Philosophers have made good livings from arguing as to what Kant meant. Early twentieth-century philosophers of perception presented their direct real...
The same question. If both pain and the colour red are tied to the world, how does the Direct Realist know that the object of one perception, eg pain,...
True, I used the writings of Searle, a Direct Realist, against Direct Realism. Hegel's Absolute Idealism is not at odds with Indirect Realism. Both th...
As an Indirect Realist, I agree with everything you wrote in your post. It is interesting that you used Kant, in today's terms an Indirect Realist, to...
The Direct Realist agrees that pain doesn't exist external to the senses of any perceiver, but argues that the colour red does. How does the Direct Re...
Predicates are distinct from properties. Predicates are linguistic whilst properties are extralinguistic. Predicates are tied to particular languages,...
Perhaps the term "Direct Realism" should be thought of as a name rather than a description, in the same way that "Transcendental Idealism" is neither ...
That's like saying you are an Atheist Christian, or a vegan carnivore. /uploads/resized/files/lc/kj3pdoazzyzw6ie3.png The Indirect and Direct Realist ...
Is it any more complicated that for every effect there is a cause. They might well have. The New Scientist article Why microbes are smarter than you t...
Indirect Realism holds that perception is a direct awareness of objects and events existing in the mind, and an indirect awareness of objects and even...
Though we do know that after 3.5 billion years of life's evolution, the concepts in the human mind are more complex that the concepts in the mind of t...
If causation was not innate and was something learned, as with all things, some people would learn it and some wouldn't. Imagine someone who hadn't le...
Realism is defined as the assertion of the existence of a reality independently of our thoughts or beliefs about it, so a Realist wouldn't deny that t...
As an Indirect Realist, my belief is that as apples exist in the mind, exist in perception, cognition and language and not in a mind-independent world...
Argument against Direct Realism /uploads/resized/files/ia/80iu8zpr42l2hgjq.png Semantic Direct Realism (SDR) says that we have direct cognition of the...
It follows that Wittgenstein's language game is incompatible with Semantic Direct Realism. Definitions of Direct Realism I defined Direct Realism as e...
I gave my definition of Direct and Indirect Realism here. Best answered by a Direct Realist, as I don't know of anything that a Direct Realist has dir...
The Indirect Realist agrees that private experiences are private, but as Wittgenstein explains in para 293 of PI, language games work because private ...
How can the Direct Realist justify that the colours red and blue exist in a mind-independent world. The Direct Realist argues that they have direct co...
Defining Direct Realism. Some Direct Realists argue for Phenomenological Direct Realism (PDR), aka casual directness, a direct perception and a direct...
There are two aspects: i) does a potential word have a use, ii) given a word has a use, what does the word mean. From my position of Neutral Monism, w...
/uploads/resized/files/y6/iukfw68ilyig48r1.png Your post lays out my position as an Indirect Realist. 1) The Indirect Realist doesn't need a private l...
From the third-person, Wittgenstein's beetle in the box analogy shows that Bill and Bob can carry on a conversation even if they don't know what is in...
Wittgenstein p 293 PI Suppose everyone had a box with something in it: we call it a "beetle". No one can look into anyone else's box, and everyone say...
I agree that not colouring the circle would be more consistent with Direct Realism. Yes, in practice this must be the case, as Bill and Bob are the pr...
I agree. =============================================================================== This is misleading wording. To say that the Direct Realist is...
Good first attempt. We are on the path to successful communication, definitely an iterative process. It's a bit like the Twenty Questions parlour game...
/uploads/resized/files/9s/ppxqxz65h4530dl3.png Both the Indirect and Direct Realist directly perceive a tree in their minds. For both the Indirect and...
/uploads/resized/files/cs/5qw5iedciyks3xrr.png In a sense, no one needs to tell me the name of the image that I perceive. I would assume that just fro...
My proposal is that Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations does not support Direct Realism. Direct Realism argues that we perceive objects in the...
Exactly, that is what an Indirect Realist would say. The Direct Realist would have said "In the absence of any English speaker, the word "tree" wouldn...
Yes, "tree" is a good word. Within our language game we have the word "tree". However, in the absence of any English speaker, the word "tree" would no...
You can build furniture out of the something in the world that has caused me to perceive a tree providing this had been a veridical experience, but no...
According to Do blind people dream in visual images?, yes. Instead, scientists have performed brain scans of people blind since birth while they are s...
I know that I perceive something and I know that this something has the name "tree". As I innately believe in the law of causation, in that every effe...
I see what you mean. I see the reason for your post. I see the relation between the eyes and what is seen. I see trees in my dreams. A fool cannot see...
Almost, in that my private perception of a tree may or may not be the same as anyone else's, but it is impossible to know, as it is a private mental i...
Yes, intentionality is closely associated with phenomenology. Taken from the article What Is Intentionality, and Why Is It Important? by Robert Sokolo...
I am sure that we both agree with Indirect Realism. Searle definitely supports Direct Realism, and within Direct Realism, as also discussed by Pierre ...
I think I am criticising what Searle is suggesting. I don't agree with Searle in his support of naive realism (direct realism), as it seems to me that...
From Wikipedia Direct and indirect realism "In contemporary philosophy, indirect realism has been defended by Edmund Husserl and Bertrand Russell. Dir...
I may be absolutely certain of what I am seeing, whether a tree or snooker balls on a snooker table, but knowing the present effect doesn't allow me t...
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