Arguments do not prove anything; they are merely consistent (if valid) with their presupposed premises. This means that belief in the existence or non...
You seem to be a master of missing the point. The argument is simply that the existence of the world independently of its being perceived is an infere...
Because no matter how many times I do the experiment things are always there when I open my eyes again just as I left them when I closed my eyes. If I...
As Hume showed in relation to inductive reasoning, there is no purely logical justification for believing that any of the observed natural regularitie...
This is true, but it is also true that we don't need language in order to understand the act of cutting. Think beavers, for example, or leaf-cutter an...
In the sense that we may act on other people (and some animals) with our utterances, such as to cause, or at least influence, them to do things, I agr...
That seems nonsensical to me; words do not cut downs trees, people do. You influenced someone by words to cut down the tree, you did not cut down the ...
You can't cut down a tree, or influence it in any way, with words. You can of course influence other language users with words, you can induce them to...
The way I see it the word "real" is just for emphasis. If QM is taken to show us something about the fundamental nature of things, then from that pers...
Even without words I see the aspects, movements or activities of the body not as the whole body. I suppose you could say that the totality of all the ...
The way I understand it, the movements of the body are not separate from the body, but are just aspects of it; so, I don't know how not to distinguish...
I interpret the QM claim that nothing is real as meaning something like 'nothing is really as it seems'. Not saying I agree with this as such. but it ...
All processes are mediated or mediate. Perception can be validly understood as a process. Different ways of thinking may be selected as valid dependin...
I think we've already covered this: of course, we refer to some images as two-dimensional and I have pointed out that they are not really two-dimensio...
I think it's more a matter of philosophers finding new and novel ways to imagine things; the "problem" only arises when the demand that there be just ...
I agree there are many facts about perception, including scientific observations about how it works, but that wasn't my point: the point was that whet...
I was the one who found the PDF for Banno. However, I don't have time to read and discuss the book at the moment. My point was that, in thinking about...
As I see it, the problem is only "manufactured" if we buy into the idea that there is only one correct way to think about it. Otherwise, you just have...
This is basic Kant. The observational part of science shows us how phenomena manifest and quantifies, measures and explicates its qualities. The abduc...
However unlikely it might seem that all the cosmological constants just happen to line up such as to allow things to exist. looking at it from the oth...
If the formation of galaxies, stars, solar systems and planets results from small fluctuations or irregularities in the very simple CMB, and the forma...
Yes, there is a kind of paradox there, because we find that ordered phenomena have much more significant information to impart to us than random pheno...
Right it is a difficult thing to grasp and I certainly cannot claim anything more than a very basic understanding of entropy. It might help to make it...
Yes, you are right, and @"Wayfarer" is wrong here: it has to do with how much information would be needed to specify the positions of all the particle...
Indeed we could. which indicates that much comes down to differences of parlance. I think, as I said, there is really no such thing as a two-dimension...
Apparently the text it appears in is called Metaphysics and Commonsense but I couldn't find a PDF of that, so perhaps it is not considered all that ci...
I'd say the image on the screen like any photo or painting is really a "flat" three-dimensional image. Of course, I am not denying that we call such i...
Yes, I think the inference is based on the constant conjunction of events as pointed out by Hume. But we also now have a massive coherent body of unde...
Maybe we are looking from different angles. I think of empirical science theories as grounded in models of causation, and causation as not being obser...
I agree, it is how people feel about their lives and how much they can bear of a situation which perhaps all, including those who do not tend to refle...
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