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This is a tricky point, it seems. Would you say the experience of animals conceptually structured?
October 15, 2018 at 00:25
That quote refers to "objects", but it does not explain how those purported objects qualify as objects beyond their conceptual, abstract dimension. So...
October 14, 2018 at 23:04
The textbook explanation is parasitic upon the experience of a world of tangible objects. Only a fool would deny that. I'm making no claim about the "...
October 14, 2018 at 22:49
I think you're confusing yourself by over-thinking this. You're conflating talk about the experience with the actual experience. Try feeling some obje...
October 14, 2018 at 21:26
I agree with your analysis here. In fact to say that nature is constructed from number, or some such kind of metaphysical claim, as for example Tegmar...
October 14, 2018 at 21:03
If something counts as an object in the sense that @"Alethiest" stipulates, then it certainly exists. If qualities exist, or subsist, only in their in...
October 14, 2018 at 20:45
Well, I suppose it depends on your definition of object. I do agree that qualities have an objective (meaning mind-independent in the sense that they ...
October 14, 2018 at 20:37
Of course my notion of it is an abstraction, but material concreteness is experienced. If it weren't we would have no way of differentiating between t...
October 14, 2018 at 20:32
Right, so the illusion of an external world (in case there wasn't one) would not be a false belief that there is an external world? Rrigghhtt.....I th...
October 14, 2018 at 06:20
Not if there really is a soul. But plenty of people have believed that it is self-evident there is a soul. Those people were under the illusion that t...
October 14, 2018 at 04:27
Exactly??? :roll:
October 14, 2018 at 02:41
I'm not trying to imagine where they exist, but rather what kind of existence they could be said to have. For example fiveness is undoubtedly a charac...
October 13, 2018 at 23:50
I agree that they are properties, and that properties as conceived can be understood to be conceptual or abstract objects. The problem I have is that ...
October 13, 2018 at 23:14
Bear in mind that I was originally talking about a train journey between two specific destinations. So, the train would need to pass through both thos...
October 13, 2018 at 22:35
It seems that two out of three you're preaching to the choir here. Edit: Although, having thought about it a bit more, I'm not so sure the unicorn is ...
October 13, 2018 at 22:08
Perhaps, but do abstract objects exist independently of their being thought, and if so, how would that "existence" look?
October 13, 2018 at 22:06
No doubt we use mathematics to help (I don't see any reason to believe that mathematics is absolutely essential to the task) decipher the "book of nat...
October 13, 2018 at 22:01
I'm not clear how this relates to the point about train journeys. The point was just that there is no single real (as opposed to conceptual or abstrac...
October 13, 2018 at 21:42
What do you mean "doesn't follow"? It follows according to your own argument: I said, You replied, Which means according to your own argument that sin...
October 13, 2018 at 21:33
So there must be a soul. What is a soul?
October 13, 2018 at 19:26
So, there can be no illusion of a soul if there has never been a soul?
October 13, 2018 at 05:29
The problem I see with this is that if a mathematical "object", say the number five, has no existence apart from its concrete representations, then it...
October 12, 2018 at 23:07
We think there is shared meaning. If there is no real plurality of minds then there is no real shared meaning. We experience an apparent plurality of ...
October 12, 2018 at 05:52
Shared meaning requires at least the illusion of a plurality of minds. I'm not claiming that the apparent plurality of minds is an illusion; I tend to...
October 12, 2018 at 03:55
You can't prove that solipsism is false, so as usual you resort to casting aspersions on the one who has shown you to be mistaken. Of course I agree t...
October 12, 2018 at 03:41
Again this assumes that the others you share meaning with are not products of your own mind, or for a more universal solipsism, products of the one mi...
October 12, 2018 at 03:38
How do you know that cognition requires an external world (as opposed to, say, merely the idea of an external world)? I don't know what you are drivin...
October 12, 2018 at 03:36
Just before saying "One mind is not different things." you said: If ones thoughts about "one's own thought and belief' (or anything else) consist in d...
October 12, 2018 at 03:15
Why could the thoughts in one mind not be different things?
October 12, 2018 at 03:01
What if what we understand to be "cosmic unity" is due to the fact that everything is 'at bottom' (in terms of the so-called quantum vacuum, say) irre...
October 12, 2018 at 00:00
Nothing in the quoted passage explains what kind of existence (apart from the 'ideal' existence they have insofar as they are thought by humans) these...
October 11, 2018 at 23:48
I'm not interested in considering Relativity theory in the context of this discussion. Spacetime is a theoretical construct; the question of its mind ...
October 10, 2018 at 23:12
Yes, but you haven't explained what kind of existence such purported objects might have, beyond being concrete (would be able to be sensed if the appr...
October 10, 2018 at 22:26
The problem for Platonists is that they have failed to, and apparently cannot, explain in what sense the purported Platonic objects exist, or are real...
October 10, 2018 at 22:18
I haven't said that the objective existence of anything depends on its actually being sensed; I have said that our idea of objective existence comes f...
October 10, 2018 at 22:10
No, you experience many actual collections of objects; trees, dogs, parks, cities, people, etc, etc, but you only imagine or think of arbitrary collec...
October 10, 2018 at 21:27
Yes these kinds of objections to Platonism occurred quite early on in the form of questions such as "But is there a perfect form of the turd, or the p...
October 10, 2018 at 21:10
Really? If you care to actually back one of your claims up, then quote something I wrote and show how it counts as an "application of paraconsistent l...
October 10, 2018 at 04:14
Nothing but vague suggestions, innuendos and promissory notes, nary an actual argument to be found as usual!
October 10, 2018 at 03:18
Jesus, man, take your hand off it, it's disgusting!
October 10, 2018 at 02:26
What's the point in telling me about something you were going to attempt to do? :roll: I don't believe you. You don't experience an arbitrary collecti...
October 10, 2018 at 02:24
If we observe that some things are physically interacting and hence connected, then that is our experience and understanding, which you have already a...
October 09, 2018 at 20:20
I don't deny the objects are "out there". I can, and do, deny the collectedness (read "connectedness") of things which are "loosely (read "arbitrarily...
October 09, 2018 at 19:40
But you do, right? :rofl:
October 09, 2018 at 19:33
So everything is equally arbitrary and 'arbitrary' loses its meaning? Great!
October 09, 2018 at 19:15
Yeah, right, that seems likely!
October 09, 2018 at 19:13
No, you're not paying attention; the criterion is physical connection. Sorry, I'm not clear what the question is.
October 09, 2018 at 07:19
Kant: "The only thing which might be called an addition, though in the method of proof only, is the new refutation of psychological idealism, and the ...
October 09, 2018 at 02:57
In this context arbitrariness could be understood to be inversely proportional to physical connection as i already explained. So, the animal body is n...
October 09, 2018 at 02:45
If we can think about something we know that it at least exists in our thoughts. If we want to impute additional existence to it beyond that we need s...
October 09, 2018 at 00:55