T_Clark

Racism vs. bland breakfast. It's up to you to decide.

It's not clear to me what "two inseparable poles" means in this context. Metaphysics is the context of seeing, knowing, experiencing; not what is seen...

I looked up Sellars in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The discussion of manifest vs. scientific images looks interesting. I'll read it. Mayb...

The only thing racist about your recipe is that you use cheddar. Use queso fresco and calling it Mexican Breakfast is fine.

That isn't what I wrote. Even your caricature of my philosophy is still philosophy, whether or not you consider it useful.

Everything you say is true, but that doesn't change the fact that if we exclude how normal people see and understand the normal world on a normal day ...

As that great philosopher T Clark, for whom I was named, said - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little short order cooks.

I don't think it's always easy. Let's take a look: Observation of the behavior of particles at CERN - science Interpretation of observation in terms o...

Eggs are so wonderful all by themselves, why screw with them - fried, poached, soft-boiled, hard-boiled, scrambled, baked, coddled, shirred. No need t...

It's not clear to me whether or not you and I are disagreeing with each other.

The claim that "factual correctness in science asymptotically approximates ( through Popperian falsification) an ultimately true reality," is not a sc...

Speaking scientifically, everything in the universe is a result of quantum behavior, but we experience reality as classical. To say that reality as pe...

Or as Robert Frost wrote - It's given my heart a change in mood and saved some part of a day I had rued.

It is deeply appreciated.

Don't exaggerate. You have a whole life of continued humiliation to look forward to.

Thanks. That's just what I needed. I'll ask my son, the beer expert, to bring me some barleywine beer to taste.

Much of what I think and believe is based on introspection, i.e. observation of my personal experience. Since phenomenology is "...the philosophical s...

Geez. Today's Shoutbox conversation is terrible. Please, someone, bring back that post-modernism, political correctness, magma power guy.

I agree.

This is what I find troublesome. To me, reality can only sensibly be what normal humans interact with on a day to day basis. What a few scientists and...

I don't think I understand. Agreed.

On the other hand, we see baseballs and ham sandwiches. They behave consistent with classical mechanics. I think it's fair to say, at least metaphoric...

I base my opinion, at least partly, on what I see here on the forum. There are a lot of big arguments about which ontological way of seeing things is ...

That's fine, as long as we recognize that use of "entanglement" in any context beyond quantum mechanics is metaphorical and not literal. Quantum mecha...

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You’re wrong.

Then again, physicists and the rest of us can count on both realism and locality in the world where we live our lives. I'm not saying the results of q...

I think it's just the opposite. A childhood with good parents - not exceptional, just good enough - teaches children that the world is understandable ...

@"Jamal" As I mentioned, I am reading a translation of the "Night Watch" books by Sergei Lukyanenko. In the story, it says that Russians all watch "A ...

Thanks again. I downloaded the paper, although it may be a bit over my head.

As I've said eleventy-seven times here on the forum, the best, most useful, way of seeing things is different depending on the situation. And that is ...

I don't think it's hard to pin-point, it's just hard for people to agree on.

Entanglement itself is a physical, not a metaphysical, phenomenon. Metaphysics is how we look at things, not what we see. I have thought about what ch...

Yes. I think this is correct. I think most people think there is only one correct way of seeing reality. It certainly seems that way here on the forum...

Epistemology is about knowledge, not meaning. Are you saying they're the same thing? I don't understand how that's true. Here's the definition of "dec...

Tell me how to get rid of epistemology. You say "Z." I say "How do you know Z." Or I say "Prove Z." Those are epistemological statements. If you say "...

So... Don't keep us waiting... Is he?

I didn't mean that as a criticism of those thinkers. I just wanted to emphasize that metaphysics isn't old fashioned and hasn't been superceded. I see...

Good set up for the thread, as long as we can stay away from going down the swirling drain of arguing about the meaning of "metaphysics" and so avoidi...

It's a bit hard to talk about this without understanding the context. Have you read the Tao Te Ching or any of the earlier posts in this thread. Do yo...

I am confused by the terminology that is used when discussing the human experience of reality. When I talk about it, I usually call it "introspection....

For what it's worth, in the 1970s, Julien Jaynes wrote "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" in which he claimed that p...

Great new word. Thank you. I will use it often. Looks like the guy in the lower left is calling in le Garde Nationale.

Both of those links are really helpful. Thanks.

I appreciate the reference, but I'm not sure that anything I read is going to clarify things for me. I will take a look.

It is my understanding that the Copenhagen Interpretation is not a "philosophical speculation." It represents a refusal to speculate. Metaphysics pare...

For as long as I've been alive, people have said that conservation and non-fossil energy will never replace fossil fuels. Batteries will never be effi...

It seems to me that what you call faster than light action-reaction is equivalent to communication. It seems I'm wrong about that.

Yes. The statements seem to be contradicting each other, but I'm confident they aren't because a lot of really smart people have said so. That doesn't...