I agree with the distinction you make here, but it just boils down to the difference between the actual existence of things and our conceptions of tha...
This is presenting only one form of metaphysical realism. I'd rather say that the world is as it is, and how it is gives rise to our perceptions of ob...
We believe the theory of evolution on account of evidence not because we just "think it is true" without any grounds, or on account of principles of r...
Principles of reason don't exist other than as thoughts or sentences. They are merely codifications of what is the general case regarding our experien...
Nothing I said contradicts that. It is a story—a very well supported one. However unlikely it might be, it is not impossible that it is false. How cou...
Evolution is a theory and as such is not a part of the physical landscape, so it belongs with reason. The correctness or incorrectness of that theory ...
I don't think that is the most important question in philosophy by any stretch because the simple answer is "You can't get outside of human conception...
The dog's behavior shows that he sees me and the ball and many other things in the environment. His behavior towards different things I see him reacti...
But is it not most reasonable to think they are responses (whether innate or not) perhaps to survival, or perhaps to enjoying themselves or whatever, ...
I agree with Aristotle that time is in one sense measurement of change (movement) and have recently said as much in this thread I think, or perhaps in...
How is it that you think principles of reason jeopardized by the evolutionary account? What if principles of reason are in accordance with the way the...
Everything about human understanding is in terms of subjects and objects. I think the human-independently real is non-dual, but that does not mean it ...
But in any case, our usual way of speaking about it suffices. So, pedantic concerns aside, does it really matter whether it is said that when humans d...
I'm not saying it is a true account of the nature of being (whatever that might mean), but rather merely, leaving aside our personal interests, a natu...
I tend to agree but it is a difficult thing to prove unfortunately. The idea that there was truth in the past when there could be no propositions or t...
What we say of the future will presumably be true or false depending on whether the state of affairs we now propose turns out to obtain. With your sta...
What is the difference between a representation and an appearance according to you? I didn't claim that what I said was an explanation of what MP was ...
I have predicated all my arguments on the condition "iff truth and falsity are properties of propositions". I haven't said that I accept that conditio...
I don't have time for a more detailed reply right now. You ask what characteristics make a dog chase, piss, avoid and so on. Of course we are not comp...
The appearnce could only resemble the thing that appears when it is not appearing if the thing that appears is an appearance when it is not appearing,...
Right, so he knew he had done something he shouldn't have, which was my original point. Do you think it is any different with humans? Do you think tha...
What could that mean? Taking sight as the primary sense involved in describing things, are you asking something like whether the things that appear to...
I understand what MP is saying of course. We can only speak in terms that come from and refer to our experience. To say that nebulae or dinosaurs exis...
After reading many thousands of your words I am still not clear what you think the point at issue is if it is not whether or not this life is all ther...
Yes, it all comes down to experience. The world we experience is the real world, and it is a world shared with the other animals. It is a world that e...
The names of things is not the issue. The issue is their existence independent of humans or any percipients. This is not to say that their microphysic...
'Seeming' is the essence of experience. How else could what is real and what is merely imagined be assessed. but by comparing what seems to be real to...
The dog sees the ball as something to chase, the doorway as something to walk through, the wall as something not to walk into, the tree as something t...
You may be attributing that, not me. I say they clearly see the things we call walls and trees, I'm not saying they see them as walls or trees. Right,...
As I said before we see cats climbing trees not brick walls, birds perching in trees, not stopping and attempting to perch in midair. We see dogs tryi...
Come on, this is standard science of perception. Neither science nor the realist claim that we all see things exactly the same way or that we see thin...
I didn't mean to say that animals have conceptual access to microphysical structures, but that we know by observing their behavior that animals have p...
I thought we were in agreement. It's not clear to me where you think we are still not in agreement. OK, I'll try one more time. You say the fact that ...
There is no point lecturing me. I have no doubt I've read more Kant, Hegel, Heidegger and Merleau Ponty than you. I think your interpretation of Kant ...
OK cool it seems we agree. I think we and the other animals have access to the same basic structures. Why would that be? We experience matter in an al...
I thought you were asking me to speculate as to what the structures we perceive as objects might be. It seems animals will not conceptualize structure...
You are putting words in my mouth. I don't say that at all. Almost everything we know is known by direct observation and science is just an augmenting...
What are the implications of the fact that the characteristics of the microphysical do not accord with the characteristics of the macrophysical? I thi...
Not a fact—a mere assumption. That people notice different things in a vast or complex environment is no valid objection. If one notices something, as...
Do you think his conclusion—a kind of ontological argument for the existence of God—is also feigned? Or that his skepticism regarding the authority of...
Right I agree but surely to be consistent Descartes must have imagined that he had grounds for skepticism regarding the existence of those other think...
Sure, I guess the association must be in play. I think it's the same with children learning what is expected of them and to anticipate some kind of pu...
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