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As do I, for reasons I have given in the original post, and defended in numerous subsequent entries.

If, when you underwent this metamorphosis, you also inherited the memories of the new identity, then obviously you wouldn't know anything had happened...

I think that's near enough to a meaningful consensus. I don't know if I will repeat it, though. I'd like to find another tree to bark up.

I myself didn't come up with the term 'empirical' nor how it is used in philosophical discourse. 'Empiricism is the philosophical view that all knowle...

South Korea is also an electronics and automotive manufacturing powerhouse. My reading is, Soon had a very small majority in Parliament, and every mov...

You will agree, though, that 'gold at Boorara' is shorthand for 'any empirical fact', right? All of your arguments contra idealism are question-beggin...

Well, I'm following it in the NY Times, to which I'm a subcriber. (Incidentally, a hint: I had been a full-paying subscriber, I can't recall how much ...

That is a very perceptive question, and the precise point at issue in another current thread on metaphysical realism and anti-realism (there's a lot o...

'Gold in Boorara' is just shorthand for 'any empirical fact'. And the assertion of any empirical fact, even one that would be so in the absence of any...

I think 'rejection' would be more like it. I think the European philosophers' (existentialism, phenomenology) is more of a critique. The latter drew e...

I think 'ignore' would be more appropriate, but I'll let it go.

Yes, me too. He's definitely on my current list.

I've noticed some similarity with my position and positivism, but I hate positivism. They have no spirit, they're all logic-chopping automatons. It wa...

Thanks, that helps me understand what you're driving at. The problem is, I think it is far from clear what 'mind' is. I think we instinctively believe...

I *think* we more or less understand each other, no?

Schopenhauer, more than Berkeley. Where I part company with Berkeley, is his dismissal of universals - his nominalism, in short. I think it leaves man...

But you can't split them. You're trying to divide or separate knowledge from what is real. I say it's because you're taking a view above or outside bo...

That I take as the point at issue.

Argumentum ex auro. That passage, incidentally, was the abstract of the first chapter of an entire book. In itself it doesn't stack up to much of an a...

This is the same point we debated in the mind-created world thread, about the objective properties of boulders. It's another version of 'when a tree f...

You've often said you have devoted time to reading Heidegger. Would you agree with this synopsis of his views on objectivity? "Heidegger argues that s...

I did start on that a couple of weeks ago, although didn't watch the whole edition. (I subscribe to Kurt Jaimungal.) I will attempt it again, now you'...

that would be preferable, not that it's important.

'Waving'. You can't waive physics, it's supposed to be the arbiter here.

Well, that's where we differ, and I think also where you differ from phenomnology. I agree we can see the world as if there is nobody in it, for speci...

Fair. In Buddhist philosophy, it is not constructed from an underlying something. That's one of the meanings of emptiness (??nyat?). Chögyam Trungpa —...

Metaphysical idealism doesn't disagree that we sometimes have to check if our knowledge or beliefs are right. It doesn’t deny the existence of errors ...

You think.

It is, regardless, something only knowable to a mind. Banno is simply advocating naive realism and argumentum ad lapidem.

Hey Sam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ArBwnouHs8 Looks a very substantial debate on the subject. Consolation prize :party:

Much of this can be dissolved if you acknowledge that time itself is not entirely objective, that it entails the subjective awareness of duration. Ind...

Stanford Encyc's description of metaphysical realism: 'According to metaphysical realism, the world is as it is independent of how humans or other inq...

Bingo. You win the lucky door prize. I have no objection to there being a shared reality, in fact, I think consciousness is collective in nature, even...

:up: My thoughts also.

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OK. You said: It is not at all what Merleau Ponty said or meant. It wouldn't even be worth stating, it would just be common sense. And how does that s...

I do understand that. The perplexity for naturalism is that the criterion for what is real is what exists independently of any mind. This is the sourc...

This aspect of Husserl influenced Heidegger, even though the latter criticized some aspects of his mentor's philosophy. Husserl emphasized that all in...

Plainly.

OK. Well, a few pages back you said I will draw upon your expertise in these matters to comment on the following passage from Merleau Ponty which seem...

Even though I agree that this is perfectly evident, it is still not the point at issue, but after 12 months and many thousands of words, I am no longe...

Notice the C S Peirce quotation at the top of the Medium version of the original post:

For example? Growing up, I loved the Time Life books on evolution and biology. In one of them, they showed an experiment in which a bird-like shape wa...

Seems, being the key word. The OP criticises metaphysical realism defined as follows: 'According to metaphysical realism, the world is as it is indepe...

Thanks for dropping by. Perhaps you might glance at the OP.

John Bolton, who has become embarrasingly sensible post-Trump. says he is Trump's Lavretia Beria. The one consolation is that Beria was executed by fi...

Well, it's a bit glib. There's a classic Python sketch, now unfortunately paywalled, where Cleese says 'this week, we'll learn to play the flute. You ...

Hey, that would require knowing the One Mind. And I don't claim to know the One Mind. I'm just tracking the footprints. Totally :100:

Those are not citations. They are your homespun truisms on realism. Earlier I mentioned the phenomenological ideas of lebesnwelt and umwelt. Meaning, ...

So, Biden pardons Hunter. Me, I think it was perfectly justifiable, but what's the bet that within a New York minute, you know who will be citing it i...