Janus

Oh OK, sorry, it looks like I misread your ironic intent also.

There are aspects of the world that are inaccessible, but none of those are non-relational. It's just that we don't possess the right properties to en...

If you are suggesting I don't read what you write, then you are wrong. As far as I can tell I'm agreeing with you in this argument. There's no irony, ...

As I already pointed out if you care to look at the quote from myself directly above your post.

Why don't you read what I write? I'm characterizing the position of those who claim we cannot see the world as it is, not my own position: I don't cla...

I didn't write " see the world from all perspectives" I wrote " see the world free from all perspectives". That is the criterion being used for being ...

But then it isn't saying much to say that we cannot see the world as it is if there is no world as it is. That would be like saying that we cannot see...

There is no, non-relational, context free "as it is" to be seen.

Ah, but the demanded condition for being able to see the world as it is, is to be able to see it free from all perspectives; which would mean being ab...

There's a huge difference between seeing someone right in front of you who will die if you don't help them, and deciding whether or not to give to cha...

I thought there was no resurrection in Zen!

Ontological pluralism does say there are different ways of being, so perhaps I misspoke. It depends on whether you count different ways of being as am...

Sure, monism says everything is X. Dualism doesn't though; it says some things are X and others are Y. My point was only that pluralism doesn't claim ...

Sure, but they are different kinds of physical things, no?

I'm not sure the question as to what matter is is really coherent. We may find other particles in the future, but how would we ever know if we had arr...

I don't presume to answer for @"Banno", but I'll tender my own. If I believe snow is white, I necessarily believe 'snow is white' is true. A distincti...

Yes, but some of the constituents of the matter we can feel and see are matter you cannot feel and see, but can detect the effects thereof.

I see the mind as being an activity of the body. Activities do not weigh anything, although they may indeed, in another sense, carry weight. OK, I've ...

Sure, it's not impossible that we have the wrong understanding of what constitutes matter. But it does seem vanishingly unlikely, given the predictive...

That makes no sense. There are different kinds of "ordinary stuff", of matter. Matter seems to be constituted by fields and particles; what's the prob...

Yes, that's right because it's a matter of definition.

Sure something might be able to appear white under extraordinary conditions while not appearing white under ordinary conditions. We would then not say...

How do you know you're made of matter if you don't know what matter is?

The deductive invalidity of the argument seems irrelevant in this case, because there is a logical entailment from "snow is white" being true to snow ...

How do you know that staying away from matter is difficult if you don't know what matter is? :confused:

That makes sense. But I think the same thing applies to individuals. An individual is a being (be-ing) in the sense of the term as verb, yet being, li...

What we get via the senses, specifically the eyes, provides the raw material that makes up what we see. It seems obvious that, as Kant says, “Percepti...

This can also be parsed in physicalist terms. The knower is the brain/body, whose activity is never known (it is blind to the neurophysical activity t...

That seems weird to me. Physical contact consists in concrete actions and responses. It seems very wrongheaded to me to be saying that there are these...

To say "I have a body" instead of "I am a body" is precisely the way of thinking/ speaking that leads to Cartesian dualism. So, yes, you're right; acc...

Some things cannot be reliably quantified to be sure. I don't believe that everything can be explained in terms of the laws of physics, so in that sen...

Yes, that's it. I prefer to speak of ontological rather than metaphysical commitments, because the very term 'metaphysical' is a tendentious one; sugg...

I'm not sure what you mean by "in the context of consciousness". Do you mean 'in the context of how consciousness intuitively seems to us"? If so, the...

The idea of the physical is the idea of mind independent structure and interaction. How those structures and interactions appear to us is not taken to...

How many times do I have to explain that I agree that physicalism is, as an ontological presumption, obviously not testable any more than any other on...

No, it's not right at all; I wouldn't mind metaphysical explanations if any of them seemed coherent. It's also an egregious irony, considering you are...

This doesn't seem quite right to me; a body is not a separate thing from "how it is organized"; so there would seem to be no problem involved in sayin...

Very simple; I am trying to exclude any meta-physical explanation.

Physical just means detectable, measurable, modelable in terms of causality. In one sense the term is, like the term 'natural', a distiction without a...

I agree that minds are natural (as opposed to supernatural or transcendent or of another substance). I just don't see any point in claiming they are n...

I'm loath to respond if someone resorts to lame put-down attempts, but I will say this; I haven't anywhere said that it would not be possible to have ...

From the fact that minds decide what is physical, it certainly does not follow that minds are not physical. Humans decide what is human; does it follo...

Of course a Kantian or a subjective idealist can agree with the definition. So what? If they purported to reject physicalism then they would necessari...

Yes, I know that; so what? I haven't anywhere claimed that minds are not central to all our investigations. We investigate with our minds (and bodies ...

If the patient's belief is a neuronal process or pattern, which causes physical effects in the body, then where is the mystery, beyond the fact that w...

If the believe world is intelligible and our models are modeling anything real, then why should we not think they reflect the structure of the world "...

I think it's truer to say we are screwing up the climate due to our prior ignorance of the effects of our technology. It is only science itself that t...

I don't think physicalism claims that the physical is abstract. Of course it is modeled in abstract terms, obviously it must be, since all our concept...

What does "more than physical" mean, though? Does it mean "spiritual" or "ghostly" or "transcendent"? I put those in scare quotes because it's not cle...

What is property dualism, but merely an acknowledgement that we reify our linguistic concepts and think in dualistic categories? If you want to say it...