Michael

I meant specifically that things aren't as they appear to ordinary human perception, e.g. that objects aren't coloured, in the colour primitivist sens...

I'll take a rather simple definition from the problem of perception: The direct realist view is the view that things are as they appear. Directness is...

What do you mean?

In fact I think this is a prime example of the problem. The indirect realist will agree with this, and say that this model is a representation of the ...

I make much the same point every time this discussion happens. My earlier comments here and here get to the heart of the issue. Arguing over whether w...

Even addressing this specifically, if colour is “the portion of the visible spectrum of light that is reflected back from a surface” then it is light ...

It would be fallacious to equate colour in this sense with colour experience, and isn’t what is meant by colour realism. https://plato.stanford.edu/en...

We need to insert sense-data/experience/qualia to account for the first-person experience that should be evident to all of us. We’re not p-zombies. Bi...

Yes it does. It’s what differs between the experience of the colour blind man and the typical man. It’s the seeing differently. We’re not just behavio...

If they see it differently then the character of their experience is different. If the character of their experience is different then the character o...

I don't understand your questions. My argument is simple; if scientific realism is true then indirect realism is true, and scientific realism is true....

This is the intentionality argument for semantic direct realism, and has nothing to do with the phenomenological issue that is at the heart of the dis...

Perhaps. Maybe direct realists have to be scientific instrumentalists, and reject the idea that the external world is exhaustively explained by someth...

Yes, which has nothing to do with perception.

I don't understand what you are asking. Do you or do you not accept that some people are colour-blind; that the colours they see things to be are not ...

The epistemological problem of perception asks whether or not we can trust that our experiences show us the nature of the external world. It's a quest...

This is an example that shows the difference between how most people see things and how someone with red-green colour blindness sees things. /uploads/...

This is the exact red herring that is almost always brought up in the debate between direct and indirect realism. There's a paper by Howard Robinson, ...

I addressed this here. Either we assume that there are brains and eyes, and then the science of perception shows indirect realism to be the case, or w...

The fact that a colour blind person and I can both look at the same thing and yet see different colours. It therefore follows that at least one of us ...

We can, and do. But that doesn’t refute indirect realism. It is still the case that the look and smell and taste and feel of a tree is a mental “repre...

It’s not naive to think that shit smells. It’s naive to think that shit having a smell (especially a bad smell) is a mind-independent fact that we “di...

If we assume that we do have eyes and brains, and that the mechanics of perception is as we currently understand it to be, then the explanation above ...

That's not a problem with indirect realism. That's the very point that indirect realism is making. The argument between direct and indirect realism is...

How so? Do you think of a phone call as direct communication with someone? Or as communication with a person constructed by the phone's speakers? I wo...

Here's my incredible photoshopping skills at work. /uploads/resized/files/kt/da4ds8fnzp2mxjkb.png The sphere with blue and green patterns is a mental ...

Your picture promotes the very misleading premise that the indirect realist argues against. The thing between the two men shouldn't look like anything...

Well, single people get flats, families get houses, castles get knocked down and replaced with something more reasonable, and those who continue to wo...

Hopefully we're heading towards a world where most of the work is done by AI and the rest of us get a decent universal basic income.

He knows some of the idiots who support him are unhinged and will riot if he's arrested.

Then your fear is the election interference, not my words.

So my words can influence you, the voter.

What is election interference if not the unjust influence of an election? In what way do threats of civil unrest interfere with an election if not by ...

Well that's a transparent deflection.

You believing what you do isn't me engaging in election interference.

Sorry, but my words are still not influencing anything. You can't even maintain a consistent argument across two posts.

Then threats of protests aren't election interference. They don't prevent people from voting. They don't make it harder for people to vote. They don't...

What does it matter if it's a threat to voters? It's not election interference because according to you we can't influence other people, and so can't ...

A First Amendment right? Certainly not election interference as according to you it’s impossible to influence another’s decision to vote.

Election interference is letting people vote, according to NOS4A2.

It made it easier for voters to vote, and the fact is that the majority of voters preferred Biden. So yes, that’s democracy. Whereas the opposing view...

Yes, that’s what it means to change a law. This is such absurd rhetoric. Sorry, but denying the fact that making it easier for voters to vote is a goo...

Your opinion is wrong. Making it easier for voters to vote is to the betterment of democracy. You can’t make an informed decision if you’re being fed ...

Changing the laws to allow for early mail in ballots and the like is making it easier for voters to vote. It’s not election interference. According to...

Making it easier for voters to vote isn’t election interference. And according to you, it’s impossible to influence another’s choices, so unless you w...

Making it easier for voters to vote isn’t election interference.

Yes, because more voters preferred Biden to Trump, and they made it easier for voters to vote. That's a win for democracy. Unless you're going to accu...

People shouldn’t be demonised for trying to avoid going to war.

According to this, On a bigger note, Special counsel claims Trump deliberately misled his attorneys about classified documents, judge wrote.

So because one crime is more damaging than another crime then we shouldn't care about the latter? I don't see why. People can care care about both cri...