These objects are mental objects. They are real in the sense that the mind and thoughts are real because they establish causal relationships. Can you ...
You seem to think that a picture is a causally closed event. The innate nature of pictures is that they are about other things because they are caused...
The reason we don't experience contradictory propositions is precisely because what we experience is information, and if there is no information, then...
Sure it does. Like I said, pictures/appearances/looks only exist in minds, so no you can't picture a cup without picturing how a cup appears in the mi...
To say that the cup has an appearance is to project "appearances" onto the cup, when the appearance lies only in the mind, as an effect of the existen...
The innateness of the look, or appearance, of the cup lies in the mind. The way the cup is, is irrespective of what they look/appear and feel like in ...
Of course not. Can you picture a cup and non-cup in the same mental space and moment? I can picture the words, "cup and non-cup", but not what they re...
A contradictory statement says nothing at all, and is therefore useless. It is basically asserting something and then walking back that assertion at t...
Damn those environmental scientists and philosophy forum posters who keep telling us that humans are determining the future destruction of our planet ...
Obviously you weren't moved by their arguments or else you would endorse them. Why aren't you endorsing them? What is it that you find lacking, or unr...
Sounds like determinism to me. Initial conditions lead to subsequent conditions. Banno is using determinism to show that determinism is false. If dete...
There isn't much difference between the political parties in the U.S. They both promote bigger government. And the reason that we will always switch b...
Thank you both for your informative posts. It appears that Priest is confusing a misuse of language as a new logical system. This is why I pointed out...
You're so silly, Banno. Subjective, in the sense that the OP has supplied, is about using one's positive or negative emotional states to equate to tru...
More word games, Banno? If it is a given that the account of the position of the box and a given ball are accurate, then why would there be errors? If...
Agreed. What use is vageness other than to keep others ill-informed or to prevent one's self from being trapped by the rules of logic (especially when...
This is one of those times where you must ask yourself, "why ask why?". If the universe worked some other way, we'd still be asking why it doesn't wor...
Sure, you and your feelings are part of the "objective truth of the world", so to speak, just as me and my feelings are. We can talk about each other'...
All of them or any of them, when applicable. To my knowledge, none of them contradict any other one, except maybe dialetheism, but I am beginning to t...
It seems obvious to me that we have errors in our thinking - where what we thought was true wasn't. And when we look closer at why it wasn't true, it ...
Really? Which metaphysical and epistemological problems need to be solved prior to understanding, or being able to use, logic? Tell me how you answer ...
So what useful assertions can be made in the fields of epistemology or ontology where the conclusion doesn't follow the premise, or that you don't nee...
Science has gone on since the first hominid began using tools. Looking under a rock is just as scientific as looking through a telescope. Philosophy h...
How do you account for attention? Attention appears to be an actual process within consciousnes that amplifies certain sensory signals over others. Th...
So, you don't seem to be disagreeing with me that logic is a fundamental field of philosophy, rather you are disagreeing which form of logic is more f...
No, you said What is a synonym if not a word that can replace another and does so without replacing its meaning? Maybe you would be less loathesome to...
So it's not necessarily the number of senses but the degree by which some sense is more sensitive than some other? Dogs' ears and noses are more compl...
And isnt the content dependent upon the type of senses you have? Does more senses at work mean more consciousness for an entity? What about others who...
Is there an incorrect system of logic? How would you know that you are thinking meaningfully or making useful statements about any topic - especially ...
I wouldn't expect anything more from someone who claims that language is a game. So you agree with me that "true" and "objective" are synonyms but my ...
Well, that's because this is a "left-leaning forum" - as stated by some of the mods themselves. So, this forum certainly isn't a reflection of the wor...
I would agree that any attempt to define consciousness out of existence, or to say that it is an illusion, would be lame. However, I don't see the "in...
I thought the answer was that "objective truth" was a redudancy. You could remove "truth" from the OP and replace it with "objectivity", and get the s...
When you sleep, you dream. Are you conscious when dreaming? How do you know when you're unconscious? Even when asleep you are jolted awake by a loud s...
Logic is the most fundamental branch of philosophy, as it is applied to all the other branches. Without logic, you can't make reasonable or sensible a...
Following this same line of thinking, we should be holding the descendants of illegal immigrants responsible for the illegal actions of their ancestor...
When words are just visual scribbles and sounds, what does it actually mean to assert that thinking is "propositional", other than that thinking shoul...
Matter is coagulated energy. Could we then say that everything is energy? Or..... maybe something simpler than implying the existence of gods and the ...
What is an "ordinary" person? Is that another type of major human category? What does that tell us about a person - only that they think they know eve...
This implies some kind of (natural) selective process that objectively judges our actions and puts our minds into other bodies. This also implies that...
Legalize marijuana. :cool: Problem solved. Anyway this is just more generalizations, as if there aren't black cops arresting blacks. What percentage o...
The problem with Searle's Chinese room is that the man in the room does understand something - the rules he is following - write this symbol when you ...
Numbers are symbols that are only useful and meaningful when applied to real world situations. Does 0.999... in your calculations get your spaceship t...
I didn't see this as a definition because it is just as vague as your other explanations. You even admit at the end that it is subtle. You give an exa...
You didn't have a problem posting a link to fdrake's post with the videos, but you can't seem to do the same thing when it comes to your definition of...
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