Ciceronianus

Just what I was going to write in response to your question "what do you mean by the rest of the world?" How about this, then. What do you claim is th...

What we do every day, every moment, in interacting with the rest of the world provides no relevant evidence regarding the nature of the rest of the wo...

What are you referring to by "science"?

You believe that science is in support of the view that we can't know the rest of the world?

The fact that "none of this matters" would seem, to me, to establish something regarding its acceptability as an assessment of the world and out place...

Well, words are important. For example, speaking of "sense data" or "qualia" or feelings or thoughts as if they're things, somewhere, in the mind, dis...

But why? If you can't see what a flower really is in the first place, why bother checking to see if you have an eye problem?

You seem to be fascinated by your perception of me as a lawyer, or perhaps of lawyers in general. I suggest this unhealthy, as you say you believe it ...

I'm not sure medication would do any good. There's nothing real in that mental world to begin with, apparently.

Plenty of Little Heideggers in the world, though, and Little Hitlers for that matter.

How many worlds do you live in?

Only in my dreams, alas.

Our heads are so crowded, then, it's remarkable we can know what's "in" them, let alone what's "out" of them. Is your perception of the ink blots you ...

If only unrepentant Nazis would be banned! Sorry. I repent, really I do. But it's difficult for me to mourn the loss of someone who insists on flaunti...

I think it's important to clarify what you're saying. Regarding your objection to the use of the word "know." Do you claim we can't know what a flower...

Perhaps our heads are in our heads.

Humans are humans and bees are bees and flowers are flowers. The interaction of a bee with a flower differs from our interaction with it because it's ...

Why should I know anything, if what you say is correct? What's this "perception" you refer to, and where is it? Granted that our lives are our interac...

You assume that the flower must be one thing for us, another thing for the bee. There's a flower. We interact with it the way humans do. The bee inter...

I think an evil demon was having a bit of fun with him from the beginning.

The fact so many are enamored by the thought of being brains in vats is disturbing, as it seems to amount to a rejection of the world in which we live...

This seems to be to simply beg the question. Why should we assume the blinking light is all we see?

Western culture has been fundamentally selfish for some time, it's true. The concern with individual rights, individual salvation, individual status, ...

That would seem to me to make the mind the "internal world." Words have meanings, you see.

I believe we both acknowledge that we exist in the world, as do other living organisms and things. You clearly think that those other creatures and th...

When I see a flower, I don't see a perception of a flower. I see a flower. Do you claim I see something else?

I like the two I know of, anyhow.

There are humans and there are bees. I'm a human. I'm not a bee. So, if that is what you think makes a bee "external" to me, that's fine, but I think ...

I think it's a question which shouldn't arise, frankly, and I assume it does only if one takes faux doubt of the kind which so famously was indulged i...

I don't think so, no. When I say there's no "external world" I'm simply saying there's a single world, and that we're a part of it, not apart from it....

No, there's nothing particularly Stoic about that (as far as I know, in any case). That comment is more along the lines of Austin, or ordinary languag...

Here's what I'm proposing, regardless of whether it comports with anyone's idea of naive realism or direct realism. There are many constituents of the...

I'm not sure we're speaking of the same thing. Are you saying there must be an "external world" unless the universe feels pain (for example)?

Interesting. But I've never thought of my hands as "external objects" or as parts of an "external world" and I'm uncertain what is meant when it's cla...

I think they're attributes of human beings, and so are part of the world in that sense, but don't know that it follows that they're attributes of the ...

I'm not certain what you mean by this, but if you mean that there are parts of the world in addition to human beings, I agree. If you mean that we're ...

I mean simply that you (and me and everyone else) and the bee, and the flower, are parts of the same world--we all are parts of the universe. That doe...

I agree.

I think the person and the bee are interacting with the same thing (the flower). However, one is a person, and the other is a bee. It's unsurprising t...

For me, there's no "external world." There's a world of which we're a part. There isn't one world for us and another world for everything else. We see...

My understanding is the rule of law refers to its equal application and enforcement as regards all persons and entities. I don't think the phrase is i...

If only it did. Oh, you meant the other kind of parties. Specific performance is an equitable remedy which may be applied in contract law. For example...

Agreed.

What I think he's saying (and I don't pretend to be the last word on this), what I think he's criticizing, is similar in some sense to what Dewey woul...

And yet it remains the case that the rain is probable, not certain.

It's what Peirce refers to in Some Consequences of Four Incapacities: 1. We cannot begin with complete doubt. We must begin with all the prejudices wh...

These "possibilities" are of no concern, to me. I'm with Peirce when it comes to the employment of faux doubt. I think we should have a reason to doub...

The understanding that what's involved in making judgments regarding the existence and nature of a chair differs from what's involved in making moral ...

I agree. I don't think it's passive. There are circumstances when "people see what they want to see" and those circumstances, as I understand them, ma...

It isn't caused by a wavelength. It isn't caused by the color red, either. It's the entirely natural result of our interaction with another object in ...