They are using their own particular language game, sui generis, where "direct" in the language game of the Direct Realist means "indirect" in the lang...
As the Indirect Realist would say, "exactly". Everyone seems to agree that there is a chain of events. For example, light from the sun hits an object,...
Information flow is directional. I hit a billiard ball on a billiard table and can calculate more or less where it will come to rest. I see a billiard...
That's also my understanding. As the SEP article on The Problem of Perception notes: How is representation a core part of what is defined as "Direct R...
That's the problem. How can a human know objective facts about a world that exists outside their subjective experiences. Kant said it isn't possible. ...
But it is impossible to look into someone else's mind. We can only know their beliefs from their words, and if they have defined words differently to ...
This is more a question for the Direct Realist. Would they agree that perceiving photons of light entering the eye is what they mean by perceiving the...
Perhaps, but still making a factual statement. =============================================================================== I perhaps agree, in tha...
True, the photons of light that enter my eye were caused by something that existed in the past, and just because something existed in the past doesn't...
When you look into the night sky and see Mars, what you see no longer exists, as it takes time for the photons of light to travel through space. And y...
Yes, but the cat is not seeing the external world "as it really is". What the cat is seeing is a representation of how the mouse used to. ============...
Try a thought experiment There is a mouse and photons of light travel from it to a cat. It takes time for light to travel a distance. By the time the ...
When someone looks into the night sky and sees a bright dot, how do they know that the bright dot has been caused by Mars rather than Venus say. They ...
According to the SEP article on Sense Data: Presumably, when a cat sees a mouse, photons of light have travelled from the mouse to the cat, and the ca...
The Indirect Realist is in part pointing out that language is more figurative than literal. If one was being literal, the speaker would have said: "I ...
I would have thought that an Indirect Realist would also have said "I see what appears to be a bent stick". The Merriam Webster Dictionary lists 23 di...
Suppose in the world is the object "apple" and I perceive an "apple". In my mind, I am conscious of an "apple", and there is an intentionality within ...
Perhaps this is the distinction between the Indirect Realist and the Direct Realist. The Indirect Realist says that in the sentence "I see a straight ...
A rock falls and hits the ground, which increases in temperature of the ground by x deg. A grain of sand falls and hits the ground, which increases th...
We know that a rose is heavier than a mosquito and lighter than a pebble, because a human can discover this by lifting them. Heavier and lighter can o...
In the Present Simple tense I can say "I see Mars every evening in the night sky". In the Present Continuous tense I can then ask the question "how do...
Disagree. Indirect and Direct Realism are part of epistemology. (www.sheffield.ac.uk/) (https: //studyrocket.co.uk) ==================================...
Yes, "I see Mars" is a figure of speech meaning "the photons which cause me to recognize that I am seeing Mars were reflected by Mars, travelling an a...
I agree the terms aren't equivalent, though they do have strong similarities. As the article Recent Work on Naive Realism by James Genone points out: ...
When the Direct Realist looks up at the night sky, how can they say "I am looking at a star" if they don't know whether the dot they are looking at ha...
When looking up at the night sky, if the Direct Realist doesn't literally see dots in their visual field, what do they see? /uploads/resized/files/8x/...
Direct Realism is aka Naïve Realism. Indirect Realism is aka Representational Realism,. (Wikipedia Direct and Indirect Realism) /uploads/resized/files...
Someone sees a dot in the sky and doesn't know what it is. Later, from various observations over a period of time using the eye and scientific instrum...
Suppose there is a stick in a glass of water. If I said "I'm looking at a bent stick", there are two possible meanings to this statement. It could mea...
The indirect Realist directly perceives something in their field of vision, which they can reason to be the planet Mars. The word "sense data" should ...
Yes, the Indirect Realist can say "I am looking at Mars" as they can say "responsibility is a heavy burden", "Sally is as bright as the sun", "the who...
The Indirect Realist says that they directly perceive a dot in the sky. The Direct Realist says that what they directly perceive is the cause of the d...
The Indirect Realist would say that they are directly looking at a dot which they reason to be the planet Mars. I agree that in language, rather than ...
Both the Indirect and Direct Realist would agree that they have conscious awareness of perception of things in their five senses, such as the colour r...
Definitions What is Kant's "Transcendental Idealism" about, taking the term "Transcendental Idealism" more as a name than a description, as even Kant ...
The word "idealism" has more than one meaning (Merriam Webster - Idealism) The term "transcendental idealism" should be thought of as a name rather th...
There is realism and idealism as concepts and there is Realism and Idealism as proper nouns. As concepts they overlap, but as proper nouns are distinc...
Both the Indirect and Direct Realist believe in i) Realism rather than Idealism, ii) that there is a long and complex causal chain of events between t...
Some Direct Realists are Phenomenological Direct Realists believing in causal directness, and other Direct Realists are Semantic Direct Realists belie...
The most that philosopher Kant claimed about our knowledge of what exists outside us is in his Refutation of Idealism in B275 of the Critique of Pure ...
I am not a Mathematician, and have limited knowledge about set theory. :up: For me, the statement "Monet's Water-lilies is an example of beauty" is a ...
May be useful to consider the Pierre Le Morvan article Arguments Against Direct Realism and How to Counter Them Also Phenomenological Direct Realism (...
Infinity is unknowable by the finite human mind, yet we know the meaning of "infinity" The human mind can discover both abstract and concrete concepts...
Kant believed that a world exists outside the mind and independent of the mind, and tried to prove this using the Transcendental Argument "Refutation ...
Knowing what will happen does not mean we know why it will happen We are in the position of the chickens. For example, we have discovered that the equ...
I appreciate your post. Yes, the mind has a framework of concepts, such as beauty, infinity, pain, mountain, house, government, addition, multiplicati...
It depends what the expression "the laws of nature" is referring to. It could be referring to "the laws of nature" existing as concepts within the hum...
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