Given that ideas are not based on arbitrary intuitions (previous post), it follows that what we find plausible is also not based on arbitrary intuitio...
I want to open a door, and I have the idea "I must turn the door handle in order to open the door". My idea is partly based on my innate a priori intu...
Another example of the irresponsible few happy to destroy society for their momentary intellectual amusement. /uploads/resized/files/nj/9r2ndvxl77ggvc...
How to prove that the statement "no true statement can ever be proved true" is true. Analytic statements Quine in The Two Dogmas of Empiricism disting...
Let p = Shakespeare drank a cup of coffee on the morning of 15 July 1584. P is either true or false, as a proposition is either true or false by defin...
There are many books in the world. Let one of these books be The Book. Some of these books have flawed proofs and untrue propositions, whilst The Book...
There are two aspects to reality. Our subjective reality, for example, seeing the colour red, and reality as it objectively is independent of any obse...
Humans are animals. Humans may have the ability for more complex reasoning, but at the end of the day humans are still animals. Whenever we look at ot...
There seems to be two different sets of premises and conclusions Premise/Conclusion Set One In the first paragraph of the Introduction, the author wri...
@"realmofgeorge" "Struggling to find the premises and conclusions of this text.... Racist Humor" In a well-written essay, the premise should be in the...
I agree that in this world that we live in, other living organisms and things are external to us. I too don't believe in a multiverse, where other liv...
Direct Realism is a philosophy of the mind based on the theory of perception that claims that the senses provide us with direct awareness of the exter...
The phrase "external world" has an accepted meaning, and it is about things or events that exist independently of the mind. 1) For the Psychology Dict...
Your question leads to a paradox. If the "external world" must exist, then it must exist whether or not it feels pain. But if it feels pain, then it c...
I was misled by your use of the phrase "external world" There must be an "external world" if pain, love, colour, consciousness, etc are attributes of ...
Direct Realism and Panpsychism I agree that the human is part of the world, and has evolved as part of the world over hundreds of millions of years. H...
A letter box emits a wavelength of 700nm. When looking at the letter box we perceive the colour red. Direct Realism claims that when we do perceive so...
Consider our perception of the colour red. The cause of our perception is not the colour red but a wavelength of 700nm. As it is commonly agreed that ...
I didn't know of the debate about how a noumenon relates to a "thing-in-itself". More reading to do. A relevant paragraph in Critique of Pure Reason i...
I am trying to be careful in distinguishing complex objects, such as "unicorns", "tables" or "multiverses" from simple empirical experiences through o...
Not quite. Taking a table as a particular example of "everything in our experience". Our understanding of what a table is may be fictional, without re...
Your previous statement was "There is strong evidence that I experience the color red. When you hold up a card colored red, ask me what color it is, a...
To save you having to look words up in the dictionary, both fictive and fictional are adjectives describing literary ideas created by the imagination,...
The MRI scanner can make measurements of your brain when you look at the colour red, but can the MRI scanner determine that you are experiencing what ...
Far be it for me to say that the multiverse doesn't exist. If we can never know whether the multiverse exists or not, even in principle, then we can o...
I know that I have the subjective experience of colours. I believe that you also have the subjective experience of colours. I can never know that you ...
My belief, along the lines of Kant's phenomenon and noumenon, is that all understanding we have of complex objects in the world is fictive, whether "u...
How can we talk about "multiverses" when multiverses are unknowable ? It is the same problem that goes back to Kant's phenomenon and noumenon. Kant pr...
If it is not possible to determine even in principle whether the proposition "a multiverse exists" is true/false, then the first problem is not whethe...
@"Janus " I can't decide whether the question as to whether propositions that are undecidable for us can nonetheless be true or false is itself undeci...
There may be no evidence today determining the truth or falseness of the multiverse interpretation of QM, but there may be evidence next year. As @Phi...
On seeing Munch's Scream, the screaming face has an immediate emotional meaning. But the screaming face also has a symbolic meaning, a symbol of of de...
Wikipedia Novelty Seeking writes - "In psychology, novelty seeking (NS) is a personality trait associated with exploratory activity in response to nov...
Why does any sight, sound, touch, taste or smell give rise to a subjective emotion. Such as the sight of a sunset, the sound of a bird, the touch of v...
Comment by Professor Donald Clark: COP coming to Glasgow. Leaders staying at Gleneagles Hotel & 20 Tesla cars (£100K each) bought to ferry them 75km b...
An important element of phenomenology that Husserl borrowed from Brentano is intentionality (often described as "aboutness"), the notion that consciou...
I think "art being a subjective experience" is uncontroversial. The question is, what kind of subjective experience. There are many possibilities - be...
(y) Agree, of the three main epistemological approaches, Idealism, Indirect Realism and Direct Realism, I tend to Indirect Realism. In Indirect Realis...
Koch wrote "By postulating that consciousness is a fundamental feature of the universe, rather than emerging out of simpler elements, integrated infor...
Sentient life is estimated to have evolved on Earth during the Cambrian period about 541 mya to 485 mya. The start of the Universe is estimated at abo...
I know what you mean, and I don't want to unnecessarily quibble about words, but the choice of word does have an effect. Yes, where is Force X ? The p...
As you mentioned consciousness and emergence, I wonder if the sand dune analogy gives any insights. If the observer is aware of the particles of sand,...
Although slightly digressing, the following is relevant to "The Definition of Art". As @Mark Nyquist noted, something that may be overlooked is the de...
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