Michael

I recall reading that it was due to a technicality and that Starr messed up. Clinton was asked if he had had sexual relations, and was given a list of...

This is nonsense. You might as well say "you don't see five different colours; you see five different things. That they are all 'colours' is something...

We have consciousness. We're not just input-output machines. I have a first person experience when I'm sitting still, in silence, watching and hearing...

And he was rightfully impeached for it. Whether or not he was wrongfully acquitted is a different matter. But also, as I said before, impeachment and ...

I assume they believe that there is a good chance of conviction, and that the consequences are that a criminal is punished for his crimes. It is corru...

Impeachment and prosecution are different things. It's a financial crime, and financial crimes should be prosecuted (and punished if found guilty). Ei...

I think there's also a case of people taking "innocent until proven guilty" too far. They presume innocence (which is fine), but then use that to base...

Yet we can quite coherently talk about the well-observed fact that to some people the infamous photo of the dress appears white and gold, and to other...

If there is evidence of a crime then the grand jury was right to vote for indictment and the DA right to bring charges. He might be a Democrat, but it...

Apparently being charged with 34 counts of falsification of business records.

Seeing is a type of experience. Babies can see, non-linguistic animals can see, the illiterate deaf mute raised by wolves in the jungle can see.

Take this picture as an example: https://i.stack.imgur.com/kHKxX.png Does anyone really want to argue that without a language with colour words such a...

Why? What is this obsession with language? Is it impossible for me to see that the sky and the grass are different colours without some language which...

And so trying to say that language entails that we don't have private experiences is saying something that doesn't make sense. Any theory of language ...

It has nothing to do with grammar. Experience isn't language. I can be an illiterate, deafblind mute, and yet still feel pain.

Colouring the circle would be consistent with direct realism, specifically any direct realism that subscribes to colour primitivism. I believe most in...

But we have private experiences, so removing the colours inside the heads is to deny a fact.

I like the picture, although to be consistent with indirect realism and to prevent any real-world bias, it would be best not to colour the circle in t...

Red is a colour, the word "red" refers to that colour. You seem to be making a use-mention error. I can see five different reds here. I don't "reach" ...

The experimenters seem to think so, given that they explicitly say "color is in the perceiver, not the physical stimulus" and "color is a perceptual c...

It mentions "colour percepts" and "colour perception" and "colour experience" and "colour we see". Trying to argue that the paper doesn't support my p...

Seeing red isn't "reaching" for the word "red". Seeing red corresponds to particular brain activity.

The very first two sentences of the summary: The very first sentence of the abstract: Further into the paper, under the heading "Representations of Su...

And that has nothing to do with the use of the word "tree". An illiterate deaf mute with no language can see a tree "in their mind". They just won't c...

That seeing the colour red isn't just "reaching" for the word "red", and that colour is "in the head", not a property of external world objects (wheth...

Neural representations of perceptual color experience in the human ventral visual pathway

Learning that the tongue contains gustatory cells that respond to the chemicals in food, and that sugar tastes sweet because of its hydrogen bonds, do...

There's no meaningful difference between these two phrases: 1. In the absence of any English speaker the word "tree" wouldn't exist, but the object cu...

Use-mention error. In the absence of any English speaker the word "tree" wouldn't exist, but the object currently referred to by the word "tree" would...

Yes, that's where much of this discussion gets lost; in irrelevant arguments about grammar. We use the word "see" in (at least) two slightly different...

People can see red even if they don't have a language to describe colour. They can feel pain even if they don't have a language to describe pain. They...

It’s just another way of talking. It’s like saying that I feel pain rather than saying I feel a knife stabbing me. That sensation of pain is feeling t...

And I cannot abide by the claim that you being able to own a gun is more important than a child being safer from gun violence.

But is there more resentment and hatred in Americans than in, say, Brits? Or is it the same, and it’s just that Americans have more guns and so more v...

If countries with the same rate of mental health issues have a lower rate of mass shootings then something other than mental health must explain the h...

I’m pretty sure all these school shooters know that the police are going to kill them. A lot of them even kill themselves. The threat of ”mutually ass...

Not everyone would start shooting each other, but more would. Or do you think that if more people have guns then fewer people would use them?

Because that's a far greater injustice than the injustice it tries to solve. I'm against the death penalty because of the possibility of false convict...

Often a necessary price we have to pay to live in a safer society. Judges and juries are not infallible. Sometimes they imprison innocent people. That...

So your argument against gun control is that it is unjust for the government to take away your property (without good reason)? Firstly, the utilitaria...

Why are you entitled to guns? Do you have a basic human right to own them?

Why is it unjust? Is it unjust because you have a basic human right to own a gun?

Asking me a question doesn't answer mine. You said that banning guns is unjust, and prior to that referenced basic human rights. So are you saying tha...

How so? We have a basic human right to own firearms?

Banning cars would cause insurmountable damage to the country and the economy, and so car accidents are an unfortunate price we have to be willing to ...

So how does this being a transgender shooter suggest that it isn't uncharacteristic? I'm pretty sure transgender mass shooters are a significant minor...

There's more to experience than just rational thought. Seeing and feeling and tasting aren't just cases of thinking. But what does it mean to think th...

You don't think that apples appear to be red?

You can call it anything you like. But it would be fallacious to conflate redness in this sense with redness as the appearance. We'll just be using th...

I'm not saying anything about what they can or can't have. I'm saying something about what they do and don't have. And there's no indication that an a...