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Well you or I could be either, the point was they spent their days trying to outwit and beat each other up then walked home together.
June 26, 2022 at 06:42
/uploads/resized/files/k0/d49xc8i6ffnhp3hb.jpg The only reason you say that is because both you and Dennett have the residue of Christian faith.
June 26, 2022 at 06:35
That's only one aspect of it. Materialism treats humans as objects, rather than recognising them as subjects of experience, which in its view has no p...
June 26, 2022 at 06:11
I don't think I've ever used that as a premise in an argument. But I also don't believe that the human is simply a physical body - I suppose that mean...
June 26, 2022 at 05:49
why thanks, Banno, that is very touching for you to say that. Deeply appreciated. :pray:
June 26, 2022 at 05:33
That book I referred to before, Manjir Kumar's Quantum, is subtitled 'the great debate about the nature of reality'. Many popular books about quantum ...
June 26, 2022 at 05:05
Ask almost anyone, and they will say, 'from atoms'. That is the view of the proverbial man in the street isn't it? So I suppose to really get down to ...
June 26, 2022 at 04:58
But that is not an explanatory principle.
June 26, 2022 at 04:51
That's because you're still criticizing a strawman version of idealism. What I believe idealism argues is that the fundamental constituents of reality...
June 26, 2022 at 04:03
There are some descriptions that are much more important than others. When I used to debate on Dharmawheel, there were Buddhist scholastics who would ...
June 26, 2022 at 03:53
Not quite. It's more that facts exist for a mind, which picks out something specific or particular which is designated a fact or an object. 'If I take...
June 26, 2022 at 03:48
Where, precisely, is the boundary? That's why I made the point, x pages back, about the emergence of consciousness as being marked by the boundary bet...
June 26, 2022 at 00:03
Surely - as a surmise. But by definition, you will never know that, because if you did know it, then it would be beheld by a mind. Scientific realism ...
June 25, 2022 at 23:37
As I've explained previously, Kant's transcendental idealism does not deny the existence of the material world. Indeed most idealisms that I'm interes...
June 25, 2022 at 23:04
Of course! Many items of the furniture of our minds are real. Atoms? The fundamental particles - or is it fields now? - of physics? What do you think?
June 25, 2022 at 22:46
Real as opposed to useful conventions. You're interpreting that too literally. It doesn't mean the existence of the summit of Mt Everest doesn't exist...
June 25, 2022 at 22:27
Typical of you - when argument fails, resort to ad hominems. They are vacuous. Your op says nothing.
June 25, 2022 at 05:07
Very cunning. If I don't agree with you, then I'm culpable, I believe the innocent ought to suffer. It is incumbent on you to make a case. You're simp...
June 25, 2022 at 04:39
OK, then. Says who? From whom? On what basis? Because your arguments rely on broader issues to do with the nature of morality. It's all about what oug...
June 25, 2022 at 04:31
So, you're not a Christian, but you believe there's a natural moral law. What is the justification for that? Why do you think it's a matter of what is...
June 25, 2022 at 03:58
If we all stopped wasting time here the whole place would grind to a halt. :lol:
June 25, 2022 at 03:40
You're confusing legal innocence with the natural condition of humans. The natural condition is such the beings - not only human beings - can be subje...
June 25, 2022 at 03:37
It's the kind of question to which an answer can only take the form 'it depends on what you mean'. Let me re-iterate - the argument from mathematical ...
June 25, 2022 at 01:51
Dualism is a useful explanatory metaphor provided it is understood correctly. 'The meaningful connectedness between things — the hierarchical organiza...
June 24, 2022 at 23:33
Interesting question! Think about what the 'mathematization of nature' that was the basis of the scientific revolution enabled. It was the ability to ...
June 24, 2022 at 22:46
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June 24, 2022 at 12:39
Correct. Apart from the many other arguments which you here disregard. It is what philosophy is about. And I completely understand that mine is a mino...
June 24, 2022 at 12:36
At last you see the question I'm asking. I think that classical philosophy understood there are different levels or modes of being - an hierarchy of b...
June 24, 2022 at 10:24
Fictional creatures and mathematical principles are both things that can only be grasped by a mind, but mathematics possesses a kind of reality which ...
June 24, 2022 at 08:58
They add: And even though a measurement is a physical act it’s also a cognitive one. ‘Quick! What *is* the aim of all science and all philosophy? Your...
June 24, 2022 at 08:26
Fair comment, with the caveat that I don't self-identify as Christian (although sympathetic towards Christian Platonism). But I share (often unwilling...
June 24, 2022 at 00:23
My view of Descartes, as I've said, is the error of making 'res cogitans' a thing - which is an implication of the term 'res'. I agree with the essent...
June 23, 2022 at 11:15
I don’t agree with that analysis. It’s an attempt to duck the genuine conundrum which really is metaphysical. My interpretation here with a supporting...
June 23, 2022 at 09:17
I follow that author on Medium.
June 23, 2022 at 08:16
We’ll aware of Hempel, mainly via this forum!
June 23, 2022 at 08:14
And a very convenient one. The Enlightenment philosophes had no hesitation in blaring about LaPlace's Daemon when they felt it supported their lumpen ...
June 23, 2022 at 07:19
Useful discussion of these points here http://www.quantumphysicslady.org/what-is-the-difference-between-philosophical-idealism-and-philosophical-reali...
June 23, 2022 at 06:11
Of course. But Einstein was compelled to ask the question 'Doesn't the moon continue to exist when nobody's looking at it?' There are very deep questi...
June 23, 2022 at 06:08
And you know that, how? What unobserved reality can science tell us of, pray? Odd then that it's called the 'Theory of Relativity'. Perhaps the name c...
June 23, 2022 at 05:44
That isn't a simple question. I don't recall the exchange, and I don't want to go back digging for it. 'In Special Relativity, neither objects nor tim...
June 23, 2022 at 05:34
As I keep saying, I'm questioning the culturally-normative sense of scientific realism. As one of the authors I like writes, 'The main problem with ou...
June 23, 2022 at 04:53
Banno said earlier - We agree on that much at least. From my side, Banno's main influences are Wittgenstein, Davidson, Austin et al, who are influenti...
June 23, 2022 at 04:16
it doesn't have a position, it can only be described in terms of the wave equation. It's not hiding there in a position unknown, it doesn't have a pos...
June 23, 2022 at 04:03
I suppose the next logical stop in my reading history was a book called The Theological Origins of Modernity, Michael Allen Gillespie. Have a look at ...
June 23, 2022 at 03:58
I find myself in the unnaccustomed position of agreeing with you. :yikes: That's the gist of the book I'm reading at this moment. (Also note the disti...
June 23, 2022 at 03:00
It’s not physically real, it doesn’t exist on the level of physical things. There’s no literal collapse of anything. What happens is that prior to mea...
June 23, 2022 at 02:38
Yes I did mention that book. Found it very helpful at the time, but that was a long time ago! Still sitting there on my bookshelf alongside the other ...
June 23, 2022 at 02:16
I get it, you've explained that. Hey I think it's good we've articulated our differences so clearly. And to think that it only took ten years.
June 23, 2022 at 02:01
the wave function does not occupy space. It's a distribution of possibilities, that is all. There's no such actual thing 'out there'. The 'collapse' o...
June 23, 2022 at 01:59
It's the single most important problem in philosophy as far as I'm concerned. It addresses the very question that you and everyone else puts about the...
June 23, 2022 at 01:52