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Really? That's interesting. What would be Kant's response to Stove's worst argument critique?

Also known as Stove's worst argument?

But since Hume was an empiricist, isn't he ceding ground to rationalism here by saying we have a sentiment toward causality? He's admitted there's som...

I don't buy the argument that the gaps are bridged by habit and sentiment anymore than Kant did, even though unlike Kant, I think causality is real. I...

The problem is that we do both all the time. Our technology and science is based on being able to make predictions from what we consider to be correla...

What do you mean by never having found any reason? Do you mean any reason the idealist would accept? I think there are good reasons for being a realis...

Interesting. So objects on the Earth cannot but be pulled at the rate of 9.81 m/s, because that is simultaneous with the Earth's gravitational field.

what was the tradition understanding? As a realist, I would say that if we observe constant conjunction, we're observing causality. But we often have ...

Might just be.

Sure, but the idealist knows about other perceivers the same way they know about laptops. I see you. I close my eyes and then open them. I see another...

But we do have cases where we open our eyes and see that the laptop is frozen up instead of delivering a result. So we have different possible scenari...

If I took the skepticism about the unperceived world seriously, then wouldn't I doubt whether those issues even exist when I'm not perceiving them? As...

Even if Laplace had been right, wouldn't Wolfram have dragged the idea underwater? What good is a single equation unless you can compute the result? A...

Because people think a reality tv show host would make for a good president? But really, where the white coats saying the ultimate truth was only atom...

Right, but if we're thinking about the universe at large, then all these low probability events could be happening elsewhere, assuming a large enough ...

But all that fundamental physics stuff still turns into a mostly classical world at our size.

I really do wonder about math. Tegmark has said that all physical properties are mathematical. Leaving aside consciousness and how we experience the w...

The poor whites & blacks have common cause, but they haven't worked together to better themselves because the rich white dudes who started modern raci...

The interesting thing is that black churches in the US tend to hold conservative religious views similar to those of white evangelicals, outside of ra...

Since we can't step outside, there's no reason to suppose we're inside a simulation. It's merely a philosophical exercise in what sort of wild scenari...

Yeah, but you're not nearly as frustrating as Landru, no offense.

Sure, but I consider that a good reason.

The problem with this is that we understand computation to be a process. The laptop at T2 can't complete a computation without having undergone the pr...

I don't know, but it's the default naive view people have. It would seem as if we're looking out at the world through the windows of our eyes. Of cour...

Sure, whatever happens to be the case.

The dream hypothesis fails because dreams are not like waking experience. The evil demon hypothesis has nothing empirical in its favor, unlike laptops...

Let's say your laptop is performing some computation that you can't carry out in your mind. You close your eyes and when you open them, the laptop has...

When you close your eyes, is the room still there? The floor beneath your feet? The Earth hurtling around the Sun? Radiation from the sun keeping the ...

Or one could attack the veil of perception and the notion that we perceive sense datum instead of the objects themselves. Direct realism has an easy a...

Do I know what quantum fields mean as a physicist? No. I don't understand the math at all, nor the experiments. Just some of the lay explanations. But...

Possibly. I don't know what it would mean for data streams to be primary. Streams of data according to whom?

I don't think it makes sense to say it's anything all the way down. But something is ontologically primary. Maybe quantum fields is a good guess or ap...

It's data streams all the way down, dreaming of being turtles.

What about designed like a replicant in the Blade Runner movies, or Data on Star Trek? Why should feet or breath stink? Why does male pattern baldness...

I understand the point you're making with the rest of your post, but calling someone a victim because they might have heard a disagreeable joke is tak...

I find women's tennis enjoyable, but basketball never appealed to me. It's just too different from the men's play (which is super skilled and athletic...

The question to be asked is whether using certain terms are useful. Is it useful to refer to human manufactured products as artificial? If we call pla...

I thought it had more to do with entropy? Our universe starts out in an extremely low entropy state for some reason, and is headed toward maximum entr...

Hopefully we aren't looking to Jesus to provide economic models. The concern is that redistributing the wealth of successful businesses is going to sc...

Agreed, but can you and Sapientia guarantee that your wealth distribution doesn't lower the standard of living for everyone? Because although fairness...

But at what point do you set this limit? If someone starts a software business today that becomes very successful and is used by millions of people, t...

So this has turned into a debate on lying? These metaphysical disputes take the most curious twists and turns during the longer running threads.

And even better yet, you read Kant. This is a discussion, not a book reading club.

No, but I've heard and read people discussing Hume and Kant, and there are SEP articles on this issue. In the OP, I mentioned the Partially Examined L...

And Kant's argument was that we couldn't have come up with causality by just past observation. It wouldn't be something that could occur to us as a co...

I think science is implicitly realistic, even though people figure out ways to talk about in non-realist terms. The Newton example wasn't meant to say...

But Hume also says we have no logical reason to suppose the constant conjunction will continue. He presents a skeptical view of the future, and thus u...

Also, as for the problem of induction, where Hume points out that tomorrow could be Thanksgiving for us turkeys, the problem isn't that we have no jus...

Let's set aside the rationalism/empiricism debate, since this thread is about whether Hume/Witty's version of causality is adequate. Resetting the iss...

Not really, because you need the rational faculties to make sense of the empirical data. How we obtained or develop our ability to reason is a separat...