. A...

Only to the same extent as the existence of some world or another the details of which are being doubted. All the details of the doubter are equally i...

A preference is a kind of opinion, which is about yourself. "I prefer chocolate" is a statement about yourself. "Bob prefers strawberry" doesn't contr...

Must it? Explain. So in an account where there was some eternally existing "primeval atom" that then spontaneously exploded into the whole universe as...

What is each contingent thing has as its source some other contingent thing, such that there are no non-contingent things? What then is God? And even ...

It's not that one of them has to be right, it's that (if they're contradictory) they can't both be right. That parenthetical part, "if they're contrad...

It's a bunch of small pieces of the one big objective "ought", in the same way that individual observations are only small pieces of the one big objec...

And here is the real problem with Cartesian doubt. Sure, you always might just be dreaming that you’re pissing, but if you always assume that it’s pro...

Google’s top definition of “opinion”, sourced to New Oxford American Dictionary, is “a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based ...

I assumed this was a typo or autocorrect the first time, but do you somehow own an “Indian” person or something? Also while I’m here, fuck Mitch McTur...

I am curious to know what gives you that impression, as I have been through many different philosophical views myself that I now find fault with, and ...

It’s the “no unquestionable answers” part that is meant to convey a kind of skepticism. The “no unanswerable questions” part is there to guard against...

It’s really not though. There being something banging on the door is there being something that is actually (objectively) moral; in contrast to the do...