apokrisis

Wrong. That's why I say there is nothing wrong with modal logic per se. But you don't try to do heart surgery with a hammer and chisel. You are forget...

You might not have noticed it, but entertainment is an industry. And being reduced to being a consumer of a product - a packaged experience - is where...

So modern society exists primarily for mass entertainment. Are you for real?

Let's not be ridiculous. What level of natural selection do you want to talk about then? Merely the cultural? Not the social or the ecological? Is the...

Where is your evidence that anyone living on a desert island would think about their existence in this fashion? In what sense are you describing a nat...

That would be more convincing if you just hadn't begun by presuming the opposite - that society is a bunch of people who for some reason wandered off ...

But anthropology has no trouble explaining the phenomenology. It is obvious that modern folk live such insulated lives that they develop a magnified f...

You have to make up your mind whether the world exists then. If it does, then there may be something beyond your person-al phenomenology. :-} And? Unl...

And yet of no evolved creature could this scenario ring less true. Humans are socially and even culturally-constructed beings. We are only complete as...

I'm talking about the logic we would apply to anything. And you already agree we are talking about "possible worlds" don't you? Again, your dualism in...

Exactly. And I'm pointing to the fundamental flaw in such modal reasoning. It takes for granted that things which exist could also not exist in free f...

Alternatively, the very notion of "literal non-existence" is illogical, unintelligible, given that something does exist. So you are arguing it is a pr...

The number one problem is letting banks freely manufacture credit - ie: debt. That is the fuel that drives the speculative bubble. Then you have the p...

It seems complex to me that I would have both the illusion of the rock and the further experience of the pain of kicking it. It would be simpler to ha...

But as you say, your experience is a very complex state. It includes mysteries like the fact that kicking rocks hurts and not eating has unwanted cons...

While agreeing in general with your reply, I would add that what makes metaphysics doable and useful is that its argument takes the special form of be...

But where you see a white edge, there is only just unedged whiteness. So you are seeing a triangle when you really shouldn't - even if this is the kin...

So in the first case, the self actually sees a representation, in the second, the self merely imagines that it sees this? Hmm....

Yet you see an edge that is not physically there to complete the impression of a triangle. So there is now delineation that is a real visual differenc...

A considered naive realism sounds oxymoronic. Do you simply want to avoid tagging yourself a pragmatist here? That's fine, but pragmatism does come wi...

Yes, the reason this debate is the hardiest of all perennials is that many simply do want to make absolutist claims. Or at least, have the strong desi...

Don't Mach bands both strengthen and weaken the case for idealism? They strengthen it in proving there are perceptual illusions we "can't wake up from...

So are you claiming to be able to count 3 cows as an indisputable fact or not? If not, what kind of fact is it? If you want to proclaim yourself inste...

As I say, we can quantify the quality of naive realism by counting the number of deflections we observe when it is faced with evidence of its central ...

In the lack of a reply on the question of how you ontologise quality. The first rule of naive realism is explaining is losing, so just deflect.

You will note that this dichotomy of quality~quantity relies on the quality of cowness being real too - otherwise how else do you know that cows are w...

I disagree as it was already an issue in Ancient Greece even if it became both heightened - and nominalistically talk away - in modern times. At the c...

That's a good summary of the impact of Greek maths on the very creation of a rationalising mindset. And there is indeed the irony that we now mentally...

Platonism is normally confused by the fact it does try to include mathematical objects right alongside natural objects in Platonia. There is cowness, ...

Barry is on the money. Numbers are part of their own symbolic game and so stand outside the real world (all the better to be able to describe it). The...

Not really. So you are pointing to irony of using violent means to put an end to violence? I guess my point of view here is that we actually, socially...

Seriously? Is it not just as standard a mythology to celebrate the natural circle of life. We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old car...

Well in fact that scientific image produces pain-killers, and hip operations, and cognitive therapies, and other stuff which can change the content of...

But of course I take phenomenology into account by sheeting it back to its naturalistic grounding. So whereas you talk about phenomenology dualistical...

I'm sure I could explain it a million more times and you still wouldn't twig what is meant by "constraints". I will simply repeat that constraints are...

Touche!

Why not? Support your assertions with an logical argument. I've argued how they are the natural ground to what we humans call our morality. If we look...

As I said, we can over-project and under-project because it is only ever a habit of projection. We don't know (in some direct access way). But we can ...

Maybe you missed my first post. I argued that the systems approach supports the golden rule. It explains why social systems need a morality that encod...

You kind of wandered away from the point. What is the formal antithesis of "object"? What is its opposite in the mutually exclusive/jointly exhaustive...

That's certainly a point of view. But that extreme subjective position - one that is only supported by naive realism and its implicit Cartesian dualis...

It is certainly conceivable - you've done that. But whether it is completely knowable - in a way that your logicism wants to demand - is another quest...

This concreteness of thought is now beyond a joke. You know all this about the oranges because you have ... counted them again right now? Or classes o...

Ah. That good old slippery slope again. The difference with my point of view is precisely that it includes the practical business of drawing a boundar...

Huh? Isn't the number line continuous ... as an infinity of infinitesimals? If you are talking about set theory, then you are talking about a concepti...

Why would judgments of good or bad be relevant to my point of view? Surely my point is that morality - as it pragmatically exists in the real world - ...

This is another illustration of the paradoxes that arise within traditional reductionist notions of existence. We know that both universals and indivi...

That's where my actual theory of society - the standard systems view that it is an organic whole in being a balancing of constraints and freedoms, glo...

I didn't say it was an objective fact. I said it was a necessary one (for a social system to persist).

But healthcare is precisely where there is close social attention paid to the ethical dilemmas. Leaving people to "what comes naturally" is a recipe f...