True. My saying that "thoughts exist" is a raw assertion without any definition of either "thoughts" or "exist". But considering books have been writt...
EPP = existence is prioir to predication. It depends whether existence is referring to 1) the existence of the Universe prior to the predication of an...
Yes I agree. Whoever sees a broken window can use all their senses, reasoning and available evidence, such as a rock lying on the floor inside the roo...
Direct Realism I would guess that half of everyone on the Forum are Direct Realists. Some of your comments suggest that you are a Direct Realist page ...
Meinong For Meinong, the unicorn, being mythical, makes it subsist, rather than the horse, which exists. From the Merriam Webster Both the horse and u...
The EPP (existence is prior to predication) may refer to things other than objects. Thoughts exist in the mind. Are thoughts objects? Rain exists in t...
Properties are predicated of something. From SEP - Properties Our only belief about things-in-themselves comes from experiences in our five senses. Fo...
For Meinong, exist, subsist and absist are part of a hierarchy. Round squares absist but cannot subsist or exist. Sherlock Holmes can absist but not e...
There is another aspect that is critical to the difference between Indirect and Direct Realism, and that is the direction of flow of information in a ...
From Wikipedia - Direct and indirect realism Suppose someone sees a red, rectangular brick. Both the Indirect Realist and Direct Realist would agree t...
We directly see the consequence of pain, such as someone grimacing. We don't directly see the pain. Suppose I see the colour red. If I were a Direct R...
For Meinong, existence is a property. For the EPP, existence is prior to properties. It seems that two senses of "exist" are being used. Meining seems...
Meinong's Theory That objects that subsist, such as numbers and Sherlock Holmes, are logically possible and objects that absist, such as a square circ...
Both the Indirect and Direct Realist believe that there is a direct causal chain between the thing-in-itself in the world and the experience of it in ...
Existence I thought I knew what was happening until I started to read www.ontology.co/meinonga.htm For Meinong, Tom Sawyer would be an example of "sub...
Knowledge As an Indirect Realist, I don't know that some mind-independent thing-in-itself caused my (EDIT) experiences, but I believe that they did. T...
Properties For Meinong, the target of a mental act, an intentional act, is an "object" (Wikipedia - Alexius Meinong) Suppose I thought about the objec...
It seems to me that, when discussing Meinong, the word "exist" is only used when referring to the world, not the mind. I would say that thoughts exist...
For Meinong, in the world an object may exist, such as a horse, may subsist, such as a number or absist, such as a round square. Objects have properti...
The impossibility of knowing the thing-in-itself Everything we know about the "world" comes from our experiences. From these experiences we can make a...
Does Meinong's "being" mean anything? For Meinong there are three kinds of objects. Those that exist, those that subsist and those that absist. All th...
Is a lack of properties a property? The statement "a lack of properties is itself a property" breaks the Law of Non-contradiction. From the Law of Non...
In case a moderator is reading this, the OP needs an understanding of what is true and what is false, what is better and what is worse. The OP is abou...
Yes, on the one hand Keir Starmer said 4 January 2024 that he would clean up politics. On the other hand, he accepted gifts from Labour peer Lord Alli...
The will of the majority is the worst form of government there is apart from for all the other systems of government which have been tried. "Democracy...
If in a room of 100 people, 1 person says that they see the ghost of Napoleon, but the other 99 say that they don't, then this is objective evidence t...
But how can you know about the properties of a thing-in-itself if you have no knowledge of the thing-in-itself? Our only knowledge comes from mental a...
I agree, as long as society thinks that a strict legal system is moral. The Argument from Hallucination against Direct Realism is making an objective ...
I don't think that it is grammatically correct to say that a lack of properties is itself a property. Both the EPP and Meinong accept that properties ...
Hardly highly unlikely. "In the 21st century, hudud, including amputation of limbs, is part of the legal systems of Brunei, Iran, Nigeria, Saudi Arabi...
Being an extreme case doesn't in itself make a logical fallacy. I agree that an extreme case, where an argument is exaggerated to such a hyperbolic de...
I don't think that society would willingly accept a legal system that was immoral. I have no evidence, but I am sure that this is the case. Being an e...
The problem is that it is impossible to talk about properties independent of our experiences of them. The question is about the relationship between e...
The law could state that the punishment for stealing anything valued up to £50 was the amputation of the right hand. You are right that the law judges...
No, as only moral laws are valid. It is not morally wrong to break a law that itself is not moral. I agree that it is the moral thing to do to follow ...
What does prior in "existence is prior to predication" mean? From SEP - Existence From Merriam Webster, "prior" may mean i) earlier in time or order i...
For humans, humans are more important than cats. For cats, cats are more important than mice. For mice, mice are more important than cockroaches For c...
It is the moral thing that morality precedes legality, even if that is not always the case. I don't think the public would accept a legal system that ...
That means that philosophical questions about the nature of time, space and the Universe are less important than philosophical questions about the hum...
Why is the ability to judge of "special" importance? I agree that it is an important philosophical question, but why more important than other philoso...
A very good philosophical question. The philosophy of particle physics is an academic topic. For example, the Cambridge University press has a series ...
I believe that for Bertrand Russell, there is something that is an apple and is red. Being an apple is a predication in the same way that being red is...
Moral absolutism is a meta ethical view that some or even all actions are intrinsically right or wrong, regardless of context or consequence (Wikipedi...
I agree that once the criminal laws have been established, it then becomes a legal rather than moral judgment. But the criminal justice system will on...
Yes, legal judgments are different to moral judgements. But as bread is different to wheat, bread is made from wheat. Legal judgements are founded in ...
OK, lets consider 2025 and avoid anachronism. Stoning to death is a legal punishment for adultery in Iran, and therefore normative within Iran today (...
Slavery was normative in Ancient Rome and played an important role in its society and economy (Wikipedia - Slavery in ancient Rome) It may well be tha...
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