Causation (i.e, first cause, god, no beginning and no end). The fact that you "start anywhere/somewhere" should be an indicator that you're not dealin...
More language games. How can you even say that one follows from the other - that one gets a sense of infinity from finite signs expressed by finite be...
That, and playing language games. If using numbers and words doesn't entail using finite objects to refer to other finite objects, then Banno isn't ta...
So essentially what you are saying is that you access an objective form of transmission, subjectively? I don't see how that makes any sense. The form ...
Yet Sam26 was able to make perfect sense of what I said, and everyone else I have had a conversation with on these forums, was able to make perfect se...
Sure, but doesn't the fact that we are both human beings with the same sensory hardware, same type of brain, developed in the same culture that teache...
To count correctly, you have to remember which individuals have already been counted. Numbers are placeholders for those individuals that have been co...
What are marks on a piece of paper, if not marks of ink, or lead? Does ink cease to be an object when it gets transferred from the pen to the paper? S...
Are letters objects? Are ink scribbles on paper objects? Are symbols objects? Letters and numbers are each individual objects that can be counted. How...
If counting is something we learn, then counting is something we find. If we aren't pointing at individuals when counting, then what are we counting, ...
An illusion is a real thing that is misinterpreted as something else. A mirage is a real thing - a product of the refraction of light and how it is pe...
Google, "Evolutionary psychology". If minds are causally connected to the world, then the dualistic distinctions of "physical vs. non-physical", "inte...
You're beginning to lose me, Mww. I'm not sure I can ascertain anything useful from your last post. You told me, "Bullseye!" in the last post, yet whe...
Pantagruel gave a better response to your question, Echamarion. I would just like to just expand on what Pantagruel said. In using the term, "particle...
Never "read" a picture book? How are we communicating if not by images on a screen? Words come in the form of sounds, or images (more specifically, sc...
If we don't have any control, then how do we have control to limit our desires? It seems to me that the idea isn't to limit one's desires, but to chan...
That's not how it seems to me at all. If you can think without talking, but can't talk without thinking, then that tells me that thinking is fundament...
How do we know? This seems like a silly question. It is how we describe the world based on our observations. We even invent objects as processes. Thin...
This is just another way of stating the problem of free will, which isn't new. What you are basically saying is that "control" is meaningless. I have ...
This is a contradiction. If I don't have any power over the self-actualization of my self, and I owe my existence to other's self-actualization, then ...
We already "conceptualise a reality of "processes/relations all the way down"". Conceptualizing a reality of "processes/relations all the way down" IS...
OK, but there are many theories of mind - some of which contradict each other, or aren't compatible with each other or other things that we know, so w...
Can we agree at least that you don't supply adequate responses to other's posts? When you can go back and re-read the post you're quoting as a rebutta...
Yet, "doubt" is used to refer to a feeling of uncertainty. There seems to be a stark difference between knowing that it is raining and knowing the cap...
So your words are about human minds, yet you say that the words are about some arbitrary persuasion. I don't see how they can be about both. Either it...
I thought we had reached some sort of an agreement that it might be processes/relationships all the way down, not objects which would imply the "physi...
I was talking about your quote in the same post, here: Is this quote about all minds and speculative epistemological philosophy, or about your ego's n...
Blasio tried to shut down NYC schools for the rest of the school year but was blunted by the NY governor. The governor has control of the school syste...
Not the term I would choose to describe the inconsistency of political partisans - those who see life through the prism of politics. The term I would ...
:roll: This doesn't answer my question. If the governors don't have access to the intelligence resources that the WH has, then why are they saying tha...
So, then we are not to take your previous quote seriously, as if it bears some truth, or is representative of of some state-of-affairs independent of ...
If Trump doesn't have the power to reopen schools, businesses, state and local govt. offices, etc. then did he really have the power to close them dow...
If you refer to yourself as a "subject", and others refer to you as an "object", are we both talking about the same thing, or are we talking past each...
I think you replied too hastily. Read what I said again. I said that "ice cream taste good to you" is true. This is a case where you didn't confuse so...
How can it be true that ice cream tastes good, if it doesn't taste good to others? It can only be true if it tastes good to you. There is no such thin...
How can it be true that ice cream tastes good, if it doesn't taste good to others? It can only be true if it tastes good to you. There is no such thin...
Other minds are outside of my mind, and my mind is outside of their minds. So how do you reconcile the facts that you are a subject from your perspect...
It seems to me that you can only talk about what you think and in talking about what you think, you are talking about part of the world. Subjectivity ...
So, a subject is a view? Are you saying that is all that you are - a view of the world? The "internal vs. external" is a product of the same problem a...
I didn't say your world. I said the world. The world is not yours unless you're a solipsist. If you are not part of the world, then how are you commun...
While imaginings and delusions are real and objective in the sense that they exist, what they are about is inaccurate, and in that sense they would be...
We don't know when statements are true until we can all establish some evidence or proof of the claim. The claim is still objective in the sense that ...
No. It's not. You keep making objective statements, seemingly without knowing it. Each sentence you just wrote is an objective statement about you, an...
...which is part of the world. Your knowledge of the world, accurate or not, is part of the world. How is this statement useful? Subjectivity is essen...
You're making objective claims about how the world is for everyone, as if you have a view from everywhere. Yes. At least some of you are getting it. I...
If you understand, then what is lacking? Again, you are making objective statements about words lacking something, as if anyone that uses words lacks ...
What do you mean by "true" if not that it is the case for everyone? If it's not true for everyone, then why say it? What use would it be for others? K...
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