A lot of people say this, but what would proof of causation look like? How do you know that we don't have proof of cause and effect? The assumption is...
Sure it is. It is defined by the configuration of certain elements (like neurons) and our behavior. It wasn't just "dirt". There was the radiation fro...
I also said that everyone that owns an iPhone is testing the scientific theory that the technology is based on. You perform a scientific act every tim...
Your OP contradicts what you say are the points you are making now. Your OP is what I responded to, not the points you made afterwards that contradict...
Because people still look to others (like extradimensional aliens) to give them purpose, or meaning. They are too weak to create their own purpose. Ri...
It would be a category error to call it your reality. You can call it your version of reality if "model" or "representation" isn't to your liking, but...
Time is change and change does exist in more than just the mind. The mind perceives change relative its own frequency of change which is why change ca...
Minds don't construct realities or worlds. They construct models, or representations. Reality is the sum of all mental models (yours and mine and ever...
Senses don't lie and are never wrong. They simply do what they are designed to do. Your interpretation of the information can be wrong. In other words...
Information is the relationship between cause and effect. Any effect without a cause carries no information. Another term we use for effects without a...
Then what would be the difference between a belief and imaginary ideas? In my mind, "belief" is an idea about the world as it is, whereas an imaginary...
Think about it this way: We have a map that is a shortcut representation of the world that includes some life history (memories) - this is our mind. T...
Solipsism isn't just the belief that there are no minds, but that there is no external world - nothing beyond my own experiences - anti-realism. Both ...
Who was indubitably wrong? You are contradicting yourself. How is "existing" and "being wrong" mutually exclusive? How would you know that someone els...
Numbers are processed by computers and can be processed by other animals. A number is an arbitrary symbol that refers to the sum of members in a categ...
I said: I also said that our thoughts are made of sensory data - empirical data. Our experience of our memories takes the same form, albeit a less viv...
This is a typical misuse of language by philosophers who are more interested in making word salad rather than getting at any truth. What is a "differe...
Right, and an appearance is part of the world and something that can be talked about or referred to with language. I can talk about the apple as it is...
You whole OP is an contradiction. What would it mean for some private consciousness to be deceived, diminished, or deranged if there weren't some way ...
I'm not exactly sure what you are asking here. A declaration of war is an intentional act for which reasons are given. The reasons would be the cause ...
"Fictional" refers to the idea of nonexistence. Which is to say that Sheila Potter is just another idea like Harry Potter that hasnt had as much of an...
Harry Potter is a fictional character. As such, Harry Potter can only do fictional things - fictional thinking and magic-use, and goes to fictional sc...
Okay. Then you would use terms like "beaver artifice", "avian artifice" and "stellar artifice" to refer to beaver dams, birds nests, and the heavier a...
"Fictional" is a kind of existence, so Harry Potter exists, but as a fictional character. Harry Potter is real in that it exists, but the nature of it...
I thought tautologies were stupid. What does it mean to be "unnatural"? How can a natural thing cause an unnatural thing? Other animals shape their en...
Is it your opinion that that is not your opinion? Is it opinions all the way down? How do you avoid an infinite regress of opinions when ultimately yo...
What do you mean, "look how far you have to go"? All you need to do is look and see with your own eyes that human beings are part of reality as much a...
Sure, you referred to a fact of reality - namely my beliefs. I have beliefs, you have beliefs. There, I just spoke objectively - referring to some sta...
Of course. If you want to separate humans from nature, you'd be practicing some religion, not science. Other organisms create things and change their ...
More anthropomorphism. A societal phenomenon is a natural phenomenon for some particular species. Language doesn't make us separate from nature. It is...
This is what causes the problem - splitting natural events, like looking out the window and what you see out the window into two separate categories. ...
I think there is a difference between organisms with a central nervous system and those with a nerve net like starfish. I think that only organisms wi...
Just as Jupiter is a necessary existent for the Great Red Spot, a brain and an array of senses is necessary for the existent of an observation. The ex...
Isn't appealing to feelings or emotions a logical fallacy? So I would agree that any conclusion reached by appealing to emotions or authority would be...
I'm only interested in opinions if they are based on some reason, or evidence, but then that would no longer be an opinion, but an informed statement....
I have defined meaning as the relationship between cause and effect. What words mean, are what the author intended, and author's are influenced by the...
Me, too. It really is very simple, but philosophers tend to muddy the waters with their use of language. Right. In other words, subjective statements ...
Can you prove that an empirical claim was made? If so, how do you do it if not empirically? Is it an fact that people make empirical claims and have f...
How do we objectively map the meaning of words? How is it that we can even communicate if all of our words don't exist out in the world and we use def...
Are we not testing the scientific method itself when using technology that some theory arrived at using the scientific method? I don't see how my expl...
No, it is you that is missing something crucial - namely the rest of the post that you only responded to part of, so it is no wonder that your complai...
Isnt that what we do? Scientists make claims and propose theories which then require their peers to perform experiments to then determine if the theor...
Are you saying that this property isnt the same for everyone. If I commit a logical fallacy as part of some claim that I make, how is that property no...
Was not your explanation of these theories true, or are you giving us the wrong explanation of these theories? Is it true that these theories exist an...
I can accept this because I consider "subjective truth" a contradiction (subjectivity is an incomplete or skewed notion of the truth), and "objective ...
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