I don't see that point. Quantum mechanics as a practice obviously involves everyday "macro" equipment, but it does not follow that what is being studi...
Saying it is "confused" means little and is unhelpful unless you point to what you find to be such. And "Schrodinger's cat" is not "quantum" it is the...
In fact this is exactly Hegel's point against Kant's idea of noumena. And in one sense I agree with it, but in another I don't. We can think about thi...
It's true in the naive context; I admit that. That's obvious. And it's not that it's not true in the extra-human context, but more that's it's being t...
I don't even like to say that we "infer" the mental lives of others. We live in an inter-subjective world such that the mental lives of others are bey...
You're taking that out of context. My approach in everyday commonsense parlanace is no different from yours. I just don't take that approach to be be ...
I don't get this. We don't look at minds at all. We attribute the functions that we call mental to the perceptible physical object we call the brain. ...
The problem for your position is that the cat being on the mat is riddled with perceptual, that is to say, conceptual underpinnings. Sure, it's true t...
I don't think that's what's going on here at all. @"Wayfarer" is not really saying anything cogent at all; which is revealed by his inability to answe...
I think we safely can say that minds are not reducible to brains. What I mean is that mind-oriented explanations of behavior (in terms of reasons) wil...
So you deny that we have any reason to believe this Universe began approximately 14 billion years ago and that humanity came on the scene approximatel...
It is rightly bracketed out by science, though, just as the question of the existence of the external world is rightly bracketed out by Husserl. Scien...
Well of course all knowledge "has a subjective pole": this is so obvious that I think you are grossly underestimating the intelligence of scientific r...
I suppose you could have different instantiations of precisely the same pattern, but perhaps only on the micro-physical level of existence, and even t...
The oft trotted out 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences' would seem to suggest the latter. :wink: So, be careful what y...
You seem to be speaking about so-called lucid dreaming. I have never experienced that, so I can't comment. But if you can dream and not be cognizant t...
I was just leaving open the possibility that you might not agree with the first two sentences, but you said you are glad we are on the same page, so a...
I'm not sure what you mean by "genuinely new experiences". Anything you experience which you haven't experienced before is a new experience, isn't it?...
If everything is the self and the solipsist can have new experiences, then she has not experienced all of her self in which case she is never omniscie...
I'm still not getting it. The dream horizon, just like the world horizon, can always be expanded, which in the dream context would be "expanding the l...
Identicality is not precisely the same idea as identity. You are not identical from one moment to the next, and yet you are the same identity. Not und...
It's semantic identity, which doesn't change over time or in different instantiations. I would go as far as to say that there is no identity other tha...
I was not saying there is a pattern to the appearance of primes in the number series (although there might be) I was saying that the recurrence of num...
Attributes and numbers are real insofar as recognizable objects are categorizable and numerable, and insofar as we are able to symbolize those general...
No, I meant "knowable". I am drawing a distinction between the real world and the actual Real that gives rise to it. It is not different than the dist...
To my way of thinking the real world is knowable; it is always already interpreted and in conceptual shape, so to speak. It is what Wittgenstein refer...
You can work with whatever definition of the term 'fact' you like, of course. For me yours is an impoverished definition that removes the distinction ...
What other senses of 'fact are there? What relevance does the fact that verbal statements, propositions and conceptions can be false have to facts bei...
As I understand it all facts are objective. The idea of a "subjective fact" seems incoherent. (Unless something like a "fact about a subject" is meant...
I've been trying to avoid responding here beyond offering brief comments because time is precious for me at the moment. So I'll keep it as short as po...
No need to match because facts are always already in propositional form. If you disagree then give me an example of a fact that is not in propositiona...
So, imitation then, rather than following specific rules? So, not too deflationary for the the concerns of the thread, but rather deflationary in a se...
I put this, a similar point, to Banno earlier and received no response: Information is pervasive, not confined to words. Words, if they work, activate...
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