The problem is temporal. Before the performative act, the combination of letters "the triangle" has no meaning. As "the triangle" doesn't refer to any...
"Are there analytic statements?" In a performative act, I define X as x, y and z. I tell at least one other person. There is now a social community sh...
Where in my body is my concept of open government. If trapped in my head, how have I managed to survive X years in a harsh, brutal and unforgiving wor...
If my belief that it will rain tomorrow isn't in my mind, how can I know that this is my belief. The first claim being that simple ideas come into the...
Either the public body is a set of individuals, meaning that concepts only exist in the minds of the individuals making up the public body, or, the pu...
True, its an assumption, but a reasonably strong assumption. But if I was a South African cab driver and you were an Icelandic doctor, the chances tha...
What Sellars’s “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind” helped Rorty to show was that a belief can be shown to be justified (or unjustified) only on th...
I directly see the apple, and you directly see the apple, but the apple I see is different to the apple you see. My private experience of the apple is...
If all Direct Realists are immediately and directly seeing the same world, on what grounds can they disagree about what they see. I can understand Ind...
I'm sure there is, but it is probably very subtle. According to Wikipedia Naive Realism: In philosophy of perception and philosophy of mind, naïve rea...
I don't think that in reality you are a Direct Realist, but someone who has the position that the world exists fundamentally in language. Perhaps a Wi...
It is true that "The world is all that is the case", but is this the world of Indirect or Direct Realism. In the Tractatus, Wittgenstein studiously av...
Wittgenstein's "The world is all that is the case" is poetry. Robert Frost also talked about the world Some say the world will end in fire, Some say i...
Not primordial, as language only began about 50,000 to 150,000 years ago. Users of the same language agree to a basic meaning of a word, even though t...
No, but I will have a look. From a quick scan on Wikipedia Markus Gabriel, I definately agree with: "In an April 2020 interview he called European mea...
As an Indirect Realist, I can say "I see a rock", because the rock I see exists as a concept in my mind. External to my mind is something, but it is n...
Relatively speaking. There is the ontology of the nature of reality, in that, is the Neutral Monist correct when they argue that reality is elementary...
The Indirect Realist would not say "some object caused an idea of some object", as that is presupposing objects like rocks exist in the external world...
I talk about my social world, which is something I care about. I talk about the external world, Planet Earth, etc, which is something I care about. Th...
Fear of error becomes fear of truth is not a reasoned argument. The Indirect Realist could equally well have said the same. To say that the Indirect R...
The world that we live in and the world that we talk about refer to different worlds. There is more than just one possible world. When you say "one wo...
No, certainly not a typo, as this is what I have been saying since page 2 of this thread. The term "Indirect Realist" should be thought of as a name n...
No, it wouldn't be, not because of the pain it would cause to the machine, but because of the pain it would cause to the human if they didn't receive ...
Neither do humans. But there cannot be any doubt that pets have the concept of hunger, as well as pain, even though they don't have a verbal language ...
Exactly, the Indirect Realist believes that there is a world the other side of their senses, an inferential world. A conclusion reached on the basis o...
There is the screen, which are the senses. The question is, how do we have knowledge of what is on the other side of the screen, the other side of the...
If animals are able to avoid pain but without any conception of pain, then they are no more than automatons, machines. If animals are no more than mac...
The self this side of the senses may be in part shaped by what is on the other side of the senses from information passing through the senses, but the...
That's the problem. The self is this side of our senses, and society is the other side of our senses. How can we know what exists on the other side of...
@"plaque flag" I agree that a concept becomes alive when a community has a use for it, but a concept may still have a private meaning even if a commun...
The idea that more than any other animal we live in a symbolic realm is something a supporter of Indirect Realism would say, something that I would sa...
So I learnt my concepts of time and space, good and bad, red and green, easy and difficult, slow and fast, love and hate, freedom and subjugation, cla...
Without private meaning and private concepts there would be no public meaning and public concepts. If no one ever had the private experience of pain, ...
Because your position throughout this thread has been that "what really matters are linguistic norms", where these linguistic norms are "within/by hum...
I agree with you that linguistic norms are part of the language game in social space. However, as your own resource sensibly laid out - here - linguis...
We both agree with your resource laying out Direct and Indirect Realism. But you must admit it makes no reference to language, linguistics or language...
The term "external" comes from the resource you recommended. Direct realism, also known as naïve realism or common sense realism, is a theory of perce...
Though you cannot doubt that perception is linguistic, as previously you wrote "It's a deeper point than that, to do with the fact that in situations ...
Yes, this relates back to the Kant passage, but it doesn't address the question as to whether we have indirect or direct knowledge of this world. If t...
It seems you are redefining Direct Realism to include linguistics in a way not generally used in the literature, for example, SEP The Problem of Perce...
Which world are you referring to, the world as we perceive it, or the world as it is independent of our perception of it. Are you saying you have no p...
We perceive pain and we perceive a tree. The Direct Realist says that our private perception of a tree is a direct presentation of something existing ...
It is curious that language, a representational system, where words are symbols, is being used as an explanation of Direct Realism, an explicitly non-...
It depends which "world" you are referring to. Sometimes philosophers talk about the "world" without specifying exactly where they think it is. For ex...
/uploads/resized/files/oi/91c2rnamfa7pyac6.png Your posts are about the relationship between the individual and a social world of which they are a par...
Considering that we only get our knowledge about the external world through our senses, it seems very cavalier for Hegel to write that we need not con...
Hegel sets out the Indirect Realist's problem with bridging the gap between our conscious mind on the one side and a mind-independent world on the oth...
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