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You see the colour red. You feel a burning pain. You don’t think that the burning pain exists outside of a mind. Why do you think that the colour red ...
January 07, 2026 at 15:41
I have had to learn that “red” on a traffic light means “stop”. Once I have learnt that “red” on a traffic light means “stop”, and have driven often, ...
January 07, 2026 at 14:14
Where does the colour red exist Within the language game of our community, the top light of a traffic light has been named “red”. Therefore, when I se...
January 07, 2026 at 13:54
In a traffic light what is important is as much the relationship between the lights, top, middle, bottom, as the colours of the lights, red, amber, gr...
January 06, 2026 at 16:57
Doesn’t the fact that a driving licence makes no reference to the driver’s belief in either Indirect or Direct Realism show that an Indirect Realist (...
January 06, 2026 at 15:25
Suppose, when the top light is illuminated, I perceive the colour green and you perceive the colour orange, will the traffic light system still work? ...
January 06, 2026 at 12:41
:100: ============= There is the world (Wikipedia - The world is the totality of entities, the whole of reality, or everything that exists) and within...
January 06, 2026 at 11:38
It seems to me that all the defenders of Direct Realism in this thread are Semantic Direct Realists rather than Phenomenological Direct Realists. Ther...
January 06, 2026 at 10:27
In our language game a wavelength of 700nm has been named “red. In another language game it could have been named “rouge”. Therefore, when I look at a...
January 05, 2026 at 17:20
But then, we are not ordinary folks. ============================== In the world is a postbox and within the language game the colour of the postbox h...
January 05, 2026 at 12:50
Specifically, are you against Phenomenological Direct Realism (PDR) or Semantic Direct Realism (SDR). The Indirect Realist would agree with SDR that t...
January 05, 2026 at 12:22
As an Indirect Realist, when I look at the colour red, I am directly looking at the colour red. I am not indirectly looking at the colour red. When I ...
January 04, 2026 at 15:13
There seems to be two main forms of Direct Realism. There is Phenomenological Direct Realism (PDR), a direct perception and direct cognition of the ob...
January 04, 2026 at 09:37
It cannot be the case that in December 2025 “Caesar crossed the Rubicon” and in December 2026 “Caesar did not cross the Rubicon". ====================...
December 31, 2025 at 14:14
Premise that only the present exists My premise is that the world only exists in the present. It may be there is a minimum duration of time, such as P...
December 31, 2025 at 12:46
I have been assuming that a state of affairs is to be understood as something existing in the world rather than in the mind. If states of affairs exis...
December 30, 2025 at 13:08
I have the thought that there is an apple on the table. If I did not believe that there was not a correspondence between my mind and the way things ar...
December 30, 2025 at 10:12
Using your term “ontological possibility”. As regards the proposition “there will be a truck coming round the corner”. In the present, we cannot know ...
December 30, 2025 at 09:31
That my thoughts do correspond with my actual world is the very basis for enabling me to think about other possibilities. In my mind is the thought th...
December 29, 2025 at 17:43
In Wikipedia State of affairs (philosophy) I have been assuming that a State of Affairs is something like “Socrates is wise” I cannot see a reference ...
December 29, 2025 at 16:55
As I see it so far: Truth by T-sentence “Caesar crossed the Rubicon” is true IFF Caesar crossed the Rubicon. But this does not tell us whether Caesar ...
December 29, 2025 at 16:33
Properties - actions - events Property = the characteristic of a being, such as “John is a walker” Action = something done by a sentient being, such a...
December 29, 2025 at 12:30
There is the SOA (snow is white) There is also the SOA (snow, being white, is well known) There is the problem of disconnecting the world from the tho...
December 29, 2025 at 09:17
I would have thought that the main purpose of Possible World Semantics (PWS) is to reference the world, meaning that correspondence is a core part of ...
December 29, 2025 at 08:57
But TLP 2.063 The sum-total of reality is the world And 2.12 A picture is a model of reality If Wittgenstein is a major source for the meaning of a st...
December 28, 2025 at 15:14
Some thoughts: For Wittgenstein, States of Affairs (SOA) are the fundamental building blocks of reality in the world, and are about how objects can be...
December 28, 2025 at 13:53
I am slowly working through your posts. Yes, the word “obtain” is redundant in possible worlds, although still relevant in First Order Logic. Yes, we ...
December 27, 2025 at 11:43
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December 27, 2025 at 08:38
A book could be written on that topic. Linguistic determinism regards language as determining how people perceive existence. Plantinga, being a Christ...
December 26, 2025 at 17:05
I agree that on the macro scale, such as an hour, we cannot observe time, because we exist within time. Only a being outside of time could observe tim...
December 26, 2025 at 15:15
When I see an apple falling to the ground, are you saying we are able to empirically observe more than one moment in time at the same time? This would...
December 26, 2025 at 09:43
Learning about logic statements. ¬?x(P(x)?Q(x)) is the situation that there is not something that that is both an apple and on the table ?x(P(x)?¬Q(x)...
December 26, 2025 at 09:31
In ordinary language we can say “there is no apple on the table”. We could also list the set of things on the table = {book, pen, cup}, and then say “...
December 26, 2025 at 09:11
As I understand it: In ordinary language we can say “there is no apple on the table”, so we seem to be referring to an apple that does not exist, whic...
December 25, 2025 at 15:11
Your only direct and immediate knowledge of time is that of the present, the present moment in time. Within your present, you have memories of the pas...
December 25, 2025 at 13:49
True, in ordinary language Possibility 1 - the apple is on the table Possibility 2 - the apple is not on the table ===================================...
December 25, 2025 at 11:26
As I see it: Suppose in the world are the States of Affairs i) the apple is on the table ii) the apple is not on the table. These States of Affairs ar...
December 25, 2025 at 10:36
I agree that haecceity is just a label for the problem. Though haecceity might be something other than a property. In Ordinary language, when we say “...
December 25, 2025 at 09:31
It could. A State of Affairs could list the position of an object through time, such as on an Excel spreadsheet. But we look at this spreadsheet in ou...
December 25, 2025 at 09:10
I am not saying that time does not exist, but even if time does exist, there is only one actual moment in time. Suppose a train enters a station at t1...
December 25, 2025 at 08:55
However, the world only exists at one moment in time, which is the present. The world cannot exist at two moments in time. Even our memories of the pa...
December 24, 2025 at 17:05
Perhaps this is the case: Ordinary language In ordinary language, “it is possible that the apple is on the table”. Possibility 3 - the apple is not on...
December 24, 2025 at 16:19
To my present understanding: If I say “the apple might be on the table”, then there is a possible world where the apple is on the table. Following (23...
December 24, 2025 at 12:38
My understanding of 2.2.3 There are Concretists such as Lewis and Abstractionists such as Plantinga. For the Abstractionsists: There is the actual wor...
December 23, 2025 at 16:51
You say “The place signified "Chicago" is not an imaginary thing, it is understood as real, actual.” The fact that I imagine the city of Chicago to be...
December 23, 2025 at 08:54
Continuing: 1) Suppose a single person originated the Iliad, which was either written down or passed down as part of an oral tradition. 2) Whoever ori...
December 22, 2025 at 15:51
This statement needs unpacking. The first part of the statement, “The place signified "Chicago" is not an imaginary thing” is from a mind-independent ...
December 22, 2025 at 15:31
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December 22, 2025 at 10:53
Yes, there are many different definitions of truth (SEP - Truth). The question of what establishes the truth of a statement then depends on which defi...
December 22, 2025 at 10:13
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December 22, 2025 at 10:07