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You did mention in another thread you’ve been reading Husserl, right? Your penultimate paragraph is phenomenological through and through, in its guise...

That’s getting close to what I’ve been trying to say. It’s the tendency to forget that ‘scientific realism’ still relies on an implicitly human perspe...

I should add many of the arguments sorrounding speculative physics demonstrate the significance of at least considering falsifiability a bedrock requi...

I think ‘method’ is a rather simplistic notion, considering the complexities, but I also think that there is a scientific attitude, a characteristic w...

Not all stories have two sides.

I was not sufficiently impressed by the OP to submit the few drafted comments I'd made, although now I've been co-opted, I might as well. Agree that i...

It calls this attitude into question: My theory is that secular culture works very hard to normalise this attitude, and to discourage anything that ca...

Quite the contrary, I post materials and ideas from many different sources in support of idealist points of view, and for more than ten years, your on...

I say it's controversial because it challenges realism, which is the ingrained tendency of the natural outlook. Plenty of people dispute the interpret...

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I'm afraid that explaining the existence of the world is quite beyond my capacity. But do consider the Buddhist approach, which doesn't begin with the...

Might be true if the concept of matter was coherent, which it isn't, or science could explain how matter gives rise to consciousness, which it can't. ...

It's pretty clear what he says, and has already been quoted in this thread: Transcendental realism, according to this passage, is the view that object...

There's a vested interest in materialism being right, science being the arbiter of reality, and death being the end. Nothing which questions that will...

I introduce quotations from other sources to illustrate that the point being made is not idiosyncratic or peculiar to myself. And here's another, whic...

An analyst notes: “It (the indictment) puts Republicans who are defending Trump in the stance of opposing democracy. The indictment outlines fundament...

In Berkeley's case, the only qualification required is that God sustains the Universe in existence, although personally I have no need of that hypothe...

Current science, always subject to revision - there have been murmurings about it possibly being twice as old, suggested by JWST data. That is in the ...

The sad fact is that you now have a dominant faction of one of the two American political parties actively scheming to overturn democracy in support o...

Bernardo Kastrup suggests that if the entire universe is mind, the presence of dissociative personalities creating individual consciousnesses answers ...

What do you think idealism is saying? Why do you think that idealism would suggest anything other than that? It's not saying that 'the world is all in...

I too discovered that school when researching Buddhism, there's a good IEP entry on the Pudgalavada here. That article notes that it was prominent in ...

But the ultimate constituents of objects are described by physics, which, since the advent of qm, has undermined their mind independent status. (Googl...

I don’t see how that is relevant. Cats and dogs are sentient beings and are minds quite near to ours in evolutionary terms. But at the same time, they...

Yes, but you will still never know what it's like to be a bat.

A translation of one of the Upani?ads can be found here. It includes a dialogue between the sage Y?jñavalkya and a questioner. I think this is a profo...

No, but if I said to someone, 'I've just been reading a Sherlock Hacks detective story', the response would be 'surely you mean Sherlock Holmes, don't...

Some elements of it I've had for a long time, but I keep seeing new implications.

I think it's developed through the kind of dialectical process over many years of discussion and analysis, although I think that Kant was the watershe...

This is the major weakness in Berkeley, as he is a nominalist, i.e. denies the reality of universals. @"Tom Storm" 'what we take to be material object...

There's zero purpose trying to reason with Trump supporters.

But Kant does not, and was not 'an indirect realist' in the sense you're indicating, although you're actually articulating scientific realism, I think...

That's the nub of the issue in my view. I'm not well-schooled in Aristotle, but as a matter of general knowledge it is understood that metaphysics in ...

More or less what I do in this thread. Plus expressing a sense of exasperation and bafflement.

How would that have mattered?

Do you think space and time are real independently of the mind?

Thanks, very helpful clarification. :up:

But there’s something the matter with that. Both the statements, ‘there is a fictional character by the name of Sherlock Holmes’ and ‘there is a real ...

Glad you’ve chipped in, but still having trouble. Say with the example of ‘discovering Sherlock Holmes was real’. The fact that he was real as distinc...

I don’t buy Kant’s argument. That something exists or doesn’t is surely something predicated of it.

I have two American grand-children. And I do have expectations that America is better than what Trump wanted to make it.

Devon Archer's testimony bursts GOP's hype balloon https://youtu.be/JvGf303r_GE

How Trump can even be considered a Presidential candidate beggars belief.

It was in the context of refuting the ontological argument that Kant made that case.

Immanuel Kant's critique was based on what he saw as the false premise that existence is a predicate, arguing that "existing" adds nothing (including ...

It's depressing, just how labyrinthine German philosophy became after Kant. You could assemble a roomful of renowned experts in the philosophy of Kant...

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Kant's argument is not concerned with the ontological status of the subject (i.e., whether it actually exists or not) but with the logical structure o...

Kant called himself a 'transcendental idealist' and 'empirical realist', saying that the two perspectives were not in conflict: Having distinguished b...