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You mean like direct realism = the apple is distal object is numerically identical to the apple percept?

Right so let's go back to this. I'm trying to find something we can agree on a framing of so that we can start having a productive chat. I agree that ...

I'm finding it hard to see how the posts you're making are related, which probably means we have very different presuppositions and ways of thinking a...

Right, so for you "access" is something like introspective awareness?

Describe what you see that access as, please?

Mmm... You don't have "access" to a percept. A percept is identical with either the whole, or a part of, the conceptual-perceptual state of an organis...

Perhaps we disagree on something so fundamental that neither of us can see it!

If there were you should have to think on both sides of it.

I think that's on the right track. Thank you for the help. I believe I also think of explication differently. As in, someone might learn what "is" mea...

Nope! Ah well.

You could end up with a statement like: (Shrimp) Mantis Shrimp Human sees X as P(X) and calls it "P(X)" if and only if human sees X as Q(X) and calls ...

Another possibility was outlined by Pierre-Normand below. The distinction between "no such intermediate representation" and "nothing like a mental rep...

How do you conceptualise a distal object in the second construal of indirect realism? It looks to me like there's an intermediary perceptual object in...

Thank you very much.

That's rough. I find secondary literature easier in the pit. Hope things get a bit more okay for you soon.

I had been wanting to make a thread on precisely this line of argument. That the hard problem of consciousness appears only when you expect an isomorp...

I think I see what you mean. Though it strikes me as very difficult to be able to say which concepts are presupposed by which understandings. Could yo...

Flowers for Algernon - very insightful about how emotions are conceptualised. Some brutally incisive depictions of growing up a working class guy in a...

Apologies. You answered my question already. I'd very much like to see an example of this. I'm not saying I don't understand or have any idea of what ...

It's an odd disease then, where how you act both gives you it and keeps it going. It strikes me as something like football. You don't do football, but...

It'll depend on how much of Midgley's point depends upon misconstruing Descartes. The article springboards against Descartes' alleged solipsistic star...

I reject it. Under what conditions do you believe a concept presupposed in an act of speech? Can you distinguish presupposing a concept from using a c...

Reading The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan. Strongly recommend.

I mean it literally. As it's all that is required from the OP - find a thing which isn't immoral but we shouldn't want to be. I realise that it's absu...

I'll just go by a dictionary definition for the purposes of the thread since I don't think it matters. Only one thing matters to me really - finding a...

Yes. Alcoholism.

It gives your paradox a much easier angle of angle of attack than the unexpected hanging has. You can point out the error in the formulation. That "an...

Throw it in! That's absolutely part of knowledge and belief's relationship. The things I've said are also part of it. I will point out that in 2) and ...

For reference - I am doing this because another JTB discussion seems more boring to me than the alternative clusterfuck I'm trying to introduce.

I don't think I've seen a propositional knowledge out in the wild though. I have seen the others I referenced. I can perhaps see a propositional knowl...

To understand an idea, look at how the word is used. People say "I know" to signal agreement. To know is to agree. People say "I know" to signal accep...

I don't think this is true. Every theorem of 0th order logic has a corresponding theorem in 1st order logic. Like P=>Q goes to For all X P ( X ) impli...

I imagine Tarski's indefinability theorem would. AFAIK second order logic already has diagonalization results - so it's either inconsistent or incompl...

It might be ahistorical of me, but I'm going to read someone who believes women's natures are "devotion" and "submission" as a sexist. Regardless of w...

I think you can speculate that he had resentment from romantic misfortune, with some evidence. But, at least in Sickness Unto Death, he finds women of...

@"Corvus" Just purely logically - and this isn't my interpretation of K speaking this is me. A relationship to a God is possible even if it is unknown...

Where Kierkegaard intersects with existentialist themes is about man's relationship to God rather than about God. I feel the need to write, when talki...

@"Michael" There will probably be a distinction between there being a perceptual processing step which interfaces the body with the distal object of a...

Would be nice if everyone wrote down what they thought a a perceptual intermediary was and why it matters!

Yes.

Inference is invalid. Talk of Superman is not the same as talk of Clark Kent.

Yeah I think it makes sense. I was being tongue in cheek. I have the impression that rendering the phenomenology into statements is post hoc, and if w...

What is it about those concepts which you could not state? (hashtag @"Banno")

I read it for catharsis. It soothes my grumpiness. I also think there's some insight in pessimism, portraying happiness as socially necessary affectat...

Aight! I'm glad. Apologies for misinterpreting the context.

Also at the thread in general. It takes a bit of mental contortion to construe the kind of object people are talking about in a direct vs indirect rea...

Aye I read that book. Rethinking Commonsense Psychology right? I agree with him broadly. But I do think he ends up privileging the human a lot, and in...

Yes. Arguably they're different flavours of relation though, innit. Aye. Something like "the rock transfers more energy to the ground than a grain of ...

The posit that they're the same question, or indeed have any kind of dyadic relation, is precisely the kind of structural presupposition which should ...

I suppose there's a question of whether the limitation in thought is mine or thought's...