Harry Hindu

Entities are patterns of properties.

"Accident" is not a synonym of unnecessary. "Accident" is not the correct term to convey what you actually mean. So it is necessary to use the appropr...

...a mental entity

The accidental only makes sense in light of the determined or predicted. Saying that something is accidental implies that there is a way things are su...

:up: Even when philosophers say that things are fuzzy around the edges, it seems that they have determined what edges are and what is fuzzy.

How are language, art and music NOT mental entities? Dont you mean ink marks, paint blotches and oscillating air molecules? It seems that those would ...

and being that thoughts are part of the world thoughts are what is the case as much as any other part of the world. The question is how are thoughts, ...

So does science. Science and Philosophy are about things. Is the idea of multiple universes and dark matter in the domain of philosophy or science? Ar...

Depends on the claim. Maybe the issue is saying that you can claim any metaphysical position. Seems that you can only ponder or hypothesize metaphysic...

If we dispense with mental entities then what is left?

I wonder what role does awareness play here. Is awareness a feeling or thought? In being aware of your feelings and thoughts are you feeling your feel...

And then lost traction when science discovered that the world is not as it appears and that observers might actually influence what is observed.

So physicalism, materialism and naturalism are concepts. How are concepts physical, material or natural? How do physical things and concepts interact,...

Everyone examines their lives at some point - usually in the late teens - early twenties. They question their existence and their purpose. The real qu...

They weren't cherry-picking past usage. Read your sentence again. They were re-purposing words, which are scribbles and utterances, for new usages, ju...

Sure, there are some uses of language that appear to be habit more than a clear understanding of what it actually means to say such things, but I've s...

Speak for yourself. :smirk: Philosophers: folk that use language like its a game or art Ordinary folk: folk that use language to communicate

Depends on what you mean by "proposition". Propositions can be ink marks on a piece of paper, or vibrating air molecules when speaking. I don't get th...

Just another way of saying that it is a misuse of language. Yet you did assert that you know when you didn't with ordinary usage. You just know someth...

As if Wittgenstein is the prophet of propositions. :roll: Will philosophy ever recover from the damage that Wittgenstein has dealt it? Read a dictiona...

What is a definition if not the suggested, or commonly understood way of using the term? What you're saying is that you don't know how to use the term...

Now you're contradicting yourself. You said "I don't know" and now you're saying that you do. Which is it? If you know, how do you know? Using AndrewM...

That's not necessary. You've already shown that you have no idea what you're talking about, which is the point I was trying to make. Thanks. :smile:

I wasn't asking for an in-depth metaphysical understanding of the nature of language. It's not necessary to answer a simple question. You said, "I don...

You keep using this term, "proposition" that you've you admitted to not knowing what they are. If you don't know what propositions are, then how can y...

Which isn't any different than saying knowledge is an interpretation that changes with new evidence - not that you never had it. What qualifies as goo...

It seems to me that knowledge can only ever be a present or past state, never a future state. We can know what we know and know what we knew but never...

This is circular. You can look out the window at the moment your trickster brother sprays the window with a hose. Is it possible to believe a truth? H...

But this misses the point that what we used to call knowledge wasn't knowledge in light of new observations, but observations is what allowed us to as...

But A does not say either way. B tries to clarify the distinction but fails when C no one know that no knows the cat is on the mat C takes your princi...

You don't understand the question, what is knowledge? A the cat is on the mat B no one knows the cat is on the mat A is an assertion of knowledge B co...

But one has reasons to believe alien life exists and that it will rain tomorrow. What reasons does one have to know that know one knows alien life exi...

It seems to me that b renders a as a meaningless string if scribbles. If no one knows the cat is on the mat then from from where does A follow? Why wa...

I think most of it hasn't been to discuss whether or not an external material world exists, but what everyone means by, "external", "material" and "wo...

Probably because it would be useless to its survival. Would it be useful to know that there are two birds looking to eat it for lunch? Perceiving more...

Don't you mean our mind plays the role of the picture on TV and the cameras and microphones at the baseball game play the role of the senses? Do we di...

From where did we get the idea of two if not by first observing more than one thing? How can we observe more than one thing if we don't already posses...

Objectivity is not limited to static pictures. You can describe an event objectively as well. Objectivity is simply a description of how things are an...

It seems to me that even an anti realist can't deny the distinction between a visual of a cat and a visual of scribbles.

Then your posts are objective because your posts are fixed descriptions about sone aspect of nature or reality, like the relations between writers, re...

In this instance "not part" means not in the U.S. which is a spatial relationship and "seperate" in this sense is the literal sense. I already pointed...

As I pointed out before, the map is part of the territory, not separate. If the ones that are using the term, "separate" don't mean it literally, then...

And neither is a table on the rug the cat being on the mat. Words are not cats. Cats are not dogs. Mats are not tables. Saying a cat is not a word is ...

Is a dinosaur a word or a type of extinct organism? Do you need words to tell the difference between an elephant and a giraffe? Or can you do that by ...

It's the other way around. Every negation holds within it its own assertion. You have to know the truth to lie. You don't need to know how to lie to t...

No. I was explaining the implications of Banno's belief about the nature of truth. If "there are truths that are independent of our attitude towards t...

What does it even mean to "directly" or "indirectly" experience something? Then the two particular apples are also universals? How did you come to kno...

The consequences of unintentional actions are just as real as intentional ones. It's amazing how twisted up people can get over simple cause and effec...

But language is part of the world. We perceive and have beliefs about how certain scribbles and utterances can be used just as we have perceptions and...

But you were interested in how they exist, which is what I've been asking you: For us to continue, I need to know how you are using the term, "proposi...