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Right. Imagine it. There you are - that's the 'implicit perspective' that I'm referring to.

That would depend on there being a valid objection. It is quite on-topic. You mentioned Einstein - Bergson's argument for the role of subjective aware...

It's the same point that Kant was making, about how time has a subjective component, arising from the awareness of duration. What is it that connects ...

I think he thought that the Department, which was then under the professorship of one D M Armstrong, would not provide the kinds of answers I was seek...

Quite. Subject of a current Aeon essay on the debate between Bergson and Einstein: Apart from any conception of it, it neither exists nor doesn't exis...

No, it's the bit where Kant says 'were I to remove the thinking subject, the whole world must vanish'. I looked up the exact quote:

So you still can't see how I can acknowledge that this is empirically true, yet still maintain that it is not a mind-independent fact?

No doubt. But they're not things until they're cognised. I never use the word.

That's precisely the point! Whatever 'particles' are, they are not defineable until they are measured. This is the whole conundrum of modern physics, ...

wouldn't call Buddhism spiritual. We can't help view it in those terms, or map it against them, because of our own cultural background and the pervasi...

Epoch? is withholding of judgement concerning that which is not evident. All of your supposed 'unseen realities' are the subject of conjecture and inc...

Those are the ground on which I'm arguing against so-called mind-independent facts. Epoch?, refraining from judgement about non-evident facts.

OK if you want to have another go... you said: But the instant I ask the question 'what stuff do you mean?' or 'what do you have in mind?' then your a...

It's noteworthy that NY Times reports many Trump voters are thrilled with Trump's radical choice of nominees. Why? Because, they'll 'drain the swamp' ...

I do get that I'm a bit of a radical, but I try not to be too strident about it. Anyway, bear in mind, you can only successfully condescend down, and ...

Nowadays it's common knowledge, there are many reputable popular books on the subject (e.g.). I'm arguing that there are powerful trends within both p...

Oh of course. I've found current academic philosophers whom I think have philosophically profound things to say, and a genuine passion for saying it. ...

Indeed, the mind is not yours or mine. We are all part of a community of minds - biological, cultural and linguistic. Consciousness in that sense is c...

It’s a cultural issue. That excerpt basically says that academic philosophy is no longer concerned with deep philosophy, but with the minutia of techn...

I think @"javra" is making a solid point. Nietszche foresaw the upsurge of nihilism due to the death of God - which was not, according to David Bentle...

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But one may be an empirical, without being a metaphysical, realist.

Check out Is Reality Real?

Yeah, well, life doesn't come at you pre-divided into neat paths. Usually it's a mix of conscious motivations, circumstances, accident and planning. B...

It is subjective in that there is a subject to whom the colour appears. As to whether that is erroneous in principle is another question, and besides,...

You appear to believe that I must insist that nothing can exist outside my knowledge of it, that, according to what I'm saying, there can be nothing n...

I was responding to the point of yours that I quoted, about how to reconcile the apparent unworldliness of the desire for transcendence, with the actu...

No kidding. Just the kind of thing that will trip up your average "realist". Deleted for excessive sarcasm. (I'm trying to avoid it.) The point I'm tr...

But again - how do you see the 'extra human universe'? Even if you're an astrophysicist aware of the vastness of the Universe, you are providing the p...

What was the significance of the remark Wittgenstein made 'I am my world?' For Wittgenstein, the "world" is understood as a logical space in which fac...

No it isn't, although I know from long experience it is not a distinction that makes sense to you. Which is why you keep rabbiting on about cups and s...

There's a section of The Embodied Mind, Thompson et al, named after it. It's not a matter of resolving it in the sense of providing the longed-for cer...

Ever come across the expression 'the Cartesian anxiety?' Richard J. Bernstein coined and used the term in his 1983 book Beyond Objectivism and Relativ...

Consider early Buddhism - Gautama said to be of noble birth, who renounces home and family life in pursuit of liberation. (The meaning of the name of ...

Yes, that's right - no-thing-ness, not a thing, neither this nor that (neti neti). Basic to the terminology of Mah?y?na and Vedanta. Since the Renaiss...

There's a book I've been aware of for a long while, and Vervaeke frequently mentions in Awakening from the Meaning Crisis. It is Religion and Nothingn...

': Quote from wiki entry on Zappfe: "I am not a pessimist. I am a nihilist. Namely, not a pessimist in the sense that I have upsetting apprehensions, ...

The philosophical point of such aphorisms is the sense in which classical philosophy gestures towards something beyond. The role of philosophy is to t...

This is an instrumental argument because it evaluates the existence of religion solely in terms of its utility or function, implying that its widespre...

I think the case can be made, not that anyone will listen to it, that Trump's major motivation is hatred and vengeance of those that prosecuted him - ...

The expression 'beyond being' is frequently encountered in axial-age philosophies of both East and West. I think what it means is 'beyond the vicissit...

I think the term 'antirealism' can sometimes be misleading. The key point about so-called antirealism, as I see it, is that it challenges the tenet of...

Hence the association of celibacy with renunciate philosophies.

It’ll have to wait, but I will.

Constructivism is nonetheless a counterpoint to realism, is it not?

So what’s the full- strength version?

But constructivism doesn’t entail that there are no facts outside our knowledge of them. I see the point about constructivism as being, not that there...

He will have to hitch hike to work, Shaye Moss has just taken possession of his Merc. Never! Who would ever do such a thing?

Although that said I still favor constructivism which as a general approach is more characteristic of continental philosophy than Anglo.

Agree I’ve lead us off into the long grass