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It's all relative. From one point of view, the straight line is ultimate and from another point of view, the curve is ultimate. The terms straight and...

A line is between two points. Between any two points there is an infinite number of possible lines. As regards the world, no line takes precedence. Th...

I wouldn't classify the mind-body problem, the debate between Dualism and Monism, and the debate between Innatism and Behaviourism, as not proper meta...

Hume writes in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding When we say, therefore, that one object is connected with another, we mean only, that they ha...

It comes down to the meaning of perception. From the Wikipedia article on Perception Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretatio...

From the Wikipedia article on Innatism, Innatism refers to the philosophy of Descartes. Innatism and nativism are generally synonymous terms referring...

It is true that I may perceive an itch on my hand, but the itch does not represent what caused it. This has been my argument in the past against Direc...

I agree I perceive something moving towards me and then judge it to be a truck. But I cannot perceive an object moving without perceiving the manner i...

Unfortunately, when going to the dentist, it is my mind that perceives the pain of the cold water on a sensitive tooth. If only it was just my unconsc...

Kant's non-empirical intuition seems very similar in principle to today's Innatism. From Wikipedia - Innatism In epistemology, innatism is the view th...

I am crossing a busy road and see a truck moving straight towards me. I perceive the truck and I perceive the truck moving through space and time. If ...

The SEP article on Kant’s Transcendental Idealism writes: In the Critique of Pure Reason Kant argues that space and time are merely formal features of...

First there is perception and then there is cognition. There seems to be two levels of perception. First is the perception of simple concepts, such as...

Not a radical conclusion, but a very sensible one. If I perceive certain phenomena, of touch, sight, sound, taste or smell, my perceiving such phenome...

Dualism and Monism Summing up: Dualism includes Substance Dualism and Property Dualism and Monism includes Physicalism, Idealism and Neutral Monism. S...

Taking the example of a stone held motionless in a gravitational field and then released, at the initial state it will have a mass in a gravitational ...

Whatever matter ends up being, it is not necessarily proto-everything according to some current theories. For example, the two main current theories o...

Water as a liquid is a collection of water molecules. One property of a liquid is that it takes the shape of the vessel it is in. One property of a mo...

There is only one kind of emergence I would agree that there is only one kind of emergence. In physics, all our examples of emergence are of the weak ...

I feel I have been, as they say, inadvertently "trying to teach my grandmother to suck eggs". Yes, Chomsky at 59min does suggest that he finds no dist...

Chomsky and the question "has consciousness emerged from the matter of the brain" Pity we can't ask Chomsky. p 193 - There is something about the natu...

Chomsky: The Mysteries of Nature: How deeply hidden ? Chomsky makes the distinction between the weak emergence of liquids from molecules and "radical ...

Where does Chomsky say that "consciousness is emergent" ? There is a difference between weak emergence, as liquid from molecules, and strong emergence...

In his video interview Noam Chomsky - Mysterianism, Language, and Human Understanding, Chomsky says: 1min - "I'm cited as one of the culprits responsi...

Naming is an event in Tarski's meta-language. Tarski said that the truth of a statement cannot be found in an object language, but only in a metalangu...

Given the expression "the bird is blue" is true IFF the bird is blue, "the bird is blue" exists in language, and the bird is blue exists in the world....

5.2 of SEP Pragmatic Theory of Truth concludes that pragmatic theories of truth do make a difference in shaping inquiry and assertoric discourse, and ...

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As you say, the verification of the truth will go on ad infinitum until someone makes a determination as to the truth of a statement or situation. I m...

Re-wording my argument: The puzzle states that one envelope contains twice as much as the other. Let one envelope contain x euros and the other 2x eur...

Taken from Wikipedia Two envelopes problem 1) Imagine you are given two identical envelopes, each containing money. One contains twice as much as the ...

I observe a patch of colour and name the colour red. The statement "this patch of colour is red" is then true. Naming is a logical process, in that if...

We see a patch of colour in the world. I label it as red and you label it as blue. A third person makes the statement "this patch of colour is red". F...

Starting with the Wikipedia Two Envelopes Problem Imagine you are given two identical envelopes, each containing money. One contains twice as much as ...

The paradox has nothing to do with probability at all. It's just an improper use of variables when calculating the expected value. :up:

From Wikipedia Two Envelopes Problem 1) Denote by A the amount in the player's selected envelope. 2) The probability that A is the smaller amount is 1...

A round object is circular, where the boundary of a circle is the same distance from a centre. For a round object, the distance of the boundary from t...

Object-oriented ontology maintains that objects exist independently of human perception. Taking an object that is round as an example, there is the Re...

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Humans are animals. If someone could show that they enabled the gorilla, for example, but it could be any animal, to understand the American political...

I agree that "practice makes perfect". The more one practices, the more competent one becomes, ie practice generates competency. The more competent on...

:100: Philosophy deliberates on those questions that the natural sciences don't need to think about, yet are still important questions.

Max Verstappen performed well at the 2022 Formula 1 would championships because he was competent driver. Would anyone say that he only became a compet...

Yes. Given the word "mkataba", what does it mean? It has no meaning until someone gives it a meaning. Suppose someone says it means "in a manner that ...

I can't resist. How do you know the object "rolls" down the hill, if, as you say "it is not known"?

Professor Chomsky, I've had this question for quite a while now, and this seems the perfect opportunity: "Many believe that the human is born a blank ...

I have a relevant question from before this thread started, that I have not yet found an answer to. Should I put it on the original thread "Guest Spea...

I may be misunderstanding. You say that the object may not be judged as rolling, but it acts as if it were rolling. How is it known that the object is...

You say the object rolled down the hill. Who is to say that it didn't bounce, slide, skid, glide, skip or skim down the hill. A judgement must have be...

If something that was not a mammal had been named "a dog", then the statement "a dog is not a mammal" would be analytic. The statement "this is cool" ...