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As an Indirect Realist, I believe that both "I believe" and "the postbox is red" only exist in the mind. For someone who believes that "I have thought...

A thought of a tree There is the physical body of which the physical brain is a part. The mind is somehow part of the physical brain. One aspect is wh...

Yes, but they may have have the same sophistication of thought about friendship as Tolkein. ==========================================================...

Yes, "I think p" has several different meanings. For Frege, "I think" is the force of judgement and "p" is the content judged. Sebastian Rodl rejects ...

As an Indirect Realist, I would probably agree with Rodl. Consider the sentence "I believe that the postbox is red". This illustrates a propositional ...

Yes, which is the problem when Pat says:

As The Lord of the Rings is one of the best-selling books ever written, with over 150 million copies sold, more people have learnt about the nature of...

From Wikipedia - propositional Attitude From the Merriam Webster, the word "judge" includes: to hold as an opinion : guess, think "I judge she knew wh...

Of what use is it for Pat to say "I think the oak tree is shedding its leaves" if she thinks that there is a possibility that it may not be the case t...

The article Ralph Waldo Emerson: Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures explains it better than I could: I agree when you say that trying to sepa...

Wolfgang Iser in The Reality of Fiction: A Functionalist Approach to Literature makes the point that fiction and reality are often very difficult to s...

It's also going from certainty to uncertainty

Does that include the realities created by To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 1984 by Orwell, The Lord of the Rings by Tolkein, The Great Gatsby by ...

The main reason I became interested in philosophy was because of my interest in art. How is it possible to create art without knowing what art is? Wha...

I've been assuming that this thread is about the philosophical implications of "thought", rather than how "thought" is used in language, though it is ...

Given the sentence "I think I think the Eiffel Tower is 400m tall" Linguistically it could mean "I think the Eiffel Tower is 400m tall, but I'm not su...

I am assuming that Pat's problem is metaphysical rather than linguistic. Pat said: 1) I think that the oak tree is shedding its leaves 2) I am thinkin...

OK. How about Pat's problem, which presumably is a metaphysical rather than linguistic problem. 1) Pat says "the oak tree is standing there" 2) Pat sa...

The equivalence of thinking and being consciously aware When I think of an oak tree, I am consciously aware of an oak tree. Rather than say "I am thin...

Linguistically Linguistically, I can think about my thinking. For example, I can think about my thought that Paris is always crowded. A thought must b...

The first could be an Illocutionary Act, perhaps "expressive of doubt" (Wikipedia - Illocutionary Act) The second could be an Illocutionary Force, wit...

I would put my money on: p = Pat thinks that the oak tree is shedding its leaves I think p = Pat thinks about her thought that the oak tree is sheddin...

As you say, when I say "Paris is crowded", this infers that I must think that Paris is crowded. The problem arises with the word "think". When I say "...

Nearly. Let "p" = "I think that the Eiffel Tower is 400m tall" When I say p, when I say "I think that the Eiffel Tower is 400m tall", this means that ...

p and "I think p" An interesting post, but I am getting unclear about the meaning of p. Suppose p = "the oak tree is shedding its leaves". From page 1...

Let p = the thought that "the oak tree is shedding its leaves". When I think, it must be about something, as all thoughts must be about something. "I ...

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Possibly yes. When thinking about "The leaves are falling from the tree" you are thinking about two things connected by the common thought of leaves, ...

The question was whether it is possible to think about two things at the same time. The compound lower level thought "the oak tree is shedding its lea...

As I see it, there could be no self without thoughts. The self doesn't have thoughts, the self is the thoughts that the self has. If you had no though...

But you have said that "the oak tree is shedding its leaves" is the lower level thought.

As you say: The lower level thought is "the oak tree is shedding its leaves". Let A be "the oak tree" and let B be "is shedding its leaves" Then yes, ...

The easiest solution is that I am what I think, in that "I" am my thoughts. None of 1 to 4 apply. I am neither external nor internal to my thoughts, n...

The OP is whether without 1, 2 could not exist. But exist where? In the mind or in a world outside the mind. This leads into the question of phenomeno...

Depends on what you mean by "cause". There could be Aristotle's "Material Cause", where a table is made of wood, and the wood is the material cause of...

The OP asks whether 1 causes 2. The first thing to work out is where 1 and 2 exist, in the mind or in a world outside the mind. The answer as to wheth...

Phenomenology Kant is a dualist when he makes a phenomenal-noumenal distinction, between Appearance and the Thing-in-itself. Kant's approach seems sim...

Embodied cognition is knowledge of interactions with the environment, not knowledge about what in the environment caused those interactions This is wh...

Do you have a source for this? That an organism is embodied in the world does not mean that the organism necessarily has knowledge about the world.

The fusing of thought and sensation. A seemingly Kantian approach, where the principles of pure understanding allow the very possibility of experience...

There is no one meaning of the word "sublime". From Wikipedia - Sublime (philosophy) Not only is it a personal reaction to which definition of the wor...

Collingwood also says: This seems to suggest that for Collingwood, numbers, being part of mathematics, exist in thought rather than sensation.

I don't know what a "proto-digmatic" entity is. Does two-ness exist in the world or in the mind of the observer? Suppose two-ness exists in the world....

There are an infinite number of possible numbers, such as 1, 1.1, 1.11, 1.111, etc. If numbers exist in the world, they must exist either as abstract ...

Without meringue, the Australian dessert containing meringue, whipped cream and fruit couldn't exist. The Australian dessert containing meringue, whip...

No, not at all. Ontological relations and gravity (and forces in general) are two very different things. Wikipedia - Gravity SEP - Relations There may...

As regards Aristotle's Material Cause, which is an intrinsic cause, for example a table is made of wood and a statue is made of bronze. I agree that t...

I wonder whether even if we knew that the ultimate truth about reality was God, would we be any more knowledgeable than knowing that the ultimate trut...

What reason do you have for assuming that we can ever know the ultimate truth about reality?

Presumably "exist" is referring to existing in the world rather than existing in the mind. 2 is the relation between 1 and 1. The question to ask is, ...