But I can both think about and direct my empathy toward fictional characters, can't I? Isn't that one of the very things that makes reading fictional ...
You're right, Chalmers and Clark are indeed concerned with cognition rather than consciousness, I should have used the words "mind" and "cognition" ra...
I agree with this. It seems pretty clear that Chalmers and Clark are working within a broadly functionalist/comutationalist paradigm, and that the "ra...
The problem that I see with this is that exiting the "reality bubble" has the effect of making all fictional claims seem like they are not truth-apt, ...
The distinction is based on my understanding of the difference between realist and anti-realist theories of reference. The former attempt to explain r...
What I am saying is that it becomes a realist theory of reference when you attempt to explain it in terms of some ontology, even if the ontology is an...
Just a quick (and perhaps half-baked) thought regarding this. It seems like we need to distinguish between anti-realist ontologies and anti-realist th...
Your initial post on this thread argued that the word "real" has various meanings depending on what it is being contrasted against. You mentioned real...
I would tend toward saying "no", though I think we need to distinguish between laws qua normative standard and laws qua causal entities. Whereas we ha...
Yes, I agree that "empirical" is not a property of objects. My point was that the real/unreal distinction is better understood in terms of the structu...
Hi fdrake. Bottoming out is not really a matter of selecting which element comes last in a list of justifications that someone has arbitrarily generat...
My point was that the argument you provided must do the very thing it says is not possible. In order to show that metaphysical discourse undermines it...
You seem to be arguing that the structure of language is such that it intrinsically undermines the possibility of what it also intrinsically sets out ...
I think has more to do with how the justification for a given claim "bottoms out". So, the fact that a claim is not directly justified by appeal to em...
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