Michael

Then perhaps: Greetings from the new owners Moment of clarity

When did this place start?

Might have been this one: https://web.archive.org/web/20160528113809/http://forums.philosophyforums.com/threads/ostensive-definition-74499-137.html I ...

And the height of Mount Everest. I remember that being a long discussion.

I'm not much of a chocolate eater these days, but I wouldn't turn down one of these if offered. https://i0.wp.com/www.nearof.com/wp-content/uploads/20...

Yeah, Imgur decided to block the UK rather than comply with the Online Safety Act.

Trump announces new 10% global tariff as he hits out at 'deeply disappointing' Supreme Court ruling Dude just can't help himself. :roll:

Trump's sweeping global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court

Alright, although I was hoping to take the move as a good point to end the discussion. It's gone on long enough for me.

On the monitor The crux of my point was that these are non sequiturs: A1. Our minds are "directed" towards X A2. Therefore, we have direct perception ...

This highlights the precise problem with your approach. Both of these are true in this scenario: 1. Their mind is "directed" towards the world beyond ...

Weird, on https://dohost.us/index.php/2025/09/22/managing-users-trust-levels-and-permissions-in-discourse/ it says: Edit: this is probably saying that...

https://meta.discourse.org/t/trust-level-permissions-reference/224824

You sure? Looks like it's editable via trust levels? /uploads/resized/files/wj/oyozem3uypt8qbkf.png

You and I seem quite capable of having a conversation and talking about world affairs, the colour of the dress, and headaches without ever having dire...

Then you're just splitting hairs over the meaning of the term "qualia". There's a reason I started the discussion by using the term "mental phenomena"...

Because you might be stealing someone else's if you change it. Duh. /uploads/resized/files/bo/l6q3n6u6e3pw8e46.png In my official capacity I would lik...

Are you suggesting that we know through introspection that subjective idealism is false; that if subjective idealism were true then we wouldn't have t...

Most of what you say isn't exclusive to indirect realism. Direct realists who aren't eliminative materialists and who believe that we have headaches a...

The synesthete sees colours when listening to music, the schizophrenic hears voices, and I feel a pain in my head the morning after drinking too much....

For what it's worth on mobile you can click "Log in" at the top and then there's a "Sign up" link on the page. /uploads/resized/files/j1/8huf7fv8e6igy...

Okay, but it doesn't follow that these people don't see, hear, feel, taste, and smell things, or that the things they see, hear, feel, taste, and smel...

To keep it simple, it's subjective idealism without God. Minds — including qualia — are the only things which exist. Rather than mental phenomena emer...

I'm curious, doesn't this rule out subjective idealism a priori? Or is it only the case that if subjective idealism is false then "perception is an in...

They're called teaser trailers these days.

I'd like to clarify that this isn't what I said. I said that my intellect cannot reach out beyond my body to grasp the mind-independent nature of dist...

I think that every citizen ought be allowed to vote, and that the government ought not introduce any economic or bureaucratic hurdles that can effecti...

As explained before, I'm not concerned with intentionality; I'm concerned with distal objects and their properties not being constituents of first-per...

It's an epistemic intermediary because my intellect cannot reach out beyond my body to grasp the mind-independent nature of distal objects. The phenom...

I see two different ways of talking about the exact same physical, physiological, and mental facts. These two different ways of talking about it creat...

Given that you agreed that naive color realism is false, I don't even know what you mean by saying "we directly perceive the distal object as colored"...

You appear to accept that colours are mental phenomena and that seeing different colours is how we see different wavelengths of light and/or surfaces ...

Disenfranchising millions of eligible voters to prevent 1,600 ineligible votes over 40 years does more harm than good. If there were millions of fraud...

So there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud. It's not as easy as you're pretending it is. As an example from here:

And yet millions don't have ID. That's the reality. You're asking me to prove a negative. The burden is on the government to prove that someone is doi...

I'm trusting that the people who came up with these numbers know what they're talking about. Whereas you seem to be assuming, without evidence, that a...

That's Australia, not the UK. I'm sure my parents were given my birth certificate when I was born. I don't have it. But that doesn't answer the questi...

And millions don't have them: https://www.npr.org/2024/06/11/nx-s1-4991903/voter-registration-proof-of-citizenship-requirement So my question is: how ...

I don't know, I'm not the people who did the study. But I'm curious, how does one get the identification to prove that one is an American citizen with...

No, this is wrong. There's an implied multiplication sign between the symbols. It's actually: 1 × 6 × x = 3 × x 1 × 6 = 3 6 = 3 2 = 1 You can read ano...

From here: And voter fraud is exceedingly rare: So the law would do overwhelmingly more harm than good.

The context of my comment was as a response to someone claiming that moral facts must be dictated by some God. I was asking what he would do if his Go...

Yeah, that's why it's weird. Someone calls claiming to have knowledge that would help the investigation, and then it's never followed up and never men...

I suspect that we can never trust anything Trump or his lawyers say about the matter. Well it's a little peculiar that the sheriff in charge of the in...

I'm not saying that the colour red is an object, just as I wouldn't say that my headache is an object. I'm saying that I see the colour red, that the ...

That's weird, because according to this from 2019: Although, from your own article: So who the hell knows.

I don't know what you mean by "aware of as an object". I will just say that I am aware of phenomenal character, like a red colour or a sweet taste, th...

I'm not saying that you're not aware of the apple-as-presented; I'm saying that the apple-as-presented is a mental phenomenon and not an apple, with "...

They do. The article literally says:

To add to the Epstein conspiracy theories, here's a draft statement announcing Epstein's death dated a day before he died.