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There is testimony and then there is testimony. The kinds of testimony you say we all accept is expert testimony which has been tested, documented and...

Right...as I seem to remember Hegel putting it: "The same old stew, reheated".

That's very cute! And apt in a way I find I can't articulate.

That seems to be factually incorrect at least when it comes to philosophers: https://survey2020.philpeople.org/survey/results/all I haven't seen any a...

To your whole post :up: "Do you want me to be Frank? I'll be Ernest if you'd rather" Benny Hill.

Let's grant for the sake of argument that (intellectual) intuition sometimes might give us an accurate picture of the nature of reality ("reality" her...

If there are things in themselves (noumena) which appear to us as phenomena, then we do perceive things in themselves, but we do not perceive them as ...

Such a weak analogy! Many, probably most, people experience love and beauty. They are simply not governed by logic?not things we use logic to understa...

You are going to be accused of not getting the point, while a coherent explanation of the point will never be forthcoming.

Your position entails that we cannot know anything at all about reality "in itself" and I agree with that as far as it goes.. So, we are left with wha...

Again you are wrong. I offer reasoned counterpoints and critiques which you apparently cannot deal with so you resort to insult or you just ignore wha...

This seems a typical obfuscation from you. The evasive slur, when you actually know nothing about my "educational limits" makes you look like a very "...

If all you're saying is that what we experience is mediated by our senses, our bodies and brains, then you are saying nothing controversial. We can sa...

Poetic, or perhaps not so poetic, musings. No one denies that children can play nonsense games together.

I asked for a quote from Peirce wherein he say his semiotics were inspired by Augustine.

Each of the five senses are perceptual faculties, as well as interoception and proprioception. All together they constitute the faculty of experience,...

Nice extrapolation! Relating to a different tradition, Hinduism, the three modes: Cardinal, fixed and mutable can be equated with the trinity of creat...

Do you have a citation where Peirce admits as much? If not it's mere speculation.

You contradict yourself. You say definitions are based in human experience and then go on to say we must go beyond experience, while saying that somet...

The most fundamental constituents of the body survive death. @"Sam26" seems to be thinking of consciousness, though.

:rofl: You seem more like a sailor whose ship is stuck motionless on a windless sea. You have a set of oars which would give you enough purchase to ge...

'Universe' just means 'the sum of what exists', so it refers to everything that exists, and is thus not a fiction at all. This is very confused. What ...

I haven't said it is necessarily true that a Universe of things existed prior to humans existing. I've said that all the available evidence points to ...

To be perceived is to stand out as a gestalt. To stand out as a gestalt is to be identified, although not necessarily in a linguistically self-reflect...

All our science is consistent in indicating that there was a universe, galaxies, star systems, planets and on Earth many organisms, plants, creatures ...

The logic of thinking difference involves things which are identified as being different. I don't see how you can escape that.

How can you say there is difference if it is not identified? How is it possible to think difference without thinking (identifying) the things which di...

How could there be difference unless some difference is identified? Identity and difference co-arise?you can't have one without the other.

So, you agree there was a universe prior to observers. What then are we disagreeing about? It's obvious what it means to say there was a universe prio...

These are good points Tom. I think people often forget that what they are presenting is merely one perspective. If they react defensively it seems to ...

Your capacity for self-delusion is truly remarkable. "Proper grasp" of course means 'understood as Wayfarer the enlightened one does". You apparently ...

That's an interesting take. Instead of oneself being a small part of the Universe, the Universe must instead be seen as being a small part of oneself....

An unfortunate deductive error inferring from our inability to say with certainty what kind of existence unperceived objects have to a conclusion that...

What an whorendous cuntrag?

Right, so we know that the cosmos was visible prior to the advent of percipients, otherwise there never would have been any percipients. I'd say there...

The Heart of Dickness by Joseph Cuntrad

As Tom Waits put it: "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy". As to wokeism; I wonder why there must be such partisan polemi...

Genes are generally understood to provide the information that governs the growth, development and functions of organisms. So, it seems you are right ...

Must the world be understood in order to be intelligible (able to be understood)? As an analogy, must something be seen in order to be counted as visi...

Can you explain what you take that to mean, if you are implying something beyond "A world that does not depend for it's existence on any or all minds"...

How could you possibly know that? At best you know (apparently) that you would do those things if you had the chance. Be wary of projecting your own b...

I imagine that you would probably be in a far better position than I to give an account of that. Again I think it (obviously) depends on how you defin...

A conceptual explanation just is a psychological explanation if it is assumed that a philosopher thinks a certain way on account of the time and cultu...

I guess you could say that is the upshot. So we are left with the possibility of looking at things in many different (and hopefully interesting) ways....

You are always giving psychological explanations, which amount to just-so stories, in order to try to debunk what you don't agree with. Your explanati...

It doesn't really differ. That's why I said from the start that all paintings can be thought of as pictures...or not...depending on the definition of ...

Exactly...now you are making my case for me.

Not at all. We can all form an idea of a black square. We don't need a separate realm where the idea lives. Are these paintings to be considered pictu...

Platonism not needed; it is just the idea of a black square that is being represented, an idea which can be re-presented in countless ways, just as th...

I'd say it may be said to be one possible representation of a black square, a picture of a black square, and that it also may be said to be just a bla...