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It's a complicated topic that I only vaguely comprehend, and can only understand using simple analogies. For example, if I put my hand on a radiator a...
December 05, 2023 at 09:35
Was Kant a Realist? Kant was not an Idealist but a Realist, in that Things-in-Themselves in the world are the grounds for the Appearances in our minds...
December 04, 2023 at 15:59
Yes, that's true, for the Phenomenologist, the real world is external to our consciousness, according to the SEP article on Phenomenology: In its root...
December 04, 2023 at 12:28
Suppose someone sees a red postbox. If they were a Phenomenalist, the Appearance is the real world. If they were an Indirect Realist, they would say t...
December 04, 2023 at 10:39
It is interesting question why on seeing a broken window I instinctively believe that something broke it, even though I may never know exactly what. W...
December 03, 2023 at 16:37
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December 03, 2023 at 13:01
If I see a broken window, as nothing happens without a reason, I know that at a prior time something broke it. I may never know what broke the window,...
December 03, 2023 at 12:58
Yes, figures of speech can be confusing, but as figures of speech are an inherent part of language, figures of speech and the confusion they bring is ...
December 03, 2023 at 09:37
I know that at this moment in time I perceive a world in my mind, and assuming that nothing happens without a reason, there must have been a prior cau...
December 02, 2023 at 17:16
My perception of a world in my mind is the effect of some prior cause, on the assumption that my perception hasn't spontaneously caused itself. This p...
December 02, 2023 at 15:27
The piece of paper you are shown is evidence that the piece of paper exists. As the piece of paper hasn't existed since the beginning of time, we know...
December 02, 2023 at 09:54
@"Antony Nickles" @"Ludwig V" I appreciate your considered replies, and because of them have learnt a lot about the philosophy of Austin over the past...
November 27, 2023 at 11:19
I don't need playground bullying, so I'm leaving the Thread.
November 26, 2023 at 13:31
Yes, as Barbossa said about the Pirate's Code, they are more guidelines than actual rules. But in the absence of rules, guidelines are better than not...
November 26, 2023 at 13:02
Austin is conflating sense and reference Austin is inferring that both the Indirect Realist who argues that there is a difference between sense-data a...
November 26, 2023 at 12:43
On the one hand, I would start by looking at the Merriam Webster definition of "understand" On the other hand, an animal such as a dog has a non-verba...
November 26, 2023 at 12:35
Though the Merriam Webster dictionary does narrow down the definition of "direct" when used as an adverb to: a) from point to point without deviation,...
November 25, 2023 at 13:09
The following is my understanding, but am ready to be persuaded otherwise. Is Austin really an OLP? I see a bent stick and know that my perception cou...
November 25, 2023 at 09:59
The particular method used to obtain an object will pre-determine any object discovered According to the IEP article Ordinary Language Philosophy - Or...
November 25, 2023 at 09:51
OLP cannot be unbiased about sense-data as the Christian cannot be unbiased about Atheism OLP is a movement that believes philosophy must lose its gra...
November 24, 2023 at 09:40
True, but they are a foundation for what Ordinary Language Philosophy wants ==========================================================================...
November 23, 2023 at 11:24
True, in the absence of a good argument that God exists people fall back on faith. Exactly my problem with Austin's Sense and Sensibilia, in that from...
November 22, 2023 at 17:59
I would have thought that Ordinary Language Philosophy (OLP) is associated with GE Moore's common sense and the later Wittgenstein's ordinary language...
November 22, 2023 at 17:41
Linguistics and metaphysics are two very different fields of enquiry. Austin's Sense and Sensibilia is written from the viewpoint of an Ordinary Langu...
November 22, 2023 at 16:03
True, the argument for sense-data theory can only be expressed in language. However, if the argument results in self-contradiction or absurdity, it is...
November 22, 2023 at 14:36
Before I can comment, it depends what you mean. Do you mean either i) at one moment in time when looking at an object I am perceiving by the eye a thr...
November 22, 2023 at 13:19
In what sense are you using the word "see". From the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word "see" can have several meanings, including "to perceive by t...
November 21, 2023 at 10:22
Clearly, the first is meant literally and the second metaphorically. If "see" means literally "to perceive by the eye", when standing in front of an o...
November 20, 2023 at 13:29
As Oscar Wide said:"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” It depends what you mean by "s...
November 20, 2023 at 09:41
Of its 785 pages, can you narrow it down a bit?
November 13, 2023 at 14:07
How?
November 13, 2023 at 13:27
Impossible. Reason can reflect on objects of reason. An object of reason can include the definition of reason as "a logical thought about something", ...
November 13, 2023 at 12:34
Dangling pronouns cause problems The problem is the word "itself". We can replace the expression "reason can reflect on itself" by the expression "rea...
November 13, 2023 at 09:30
Yes, in the same way that we are able to see the colour red and not the colour ultraviolet because the ability to see red is an innate part of the str...
November 10, 2023 at 17:06
Not necessarily, but it does show that good ideas are universal.
November 10, 2023 at 11:03
Yes. Kant, who died in 1804, was not aware of what is described today as Enactivism and Innatism. However Philosophers working today in 2023 should be...
November 10, 2023 at 10:33
As @mww wrote "For their place in transcendental philosophy, they are transcendentally deduced conceptions, postulated as empirical existences necessa...
November 10, 2023 at 09:07
There needs to be some flexibility in what we mean by knowledge. For example, I have the innate ability to see the colour red but not the colour ultra...
November 09, 2023 at 11:54
The fact that a philosopher may not attach a label to themselves does not mean a label cannot be attached to them. As the IEP in its article John Lang...
November 08, 2023 at 11:28
Using an analogy (allowed within ordinary language), an author may write an article comparing and contrasting Atheism and Christianity in order to eva...
November 08, 2023 at 11:20
When Wittgenstein at the start of On Certainty discusses GE Moore and the statement "I know that here is a hand", perhaps one can say that Ayer's cent...
November 08, 2023 at 11:11
Perhaps more the relationship of language to world. Don't you agree? Reference to sense-data is not generally used in ordinary language, as when he wr...
November 07, 2023 at 17:33
To my understanding, as Austin's interest is in language, it is not surprising that he challenges the sense-data theory that we never directly perceiv...
November 07, 2023 at 16:30
As I see it, in Metaphysics, the Indirect Realism of Ayer is the more sensible approach. In Linguistic Idealism, the Direct Realism of Austin is the m...
November 07, 2023 at 14:20
I have an experience which has the name "the colour red". I know that this experience has had a cause, but although I don't know what the cause was, I...
November 07, 2023 at 13:51
We can avoid the homuncular regress by acknowledging that the self is not separate to the representations but the self is the representations. This ra...
November 07, 2023 at 13:25
That it exists.
November 07, 2023 at 12:34
There are at least two aspects to the question of Indirect and Direct Realism, the metaphysical and the linguistic. When considering an expression suc...
November 07, 2023 at 09:42
Logically, how can something reflect on itself?
November 07, 2023 at 08:26
As I understand you, I agree that if we were totally free to do whatever we wanted at any moment in time, with no constraints on our actions, we might...
November 06, 2023 at 17:22