Michael

That's wrong. See here.

If my mind is the only thing that exists then "God exists" is false. If my mind and God are the only things that exist then "God exists" is true. The ...

That's a false dichotomy. I've shown that with the example of God's existence. Under 2, whether or not God exists depends on my mind, which is false. ...

They do, that's why they're only an epistemological solipsist. I don't understand what you're trying to argue here.

The epistemological solipsist rejects the part that says "all that is the case is in our minds". They only say "all that can be known to exist is in o...

Again, this makes no sense. The solipsist can claim that God exists, and that he is wrong if God doesn't exist. Nothing about this entails that the so...

No we haven't. We've demonstrated that a mind-independent object (specifically God) needs to exist for me to be right when I claim that God exists. Wh...

Yes, but this doesn't entail that he knows that God exists. So simply saying that if mind-independent objects and other minds exist then they do so in...

That doesn't follow. I don't need a mind-independent object to exist for me to be wrong when I claim that God exists.

It is implausible that God exists in my mind, therefore I know that God exists independently of me. Obviously this is wrong.

OK? And the solipsist is wrong he believes that God exists but God doesn't exist. What's the problem?

The epistemological solipsist claims that we can't know that other minds and mind-independent objects exist. He doesn't claim that other minds and min...

Why would God be in their mind?

No, they could honestly believe that God exists. They're just wrong if he doesn't.

A falsehood isn't a lie.

I just don't understand your question at all. Consider the simple disquotational account of truth: "God exists" is true iff God exists. If the solipsi...

If it's not about knowing then why are you asking about measures?

Believing that the Reimann hypothesis is correct, but it isn't. Or believing that God exists, but he doesn't. Or believing that there are other people...

You're not asking for a plausible means by which they can be wrong. You're asking for a plausible means by which they can know that they're wrong. Tha...

I like how Trump signed a law that increased the penalty for unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents from one to five years.

In fact, your very argument is that private thoughts and sensations have nothing to do with meaning or concepts or whatever, so that there is meaning ...

I don’t know. Does it matter? I don’t need mind independent objects to exist to have the concept of numbers. I can be the last man alive and yet have ...

I think it would be strange to suggest that your mind is (or is inside) my computer screen.

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An ex-President can’t. He’d need to show that he declassified them before he left office.

Or there’s evidence of serious wrongdoing on Trump’s part but wasn’t on the Clintons’ part.

There are plenty of unsolved problems in maths, e.g the Reimann hypothesIs. Are you saying that the Reimann hypothesis isn’t truth-apt because it hasn...

How do you know which belief is right so which to use as a comparison? At the moment you seem to be arguing that any knowledge (of maths) is impossibl...

How about “no human can know the future”. That’s true whether I am the only human or one of seven billion. The same with “no human can know that anoth...

Yes. It’s no different to saying “no human has two heads” which is true if I’m the only human or if I’m one of seven billion.

There is no measure. It’s just either right or wrong. Do you understand the difference between mathematical realism and mathematical formalism? The so...

It’s not anywhere. I reject mathematical Platonism.

But that “soft” externality is the kind of externality that the solipsist denies can be known. They don’t deny knowledge of the metaphorical externali...

Yes. And one can be wrong about the square root of two even if one cannot know that other minds and mind-independent objects exist. Which is precisely...

Because that's the kind of external thing that the solipsist says cannot be known to exist. If you mean something else then you're not addressing the ...

I have no idea what it means to say that a concept is external. Is the concept of a horse something that I can encounter and pick up?

Any thinking thing, whether there be just one thinking thing or two thinking things or seven billion thinking things.

Solipsism is a skeptical position, and skepticism is the position that we could be wrong. That you are somehow turning it into the position that we ca...

I can be wrong about things that don't exist. If I claim that God exists then my claim is false if God doesn't exist. If I claim that you have private...

If you're going to continue to argue against this strawman then there's no point in me continuing. The epistemological solipsist doesn't claim that no...

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And the same could be true of solipsism. It is an empirical fact that knowledge of other minds is impossible, in the same way that it is an empirical ...

It's impossible in principle to discover what is happening outside our light cone, but (at least according to the realist) stuff is happening outside ...

I don't know. That depends on how the hard problem of consciousness is solved. If your only argument against solipsism is that some hypothetical peopl...

I can think of a number and not tell you or anyone about it. It is impossible for you to know what number I am thinking of, or even that I am thinking...

I don't know, hence the hard problem of consciousness.

The difference is that the p-zombie doesn't have the private thoughts. You keep switching between accepting that there are such things to then not? I ...

The Routledge article also says: Traditionally, as I understand it at least, the moral realist's claim that murder is immoral isn't comparable to the ...

The norms for the application of the phrases aren't hidden but the referents are hidden. I can talk about the future and your private thoughts but it ...

I don't understand what you mean. The phrases "the future" and "your private thoughts" each refer to something that is necessarily inaccessible to me....