Michael

Yes.

It's about what does or doesn't exist, and the nature of what exists. Which logic? Classical? Free? Paraconsistent? Regardless, I'm not sure what this...

I don't know, perhaps you could tell me.

The solipsist will say that the world is one's own mind (or for the epistemic solipsist, that one's own mind is the only worldly thing that can be kno...

I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. Are you saying that solipsism assumes other minds, that idealism assumes an external material world, that el...

You also seem to misunderstand Dummett. He doesn't say that every true statement must be recognized as true, he says that every true statement must be...

No he doesn't, that's the point. The principle of bivalence, however, requires that it is, as that is the only way that every statement can be determi...

creativesoul misunderstands and doesn't address the argument being made. Read the quote in the opening post.

Also on this point see the opening post here.

And what public norm determines the meaning of "true" and "false" which distinguishes them from "warranted" and "unwarranted"? The exact kind of reali...

Not knowing how something can happen doesn't entail that it doesn't happen. Again, we have actual examples of words and phrases referring to private s...

Yes, that's solipsism. I don't understand what the rest of your post is trying to say.

I don't really know what you're trying to say here, but if you're equating "other minds" as something given in experience then the types of mind that ...

But that's not the sense of "public" (or "private") that we're using in this discussion.

I'll paraphrase your own words from here: if everything is public then nothing is. Your own arguments seem to entail that if some things are public th...

Yes, what's wrong with that? There are plenty of words and phrases that work this way. The soul, God, the afterlife, counterfactuals, claims about the...

No direct role in what? Public behaviour? That's exactly why seeing other "people" is no indication that these "people" have a mind, a self, a will, t...

Really? I think this is where some take too much faith in Wittgenstein's private language argument. I, personally, have no trouble understanding what ...

Do you reject the notion of the philosophical zombie? Do you not think it possible that the exact same public behaviours that we associate with other ...

@"Metaphysician Undercover" missed the next section of that quote which explained that 1 is ontological idealism and 2 is epistemological idealism. An...

So you’re opposed to every monism and would suggest instead some kind of dualism or pluralism?

And it follows that the terms of agreement are only valid within the legal framework established and maintained by the government, and that the govern...

You’re using money issued and backed by the government and the government enforces the terms of the contract. If you’re that opposed to reality then e...

The government is party to your employment contract.

Who gets to decide the worth of their labour?

If you're asking about what practically matters then I'd say nothing. I don't think philosophy has any practical ramifications at all. Whatever philos...

Idealism is just a position opposed to materialism and substance dualism. I suppose one could argue that all such positions are effectively meaningles...

Then the same to you re. showing how idealism leads to solipsism.

It's not "trite shite" to refuse to accept your shifting of the burden. You made a claim and are refusing to defend it. Don't try to make me out to be...

So you don't have an argument to defend your claim. Good to know.

So shifting the burden again. You're the one who claimed that idealism leads to solipsism so it's up to you to defend your claim.

Then I have no idea what you're trying to get at here. There are multiple minds if there are multiple minds. We don't need for one of these minds to e...

So you're saying that for everything that happens there exists a verbal (or written, or signed) description of that event? How does that work? Is ther...

We don't need for someone to say "there are multiple minds" for there to be multiple minds. You seem to be conflating "truths" as true statements and ...

I just explained why your logic is confused with my example of the Reimann hypothesis. Jane claims that the Reimann hypothesis entails solipsism and J...

You literally just asked me to show how idealism proves solipsism false to save it from entailing that solipsism is true. Your logic is confused. And ...

You seem confused. Does the Reimann hypothesis need to reach the conclusion that solipsism is false to avoid solipsism? It just doesn't say anything a...

Follow what through? In claiming that only minds and mental phenomena it follows that only minds and mental phenomena exist. It doesn't follow that on...

It says that only minds and mental phenomena exist (or can be known to exist). There existing multiple minds each with associated mental phenomena is ...

I don’t see how materialism/substance dualism/truth realism avoids this. For a statement to be true there must be a statement. That’s the case for eve...

You're missing a premise from which you can then derive the conclusion that you therefore have the legal and/or moral right to that pre-tax income.

What matters is whether or not things independently have the shapes, colours, sounds, tastes, and smells that they are perceived to have and as they a...

Pretty sure fiat currencies are owned by the government anyway. So technically all of NOS4A2’s money is the government’s. If he doesn’t want them taki...

The irony is that I suspect the only kind of non-taxed society that could work would be some kind of commune.

Is there a Cartesian theatre when we say that we feel pain and that pain is a sensation? There's no philosophical difference between feeling a sensati...

Then you completely side step the epistemological problem of perception and ignore the actual, substantive disagreement between direct and indirect re...

Some of these people are fucking insane. They wanted to strip exceptions for rape and incest?

Perhaps:

We already have two active discussions on the topic so I’m closing this one. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/13096/is-there-an-external-mate...

I'm not sure if there's any connection here. Is the disagreement between mathematical realism and mathematical nominalism, or between scientific reali...