Olivier5

Beauty contests and their queens...

I saw Tigger Lily in a theater as a teenager. Pure comedic genius.

Assuming you are self-conscious, you can sense what you are thinking and thus you should consider your thoughts substantive, in your way of thinking.

Glad you noticed! I stole this from someone here, maybe you: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7f/9d/51/7f9d51bb743501b231b91d2b552e5cca.gif Ockham's raz...

IMNSHO the thread title is a bit lame and should be changed to: New York New York -- Misery of Nominalism

Very simple. Senses are for info gathering, reasoning is for info processing.

Not sure I see the connection. Care to elaborate? By definition.

What do you mean by substantive existence?

So you are a pluralist like Popper?

Note that in this lecture Popper challenges both the monist and dualist views and proposes, instead, "a pluralist view ... a view of the universe that...

Thanks @"Cuthbert" and @"Michael" for the good manner update. Trying to resist the urge of using this one...

If nobody on earth thinks of the alphabet for one full minute, did the alphabet disappear for one minute?

Story of my life.

So how is it done? They wear a T-shirt saying "I Am They"?

Yes. The point was to show that there is a difference between the name or concept of "New York" and any of its many possible materializations in print...

Yes, I believe the concept exists as well. Signs are meaningful, they are not just what they seem.

Sorry, late boomer here. Why is it such a big offence to call a he a she, or a them a he? Like, you guys think she are bad?

Thanks for this; that old debate discussion thread was a bit of a zombie indeed. For the title, i would like to suggest: New York, New York: Misery of...

It's boring, rather. Discovering what is different from you can be loads of fun

Also the capacity to "change one's mind", to adopt new points of view, to commit to a new idea.

What would that be? The idea that scientific theories exist? From a lecture Karl Popper gave on the subject: https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_document...

They are all identifiable as saying the same words: 'New York', even by one who never heard of the city. Are words embodied?

For those wondering what "look" and "sufficiently" mean in the above definition, they denote whatever resembles "looking", and "sufficiently", respect...

A's look like A's. Mmmokay... If that's the sum total of nominalism, we certainly can do better. Horse noun \ ?h?rs \ plural horses also horse Definit...

But that 'definition' is not a definition; it is a tautology... "Any A must look like a A". Sure, but where's the definition? Letters and words are sy...

I have no idea what the philosophical implications are, but I would identify self-consciousness with the sense of introspection. We can 'sense' our ow...

It does apply. The letter A can be posited a philosophical entity which may or may not exist. You say there exist practical examples of As. I say ther...

The point was that "New York" written in seven different fonts is NOT seven different names of the city. They are just one name.

Isaac mentioned "interoception". I would add "introspection" as a major one. There are others (e.g. the sense of balance).

Isaac has a history of not understanding what I say very well, so it would not come as a surprise if he did misunderstand me once again.

All we do, intellectually, is move back and forth from observation, to inter-subjective validation, to concepts and communicable narratives using thos...

That seeming contradiction did not bother you that much when you explained at length why it is possible to have multiple, slightly different As. So yo...

When asked what passes for an A you answered: "anything that has enough resemblance to other As". Let us agree then that anything that has sufficient ...

Good development. So there exist what we could call "near universals", concepts that we all or nearly all agree about, like Euclidian triangles. Even ...

Sure. This tune are us, essentially.

Not only in mine, that's the hick. There's a certain universal dimension to concepts. Language depends on it.

Yes, existence precedes essence. But even if essences (of concepts) are arrived at by successive approximations and refinements of mental and sense ex...

Which is a good thing, right? (setting aside that circles have a precise conceptual definition, not based on an average of approximate circles)

Okay then. Concepts have some ontological status, we agree, at least as "subjective approximations of absolutes residing in people's mind". I like to ...

Every single day.

Indeed you made a similar argument and I did recognise the limits of the term "universal" but that does not imply that no such thing exists as concept...

Then, you need to think in terms of meaning, not just glyphs.

Point well taken. I agree that much too much is made of "universals", that they are not as universal as they seem, and they only need to be sufficient...

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Dictionaries are physical objects, with a certain mass. If you open one of them, and look inside, you will find pages, which are physical things too. ...

Your computer spell check would normally tell you. Otherwise there are resources called dictionaries.

You don't need a memory of all the other attempts; you just need to know the one and only correct spelling of "polysaccharides".

You actually do need to know how to write e.g. "polysaccharides" correctly in order to be understood as saying "polysaccharides". If you write it as "...

My name isn't actually "Oliver". It is "Olivier", which is the correct French spelling. In my opinion, that correct French spelling does exist, someho...

About how mental models design and define our life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJKVAlXHfNc