There are two significant differences between the Indirect and Direct Realist. The Indirect Realist approach is that of metaphysics, whereas the Direc...
Both the Indirect Realist and Direct Realist see a red postbox. ============================================================================== For the...
Is this possible? Is it possible to have a thought about an internal logical process, when the internal logical process has caused the thought in the ...
Basically, because we name the unknown cause after the known effect. As an Indirect Realist, if I see a red postbox, which is a representation in my m...
You agree that a screen in a flat surface. What is the difference between seeing a portrait of a person in an art gallery and seeing a portrait of a p...
It will happen. The more life evolves the more it will be able to understand. However, although life has been around for over 3.5 billion years, human...
There are two aspects, being able to perceive something and then being able to make sense of it. Even if a human showed a cat a page from the book "Th...
Harsh on engineers. The engineer wouldn't say that the physicists knowledge of string theory was invalid because we cannot see or touch one-dimensiona...
True, but the principles each operates under may be the same. Gravity can attract a ball to the ground and can attract Galaxies together. A difference...
When we act, is it from Free Will or Determinism. It has been said that we can act illogically because of our free will, inferring that somehow Determ...
Free Will may be an illusion Suppose I saw someone act in an unexpected way. For example, they had bought a winning lottery ticket and then proceeded ...
The brain can be equated with hardware and the mind can be equated with software I would not equate a computer chip with the mind, but I would equate ...
Yes, there is the problem of how free will can transcend what would otherwise be determined. 1) Imagine two people X and Y at time t with the same phy...
I see a truck approaching me at speed. If things were going well in my daily life, the logical thing to do would be to step to one side. This would be...
True, Kant didn't talk about the brain, but then neither did Plato talk about Kant. But surely, comparing and contrasting is an important evaluative t...
:up: Where is reason exactly? As a logic gate is a particular type of structure within a computer, I suggest that reason is also a particular structur...
Depends whether you are using the word "see" metaphorically or literally. Are you not seeing a two-dimensional image on the screen of your computer/la...
When we look at the world, we initially see a two-dimensional image. I am not aware of any two-dimensional surface that this two-dimensional image is ...
I am making use of Daniel Bonevac's Video Kant's Categories. Reason doesn't create logic, rather, what we reason has been determined by the prior logi...
As a solitary subject in a strange land, what would your intuition of the meaning of "ngoe" be ? /uploads/resized/files/um/3ebb10g4b12r2lvm.png From t...
It is only possible for you to write that "but no "thought of a cup" exists" if you already know what the thought of a cup is. IE, I can only say that...
I agree. I have a pain in my left hand whose exact nature is inexpressible in language. The fact that I cannot express in language the exact pain does...
How can a thought be named ? Is it the case that we have the thought of a cup and then name it, or is Wittgenstein correct in his belief that we canno...
Wittgenstein in para 293 of Philosophical Investigations makes a strong case that we can speak about things-in-themselves. He writes: But suppose the ...
Thanks, I have downloaded a copy and will read it. :up: =============================================================================== Are you using ...
Parallax can be used to determine the distance of an object, as nearby objects show a larger parallax than farther objects, but it doesn't allow us to...
Yes, as you say, most ordinary people can understand Naïve Realism. Yes, even the atom is a representation of something deeper, which is why my positi...
As Bertrand Russell in The Problems of Philosophy wrote:"But the notion of being 'in' the mind is ambiguous. We speak of bearing a person in mind, not...
Difficult to escape from a metaphorical use of language. I am using "science" is a figure of speech that includes the instruments of science. Wholes h...
Science can tell us things that intuition cannot, such as when we perceive a red object, such as a post-box, the object may have emitted a wavelength ...
When I look at a cup, in my mind is a two-dimensional appearance, but science tells me that what I am actually looking at is a set of atoms in a three...
Both the Indirect and Direct Realist see a red cup, take it out of the cupboard, boil the kettle and make themselves a cup of tea. However, the Indire...
As an Indirect Realist, I agree with your paragraph, as would a Direct Realist, but this does not address the topic of the thread "A Case for Transcen...
I believe in Enactivism, the philosophy of mind that emphasizes the interactions between mind, body, and the environment (Wikipedia - Enactivism). I a...
After an amputation, some people experience pain in the part of the limb that’s no longer there. This sensation is phantom limb pain. The pain is real...
Given your position as a Direct Realist, and assuming Direct Realism, when we look at an object and perceive the colour red, science may tell us that ...
Yes, empirical knowledge is insufficient by itself for understanding. In today's terms, Innatism is also needed. If Positivism is the philosophical th...
We both have the concept of a "thing" in our minds. If our concept of "thing" doesn't exist in our minds, then where does it exist? It seems that your...
We all have the concept of a chair in our minds, and we only know what a chair is because in our minds is the concept of a chair. It is true that you ...
@"Bob Ross" @"J" For every effect there is a cause We know that one of Kant's Categories was the Category of Cause. There are many passages in the Fou...
This is the position of the Indirect Realist. The Direct Realist would say that things-in-themselves are possible to know, as the world we see around ...
As an Indirect Realist, I agree. As both good philosophy and good science are founded on sound logic, your argument aiming at being logical is as much...
It depends whether one is an Indirect or Direct Realist My belief is in Indirect Realism, whereby our ideas of objects existing in a mind-independent ...
What non-scientific reasons are there to hold the view of perception that subjects do not experience the external world as it really is, but perceive ...
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