Michael

If the same distal object and proximal stimulus is responsible for different colour experiences then the colours experienced in this case are not prop...

And those conditions are the same for everyone; yet we have different colour experiences. So the point stands, and your comments here are irrelevant. ...

But it's the same distal object and same proximal stimulus, yet a different colour experience. So how does that not suggest phenomenology? Any differe...

Some people describe the colour of the dress in this photo as black and blue, others as white and gold. They can be looking at the exact same photo on...

I'm not saying that the banana is in my head. I'm saying that colours are in my head. They are a property of the visual percepts that are produced by ...

It does. I don't know what this means. But digital cameras work by measuring the energy of the light that strikes its sensors, using this to determine...

Your question makes no sense. Colour is a property of visual percepts and visual percepts exist inside my head. So what does "the colour of the percep...

Your question is misguided. Light stimulates our eyes, signals are sent to our brain, and the brain produces a visual percept with such qualities as s...

The existence of its atoms and their propensity to reflect light at certain wavelengths. The sorts of things described by the Standard Model are mind-...

Well that's just a truism.

They're trying, but "Harris was never given the portfolio of border czar ... instead, Biden asked Harris to lead diplomatic efforts to reduce poverty,...

When the structure of some object changes the wavelength of the light it reflects changes, and when the wavelength of the light changes the colour we ...

This question is a little confusing. It's like asking "if you can be assured there is heat, why can't you be sure there's pain?" I can be sure that th...

I can ask someone to recommend a funny movie, and they can deliver, but I don't think it makes much sense to treat being funny as some mind-independen...

A chicken chasing a dog? :brow:

Nope.

Nothing matters to his cult. It's the moderates and independents that he's losing.

Between this and his VP pick, I wonder if one or more of his advisors are intentionally trying to sabotage him.

This is basically my meals. Iced coffee caramel is great for breakfast.

I really don’t understand your confusion. 12 divided by 4 is 3. 10 divided by 4 is 2.5. 20 divided by 4 is 5. 3 and 5 are whole numbers and 2.5 isn’t....

Because 3 and 4 are divisors of 12 but not divisors of 10.

I don't even see why being President would be in Biden's interests. It's a lot of work and responsibility. Retirement is the much better option. At le...

You have it backwards. 1 - 0.999… = x With the standard reals this equation can only be: 1 - 0.999… = 0.000… = 0 There is no standard real number grea...

There are different kinds of idealisms. Subjective, objective, epistemological, and so on. You'll need to clarify exactly what kind of idealism you're...

I am saying that something like "you ought brush your teeth" just means "brush your teeth" (or possibly "it is in your best interests to brush your te...

It's a command; a phrase we use when we want or need someone to do something.

What's hilarious is that JD Vance, Trump's choice for Vice President, once likened Trump to Hitler.

Which means what? We have all these different phrases: 1. You ought do this 2. You should do this 3. You must do this 4. You are obliged to do this 5....

Thanks for the correction. Reading through the order it was actually 509, 510, 515, and 533 that were cited by Garland when appointing Smith. 510 and ...

And this is the fiction. We take the command “do this”, we phrase it as the truth-apt proposition “you ought do this”, and then we believe in the exis...

It’s this “obliged” meaning that I’m asking about.

No, it's not. I want to know what "you ought do this" means. I don't know why I need to keep repeating this? You just respond with "you ought do what ...

You need to read more than just the opening sentence. It points out that by the very wording of the Appointments Clause, "Congress may by law invest t...

The Supreme Court already ruled on this in Morrison v. Olson. Although admittedly the current court doesn't seem to give a damn about precedent. But a...

Special prosecutors were appointed under Trump as well, by both Rosenstein (Mueller) and Barr (Durham). One has even been appointed by Garland (Weiss)...

Good question, Chamberlain.

And I'm fine with that. We understand that a phrase such as "you ought do this" just means "do this", with the additional understanding that it is the...

I answered it before. Parents, teachers, government, society, FIFA, FIDE, etc. Okay, I understand that. But I don't care about consequences. I only ca...

You're bringing up consequences again. Why do you keep doing this when you say that consequences have nothing to do with the meaning of "you ought"? I...

Which just means that I agree to do what some outside authority says. I don't understand what this means. Is this a physical compulsion? A psychologic...

Then why did you bring up undesirable consequences when I asked you to make sense of obligations? I just want to know what "you ought" means. You keep...

I've never suggested that there won't be undesirable consequences to not doing what one promised to do. In fact I've explicitly accepted such things. ...

What does "you ought" mean? What does "I am bound" mean? Whenever someone uses such phrases, all I understand is "do this" (or at best "so-and-so says...

So I agree to do what I'm told. That's fine. But what does it mean to say that I ought do what I'm told? Do you just mean that it is pragmatic for us ...

The "something you ought to do" is what needs to be explained. I understand what I've been told to do and what I've been advised to do, but beyond tha...

Because he told me to, and it's rational to pay less if the person asking you for money asks for less. These questions are getting tiresome. If this i...

If there's reason to believe that it will work then yes. Much like it would be rational for me to appeal to the Bible if he were a Christian. But the ...

He told me to only pay him $975. So I believed that he is only expecting me to pay him $975. So I only pay him $975. This isn't rocket science.

Relevant:

No. I was told to only pay $975 by my landlord, so that's what I did.