Pneumenon

Where is space? It doesn't appear to have a location, so it must not exist. X-)

Earlier on, I said this: I see a red triangle. Upon seeing it, I form the belief, "I am currently having the experience of seeing a red triangle." Wha...

"That seeming led me to believe that I had that same seeming." I could question this claim, but, if it's true, then the belief (that I had that seemin...

Okay, I'm gonna conjecture a little hypothetical that might illustrate Sellars' intuition on this matter. I'm gonna ramble a little, but I'm still in ...

Right, it occurred to me after typing that that I may have fallen into the exact same error as Sellars. Let me look a little further into this... You ...

Here, I'll take a swing at it. I think Sellars means something like this: "I had experience x." "I had experience x, and it was veridical." If the for...

So, ontological holism, ontic pragmatism. I can accept this, or some flavor of it, provided it still allows the possibility of philosophy (not a big f...

I think that two people can share a motive. That's why we can cooperate. And if you're certain that you don't share a motive with someone else, trying...

Good! I think we've gotten deeper into the part of your thinking that interests me. You appear to believe that such activity is pointless, but you fre...

Augustino, I sense a tension in your thinking here, inasmuch as there seems to be some fracture (which every philosopher has). I want to try and diagn...

Yeah, but we have to cooperate in groups, and any group that cooperates needs a collective "why" if it's gonna function over the long term. More impor...

Not to be the bearer of bad news, but this is where the bare swearing about bears and werebears is barely something I want barreling down on me, even ...

Plato. The rest of them try to escape him and fail.

A statement is only true about the world if the world is a certain way, and thus depends on the world. "The world contains elephants" is true iff ther...

Ah! So was that sentence appropriate because it would eventually translate into the English "The sun rises in the East," or for some other reason? Als...

Ok. So how do you put sentences into a world? Truth appears not only to be mind-dependent, but linguistically-capable-mind-dependent. In that case: pr...

No dice. Does the paper have words on it or not? Keep in mind that we want to know if there are sentences in a world here. How do you put sentences in...

So, let's take it a little further. Two more statements: R1: "If there were no minds, there would be no truths." R2 "If there are no minds, then there...

I suppose you could say that Q would not be true if there were no minds, since there would be no truths. But now we've got these two statements: Q1: "...

Q = "There are no truths." Would Q be true, in the absence of minds? This isn't a recoil argument. I want to look at the relationship between counterf...

I'm not filled with suffering or sadness. I'm too busy expanding my base in Factorio. Have you ever thought, when seeing one of those starving child i...

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Maybe I'm just not getting it, but it seems as if you're just saying that we ought to define our terms first. Fair enough, but is there a kind of subs...

Quick question: if realism and idealism are secondary, what are the primary questions that generate them?

It's a signal. Rather than saying, "The father gets mad because his daughter keeps asking 'why'," I once heard a philosophy professor say, "The father...

Strawman.

Had the female soccer team been rating the men, what would the appropriate response have been? I can already anticipate the answer to this - "Only the...

Perfect.

I have a tree branch you can use. By which I mean MY PENIS.

One thing that tangles me up when thinking about other minds is that the whole question seems to assume that my experience of my own mind is unproblem...

If what the ascetic is doing is insulting, it still isn't objectionable in any significant sense. "This guy doesn't like hamburgers - I bet he thinks ...

Your statement was not qualified, so neither is my question.

What is the difference between this and a simple refusal to criticize feminism?

Beethoven's Grosse Fuge is mind-opening - better than drugs for that purpose. Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. Also, I think that metal i...

Transcendental, beeyotch.

The existence of abstracta. Are numbers real? How about universals like green and scarlet? Are tokens fundamental, or is there such a thing as a type?...

Ad hominems and motte-and-bailey arguments are the bread-and-butter of the social justice movement. Sanctimony is liberally applied in both cases.

So far, this exchange has looked like this: Me: "The social justice movement is composed of people who want to increase their own social status by adv...

If the door price is undergoing a lot of irrelevant posturing, then maybe the people in question are not worth speaking with.

Classical liberals can do whatever they want. I'm not particularly concerned with their philosophy. Your use of "classical liberal masses" is noted, h...

This is what I was talking about in my last post, about how the social justice movement is just about increasing one's status. Expounding the virtuous...

On the button. I add that the frequent appeals to "subconscious" biases and behaviors is rather convenient, rhetorically speaking.

Much of what humans do - the majority, in fact - consists of a game where they seek social status while pretending to do other things. The "social jus...

I would gladly do Word and Object. I have not read it, but I have a passing acquaintance with Quine that ought to be deeper.

Frege's On Sense and Reference would be good. I'd also be interested in anything else in a similar vein.

You seem to be wavering between "abandoning as purveyor/seeker of universal truth" and "becoming conscious of it ." Do you want to "abandon" the pursu...

Well, then I don't see any need to adopt it. Suit yourself. EDIT: although I have to ask - what's so radical about adding another tool to your toolbox...

If the utility of your pragmatism is not universal, then there is a limit on how radical your pragmatism can be.

We should certainly be self-questioning about our motives for doing things. And one can always ask what good it is to be radically pragmatic...

I have certainly seen this process in action, but I remark that the final result of the identification-with-truth need not be bleak as the OP seems to...