Suppose the world is deterministic. Then one's beliefs have been determined, whether one's belief is that the world is deterministic or one's belief i...
That relations don't really exist in the physical world. From SEP - Relations Bradley concluded that we should eliminate external relations from our o...
Yes, fixing one's definitions adds complexity to an already complicated topic, such as establishing the differences between being and becoming, ontolo...
Not an infinite regress, as we eventually arrive at the (indivisible) fundamental particles and forces. There are four fundamental interactions known ...
In a deterministic world, looking forwards in time, the earthquake off the coast of Cotabato in 1976 determined a tsunami in the Moro Gulf. In a deter...
I put my hand between the white ball and the red ball. If I have free will, then I have a reason. In determinism, there is a cause. From Britannica - ...
Yes, Idealism is an extensive topic, as the SEP article on Idealism indicates. Heidegger has "Being-in-the-World", but this may be a similar problem w...
Words exist in a mind-independent world in two ways, in the same way that 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 exists in two ways. They exist as physical matter, whether as ...
Words must physically exist in some form in the physical space between where you exist and where I exist, otherwise we would not be able to exchange i...
It depends which line of enquiry you are considering. There are two distinct lines of enquiry, the ontology of being within a Realist framework and th...
It really is not necessary to simplify your ideas for me to understand, I will try to keep up. I was just wondering how we can approach the ontology o...
"Esse est percipi" may be translated as "to be is to be perceived". We both perceive through our sense of vision that Mary is wearing a yellow jacket....
A public language exists as a fact in the world, therefore the word "chair" exists as a fact in the world. The correspondence is between the concept o...
There are many different definitions of "truth" - see SEP - Truth In the absence of humans there would be no truth. For example, is a rock "true"? "Tr...
On the one hand we speak the common truth that "the postbox is red". But on the other hand, when we both look at this "red postbox", how do we know ou...
The deterministic perspective equates to my previous experiences. All things being equal, if on a snooker table I saw a white ball hit the red ball a ...
For Berkeley, tables and chairs exist in the world even when not observed by any human, because they exist in the mind of God. As an Indirect Realist,...
It may well be that the truth is simple. The problem is interpretation. I look at Wittgenstein's duck-rabbit and say "I see the truth, it is a duck". ...
As I understand it: For Malebranche, God controls every interaction, such as when a white snooker ball hits a red snooker ball. For Berkeley, it initi...
I am unclear as to the meaning of "perceive" in "esse est percipi", "to be is to be perceived". Does it mean perceive through the sense, as in "I perc...
It seems that way, in that for Berkeley "matter" does nothing for us. See SEP - Occasionalism Berkeley (1685-1753) may have been influenced by the Occ...
As I could never run a 4 minute mile because I am limited by the physicality of my body, all brains are limited by their physicality. Brains are physi...
How can you speculate about the ontology of being without using language or thought? The moment you speculate about the ontology of being using langua...
Yes, Materialism and Physicalism have other meanings as well. But specifically for Berkeley, as an Immaterialist, he does not believe in a world of ma...
Suppose there is an ontological "being" independent of human language or human thought. How can a human approach ontological being if they can neither...
Berkeley does not believe that there are material objects in the world, athough he does believe that there are physical objects in the world. From SEP...
"Being" is a word in language and Being is a concept in the mind. As regards linguistic meaning of the word, the Merriam Webster Dictionary describes ...
There are also two meanings of "perceive". One meaning of "perceive" is something through one of the five senses, such as "I perceive a red postbox" o...
Consider "Socrates is a philosopher". On the one hand, "is" could be a static "being", an unchanging substance. On the other hand, "is" could be a dyn...
A Black Hole may emit gravitational waves, and it is these gravitational waves that we can perceive. These gravitational waves "represent" the Black H...
"Esse est percipi" can be translated as "to be is to be perceived”. A Black Hole causes gravitational waves. We can perceive these gravitational waves...
An alien may as be different to us as we are to a cat. Would a cat understand if we explained Sartre's theory of existentialism to it? Would we unders...
Humans cannot perceive Black Holes. They may be inferred, but they cannot be perceived in Berkeley's terms. Would it be Berkeley's position that Black...
At this moment in time I only know the reality that I exist within at this moment in time. I cannot know anything outside this reality because I canno...
Is any kind of fixity possible in language? Consider "the apple is on the table". It is true that there is fixity here. We are explicitly told that th...
No one can ever know if one's own reality is or is not reality itself. Mary, in the knowledge argument, lives in her black and white world. At each mo...
Is it like a Derain painting, which exists as shapes and colours, and where the form of the shapes and colours allows the possibility of content withi...
Ontology is about the nature of reality, and epistemology is about how we know the nature of reality. There is an analogy to Mary's Room, the knowledg...
My understanding of the definitions As an Indirect Realist, I know that I, as a human, exist and I believe that a world independent of humans exists. ...
As a first approximation, one could argue that thinking in the West tends more to a search for substance and in the East thinking tends more to a sear...
It would be silly if that is what I had said. What I actually said was "It seems that English is more extensive than Russian in that we also have a wo...
Though this sounds very similar to Continental Philosophy, with its emphasis on human behaviour, existentialism and psychoanalysis. I agree not exactl...
As regards this topic, I see things differently to you, and we are both English speakers. We don't need to speak a different language to see things di...
Language expresses thoughts. In an uncertain world, language mirrors this uncertainty We say "this apple is healthy" until we discover that although a...
Your analysis of the copula "is" has planted the seed of enquiry in my mind. You have nurtured my curiosity, and I am struggling to bring a quietude t...
Wittgenstein in Philosophical Investigations wrote about the duck-rabbit picture. I see Parmenides and see a philosopher. The next time I see Parmenid...
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