I perceive as a phenomenal experience a red object, and believe that there is some unknown thing the other side of my senses that has caused this phen...
When driving in a city and see a red traffic light, I know what to do, which is to stop the car. Do I need to know more than what I have directly perc...
Synthetic a priori knowledge is central to the thought of Immanuel Kant, who argued that some such a priori concepts are presupposed by the very possi...
I agree that life evolved through a dynamic interaction between itself and its environment over billions of years, such that life is an intrinsic part...
I know that I perceive the colour red and feel pain. I believe that neither the colour red nor pain exist in the world. I believe that sometimes my pe...
As an Indirect Realist, I agree with much of what you say. I perceive the colour red even though I believe that the colour red doesn't exist in the wo...
Enactivism is no counter to Indirect Realism It would seem that the physical structure of the brain is a consequence of around 3 billion years of evol...
Is 1 + 1 = 2 a necessary truth by definition or because in the world 1 + 1 = 2? If I invent a mathematics and define 1 + 1 = 3, then within my mathema...
How can an observer observe something that cannot be observed As an Indirect Realist, I directly know my sensory experiences of sight, sound, touch, t...
The problem with transcendental arithmetic. For example, using deductive inference it is possible to prove that the sum of every two integers is alway...
The question is, where is this "world", inside or outside the mind. The relationship between the Correspondence Theory and Truth is an enormous subjec...
Yes, Aristotle considered the Platonic argument that he called "The One Over The Many", whose premiss might be expressed as "Whenever two or more thin...
1) 2) 3) I agree in the sense that I believe in Enactivism, where life has evolved over 3 billion years in a dynamic interaction with its environment,...
This might be a possibility. Is 1+1=2 a mathematical necessity in the world? It initially seems that nothing in the world has caused 1+1 to be 2, supp...
:100: =============================================================================== In our mind we have mathematical ideas such that {d = 0.5 * g * ...
Very harsh. The word "true" has different meanings in different contexts. As regards the equation {d = 0.5 * g * t^{2}}, i) I can say that it is true,...
It seems to me that the OP is about how the mind explains the world. A sub-topic is about does the mind explain the world using mathematical necessity...
I think of it as more the Correspondence Theory of Truth, in that a belief is true if there exists an appropriate entity, a fact, to which it correspo...
Can the thought of a pattern in the mind explain the being of a pattern in the world It is true that we can see many examples of patterns which we fin...
Taking an example. Do I think that the theorem "angles on one side of a straight line always add to 180°" is true independent of what is the case in t...
I would agree that the equation {d = 0.5 * g * t^{2}} is a mathematical truth IFF {d = 0.5 * g * t^{2}} is the case in the world. However, who knows w...
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Both. For 100 days we observe the sun rise in the east, and invent the rule "the sun rises in the east". The rule reflects past observations, but is n...
{d = 0.5 * g * t^{2}} is a mathematical equation and it works. It is true that it works, but that does not mean it is a mathematical truth. What do yo...
Does the world impose itself on the mind or does the mind impose itself on the world? Perhaps its a combination of both. We observe regularities in th...
There are some questions that are problems of language, such as Q2 and Q4. Q2 is dependent upon the definition of "object" and Q4 is dependent on the ...
The moment we've stipulated what an "object" will be, Q2 becomes a linguistic problem, because there are many different ways an "object" can be stipul...
Yes, as you say, "I see" a notepad. In the world are many objects, where each object is a sheet of paper, but it is the "I" that sees them as a single...
Q2 is a linguistic problem and results from a particular definition of "object". 23 things can be evenly divided into three collections of 7\frac{2}{3...
The Cosmological Argument is that the Universe is only composed of contingent events, but as a contingent event is not a sufficient cause of itself, a...
However, if space and time are in a circular loop, an eternal return, within the wheel of time or a part of the Big Bounce, then no term can be said t...
Yes. The only thing I know for certain are my experiences of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. I happen to believe that these experiences have bee...
Though we must have the concept of a fundamental reality, otherwise we couldn't be talking about it. Presumably, our concept of a fundamental reality,...
The speed of light is a physical constant, part of a fundamental reality, and has been found to be consistently 299,792,458 m/s. If the speed of light...
As an Indirect Realist, I believe that my conceptual reality has been caused by a fundamental reality, even though I believe that I can never know thi...
As an Indirect Realist, I believe that there is "a real, material, external world", aka "fundamental reality", and I know that I have "ideas", aka "co...
The discussion has been around since at least Aristotle, a good 2,000 years ago. As all our information about any world outside the mind arrives throu...
Is there an uncomplicated explanation to the puzzle of how we can talk about things we cannot talk about? I agree with Kant's Realism, in that a world...
I look at the world and perceive many parts in the world. I have the concept of the letter F in my mind, look at the world, and see the letter F. The ...
Kant is a proponent of Realism. in that his belief is that there is a "fundamental reality" that exists independently of our "conceptual reality". Thi...
We perceive the letter E because we perceive a relation between the "cookies" (the "atoms"). In other words, we see a relation between the parts of th...
Find a statement on a recent thread that happens to be of interest. For example: Find a philosopher who agrees and explain in a few or many words thei...
Although Kant and Indirect Realism overlap, it gets confusing when both Kant and Indirect Realism are discussed alongside each other, even though the ...
When you ask a question of ChatGPT, why does it respond at all, what causes it to give any response at all? Because the the physical structure of Chat...
There's no context to the video. Who are "they"? In the context of being a comedian, Barr also said in 10 Feb 2023: Is Barr being serious, or using ex...
Just taking your first point, you give no attribution for the quote, which is a form of plagiarism, and you don't mention the fact that Roseanne Barr ...
Suppose I have a visual experience of shapes and colours. There is no doubt in my mind that this visual experience has been caused by something extern...
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