I am in a room with the door closed. I hear a sound I infer is from outside the room that sounds like a bark. You say that hearing this sound means th...
There is ordinary language and philosophical language. In ordinary language, when looking at a ship in front of them, both the Direct and Indirect Rea...
I am in a room with the door closed, I hear a sound. I infer that the sound came from outside the room. I may be wrong, but I infer it. In this case, ...
There is ordinary language, “I indirectly see the ship through my telescope and I directly see the ship in front of me”. There is philosophical langua...
The Direct Realist falls into the duality of the Homunculus Strawman problem: “If a homunculus (a little person) is needed inside the mind to process ...
I perceive my pain. I am the perceiver and my pain is what is perceived. If there was a duality between perceiver and perceived, a duality between me ...
Yes, there is the sensory mental state “I feel pain” and there is the intellectual mental state “I reason that the pain was caused by something mind-e...
There is a relation between perceiver and physical object. But there is no relation between perceiver and a mental state if the perceiver IS the menta...
What does the Indirect Realist believe? The homunculus infinite regress problem arises when the mind is assumed to be a separate entity to the brain, ...
What do words mean? Wittgenstein’s “meaning is use” suggests that the meaning of a word is determined by how the word is used in language in a languag...
Adding my tuppence worth. I may regularly perceive in my mind a grey circle, which I infer to the best explanation has been caused by a regularity in ...
I appreciate your feedback on my thesis. You agree that the form of each link and the content of each link in the causal chain can change. But all inf...
We see the colour red when looking at a wavelength of between about 620nm to 750nm. We have the concept of the colour red through personal insight. We...
What the Direct Realist proposes is a logical impossibility The bent stick argument is a weak argument against Direct Realism (DR), in that the Semant...
That’s the question, which of IR and DR is more rationally compelling. ======================================================== I don’t understand how...
A stick in water looks bent. The Semantic Direct Realist’s (SDR) position is that of indirect perception but direct cognition. The SDR is saying that ...
@"Michael" I would appreciate it if sometime you could find any flaws in my main argument against Direct Realism (both Phenomenological Direct Realism...
The DR accepts there is a temporal causal chain from something in the mind-external world to their perception. For example, we can conceptualise that ...
When I see a table, am I seeing one object, the table, or five objects, the table top and four legs? ===================================== I see an ap...
I will stick to Presentism, as this still makes my point. The Indirect Realist (IR) and Direct Realist (DR) agree 1 - There is a temporal causal chain...
The Indirect Realist does not believe that a cup exists in the mind-external world, but only exists in the mind as a concept. In the mind-external wor...
Yes, both the DR and IR believe that a mind-external world exists. Even if there were no humans, there would still be a mind-external world. Yes, even...
No. I need the concept of a cup in my mind before I know I am looking at a cup. If I don’t know the concept of a cup, I don't know what I am looking a...
In Presentism, how can the Sun persist through change, when only the present moment in time exists. The Sun cannot exist in the past when the past doe...
Suppose on many different occasions I see the same combination of things, such as a square shape being cream in colour. Using my reason I can infer th...
This relates back to the Ship Of Theseus. Is an object the same object after having all of its original components replaced with others over time? It ...
From my position of Indirect Realism: Suppose in my mind I have the concept of something that I know as “cup”. Suppose I perceive in my senses a singl...
Absolutely. Linguistically, I could call an animal with a long proboscis, tusks, large ear flaps, pillar-like legs, and tough but sensitive grey skin ...
It depends what you mean by “the object perceived no longer exists”. Light takes 8 min 20 sec to travel from the Sun to the Earth. The Sun we look at ...
I agree that my premise was wrong. I am using perception in the sense of cognition, rather than seeing. We need premises that the IR and DR can agree ...
Your reply gives me plenty of food for thought. Yes, I am saying that it is logically impossible for the mind to directly know how things are in a min...
There are two aspects to sensations and being truth-apt. If I perceive a bent stick, then it is always true that I perceive a bent stick, therefore no...
Basically the choice between Indirect Reason and Direct Reason. The question is, is it logically possible for the human mind to know “how things are” ...
The word "judgment" means deciding what is true or false. What is true or false means being answerable to how things are. In this sense, yes, as defin...
When looking at either a ship or a photograph of a ship, both the Semantic Direct Realist (SDR) and Indirect Realist agree that perception is indirect...
Based on the Merriam Webster Dictionary, normative means conforming to norms, and norms means a principle that ought to be followed. I agree that huma...
It is possible to infer from a single sensory experience, such as “I see an orange screen”, what exists in a mind-external world, but the probability ...
Suppose you make the judgement that if you see an orange screen in your mind then there is an orange screen in the world. Your judgement is true if wh...
The indirect realist reads the book The Republic by Plato and says that our knowledge about Socrates is indirect. The direct realist reads the book an...
I may perhaps now understand your position. Rationalism vs Empiricism In the grand debate between Rationalism and Empiricism, I would tend to position...
I agree. The major premise is the judgement = the screen is orange in the world if I am seeing orange in my mind. The minor premise is the senses = I ...
Inferences I see a wet umbrella and infer that it is raining outside. In my senses I am seeing orange and infer that in the world the screen is orange...
To my understanding of perception: Stage one is the mental, introspective, singular, particular phenomenal experience in the senses when the eye is di...
Where is the meaning of a word fixed? Each individual has five senses. All information about anything external to the individual can only pass through...
As an Indirect Realist, it would be illogical to reject any representational aspect, and not sensible not to treat phenomenal experience as epistemica...
Yes, in this respect, your position and that of the Indirect Realist is the same, in that phenomenal experience is non-conceptual and therefore cannot...
I may have a phenomenal experience, which is a singular, specific and particular experience. Some call it a “qualia”, which may or may not be a useful...
Pain is a feeling. As you say, when I feel pain, I don’t need to think about it for a while and judge that I feel pain. Are you saying that when you s...
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