Firstly, 3 does not follow from 2. If you think it does then you need to explain how it would. Secondly, 3 itself is not merely a conclusion but an ar...
That doing certain things is adaptively advantageous is in keeping with an evolutionary account, and provides a practical reason for doing those thing...
Sure, I agree, but my point was more that it doesn't seem to make sense to say something isn't right if we can't say what its not being right could ev...
If talking about it is a waste of time, then talking about talking about it won't be a waste of time if it cures you of the habit of talking about it....
The question is if anyone there would see a snake what could it even mean to say there "really" is no snake? If we say it's "really" just a configurat...
I don't have time to read right now, but I looked and saw this in the heading: "The only reality is mind and observations, but observations are not of...
I'd say it is misplaced, at least in philosophical parlance, just because we cannot decide whether it is misplaced or not, and the idea that it might ...
Would it still count as physicalism if I said I believe in something real that reliably gives rise to our experience of a physical world and is someho...
If you listen to the interview with Hoffman on Sam Harris' site that @"Mww" referred to from about 40 minutes in as suggested (note 9, on the Wiki pag...
:up: Nor, I would add, to any other aspect of human life. These different systems of ideas are interesting and illuminating just in that they exemplif...
I think that it is undeniable that without awareness the universe would be as good as nothing. It might be said to exist in some sense, but it would b...
I know there is a movement towards pan-psychism among some physicalists; Galen Strawson and (not sure) David Chalmers spring to mind. Does this idea o...
The opponent of the view that numbers are abstract in the sense of being thought to be merely epiphenomenally parasitic upon the physical will argue t...
I'm not sure whether it detracts from the point. I guess if subsist means then we could say that particular numbers subsist in collections of objects ...
Just as "things we do" is abstract, like anything we say, and represents perceivable human actions, so, I would argue, are numbers abstract, and they ...
Evasive bullshit! You said that if I read the article "my responses might improve"; a veiled insult designed to divert attention from your apparent in...
Russell's is a recognized usage: subsist (s?b?s?st) vb (mainly intr) 1. (often foll by on) to be sustained; manage to live: to subsist on milk. 2. to ...
You're becoming ever more lazy and arrogant. I'm here to discuss with others, not to be insulted or pompously advised to read papers that are not even...
That's just not true, though; they each reflect light at wavelengths closer to each other than objects of other colours do compared to them, and conse...
All you doing is stating the obvious that a negation is also an assertion; nothing to do with the point re dialectics that every idea contains (the se...
Quantum theory and relativity are said to be the two most successful theories ever in terms of accuracy of prediction. In any case, a "conceptual tran...
I think we can acknowledge that we are inevitably limited by our cognitive faculties, because they get trained in the three-dimensional;macroscopic wo...
There is no science outside the cognition of sentient beings, so our science is no more placed to make pronouncements about what might purportedly lie...
You're misunderstanding me. All I'm saying is that for the purposes of human experience and understanding there are publicly accessible objects and th...
I agree that we can kind of coherently imagine the world of publicly accessible objects being ultimately, fundamentally either mind or matter, or neit...
That doesn't answer the question, though. All we know is experience, and we can argue that how we experience things is mediated by our physical consti...
What do you think he's saying? So, if it were true that your apple is nothing like mine. leaving aside the fact that we can both reliably point to the...
But if reality were nothing like what we experience, no kind of observation would be telling us anything that we could justifiably base any theory on....
The problem I find with Hoffmann's theory is that if reality were nothing like what we experience, then how could he justifiably arrive at the conclus...
I think this is too simplistic; it might stand out against the sky, I see many others like it and many others very different, you can climb the tree a...
Language is about the world, and I would include mathematical and visual representation in that characterization. So, it is via language that a kind o...
This is too abstract: I think it would be far better to say that it is in actuality and significance that the world and language meet. Some of our ide...
That's true maybe on the electronic level, but could we not say the dirt is not part of the living growing tissue of the tree, or not part of the self...
:up: The other point is that, even if there are other big bangs, universes and thus instances of spacetime, how could we know about them, and even if ...
I agree that in a way such categorization is primordial, but I think it is arguable that it is greatly augmented and refined by scientific investigati...
Science also relies on the imputation of identities to natural particulars and kinds; for example a particular tree or species is itself distinguishab...
Cheers, I'll take another look. You seem to be saying that the truth of the statement "It's true that there's milk in the fridge and no-one knows ther...
Actually, it doesn't follow. All knowable truths could be known with only unknowable truths left. But then surely new truths are arising every moment,...
But if there were no unknown truths, wouldn't it then follow that there would be no unknowable truths? In any case, that is not how the argument gets ...
But how does it follow that an unknown truth leads to the conclusion that there is an unknowable truth. I don't know, may I'm just not bright enough f...
I still cannot get the move from unknown truth to unknowable truth in the argument. In any case: That may be true, but if it is unknowable as to wheth...
That still seems wrong to me. The proposition is an assumption or stipulation: let's assume or stipulate that p and that we don't know p. There doesn'...
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