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Tx. I'm trying.

Sure, if that works for you. Me, I'm a Non-Black anti-racist.

More as ‘unbiased, fair in appreciating the available evidence.’

It’s exactly what people are driving at, in science, journalism, justice and scores of other fields where it is really important to try your best at b...

Only if one obsesses with attaining perfect objectivity. As a beakon or azimuth, a goal that will never be attained but nevertheless indicates a worth...

I mean to say that another possible way to define yourself in opposition to a ‘white’ racist is as anti-racist, rather than as ‘non-white’. I’d be wor...

It’s never actually measured objectively, though. It’s not like people’s actual skin color or melanine density in the epiderm was recorded by some opt...

There are also 'white' citizens who are not white supremacists. It seems counter-productive to mistake them for the enemy, if they aren't. Skin color ...

Yes of course we are all colored. 'White' people are light brown / pink. Even if they were technically white, white is also a color. ----- Two Jewish ...

Materialists believing in telepathy... You can't beat this place for entertainment. :-) Telepathy (from the Greek ????, tele meaning "distant" and ???...

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are a hoax. They do not exist.

Good riddance.

I have zero respect for Wittgenstein, whom I consider a fake philosopher as well as a coward. If you want me to comment on everything you say, you gon...

2a: of, relating to, or being an object, phenomenon, or condition in the realm of sensible experience independent of individual thought and perceptibl...

I go by the dictionary, usually. Make your pick: Objective (adj.) 1: expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by...

Very much so, but in what sense is this image objective?

An intrusive procedure.

Noses are private on the inside.

That can't be done. It leads to logical contradictions. Meaning is not disposable.

So what? There's no structure to things? Things are whatever we want them to be? Is that what you and this guy Goodman are saying? To me, reality is p...

Popper was a realist. He saw intersubjectivity as a tool, as means to an end, which is knowledge.

The way I understand these words, your personal narrative is by definition subjective because your are a subject. Keeping in mind that what you percei...

Key words: to get by. Which a good way to put it. Our senses have been selected to help us get by, based on their utility to survive and procreate. Th...

It just means our knowledge of it is and forever will be incomplete and perfectible.

All of them and more compose what must be a unique reality, with many different facets.

Ok. I'm just worried about giving the impression I'm talking literally of real geographical maps. Rather I am speaking of any representation, geograph...

Evidently. Literature presents a few cases of authors who tried to exhaust or at least give some justice to the infinite richness of a specific part o...

The map may not necessarily be objective. The "map" here being a metaphor for any representation, model or picture, including mental maps, which I gue...

Point 5 is simply that a map with everything to know about the territory on it (an exhaustive map) would be impossibly bulky. For instance, the indivi...

Indeed, we can only map what we know, or think we know. Nevertheless, the map will never be the territory, for a host of reasons e.g. 1. A representat...

Yes, Popper saw himself as Kantian.

You probably are reddish here or there. Most probably your blood is red, for instance. (Hey, I can nitpick too)

Yes of course, some maps are more accurate (or less inaccurate) than others, for a given purpose.

Okay, or "how it feels to be a bat". Indeed a rather immaterial, speculative question. I believe your red is my red, because the underlying mechanism ...

Both realist in the general sense, that I can and must conceive of a mind-independent reality, that whatever is the case is the case, irrespective of ...

Large parts of it are, things like language, the economy, science, or art are evidently of a social nature, and therefore co-constructed. But other th...

I never said any such thing. Don't even know what intrinsically private means... There are things that are not said, by convention. Speaking about the...

Which brings only confusion. By definition, private means "not shared". What is "not shared" is not "intersubjective". Intersubjectivity cannot imply ...

May I ask, what does "intrinsically private" mean in this context? Can anyone try and define it? And what is the connection with public discourse? It ...

Some thread participants like the concept of intersubjectivity, while others are suspicious about it. The latter tend to be the 'non-selfers' ie peopl...

Exactly. If somebody rings, you try to pretend that nobody's at home. Hence your difficulties to express yourself clearly: a self-professed zombie wit...

Banno is a denier of the mental world. That's where his fear of certain words come from, and he cannot really say it out loud because he knows how rid...

I vote for indeterministic. The gods do play dice. They bet too, otherwise the game is boring.

You are indeed going around in circles, but only because you don't want to go anywhere. Yet you stumbled on an interesting idea which I shall chew on:...

What is the mass of a neurological process? A brain-dead or brain-damaged person still has a brain. The organ has not been removed; it's still there b...

These things you move to long term memory when you sleep, do they have a mass, a volume or a number? I guess not, and hence you are talking of mind st...

I haven't talked to him since he missed my son's bar mitzvah.

Our bodies can rest without sleeping, so that can't be it. Our brain, maybe, possibly because sustaining a mind is a very tiring thing. Comatose peopl...

You can lose your mind. You can also temporarily suspend its operations. It's called sleep. Why do you think people have to sleep? Sleep is quasi univ...