Marchesk

Getting drunk is still fun. It's the hangovers that become less amusing over time. Particularly when you're supposed be doing things other than lying ...

I'm curious, would an identity theorist have to reject Chalmers p-zombie world as being conceivable?

In that case, the totality of the world is the categories of my mind coming into contact with the various sense impressions.

Problem being that nominalism is a bit hard to square with saying the world is a totality of relations and properties, since you're going to have a lo...

And what's the difference between atomic facts and hylomorphism? Was he unwittingly committed to a form of universals?

But is it true?

That sounds really difficult to square with a world made up of particles and forces. We can talk about atomic facts of .a table, such as it's color, s...

Maybe we should use different terms. One is truth, the other is agreement. Or one is truth, the other is states of affairs, or whatever.

I don't understand what that means, at least not as a materialist.

That seems to setup a double meaning for truth. One being how things are, the other being whether we agree with a statement on how things are.

I disagree with that common saying!

And I happen to agree with you, but then that's the version of morality that's generally accepted today. We were born into cultures that tend to value...

I disagree with your notion of truth.

My temptation is to say that only things have ontological existence. Facts are generated by minds. Facts are a product of language, and language is de...

Alright, but I don't know what it would mean for everyone to be wrong about morality. What would the right morality consist of independent of human be...

So early Wittgenstein actually thought reality consisted of atomic facts and not things like apples, trees, people, etc?

Right, but I think it's more that because different cultures disagree on moral issues, and there is no confirmed commandments from on high, therefore ...

Like aging after 25, which I guess does eventually kill you, if nothing else does it first.

But what's the alternative to this? Each generation gets to form a new government and make their own laws? Which hasn't necessarily demonstrated that ...

Sure, but we're talking about the structure of the government, not who gets to be a citizen and vote. If today we find the Electoral College and Senat...

The US government wasn't setup to be a simple democracy. It is a constitutional republic of states where the Senate represents the states, and POTUS i...

I don't. I consider our level of technology as the reason for it.

Then there has to be an external world. But that leaves several radical skeptical scenarios as possibilities.

More to argue against abolishing private ownership, but what you posted brought up questions as to what Marx meant by a post scarcity society. In cont...

And that's an inspiring sentiment, but did he give any compelling reason for why communism would eliminate scarcity? Maybe a better question would be,...

Private ownership, or just ownership of capital? Was Marx envisioning a fully automated society? Because a post-scarcity society has never existed.

I'm sympathetic to that view. Constrained math has a relationship with reality. Aristotle's view was more correct than Plato's. The in-between positio...

None, but it opens to door to having experiences of hands that are not external in other scenarios that could possibly be the case, as far as we know....

That's a convincing response.

Okay, but those additional axioms aren't based on facts about the world. They're just further steps in logical reasoning based on the definition given...

I don't understand this. Saying the bachelor is married contradicts the definition. I took the point of contradiction to mean analytical statements ha...

Right, and there's your argument in the other thread which I said I agreed with. But, what the dream argument shows is that it's possible to have an e...

Yes, if your neuromuscular system is capable of doing so. All you need to demonstrate it is to have you ear infection cured. Do you doubt it's in prin...

Someone after watching the Matrix or Inception movies. We can agree that in an everyday sense it's foolish, but philosophical doubt raises the possibi...

A potential problem here is that there are disorders in which people believe parts of their body don't belong to them. There are also disorders in whi...

Statement: A necessitates B 1. A priori analytic? No, it's not deductive according to Hume. 2. A posterori synthetic? No, experience only gives us con...

So Rovelli's argument summarized in the OP is that Platonism would be full of useless math instead of just the math we're interested in. But what is t...

Right, but I'm asking if there is a human junkyard of abandoned math, whether constructed or discovered. Because the argument turns on most of math be...

But do these mathematical objects exist, or is this based on the hypothetical that they could be created if we were Jovians? Is there a bunch of aband...

My point was there are reasons to think the structures and relations we use math to model exist in the world independent of us, since they led to us e...

Why would it only be a certain way for us? Do we really think that evolution or general relativity is a certain way for us, as opposed to being a cert...

Or you could take the Aristotelian approach and say the structures and relations exist in the world. After all, neither the Jovians nor humans create ...

So your response might be that the full explanation is both our phenomenal experience and the corresponding scientific explanations. Both of which mak...

I agree with your argument, but how do you justify #4? Couldn't an idealist just deny it?

That is an interesting quote. I don't know what to make of the physical some days. I'm sure it's real in that it doesn't depend on us. But anyway, isn...

Oh, in context of the entire sentence I took that to mean that how the world appears to us is what's real, and not some abstraction from it. But then ...

I have no idea what that means.

Well, for chemistry they are. But yeah, they're not fundamental they way they were initially thought to be.

In addition, it doesn't get much more obvious than when we learned that solid objects are made of mostly empty space despite appearance, and the light...

Ordinary matter is made up of atoms to small for us to see, mathematical equations are heavily used to explain physical and chemical interactions, the...