Wayfarer

The brain doesn't appear at all. Not unless you're someone who is studying brains.

Well, that's what I meant from the outset.

But do you get the drift of the argument? No. If the world as it is in itself is unknown to us, then it's not a thing. It neither exists nor does not ...

When you made that remark, I had copied in a section of Pinter's text, which, incidentally, was introduced by him referring to Wittgenstein's dictum t...

that's more or less what I'm arguing in the OP. I don't agree with 'indirect realism' because it posits two separate things - the reality and its repr...

I see no advantage in introducing the term, 'indirect realism'.

Which 'primary source' describes Kant as an 'indirect realist'? Is it something Kant says about himself? The primary source I'm referring to is this: ...

But Kant doesn't call himself, and is not referred to, as an indirect realist. Kant's position is known as transcendental idealism. What I'm arguing a...

That's an idea that I'm pursuing; that what Plato called 'forms' are really more like 'intellectual principles' and the like. But still, science gener...

As the cognitive scientists say, in that video presentation I mentioned, of course there is an external world, but we don't see it as it is. The reaso...

One of the themes I'm studying in Aristotelian-Thomist (A-T) philosophy, is of the way that the intellect (nous) knows the forms or intelligible princ...

I happened on this presentation about the 'Register Theory' of Jacques Lacan. In it, there is, I think, a particularly vivid depiction of 'the Real'. ...

In my view, there's a very deep and profound underlying reason behind this conundrum. I think it has to do with the fact that in earlier times, as the...

Oh, and yes, I grant that, and also that I'm obviously putting forward his argument as a philosophical argument.

Going back to: The reason that I compared it to Johnson's 'argument from the stone', is because the argument is predicated on the assertion that 'boul...

If you mean, how does the mind (or brain) create or construct the world - isn't that pretty much what the whole brain is involved in? There are many t...

Charles Pinter is not a philosopher - he's a mathematician with a long interest in neural modelling; all of his previous books were on algebra. And as...

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But you're simply appealing to some fact or other. That a particular thing has a particular shape. But as already stated, 'In a universe without an ob...

I think you're capable of highly insightful and incisive contributions but right now you're just firing off random questions, dragging Trump in for me...

Indeed - just pick one or two of the most important themes and provide them. Certainly not all six pages, but you ought to be able to produce some kin...

You're muddying the waters :rage:

The problem there is that you're trying to assume a perspective outside both, in order to arrive at which one of the two is correct. And I don't think...

Not so. It is specific feature of modern and post-industrial culture with its emphasis on scientific instrumentalism. In earlier cultures, the 'is/oug...

As also his depiction of 'the natural attitude', which I see as the basis the objections thus far: 'No features', is the expression Charles Pinter use...

Of course! That's the point! Pinter, Charles. Mind and the Cosmic Order (p. 93). Springer International Publishing. Kindle Edition. *That is what I me...

It's worth watching the video I posted a couple of times, Is Reality Real? The opening line is, 'is there an external reality? Of course there is an e...

(Oh dear, can let this one go by. I've added the qualifiers in square brackets, I trust this is as you intended? ) It doesn't, but that is not the poi...

Let's consider the case of bona fide COVID vaccines vs quack cures such as hydroxychloroquine. Scientific studies show that the former are effective a...

This situation is frickin' terrifying. Commentary from US media has pointed out that Iran is almost certainly involved in this attack - on 3rd Oct Aya...

But I don't see that as a valid analogy for what Kant's idealism says. Kant's view is that we never know as it is in itself (ding an sich). Instead, w...

How would you differentiate a case where there is a mind involved, from a case where there is not?

:chin: I suppose you're familiar with the 'argument from the stone', which is based on Samuel Johnson's response to one of Bishop Berkeley's lectures?

They might say it in hindsight, but the point was, they couldn't have imagined it happening before it happened. Anyway, it's pretty tangential to the ...

Imagination is an infinitely resourceful faculty. On the other hand, people do sometimes say they have encountered something, or something has happene...

Useful discussion of Aristotle's telos in the IEP. It's the basis of the idea of final cause, the end to which something is directed. Counter-intuitiv...

Thereby absolving us of all responsibility as moral agents. Apparently.

Which in the Christian world, would amount to the faculty of conscience, grounded in faith in the Divine Word, which provides the criteria against whi...

I think I understand what you're seeing as a conflict. You think that what I'm saying must necessarily entail that 'the unobserved object doesn't exis...

Alternatively, all we've been seeing since is the backlash. The transformation being resisted.

But that would have been dead in the water. Gaetz said before the vote, 'If the Democrats want him, they can have him.' So if he had been 'saved' by t...

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I was going to also add, that measurements of space and distance are also implicitly perspectival. You could, theoretically, conceive of the distance ...

Being able to discern delusions and false hopes is not a tall order, is it? It’s obvious that a lot of people don’t do that, or aren’t capable of it. ...

Where, in particular? I’ve read some of his work, which has impressed me deeply, but I can’t recall this discussion in particular (although I do know ...

Sure, 100%. I’m not claiming that ‘the world is only in your mind’. If you look at the cognitive scientists who appear in the BigThink video I posted ...

As I said in the OP ‘there is no need for me to deny that the Universe (or: any object) is real independently of your mind or mine, or of any specific...

I suppose ‘smaller’ and ‘larger’ are a priori categories, though, so larger things cannot fit into smaller spaces deductively not inductively. (But th...

It’s safe to assume not, but then it is an empirical matter isn’t it? But then I am at pains to say that I have no need to call empirical facts into q...

It’s the natural thing to do! Yes and no respectively. Is ‘shape’ meaningful outside any reference to visual perception? We see shapes because it is e...