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Fine, then my answer is "yes". Idealism is the sentence "only mental phenomena exists". For idealism to be the case is for the sentence "only mental p...
October 14, 2016 at 22:22
That neither explains to me what the square root of NOT means nor addresses my claim that "only mental phenomena exists" does not logically entail "on...
October 14, 2016 at 22:13
What exactly do you mean by the square root of NOT? I thought you were talking about the square root of the word "not", which doesn't make sense to me...
October 14, 2016 at 22:02
Given your unwillingness to either provide an argument that shows that idealism entails solipsism or to address the fact that logic and logical conseq...
October 14, 2016 at 21:57
It's a misleading question that tries to avoid addressing the point I'm making. I'm not going to fall for such a transparent attempt. The fact of the ...
October 14, 2016 at 21:51
I'm claiming that "Logical consequence is one of the most fundamental concepts in logic. It is the relationship between statements that holds true whe...
October 14, 2016 at 21:47
Here you said "What I'm saying is that solipsism is logically entailed by , and idealists are believing something incoherent if they're not solipsists...
October 14, 2016 at 21:42
Because, according to the idealist, these proofs don't work, such a square root isn't allowed, and idealism is the case. How would the non-idealist ad...
October 14, 2016 at 21:39
1 and 3? Yes. Not sure what you mean when you reference ISIS.
October 14, 2016 at 20:37
It has nothing to do with what I'm discussing, which is that idealism does not entail solipsism. You asked "if Idealist reality does not operate by lo...
October 14, 2016 at 20:25
Who said anything about the laws of physics? We were talking about logic; about what statements do or do not follow from others.
October 14, 2016 at 20:04
Given that you and Harry are saying that idealism logically entails solipsism, that's exactly what you're claiming.
October 14, 2016 at 19:56
The exact same rules that we currently use. Why would it be any different? The laws of thought and the rules of inference do not depend on realism or ...
October 14, 2016 at 19:34
I don't understand what you mean by reality operating (or not operating) by logic. It seems like a category error. If you just want to know if the axi...
October 14, 2016 at 19:24
If it's not a matter of following from sentences then it's not a matter of one claim ("idealism is true") logically entailing another ("solipsism is t...
October 14, 2016 at 18:00
How do we know that any kind of reality operates by logic? Does the question even make sense? It's language that operates by logic, and I see no reaso...
October 14, 2016 at 17:57
Yes I do. Given that one statement only follows from another if they mean the same thing (or if the latter contains the former), and given that "only ...
October 14, 2016 at 16:13
Because I don't need to. If one statement logically follows from another then you can show this without my help. I'm not doing your work for you. You'...
October 14, 2016 at 16:04
You should be able to. If one thing is logically entailed by another then you should simply be able to list the premises and derivations that show thi...
October 14, 2016 at 15:59
Neither is your inability to explain how one can derive "only my mental phenomena exists" from "only mental phenomena exists".
October 14, 2016 at 15:55
But it isn't. How can you derive "only my mental phenomena exists" from "only mental phenomena exists"? You can't. Just as you can't derive "only my p...
October 14, 2016 at 15:54
But it doesn't. It's a straightforward semantic fact that "only mental phenomena exists" doesn't entail "only my mental phenomena exists", just as "on...
October 14, 2016 at 15:49
That's a separate issue to the topic that I'm discussing, which is that idealism doesn't entail solipsism and doesn't 'define subjectivity out of exis...
October 14, 2016 at 15:47
They might infer it, just as the physicalist does. But unlike the physicalist they reject the claim that these things are non-mental in nature, either...
October 14, 2016 at 15:42
So you want to know if idealists would accept the truth of "the things I experience don't exist insofar as I know when I don't experience them"? Which...
October 14, 2016 at 15:37
I don't understand how that follows. Like Harry you seem to be understanding idealism as the claim "X exists only if I experience X". But that's not n...
October 14, 2016 at 15:29
Who says they are?
October 14, 2016 at 15:21
Reality is everything that exists. Awareness is thoughts and memories and sensations. Exactly as it is for the realist. It's just that whereas the rea...
October 14, 2016 at 12:06
So it's more reasonable to conclude that the wife's decision to drop her rape accusation after Trump settled with her husband was a mere coincidence? ...
October 14, 2016 at 11:51
Seriously? Can you not see the hypocrisy here? You will come up with any rationalisation to defend Trump against his rape accusations and any rational...
October 14, 2016 at 10:31
Agustino, Trump settled with his ex-wife over a rape accusation. A sexual assault charge by another woman was also withdrawn after Trump settled a par...
October 13, 2016 at 21:36
Are you in Thailand?
October 13, 2016 at 20:31
There seems something contradictory (or circular?) about asking what should be used as the standard to determine what we should do.
October 13, 2016 at 12:38
That they refer to the same thing is not that they mean the same thing. And that "intelligent species" refers only to humans doesn't mean that there a...
October 13, 2016 at 11:51
Sturgeon's bringing back a Scottish independence referendum. I wonder how long till Cornwall push to leave. Maybe even a return of the Kingdom of Wess...
October 13, 2016 at 10:56
And peculiar given that Amendments are a thing.
October 13, 2016 at 09:07
In more important news, Tesco isn't selling Marmite, Ben & Jerry's, or Hellmann's Mayonnaise.
October 13, 2016 at 08:38
Brexit: Court battle looms over rights of Parliament Oh, the irony (hypocrisy?) if that happens.
October 12, 2016 at 19:29
Unless you're a one-man society, I don't see how that follows. Compare with: "if the English language is socially constructed, and there is no objecti...
October 12, 2016 at 19:00
That doesn't follow. Rather you should say "i.e. other people (?) of different species don't matter as much to you". And that's true, they don't. Huma...
October 12, 2016 at 18:46
I don't see why it's inconsistent. Am I inconsistent if I eat a burger but not a hot dog? I don't think so. So why am I inconsistent if I help one per...
October 12, 2016 at 18:33
I fail to see why "but then that would undermine the idea of being able to make sense of the distinction in the first place" applies to the idealist b...
October 12, 2016 at 14:54
Yet the idea of physical existents is coherent? So it seems to me that you're being inconsistent here. If "the only way that the ideal/mental category...
October 12, 2016 at 14:32
There can be a conceptual distinction even if the concept is of a thing that isn't real. We can conceptually distinguish between the physical and the ...
October 12, 2016 at 13:59
I've already gone over this. It doesn't redefine awareness as reality. It simply restricts reality to awareness. That's not the same thing. If I restr...
October 12, 2016 at 13:46
I'm not using it in that way.
October 12, 2016 at 13:40
Of course there wouldn't be an awareness of an objective reality. There'd just be an awareness of a subjective reality. The things I'm aware of are th...
October 12, 2016 at 13:20
Disgust is an emotion, as is empathy. So how is it a rational argument?
October 12, 2016 at 12:55
But it is the definition that the IEP uses. Again, it's not relevant, as I'm only explaining how the IEP defines the term. You're more than welcome to...
October 11, 2016 at 18:10
The IEP article I've quoted and linked to several times now; the one we're discussing.
October 11, 2016 at 18:07