Harry Hindu

I don't know. Would this mean that it would be impossible for a person to convert from one position to another? When I was a Christian I had one frame...

Right. To say "both" is saying that the framework more accurately reflects the state-of-affairs than other frameworks do and is what makes you a solip...

I don't know. Is solipsism a framework, or the state of reality, or both?

It seems that much of what people talk about on this forum is what other philosophers have said, and what some philosophers said is always dependent u...

:up: Posting on the forums creates more opportunity to receive input from varying points of view and potential valid criticisms. Is having to wade thr...

I wasn't arguing about which dictionary we use, only that we use a dictionary to guide our use of terms. You provided two definitions: I was referring...

Great minds think alike :cool: It depends on how we want to look at causes. Causes are an interaction of two or more things (like a broken tree limb a...

When someone says that "world" is going to mean different things for different people then you're saying that all qualifiers for "world" are up for de...

Getting a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc opinion would also qualify as getting more information before making a decision. I always try to find natural remedies fi...

All of philosophy is contained in language which Merriam-Webster provides guidance for using. Sure, you can use symbols arbitrarily for your own priva...

I'm not sure. This is the first time I'm asking this question of anyone, including myself. It does appear to be the case given how they are using the ...

Then why do so many people on this forum conflate anarchy with libertarianism - as in do whatever you want? It must be that the are using anarchy as d...

Exactly. If you had access to more information you would have chosen differently. So the question is, could it have been at all possible for you to ha...

That's why I mentioned what happens at a stop sign. What caused us to stop? Is what caused us to stop the same as the reason why we stopped? A broken ...

I don't know. We are all born solipsists. When we reach 8-12 months of age we convert to realism by acquiring object permanence. Was realism and the i...

It's extraordinary to claim that the world is coherent and predictable yet we all fail to come to a common understanding of what the world is, how it ...

Reasoning is using reasons to support a conclusion - logic.

What does "physical" mean? Your question seems to stem from a dualist perspective in that somehow mental processes not part of the "physical" world, o...

"Socratic questioning is a form of disciplined questioning that can be used to pursue thought in many directions and for many purposes, including: to ...

Is there a difference between what something is like and what something is?

Is the framework that supports the realism of other minds and their contents context-de/independent?

Talk about "language on holiday". It seems to me that you're simply asking if realism is the case. Is it?

Sure. I can agree with that. It depends on how we're defining "logic". If I were defining "logic" in more broad terms, I would say that it is a means ...

It depends on the goal. Sometimes it is useful to treat things as distinct entities. Sometimes it isn't. If treating entities one way or the other pro...

You're trying to finish the race before starting it. Most people on this forum, once they realize the direction of inquiry, start to dance around the ...

Your response does not address what I said. Read what I said and respond appropriately. Humans have made their own wings. Has any other animals design...

Then we agree that animals think and behave logically given the way they are designed and the sensory information they receive as inputs, just as I ex...

Can you perform logic without causation or without determinism being the case? What is logic? What does it mean for a conclusion to "logically follow"...

I doubt we seek truth for the sake of seeking truth. We seek truth to acquire some kind of advantage (knowledge) about how to improve our lives to som...

Personally, I don't care. I'll interpret the lack of any rebuttal on your part to everything else I said regarding free speech as an agreement with wh...

"By nature" meaning that they were naturally selected to be curious because being curious allows one to be open to new solutions to existing problems.

All you need to do is make some basic observations of animal behavior to realize that this is not true. To say that other animals are "just as" humans...

It depends on what you're talking about. When you are ignorant of the facts, it certainly does appear that "anything goes", or "anything is possible"....

The obligation is created when you signed up for the military - obligating you to follow your commander's intentions - not when the commander speaks. ...

I would prefer that you provide links to those other things because the language used in your quote is unwieldy. Instincts are useful or else they wou...

Now, who should be arrested for what Siri does? He has accepted that but you keep dancing around the issue with your over simplistic assertions. Then ...

Whose goals are being realized - yours or the hacker's? Who had more control over what happens when you say, "Siri, open the blinds." You or the hacke...

Exactly. Once you declare that there is some aspect of the universe that is random, or indeterminate, then you've create a dualistic problem of trying...

You seem to be conflating intent with the intended outcome. You can intend to create an obligation for someone to stop when you say, "Stop!" but when ...

Like that the universe is causal and deterministic? Yes. Could a mind evolve in any other type of world? My response is that survival is the best ince...

There are many other possible causes. What if a hacker hacked your home network and now Siri unlocks your doors instead of opening the blinds? Who wou...

But sometimes Siri does not open the blinds. How do you explain that and wouldn't that mean there's a more immediate cause of the blinds opening or no...

There is nothing contradictory about this. In fact, this is the actual point that we are making - that some people can be influenced (but not directly...

Yikes. I hate it when that happens. Commanding and asking are conveying information about one's intent. When someone yells, "Stop!" what they are doin...

This is something like what I've said before in that mathematics is based on the idea that there are categories of things. For there to more than one ...

I was thinking about it a bit more and can see philosophy, with the application of logic, tests the theories for soundness, while science tests them b...

Seems like you're just defining "intent" here. Not when the "common good" is bad for the individual. The good of the individual vs the good of the gro...

I would define useful as being applicable in real-world situations and produces the expected results. What does "philosophically helpful" mean if not ...

Ethics is not necessarily the study of ends, but the ends in relation with some intent because we see people that accidentally caused harm different t...

:smile: Ironically it is only our native language that has this supernatural power as hearing a language I don't know has no supernatural power over m...