On second perusal I thought it worthwhile to address this. I don't believe scientists generally have a delusion of absolute knowledge. In fact it seem...
Right, so in accordance with what I said about different kinds of existence, I would say that unicorns have a fictional or imagined, as opposed to a p...
Firstly I don't think any non-linguistic idea could be rightly thought of as an abstract idea. You might say that prior to language thinking is "priva...
Well, I want to be even more difficult and say that there is nothing which does not exist or has not existed in some sense. Of course, if you don't ag...
Is a presupposition not an idea? This is all very vague. You haven't made clear what you think the "mistaken assumptions" might be or what we might be...
And yet you said this, which seems inconsistent with your later avowal of disagreement. On the face of it I imagine that the kind of existential depen...
So, you agree that the idea of existence predates language. The idea of different kinds of existence may also predate language. That's fine, but the s...
Yeah, run away as usual, rather than engaging in argument. I really don't know why you bother with this site, Wayfarer; it seems that all you want to ...
You are merely pointing at vague possibilities. Even if it were true (which we could never definitely know to be true) that human desires somehow infl...
Reframe the argument then without using the terms exist, existence or existential. In any case even if you can do it, it remains the case that the ide...
What the fuck does that have to do with whether we share common ancestors with chimpanzees? To say that we do is not necessarily to embrace a "materia...
And yet we share more DNA with chimpanzees, about 99 % if memory serves, than we do with any other animal. All the available evidence seems to suggest...
No, I asked how the observer could be included in the observations in, for example, biology, chemistry or geology. If you can imagine how, then explai...
I think you're being a bit slippery here. The term 'existential' demarcates a kind of dependency which is understood in terms of existence, not of som...
It seems to be implicit in the article that physicalism and objectivism are rife in the scientific community and that this is a problem. It also seems...
You are talking in such terms, though. The term 'existential' is an adjective pertaining to the noun 'existence'. So when you talk of existential depe...
Yes, but the fact that science is (fairly obviously) an aspect of human experience; a story told by humans, is not something that any sensible scienti...
I think there is some truth to the claim that some reductive views of science have had a negative effect on human understanding, including the ways in...
So for you the semantic content in a book is not identical from one copy to the next? That question aside for the moment, if the viewer can get out of...
OK, thanks, no problem, perhaps I misunderstood... So, you asked the above question regarding my statement about the different kinds of existence we c...
So, there is no implied insult in your "Oh, is that all."? It's certainly seems to be an attempted dismissal or belittlement instead of a charitably m...
How do you know it would be "so different that you can't imagine", if you can't imagine how it would be different? Sure what we do affects the climate...
Science has becomes more wholistic, more systems-based. That this may not have sunk into the general public's ways of thinking should not be all that ...
You can imagine character traits in terms of kinds of thought, feeling and behavior. Of course that would require imagination. Or you could just choos...
Yes, but you are talking about the existence of things both dependent and depending; that is the point. You can say that something depends on somethin...
Yes, physics is concerned with the micro-physical, and some of what is observed there seems counter-intuitive, even paradoxical, to our ways of thinki...
No, wrong again. Perhaps if you were to lay out the reasoning that you want to claim leads inexorably from what I have said to what you claim here I t...
Did you not read the first of the two posts above where I mention the observer problem in QM? BUT, in any case, that is the one and only science, natu...
That's just not true, since existence is the one attribute all things, however diverse, share. It is the most general attribute. Also it is common to ...
I feel I have been deprived: where can I find such fascinating competitions? :razz: Seriously, though, andrew, I quite agree with what you say there; ...
I read the article and couldn't see much point to it. It seems obvious to me that the various sciences are phenomenological insofar as they deal with ...
Yes, looked at in physical. chemical and biological terms there are environmentally and genetically mediated energy relations, exchanges and interacti...
For me that kind of imagining is automatic. When I read a (good) novel I am immersed in the imagined world the novel evokes for me; the characters, th...
We distinguish between hallucinated or imagined trees and actual trees on the basis that the latter can physically act upon us. The corollary of that ...
Yes, the question as to whether there is anything independent of human or animal experience is a reasonable question about absolute existence. If ther...
If it is possible to hallucinate or imagine a tree, then there is a logical distinction between existent and non-existent (hallucinated or imagined) t...
Yes, that too! The Serbian panel beater from Adelaide who used the term, also extended its use to other areas. "Where are Steve and Shirley"? "They ar...
'Splonk' is a term (perhaps no longer) used in the automotive body repair industry (in Adelaide at least) to refer to the two part body fillers that a...
How do we become convinced that facts are facts? Even if we accept that we are under a rational obligation to believe facts, that still leaves open th...
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