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the wavefunction is theoretical, but so were atoms at one point. This becomes a question of scientific realism. If the wavefunction is only theoretica...

then how does physics work? I certainly don’t experience the wave function.

Yes, but they weren’t always.

physics places limits on what we can know, while allowing for the world beyond our knowledge. A good example is the universe beyond our light cone. We...

I understand your line of reasoning, but yes I can still understand Wayfarers statement as it’s possible that we’re limited in our investigation of th...

The world is also like the sun moving through the sky on a flat, stationary land at the center of the cosmos. What remains a puzzle? The puzzle is the...

The issue here isn't whether we language is practical. The issue comes up when you take your first physics class and learn that the world is a lot str...

We're moving about a single chair, and some annoying shit wants to point out that since the chair is made up of molecules, and those molecules don't h...

We can, but then some pedantic person might point out that the chemistry entails the possibility that we're moving about more than one chair, since th...

Going back to this particular sentence. Many religious believers do not understand God or gods existing as fulfilling some functional utility, anymore...

Yes, and these have a more technical use than chairs and tables.

Unfortunately I have a bad habit of editing after I post instead of taking the time to reread and edit beforehand. So you quoted something I replaced,...

Okay, so there is how we use words like chairs and tables.

This is difficult question, because we might want to locate concepts in culture. Being pedantic, I wanted to differentiate between the sounds we say o...

Being pedantic here, I understand "word" to be the symbolic form we use in some language to denote the meaning which is also the concept, and in order...

One is a word that has meaning and the second is the actual political organization that some countries use in a mixed manner which the word is about. ...

I don't know a good definition. It's a way our cognition organizes our experiences into understandable units, I guess. So the world is full of objects...

No, I see them as problems with our conception of ordinary objects which philosophical inquiry and science reveals. Consider the notion of material so...

Yes, the problem of many and casual overdetermination are the two physics-based ones.

That's not the only funciton exists serves. Consider the question whether life exists elsewhere in the universe. That's not a functional question. It'...

So then there should be no paradoxes from fitting our notion of normal objects with what the physicist tells us.

However, notice the difference if someone asks whether the world consists of pictures, like we might ask whether the universe is populated by ordinary...

You're an ass.

I'm not saying anything about what scientists said. Jesus man! This is an issue in metaphysics. Some philosophers noticed that our concepts of ordinar...

I supported the claim with links to philosophical sources, not computer techs talking about philosophy. You can do a Google search yourself if you're ...

The subtopic is whether philosophy questions, particularly metaphysical ones, but could also are an abuse of language.

Let me give an example. Here is an image of ancient Hebrew cosmology: https://rayliu1.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/foundations-of-the-heavens-1.jpg Now...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/problem-of-many/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-h6L-pBG7o https://people.umass.edu/lrb/files/bak08metM.pdf Why w...

Ontology.

I think they understand well enough. The question is whether they properly understand what language is doing, and whether focusing on language can dis...

So there are two important things here. The first is that our concept of ordinary objects may not reflect what makes an ordinary object, which leaves ...

So you're saying professional philosophers agree it's not a problem and don't discuss it? Or that you have just solved it now?

If you say so. But I'm telling you it is problem discussed in contemporary metaphysics. Of course not everyone agrees it's a problem

They are not, which is a problem when doing ontology, since science says they're made up of molecules.

We seek clarification, because it doesn't make sense without proper context.

Yeah, but you're missing the philosophical argument here. The problem arises because philosophers noticed conflicts between our notion of everyday obj...

I updated my response as you were posting. Go back and read the extra part about boundaries, particle collections and vagueness. I can also link you t...

In context of art, they're disagreeing over whether it's a forgery. In general, they're being pandantic about the painting existing. Not if we take sc...

The problem is that this leads to paradoxes because the scientific version raises issues for our concept of ordinary objects. For example, How do you ...

Okay, so the context is wanting to know whether the world is populated by ordinary objects in addition to their scientific versions (particles and emp...

Ehhh, wouldn't it be the other way around? What we suppose is fake, an illusion, fictional, etc. is decided by being opposed to what we have reason to...

Yes, realism about ordinary objects given what science has to say.

I suppose we should just focus on Wittgenstein's approach and whether it works. Even better, how we would know whether it works. When can we say a lon...

I thought that was the answer? Are you playing a different language game?

I see the potential yet remain skeptical. Sure, it probably works on some problems. But as a universal acid? Is all metaphysics merely an abuse of lan...

Red is the name of an experience, and is the experience of red that Chalmers thinks raises a hard problem.

If it does indeed dissipate. If so, then we have an iconic example of this kind of therapeutic philosophy working. Which raises the question of how ma...

It's a lot trickier with perception, since other issues such as direct and color realism come into play, but Chalmers point can be more easily made wi...

That's a very interesting experiment, and I did hear about the lack of blue references in Homer's works on a RadioLab episode, but it's also quite a c...

Can we apply this to a hot button contemporary issue, like say, phenomenal red? Is Chalmers making a language mistake when he says that the experience...