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I don't think it's exactly mistaken, but reality is not as crisply delineated as are the laws of identity. That of course has been part of philosophy ...

I said was that experience 'can't be known in the third person' but I didn't say that this means 'knowledge of experience is impossible' which is what...

Philip Goff also has a pretty good blog, from which I quote the following: That is all perfectly true, but it is also not hard to see how this perfect...

Same to you, good sir.

Fallacy of equivocation. 'The hillside' might be the subject of analysis, but it's not a subject of experience - unless, of course, panpsychism is rig...

I did not say anything about it being impossible. What I said was So, I didn't say that 'third person knowledge of experience is impossible. I said th...

All experience indubitably implies a subject of experience, and that subject is not an object of perception. The mind itself is obviously, clearly, no...

From baseless claims about 'illegal voting', to baseless claims about 'the largest-ever inauguration crowd', to baseless claims about 'illegal wiretap...

For better or for worse, that is pretty much the case, although I mean it in the broader sense of the Judeo-christian tradition. When I was finding my...

Experience is not an object, except for in a metaphorical sense. An experience doesn't exist, absent an experiencer. Whereas, a bowling ball, a pen, a...

He represents the view that the foundation of Western culture and civilised ethics is basically delusional, but, as his many critics point out, does n...

To you, another human being, with whom I share experience. My comments are not purely subjective, but they don't concern any object. You cannot send m...

To be conscious is to be subject to experience. So any kind of knowledge-claim whatever presumes that there is a subject of experience. Knowing how to...

They're inherently misguided, because the question of the existence of God is not an empirical claim. As you have already said you believe that Jesus ...

I don't think we have knowledge of experience. I think knowledge is a facet of our experience. It is often commented, that 'the taste of an orange' ca...

Dawkins is certainly brighter than Ken Ham, all the more reason he should be less dogmatic. Besides, even Peter Higgs said he was 'almost a fundamenta...

What I said was: What is it to 'know something in the third person?' Well, consider the trajectory of a projectile. A great deal of physics is occupie...

'Weasel words' are words that are intentionally ambiguous or misleading, and that is not my intention here. I don't know if identity can be said to be...

Agree! That is what is troubling me too. But the question of whether time and space really are objective realities is a deep philosophical problem in ...

I am, with the caveat that the mind is never an object of cognition, which is the subject of debate in the panpsychist thread. I would hate to think o...

The question of whether maths is 'invented or discovered' is a notoriously thorny problem, and also a metaphysical question. There are many views, oft...

But the essay says So I'm guessing, you don't agree with it. What I said was that experience 'can't be known in the third person'. That is not the sam...

I think in this case, the burden of proof is on you. This point is addressed in detail in the Feser blog post I linked to.

Take scientific laws, formulas, plans, blueprints - any number of those things might have 'strict determinable meanings'. Say it's the formula for som...

I suppose so, although Universalists don't necessarily. But one thing I noticed is that the idea of a trinity is found in Hinduism and Buddhism also -...

My initial response was simply that if there are two ships, that they're both instances of the same thing (although at the time my response wasn't inf...

This is where it started: What is a 'concrete entity using concrete visual marks and sounds?' They're not actually 'made from concrete', so what is th...

'Immanently', meaning what? In any case, symbols are abstractions, and language relies on abstractions. If a chick sees a shape like hawk being flown ...

Here, you are advocating panpsychism. I am tending to think of evolutionary processes in terms of the appearance of subjective states. I don't know if...

But you did say that. and that I don't think 'animals do the same'. That is the point at issue. Animals have some ability to communicate and rudimenta...

This is getting ridiculous, John. These 'marks' are letters and words, you are able to read them because you're a human being possessed of language. T...

You're not seeing the forest for the trees. 'Concrete entities' is an abstraction. It 'stands for' a particular type of idea which you wish to communi...

The objection is that 'the soul is not material' and not composed of parts, whereas an artefact is. The soul is not 'an extra thing', to say so is to ...

nowhere did I imply or say that they were trivial. I answered the first question previously.

Current headline story in Washington Post And you can bet your boots that there will be members of Congress who say, it's the Good Lord's doing, what ...

Of course. What else could it be? When you refer to 'ship' you refer to a class of objects. What is a class but an abstraction? All language, maths an...

It still doesn't answer the question of what you mean by 'logical identity'.

none other that I managed to inveigle (at least to my knowledge.)

Right. And it's because of his commitment to nominalism, that is the exact reason. I have learned recently that Peirce was generally an admirer of Ber...

Hey I attracted an actual working philosopher to Philosophy Forum. (I told my wife but it didn't impress her.)

you would have to love dogs, or be willing to try. And quitting any job, at 18, is often a really bad move. Try a bit harder to like it, would be my a...

What is this 'logical identity' you keep referring to? The 'laws of thought' (of which the law of identity is one) are abstractions par excellence, ba...

I agree. Maybe humans are designated 'beings' for a reason! Doesn't that just re-state the law of identity - A=A because it's not everything that isn'...

Which would be what, exactly? What constitutes the identity of a particular tennis ball, or hydrogen atom (for that matter)?

Note this dialogue, from the Buddhist scripture, 'the questions of King Milinda', which is an account of a meeting between a Greco-Bactrian King (at t...

Well, no. That's why I said the thread is a kind of 'bait and switch'. When it comes to artefacts, such as the proverbial ship, then the matter of ide...

That's what serial numbers are for ;-)

Speaking for the Platonist Club, I would like to point out that 'the ship of Theseus' actually constitutes a model. It's like a Ford Meteor, or Boeing...

Thanks! Didn't anticipate a response from the author, but honoured to have received one. I think in this case 'others' are 'other beings'. Leaving asi...