Pneumenon

I think this is best addressed by point 1 of the OP. So, to take your earlier post: Remember, point 1 of my OP was: A phenomenological space is all po...

Affect one another in what sense? Do you mean, "The intro to this TV show looks so goofy without the music"? Or something like that? Or are you talkin...

Right! But this is phenomenology, so the "objective" timbre is bracketed and we're not examining it right now. We only care about the timbre you hear/...

Maybe I'm confused, or maybe you are. But this is definitely interesting because it's forcing me to hash this out clearly. So thank you for that. Firs...

Again, the overtones of which sound? There is nothing that makes the first instrument the "real" sound.

The overtones of which sound? The one you're hearing or the one played on the first instrument? Think about it. Yep.

Hypothetically, I could play a frequency on another instrument that would be experienced as a change in timbre on the first.

Yes. This is an empirical fact. You mentioned overtones yourself. In brief: every sound has a fundamental frequency, and then a bunch of other frequen...

Timbre. Not pitch, per se, because two pitches can sound at the same time. But the timbre, the quality of a note, is made up of overtones. As soon as ...

You said you wanted to focus on my ideas. Okay, then. Let me explain my motivation for the thread. Please read the following carefully. If I lose you,...

Look, I'm not educated. At all. I have neither a degree nor a high school diploma. I have what Americans call a "GED", and that's it. My job is to sit...

I just wanted to bother you 'cause I thought you'd be fun to talk to. I figured you'd just ignore me if you weren't into it. I didn't think you'd star...

I want to start with this: I'm defending Platonism, bro. The objection based on identity conditions really bothers me, so I want to say find some way ...

Four years later, I had a whim to come back here. I just wanted to explain why this is wrong. Take graph theory. I show you a graph with two vertices ...

Maybe you could weasel out like this: "If someone is doing something bad, and I stop them, then I'm not really harming them. It's better for someone t...

You don't defeat a charge of circularity by going in a circle again.

I agree with you, but a die-hard materialist would consider this circular reasoning.

Have you... heard of Plato?

The definition you gave. Go back and re-read. I'm not recapping what we just said. Re-read. And now you're introducing "features", which are another a...

Circular definition. Again, it's not gonna work.

I get what you're trying to do – reduce the abstract to the concrete. It ain't gonna work. Any reduction that successfully reduces abstracta fails to ...

Try reading what I wrote.

I prefer masturbating over semantics so I can score a point and ignore what's actually under discussion.

I don't really care what the current jargon is. ¯\_(?)_/¯

Yep, it does create a cycle of violence. But the cycle continues precisely because both parties are left with no choice. You can't step in and say, "B...

First vs third world = difference in level of technology

Israel is a first-world country in a third-world area. Ideally, the situation would be for Israel to have advanced weapons and use them to hold off at...

I think that P(psyop) > P(aliens). Between those two flavors of crazy, I pick the less crazy one.

Oh, they're doing the alien thing again. What am I being distracted from? Ukraine must be losing.

Okay, so when I contemplate an object, I don't need identity conditions for it because my intellectual faculty perceives that object in its naked Bein...

The question is, how do you know which form you are contemplating?

Is there a distinct Platonic form of the isosceles triangle, or just of triangles in general? Take the exact shape that my shoe has at some instant (s...

If it helps: I'm primarily interested in answering the identity-condition objection to Platonism. The dialectic goes kinda like this, where P is a Pla...

Dualism of scheme and content. Davidson would tut at you.

Maybe I can say something. Mysticism is harder to discuss than other subjects because, by definition, it's about stuff you can't talk about. It would ...

Yes, I care. I think that the OP's observation about non-combativeness make don't apply to mystical discussion in particular. Non-combativeness should...

If you want to be a panpsychist, the best way to do so is to attack emergentism as hard as you can. If you can say that emergentism isn't true, and th...

Replace "such" by "most." The part that vexes me: is that a bad thing? I'm no Humean, but other thinkers (and feelers) cast their shadow...

Personally I think it would help to normalize part-time work. If a software developer can do their job in 4 hours each day, why the hell should they b...

I think this is a tad uncharitable. Wittgenstein wants to cure a specific illness. The vaccination campaign against smallpox succeeded and there's no ...

Quite so. Wittgenstein is completely correct that there are no philosophical problems. But if everybody is just gonna ignore him, then it doesn't help...

Certainly not commanding, but if he was able to do what he said he wanted to do, then you would no longer want to do philosophy after reading him.

He had some important points to make, but his therapeutic project failed; people still do the kind of philosophy that Wittgensteinian therapy was supp...

Okay, let's try an example: the successor axiom in Peano arithmetic says that if a is a number, then so is its successor. And the induction axiom says...

So the existence of potential infinites is secured by our ability to grasp a rule, and that rule becomes an intension in the sense used in the SEP art...

There is a means of grasping a rule that is not an interpretation, but is exhibited in following and going against the rule in actual cases, says (par...

Absent from the forums, yes, but still read by young people in crisis. When I was in high school, I had a friend who was obsessed with Sartre. So he s...

Well, no. "I believe the probability is 50/50." This statement is not a probability. You'd have to be pretty dense to confuse those two. Anyway, eithe...

Maybe I'm just dense, but: the reals are uncountably infinite, which means, if we're Wittgensteinian constructivists, that the set of real numbers doe...

I get the sense from the SEP article that Wittgenstein will allow what modern philosophers of mathematics call potential infinites. It looks like Witt...