David Mo

May be that the problem is not in the concepts, but in the ideas we link to them. Or maybe the problem of truth is complicated in itself.

Try eating the idea of a cake and you'll see the difference. It's another thing whether ideas, which are not eaten, can correspond exactly to the thin...

Have you seen one that isn't? Not all debates are like internet forums. Some are even cooperative, orderly and respectful of others' opinions. Very bo...

Sorry, are you discussing types of ideas or the concept of truth? They're two different problems. If we mix them up we'll have a mess. Of course. I wa...

How do you distinguish between ideas that refer to things outside of your mind and others that are entirely subjec... sorry, that have no external ref...

But if you use the same term to designate what is inside your mind and what is outside it, you will have to give additional explanations to avoid poss...

No one can talk about me from my point of view, strictly speaking. But the other one doesn't talk about other person. He sees me from another point of...

Reconcile? It's a fact that I'm an object for others. Two points: The perception of the other as someone who looks at me implies that I perceive them ...

Directly, yes. In the second instance, objects constructed as handfuls of sensations under a form.

The point is that this reality is not objective, but subjective even though it is related to others through language. Example: Peter and Paul are seei...

I suppose that would be a shortened way of referring to the reference of an intersubjective proposition. Is that so? I would understand it like that.

I guess "intersubjective reality" is a metaphor. What's intersubjective is the proposition. We share it or we don't share it. The enunciated means a s...

Generally, in philosophy the concept of objective is reserved for knowledge that refers to what is outside the mind of the subject. It can be forced t...

This seems to be the easiest solution, but it is not so easy in practice. The process of refutation of a theory never involves a single theory but a s...

The term intersubjective does not refer to means of expression or objects, but to properties of knowledge or propositions, to be more exact. The inter...

Don't blame the philosophers. There is no philosopher here and things are messy enough. In my opinion, we ordinary people have more problems with word...

I'm sorry, but your use of intersubjective is incorrect. An objective proposition corresponds to the external objects. The proposition that depends on...

On really existing democracy, not the ideal one, I recommend Noam Chomsky's Fear of Democracy. Basic reading. In my opinion the so-called democracies ...

I have not understand well.

We can also talk about "subjective truths". There are some differences according to the different branches of knowledge but it is possible to draw a s...

It is not exact. Many theories in the past were predictive and are considered false today.

This is the question: What is the way to know if we have reached an objective truth?

Yes. And Messi is the best football player in the world.

I'm sure they will think otherwise. What matters in a discussion is not "true objectivity," whatever that means, but the depth to which beliefs are ro...

The examples you propose are accompanied by answers you propose. So you are always more objective than your opponent... according to your subjective c...

Why aren't we able to change ingrained beliefs through discussion? Because ideologies are not just belief systems but ways of life. They are anchored ...

A "true communist" will discuss this conclusions in many ways, usually refusing to accept that Ceausescu was a communist or blaming the USSR leadershi...

I assume we're talking on essential beliefs of a person's original project or basic ideology. These beliefs are not usually based on rational logic bu...

That is a good question. I think the selfish impulse is the answer. The guilty ones are the others and the others are wrong. Never me. Lucidity is a r...

Too optimistic. The fact that the greatest scientists of the 20th century were discussing the principles of quantum mechanics for decades and none of ...

That's just.

The Plague is a great novel. Like many others, it can be interpreted in many different ways, but Camus' main intention was political. The Plague is a ...

Thanks for the links. As far as we can see, retrocausation is a hypothesis maintained by some isolated scientists -and pseudo-scientists- that is neit...

Can you give me a reference? Thank you.

To claim such a thing you must first demonstrate that there is a human nature and how to know it. This is the first step. Then you must prove that hum...

I don't know what quantum mechanics has to do with final causes. I don't know of any studies about the purposes of elementary particles. I suppose in ...

You're talking about argument types, not science types. On the other hand, the author of the Stanford encyclopedia article (R. Smith) warns that the c...

This is a marginal case I was referring to earlier. One of the battles of science against medieval scholasticism was the elimination of final causes (...

I don't know if a little history of philosophy is helpful to our subject. Anyway, since we are... Aristotle never made a distinction between inductive...

Aristotle's metaphysics is not a book made up of one hand. It is a series of readings for the Lyceum. What has come down to us is either some notes fr...

In general, I agree. Just a point: The names "Metaphysics" and "Physics" are not by Aristotle himself. They were added later. Furthermore, Aristotle's...

This definition is extremely vague. Almost everything fits into it. Logic or philosophy, for example. Even science. You should clarify it. Metaphysics...

It doesn't fit your own definition of metaphysics. Much less with the Kantian concept of metaphysics: our knowledge of the electron comes from experie...

No. Mathematics and logic are formal sciences. That is, they are not based on experience and they do not talk about facts. In Kantian terminology they...

The term metaphysics is very ambiguous. If we don't clarify it, we can make a mess of it. In my opinion and since Kant (to quote the sources is useful...

Too hard? No. Just too disoriented. If you are interested in the relationship between reason and morality I recommend The Genealogy of Morals. Accordi...

In my opinion, if you find serious difficulties in understanding a book on philosophy, don't waste your time. Leave it. This is my main advice. If you...

Obsessed with what? I've simply dismantled the idealized vision you had of Nietzsche.

So why does he call himself "incorrigible European and anti-Semitic" in a letter to his sister Elizabeth (February 7, 1886)? The core of Nietzsche's t...

I strongly disagree. Nobles and servants, Aryans and Jews, French and German... are not the equals. Nietzsche's thought is extremely aristocratic. He ...