Wayfarer

So I asked the question: Wayfarer: What is it with Hans Meinong and 'the golden mountain'? ChatGPT: ... As for "the golden mountain," it is a term tha...

No, didn't know that. I'm really enjoying playing with it. And also with Lensa, which turned me into an astronaut. Oh, and if that is all Meinong said...

Numbers are not tangible, tangible meaning 'able to be touched'. What makes them the subject of direct experience is that anyone can count, and practi...

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/the-multiverse-as-imagination-killer/497417/ Well, it's not quite the multiverse, but it's as good...

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I always thought so, but then I got schooled by Tones in the Deep Freeze who cast aspersions on pop interpretations of Godel and recommended a challen...

One of the noteworthy discoveries I made in the last few months is John Vervaeke. He has a ton of lectures and panel sessions on youtube. Currently go...

Not so much badlands, as wastelands. Which brings to mind one of the books that got me here, Where the Wasteland Ends, Theodore Roszak. At the time I ...

July. Went to North America and Europe for Aug-Sept, been home since October. Posted a few questions on philosophy.stackexchange and drafted a couple ...

Happy New Years to all. I've taken a few months out, wasn't sure if I'd return, but I'm now inclined to resume (in a limited capacity) as I'm still st...

The key realisation arising from quantum physics was the fact that the observer has a direct role in determining the outcome of the observation of pur...

Sure. But if it didn’t challenge scientific realism, then there wouldn’t even be a metaphysical question.

Over and out on this one.

Excellent interview with the founder of QBism here. Philip Ball on why the many worlds interpretation sucks. Bernard D'Espagnat says what we call real...

Poll carried out by Maximilian Schlosshauer, Johannes Kofler, and Anton Zeilinger at a quantum foundations meeting. The pollsters asked a variety of ...

Hey thanks for taking the trouble to find all those quotes, but I don't really understand what you're asking. What I'm arguing in all of those is that...

Glad to be not just another voice in the wilderness ;-)

As you're seeing the point, I'll flesh out a bit more detail of where I'm up to in this quest. As we discussed, the status of mathematics - 'invented ...

:up: 'nihil ultra ego' Interesting, but only speaks to the philosophical implications by way of analogy, I think.

The debate over quantum physics is a debate over the meaning of the experiments. You can’t question what is observed - that is the empirical fact. But...

You do, and while I respect the discipline it often tends to be a pretty one-way street. It’s like ‘if you want to demonstrate the limitations of empi...

I like this quote from that article:

I don’t consider myself expert either, I did two two years of undergrad and have since read a bit. But I do know that it’s a different subject to cogn...

I don't see it as a competition, but as I've noted before, you look at the matter through an empiricist perspective, and you don't really see how it c...

It was renamed (slightly revised) as teleonomy - apparent purpose.

Then again, you don't seem to hold philosophy in much esteem.

They may not be successful, but that is what the purpose ought to be. (It is what the rationalist philosophers were all about!) Of course, as I've sai...

:up: If you get that, you're seeing the point. You're not wrong! The roots go back to the disputes about universals in medieval times, between the sch...

It's too general a distinction for the purposes of philosophy. I agree that abstract objects are real, but many do not agree with that, on the basis t...

There is an actual division, isn't there? When I see the proverbial then there's a distinction between the knowing subject and the known object, surel...

But you're still using the term 'objects' metaphorically. Numbers, space-time, the wave equation - none of these are actually 'objects' in the literal...

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That is a figure of speech. It might make no difference in terms of manipulating the concepts required to understand relativity theory, but it's the k...

The philosophical issue comes down to one word: purpose. Any ideas of purpose, and therefore meaning, were jettisoned by early modern science, associa...

Right. And aren't universals the determinates of predication? Insofar as the mind is capable of grasping universals, then it is able to specify what t...

Of course. But I question the naturalistic assumption that there's a clear-cut division between 'in the mind' (subjective, internal) and 'in the world...

Not so. Your seven is exactly identical to mine. Otherwise nothing would ever work. They're not subjective, but they're only discernable to the mind. ...

And it's a subject of great interest to me, and one of the motivations for this thread. You're glossing over a fundamental philosophical distinction i...

according to classical metaphysics, the concept 'apple' subsists while the particular apple exists. But that's what I'm questioning. Such 'objects' as...

Using the term 'object' metaphorically, don't you think? They are what would be called in philosophy a 'noetic object', meaning 'only perceptible by t...

How could the mind be a concept? The mind is the faculty by which concepts are grasped. Of course, completely defining something as basic as 'concept'...

While I'm not a physicist, I feel the MWI is posited purely as a means to avoid the anti-realist implications of the 'Copenhagen interpretation'. The ...

You understand why that is implicitly empiricist? In any case, the examples of philosophy are, of course, the philosophers, although that looses cogen...

What I mean by cosmic philosophy, is a philosophy in which life is integral to the Cosmos, not an accidental byproduct of a meaningless process. (Alth...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-20/united-kingdom-record-temperatures-fires-burn-london/101252668 The birthplace of the Industrial Revolution is n...

I guess what I’m asking is, do you think the difference between a philosophy that makes a place for the significance of life, and one that doesn’t, is...

Evolutionary biology is a scientific discipline. Neo-darwinian materialism (Dawkins, Dennett etc) is a philosophical ideology which claims support fro...

Fair enough. I guess that is where hermeneutics is important.

That's a very interesting question. One of the papers that @"Joshs" linked to is about that - Killing the Straw Man: Dennett and Phenomenology. It dis...

Something about it must interest you, otherwise why would you keep asking questions about it?