I'm not sure what you understand "implausible" to mean. It doesn't mean "false" or "impossible". It means something like "unconvincing" or "seemingly ...
Yes, or more clearly from the conclusion: He contrasts idealism with materialism, dualism, and neutral monism. These terms are commonly understood to ...
I've only had time to read the introduction, but in general it seems to agree with my characterisation: His subsequent breakdown of idealism into "mic...
That strikes me as atomism, not materialism. String theory is perhaps an example of atomistic materialism, but the Standard Model is perhaps an exampl...
"External reality" refers to the notion of a domain of objects existing independently ("outside") of any subjective mental phenomena. https://en.wikip...
Words and concepts can have a meaning even if nothing exists which satisfies the conditions of that meaning. Nothing is "supernatural", but the differ...
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/idealism/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dualism/ Idealism is concerned with what does and doesn't exist. This ...
You’re just playing word games. Dreamlng isn’t just something that is reported after waking. It’s something experienced. It’s the occurrence of visual...
I gave examples: "the square root of 4 is 2" being true depends on the square root of 4 being 2; "a yellow ball does not exist" being true depends on ...
Because we see and hear and feel things when asleep. That's what dreaming is. I agree, which is why it is more productive to ask if things like colour...
The truth of “the square root of 4 is 2” depends on the square root of 4 being 2. But the square root of 4 being true doesn’t depend on the existence ...
Probably nothing. The mistake is in thinking that a statement's truth depends on the existence of something. Imagine that just two things exist; a red...
What's the difference? We know that the external world is constituted of things like atoms and electromagnetic radiation. We know that electromagnetic...
I think of idealism as simply being a substance monism, contrasted primarily with materialism and substance/property dualism. I don't think that "thin...
That’s where I disagree. Quantum field theory doesn’t talk about cups or cupboards or King Charles III, but our everyday language does. Therefore it’s...
It's the world that quantum field theory describes. Do you agree that there is such a world? If so then either a) cups can be described by quantum fie...
So do I. Objects in the external world are correctly described by quantum fields. Cups aren't correctly described by quantum fields. Therefore, cups a...
Cups and cupboards and other everyday stuff, as opposed to quantum fields. Yes, which is why I answered "The question is too unclear to answer". I thi...
It is, but I don't think we normally talk about the external world. That doesn't entail realism. Things are still true or false even if idealism or so...
I think it has explanatory power in the case of the dress that some see to be black and blue and others see to be white and gold. Each person can be l...
I voted "The question is too unclear to answer". If I believe that there is an external world but that it is properly described by something like quan...
Why can't an undesigned universe be the starting point? In fact, your argument can be used to refute the argument that the universe was designed. If t...
As another example, some Christians believe that homosexuality is wrong because they believe that there is a God who has commanded so. Can an atheist ...
Yes, that's been my point. They both believe that John shouldn't marry Jane, and if it's true that John shouldn't marry Jane then their belief that Jo...
Classic example of people misunderstanding "innocent until proven guilty". You're innocent if you didn't do it and guilty if you did, regardless of pr...
It’s not unusual to say “we both believe that John shouldn’t marry Jane, but for different reasons.” Max believes that John shouldn’t marry Jane becau...
This being a coincidence is why I don't particularly like this example. A different example would be: I believe that my car isn't in my driveway, beca...
I can only speak for myself, but no. I'm not intent on refuting anything. In everyday life I don't give a second thought to God or religion. It's only...
I was specifically considering verbally sharing information, so no documents. Then you’re begging the question as you’re trying to argue that we do ha...
OK, so how is this a defence of free speech absolutism? Not all cases of censorship are killing someone just in case. Some censorship is imprisonment ...
By saying it? I might not know it to be true, but something being true doesn’t depend on me knowing it. I don’t know that aliens exist, but I can say ...
This seems like an appeal to ignorance. Perhaps something can be morally good even if we do not, or cannot, know that it is morally good. Then why, in...
That doesn't follow. Given that your reasoning appears based on a utilitarian principle, a simple argument against free speech absolutism is that ther...
Trump was offered the same courtesy but refused the initial subpoena and then lied about having returned them all, whereas Biden voluntarily disclosed...
Whether or not he had authority to declassify is mostly irrelevant. What matters is whether or not they were declassified. Given that the documents ha...
Correct. Uncertain. The realist would argue that the realist existence of physical objects is a parsimonious explanation for the occurrence and regula...
It doesn't follow from the fact that we talk about abstract objects that abstract objects exist in the realist sense. The latter notion is unfounded p...
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