Harry Hindu

What would an inaccurate forecast be called? A weatherman's forecast is not always accurate. It seems to me that a forecast is simply a mental model o...

With LD the solution would have included where the pilot would turn when they see the flash because the pilot is no different than any other obstacle,...

But that is the question we are tying to answer. Ssu's "veto" and "free will" need to be defined. Even then our understanding of the brain is incomple...

And that would be perfectly accurate for LD to say because once you assert an event was non-deterministic it requires no further explanation. Only in ...

Then define "interaction" and "forecast". It seems to me that every thing (atoms, molecules, cells, organs, organisms, societies, planets, solar syste...

Actually, I predicted that you would type 1 based on the conditions you provided, so I was able to give an accurate "forecast". I wouldn't really call...

I believe it is only the Copenhagen interpretation of QM that asserts that it is an argument against LD. I don't recall the definition of LD as restri...

This is what I was asking about before, is the randomness we observe really a product of our own ignorance, the state of our minds and the information...

LD is defined as knowing everything about everything, which I would assume would include the solution to the hard problem.

I'm not sure that I'm understanding you correctly. Maybe I should have asked for an everyday real-world example - predictions that we make in our ever...

Can you give a real-world example? ANY interaction between the moment I predict a possible future and that potential future event occurring can render...

I don't see how any of this disagrees with what I said. All you are doing is just describing another instance of us lacking information about all the ...

Did we really change the future or our belief of the future? We believed that we were going to have a ham sandwich, but are now preparing a pb&j sandw...

This "evidence" sounds like a description from a naive realist, or someone who is describing the nature of perception from a naive realist perspective...

I don't see how using "direct" and "indirect" is useful here. We perceive objects. If there is no difference in the information acquired, then there i...

Have scientists been able to explain how a physical, colorless brain causes visual experiences, like visual depth and colors? How do colors come from ...

I think that the indirect/direct distinction is a false dichotomy. If we know that the wavelength is 700nm and that the apple is reflecting this wavel...

Understanding that misuses of language creates philosophical problems goes all the way back to the Greeks. Plato is not only warning us about misusing...

Why so emotional, Banno? I'm not the one contradicting themselves. Are you in love with Witt, too?

Sure, when you keep committing logical fallacies, I'll keep saying you've made a logical fallacy. Just admit that your are emotionally attached to Wit...

I really can't understand the need assert language as being external or distinct from the world or what it references. We can translate another langua...

:roll: Did I hit a nerve? So you're saying that Witt is contradicting himself? I wouldn't have so much difficulty if you weren't just pulling your ass...

Intellectual dishonesty and cherry-picking. All of this ignores what I said in the same post you are replying to: So you are arguing with a straw-man....

Which is the same as saying that something must be written (cause) for that writing to be commented on (effect). What reason do you have to think that...

Then both direct and indirect realism are the case? I would need to know what "we" is and it's relation with an experience. Is access to the we, or th...

If you apply this to the word, "word", then it makes the whole argument nonsensical. Words are used for communicating what is the case to someone that...

3.12 The sign through which we express the thought I call the propositional sign. And the proposition is the propositional sign in its projective rela...

No. It's more like, I'm accusing you of being intellectually dishonest due to your inconsistency and hypocrisy. Contradictions and hypocrisy do not al...

and in which I responded here. What does scientific realism and direct realism say about the experience itself and access to it?

But that's the thing - how did scientists show it to be wrong if they can only indirectly experience the environment? If you can show something to be ...

No. I have read what he said, as well as what you are saying. I am then going on to ask questions about what both you and he said and you are unable t...

This doesn't explain the nature of the opposition or distinction. What does it even mean to say that the world is the totality of facts and not of thi...

So humans and their relations do not change the world as a result of those relations? Then I guess racism is not something that can change the facts o...

All I've been doing is trying to follow your interpretation of Witt. You have been unable to make a sensible case of your own interpretation. It's not...

and is it a fact that the relation shows the state of affairs, and as such is part of the world and not distinct from it?

Only in a warped sense. "Distict" and "of" are relations, so it seems that relations are primary and the world and pictures are part of a relation. If...

The problem here is that Witt failed to apply his own arguement to the rules of language use, which would end up pulling the rug out from under his ow...

Good luck with that. It's like trying to be clear on what the authors of the Bible are saying. I'm not really rejecting anything Witt is talking about...

The distinction between direct vs. direct realism is non-sensical when you include the experience as part of the world your experiencing, and understa...

Right. Reading words informs us as much as reading someone's behavior, or the color of an apple, or the sound of waves crashing, etc. Scribbles and ut...

But how if all you have is your experience? How did we come to have scientific theories of how the world is independent of experience if not by some e...

How do we know the difference between our experience of the world and the way the world is independent of our experience? You must have had some exper...

Yup. Effects, like a visual experiences, carry information about their causes, like the object and the light reflected off the object and into your ey...

Which was my point that there would be other necessary, non-accidental conditions that led to different conditions. You're proving my point, not yours...

But what would it mean that you wouldn't necessarily end up doing what you intended if not that there was some other necessary condition that prevente...

but it does exist as a phenomena of your imagination and your imagination is just another fact of the world, or what is the case.

Like I said, they know what the edges are and what is fuzzy. An indeterminate thing is a thing with no definition - not worthy of contemplating (even ...

I don't see how you could have shared it if you didn't want to, or intend to. What about: "The world is determined by the facts, and by these being al...

It seems to me that whenever anyone uses language they intend to convey information to others. The fact of the matter is the relation the speaker or w...

lol, what did you mean by quoting Wittgenstein? For you to quote Witt, Witt had to write something that you found meaning in an wanted to share with u...