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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...
March 05, 2024 at 09:36
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,...
March 05, 2024 at 09:31
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...
March 04, 2024 at 17:41
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...
February 26, 2024 at 13:18
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. ...
February 26, 2024 at 12:37
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 ...
February 26, 2024 at 11:45
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...
February 26, 2024 at 10:07
Perhaps, but still making a factual statement. =============================================================================== I perhaps agree, in tha...
February 26, 2024 at 09:52
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...
February 25, 2024 at 17:45
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...
February 25, 2024 at 16:10
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. ============...
February 25, 2024 at 15:39
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 ...
February 25, 2024 at 15:13
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 ...
February 25, 2024 at 14:05
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...
February 25, 2024 at 13:14
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 ...
February 25, 2024 at 11:31
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...
February 25, 2024 at 09:44
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 ...
February 24, 2024 at 15:16
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 ...
February 24, 2024 at 08:23
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...
February 23, 2024 at 15:44
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...
February 23, 2024 at 14:35
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...
February 23, 2024 at 12:55
Disagree. Indirect and Direct Realism are part of epistemology. (www.sheffield.ac.uk/) (https: //studyrocket.co.uk) ==================================...
February 23, 2024 at 10:16
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...
February 23, 2024 at 09:56
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: ...
February 23, 2024 at 09:43
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...
February 22, 2024 at 17:40
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/...
February 22, 2024 at 16:41
Direct Realism is aka Naïve Realism. Indirect Realism is aka Representational Realism,. (Wikipedia Direct and Indirect Realism) /uploads/resized/files...
February 22, 2024 at 12:39
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February 21, 2024 at 18:02
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...
February 21, 2024 at 18:01
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...
February 21, 2024 at 17:48
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 ...
February 21, 2024 at 17:36
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...
February 21, 2024 at 17:20
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...
February 21, 2024 at 17:13
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 ...
February 21, 2024 at 17:06
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...
February 21, 2024 at 16:30
Definitions What is Kant's "Transcendental Idealism" about, taking the term "Transcendental Idealism" more as a name than a description, as even Kant ...
February 21, 2024 at 11:48
The word "idealism" has more than one meaning (Merriam Webster - Idealism) The term "transcendental idealism" should be thought of as a name rather th...
February 20, 2024 at 15:03
We perceive a stick bent in water. Is the stick in water really bent?
February 20, 2024 at 10:57
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...
February 20, 2024 at 10:38
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...
February 20, 2024 at 10:05
Some Direct Realists are Phenomenological Direct Realists believing in causal directness, and other Direct Realists are Semantic Direct Realists belie...
February 20, 2024 at 08:55
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 ...
February 20, 2024 at 08:37
In: Infinity  — view comment
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 ...
February 19, 2024 at 15:24
In: Infinity  — view comment
It seems that "infinity" as an object is more a problem of natural language than mathematics and set theory. As you also say:
February 19, 2024 at 11:51
May be useful to consider the Pierre Le Morvan article Arguments Against Direct Realism and How to Counter Them Also Phenomenological Direct Realism (...
February 18, 2024 at 17:26
In: Infinity  — view comment
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...
February 18, 2024 at 11:45
Kant believed that a world exists outside the mind and independent of the mind, and tried to prove this using the Transcendental Argument "Refutation ...
February 17, 2024 at 14:19
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...
February 17, 2024 at 12:51
In: Infinity  — view comment
I appreciate your post. Yes, the mind has a framework of concepts, such as beauty, infinity, pain, mountain, house, government, addition, multiplicati...
February 17, 2024 at 09:19
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...
February 16, 2024 at 10:51