Yes they can, they're doing it right here. You're using the term "private sensations" to refer to things that you say can act as truth-makers but can'...
Which is another thing I have repeatedly argued. The traditional dispute between direct and indirect realism concerns phenomenology. The new semantic ...
This is incoherent. If a) headaches are private sensations then b) the word "headaches" in (a) is being used to refer to things which are private sens...
That our scientific understanding of the world very clearly supports the indirect realist's account of perception over the direct realist's. That conc...
Yes, I have explained this so many times now. I am concerned with perception and colours and smells and tastes and headaches. I don't give a damn abou...
Where have I ever used the word "means"? You keep bringing it up, despite me repeatedly saying that I am only arguing that the word "headache" refers ...
The word "rain" refers to the water falling from the clouds, and the word "headache" refers to the sensation I feel having to belabour this very obvio...
I'll repeat what I said to Hanover. P1. Headaches are private sensations P2. The word "headaches" refers to headaches C1. Therefore, the word "headach...
If just one word refers to private sensations then this argument that you and Hanover keep pushing that meaning is just public use, that private sensa...
P1. Headaches are private sensations P2. The word "headaches" refers to headaches C1. Therefore, the word "headaches" refers to private sensations I d...
My objection is to your objection to my claim that the words "red", "pain", "cold", etc. refer to the phenomenal character of first-person experiences...
I'm talking about reference. The word "headache" refers to the sensation we tend to feel after a heavy night of drinking, the word "cold" refers to th...
I’m not asserting (2). I’m asserting (1) and that the word “hot” in John’s utterance “I feel hot” refers to the sensation he feels. My private state i...
The sensation he has makes the use of the word “hot” true because it refers to the sensation he has, and the sensation he has makes the use of the wor...
The sentence “John feels hot” is a true description of John and the sensation he is feeling, and contrasts with the false description “John feels cold...
Which means what? 1. John feels hot1 in the water 2. The water is hot2 Are you saying that "hot1" does not refer to the sensation John feels in the wa...
Yes, and this evaluation is inextricably tied up in the sensations they cause us to feel. That's why even Banno says "John feels cold in the water" an...
Both John and Jane agree on the temperature. Is 37°C hot or cold? What do the words "hot" and "cold" mean in either case? I think it quite obvious tha...
Yes, and the word "hot" in "John feels the water is hot" refers to the sensation John feels when sitting in the water and the word "cold" in "Jane fee...
This is false. The words "hot" and "cold" refer to the sensations that John and Jane feel when sitting in the bath and yet they disagree on whether th...
As it should, because the words "hot" and "cold" really do refer to each person's private sensations. John says "the bath is hot" because he feels hot...
Yes, so the words "hot" and "cold" refer to those sensations they feel — even though they predicate them of the bath and "disagree". That tells you th...
Two people can disagree about whether the bath is hot or cold. It does not then follow that the bath either "really is" hot or "really is" cold, and t...
The most recent of those was from 13 days ago. The post I referenced (and repeated) was from 8 days ago. It's not if you want to continue to claim tha...
My headache isn't public. Neither are the colours I see. The example with the faulty and then fixed visors is a simple and intuitive demonstration tha...
A thrown ball hitting my head informs me about a person throwing a ball at my head, but that doesn't mean that the ball hitting my head is direct perc...
It can. But what does the word "orange" mean/refer to in the ending phrase "for me to see it as orange"? It refers to the phenomenal character of your...
Yes, worth reading up on fictionalism: In ordinary life we talk about ordinary objects as being coloured, but it's a fiction that we ought recognise i...
Sunflowers don't see. They react to and move towards the sunlight but they lack first person phenomenal experience. The dispute between direct and ind...
The words "gold" and "white" in the above sentence refer to the phenomenal quality of the experience that some people have when they look at the photo...
So point to where in the light and the organism's body I can look to see this "information"? If I open up your head can I see the information you have...
Which means what? Here's a non-human biological organism with skin and bones and muscles and organs and photosensitive receptor cells. What does it me...
You’re still not explaining what it means for a biological organism to see a distant object. Your first account entailed that we only have direct perc...
Well, phenomenal qualities are essentially private, so obviously they can’t satisfy public criteria. You’ve defined “direct perception” in such a way ...
For me, to be the "object" of perception is just to be the X in "I perceive X". If I feel pain then pain is the object of perception, if I see colours...
Then I think this is our fundamental disagreement. As above with my reply to RussellA, I think it quite appropriate to say that I am aware of these ph...
I would add that a mental state isn't really just one thing. There's the "sensory" mental state, but then also the "intellectual" mental state. I thin...
I'm not denying that "sense" and "reference" are two different things. I'm not saying that one needs to understand the referent to understand the sens...
Then replace "mind-independent" with "exists at a distance to my body and has such properties even when nobody is looking at it". So there's an organi...
So shape, size, colour, and motion are "features of the perceptual episode". Do you accept that I am aware of these shapes, sizes, colours, and motion...
You're still not explaining what it means for a biological organism to "see" a distant object. If eliminative materialism is true then there is just s...
Isn't there a difference between the "virtual object" as a collection of transistors turning on and off and the "virtual object" as the thing seen wit...
I’m not really sure what that means. Does the game object exist if the eye is functioning normally but the wearer is brain dead? Does it exist if the ...
It's not a consequence of my position. Direct perception of a mind-independent object is not required for our words to refer to it. I've never met Tru...
I'm very confused. I'm saying that some of our words (e.g. "red") are referring to phenomenal states and some of our words (e.g. "bird") are referring...
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