Think about this: How would camouflage evolve if visual experiences were merely illusions, or fictions, and didn't play a causal role in nature. Just ...
An indirect realist understands that objects have properties that our perceptions represent. If you understand causation, you understand that effects ...
This is a contradiction, as I was trying to point out before. If you're going to claim that our mind is an illusion and that naive realism cannot be t...
If the world isn't colored in, or sound or feel like we experience it, then how can you say that there are brains that produce qualia? It seems to me ...
I'm loathe to use terms like "fiction" and "illusions" when it comes to consciousness. I don't understand how a "fiction" is useful for anything but e...
That was what I was asking you based on your previous post. I made the point that the concepts that the words represent are what define larger concept...
You seem to be confusing the concept with what represents the concept. If definitions and propositions are composed of words and words represent conce...
Knowledge is a justified (true?) belief. Faith does not lead to knowledge because faith is belief without justification, and sometimes in spite of jus...
Then it seems to be a trivial argument. How are we defining "language" anyway? I don't know about you (you may be an internet bot or p-zombie), but th...
Events would be mental snapshots, or categories, of the continuous flow causation. Minds break up the analog signal of the world into binary bits that...
This thread doesnt contain what you've said for years - only what you've said recently, which is inconsistent. Maybe that's the problem, Banno. You be...
Wait, I thought that: So which is it? Does knowing it or believing it make it true, and where does certainty fall? Is it possible to believe or know s...
Like walking, riding a bike and driving a car - after you've practiced enough these things are automatic and innate. I was reflecting on your seemings...
lol, so anti-realism defeats itself by rejecting it's own existence as a belief? A non-existent nihilist? :lol: What do you mean by, "'existence of an...
It seems like you're saying that one can be certain without any reasons or evidence for what they are certain about. That isn't how I or anyone else u...
I'm not quite sure at what you're getting at here. Where would instincts fall into this explanation? Are instincts a form of knowledge? Does a newborn...
What would the phrases, "living under a rock", or "living in a bubble" mean for an anti-realist? Are there other minds, or other bodies? Why do we per...
I dont see how one can be certain without having rigorously arrived at their state of certainty. Without having done that, they would be misusing the ...
What does "talking" mean if there isnt a medium that carries this information (that there is something called a physical world that contains cats) bet...
In other words, anti-realism logically leads to solipsism. Where is this consensus taking place if not in the real world with real human beings? "Cons...
This thread is confusing what we think with how we think. Does a newborn baby know what an unmarried man or a bachelor is? If not then how can all unm...
At any given moment you possess information/knowledge that is useful and not useful for some goal. While you possess information/knowledge that... thi...
Maybe the problem is the terms themselves, facts, truth, knowledge. Maybe we should dispense with their use for the moment and talk about states-of-af...
Isn't it glorious to see all the rich varieties of side-stepping a direct question on these forums? What I get from both Merriam-Webster's definition ...
This is why I don't expect much of a response when I point out the failure of your arguments. So the above two sentences are not using "certain" and "...
Seems that both words are used the same way, and therefore mean the same thing (if meaning is just use and all that) Now, are we talking about the sta...
You're not paying attention to what I'm saying and you post is incoherent. Let's slow down a bit and start from scratch. Anyone who thinks that everyt...
Life is not a contradiction. Citing learned thinkers is a logical fallacy called pleading to authority. The problem generally lies in some emotional a...
What does saying everything is "matter", or everything is "mind" do for us? It gives us a name to use to refer to the substance of reality so that we ...
The problem isn't trying to think how mind can arise from matter. The problem is thinking of the world as two different things - matter and mind. Ever...
Is Bob really speaking in the "third-person"? Isn't Bob speaking from his own perspective ("Alice" instead of "I" as having the toothache)? Is Bob tal...
What's funny is the response of so-called quality posters on this forum to racial topics on this forum. It's like Jekyll and Hyde with the sudden rash...
Do you really think natural selection would promote non-jogger genes in the pool of a hunter-gatherer society? Today, most of the societies are not hu...
It looks like you're explaining things at the wrong level. Sure humans have legs, but they also have brains. Both of which were designed by natural se...
This whole thread is forgetting the concept of kin selection. Kin selection is the evolutionary strategy that favours the reproductive success of an o...
Like I said, you can't make rules for the differences if the differences didn't exist prior to the rules. You need to recognize differences before mak...
You're the one that doesn't know what they are talking about. Your daughter shares 50% of your genes compared others of a different race in which you ...
But that is what I'm saying. What does it mean to act white or black when there is already diversity of actions and needs and wants within those group...
The majority doesnt necessarily oppress the minority. A constitutional republic, like in the U.S., is designed to protect the minority from majority o...
That all depends on how we group, or categorize, people. What do blacks want that would be different than what whites want? Don't we all want freedom ...
Does supremacy = majority? Were they aware that there are simply more whites than blacks and that it would be logical that more whites would be in pos...
Interest is determined by your goals. What is interesting depends on the present goal in the mind. The only interest in knowing about the claims of lo...
Unchanging causing change is as incoherent as something coming from nothing. See? You can't escape talking about God relative to the universe. You are...
No, I'm not. I'm simply asking you a direct question that you should be asking yourself, but you are unwilling. I'm asking it because it I need to kno...
But we can't know if they would say something differently. It would be more interesting to know what current philosophers think. The fundamentally rel...
Well, yeah. Causes are also effects of prior "causes". It's effects all the way down. It's all information. Maybe trying to separate causes from their...
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