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Are such errors determined by categories of our own choosing, or categories that exist in their entirety prior to our naming and descriptive practices...

Knowing that we'll not call squares by any other name...

An ideal worth pursuing...

...consists of parts common to every view.

Some rules of logic, the rules of entailment - in particular - are dubious.

Ah. Gotcha. That much, assumptions and fallibility, are inevitable. Thus, the aim to reduce the likelihood of error built into methodological naturali...

Yours truly... :wink:

I feel like I've missed the broader point. Please set it out. I hate missing important stuff.

Could we imitate this technique with the different models of thought and belief(mind)? Naturally, the only thing we have to go on, in order to compare...

Perhaps we are. Perhaps one of us is. Perhaps you'd gain a better idea of what I am taking about if you would pay closer attention to the words I'm us...

Nice example, particularly given the ecological relevance of coral studies. I would agree that the coral has some unknown definite length according to...

I offered actual examples that supported your claim, and actual examples that clearly did not. This gives us sound reason to conclude that that claim ...

You claimed that you do not believe other people exist. You're now speaking about believing a range of things in different contexts, and not believing...

I'm puzzled here as well. You're claiming that no model can ever be shown to be true more-so than another competing/contradictory model... Again, that...

Acquiring knowledge of belief includes knowing how it is formed and held, which in turn allows one to know that all belief requires the physical and t...

The assertion is that I find it odd. Whether or not it is a good way of looking at things has yet to have been determined. I'm not certain that I unde...

Perhaps because what it's like to experience X consists - in very large part - of the candidate/subject's own thought and belief about and/or during t...

That last comment does not make sense. Earlier you denied/rejecting my comparison between Kant and phenomenology, instead opting for Husserl(???). Wei...

I'm asking what you believe to be the case. What claim and/or assertion are you asking me to argue for? I find all of that odd as well. A rubber ball ...

I find it odd when someone claims that they do not think other people exist. Do you believe the following statement? Other people exist.

You said the above. I responded by asking what on earth could be wrong with saying "other people exist"? If it is the case that you don't think other ...

Not I sir... I've no issue at all with saying that. Do you?

Sometimes. Not all. One can know that their holding an ice cream cone and not know how to say it. This would satisfy your criterion. One can know that...

What's the difference between your notion of "subjective experience" and your thought and belief about what counts as such?

Part of it is.

What on earth does "measuring subjectivity" have to do with knowing what it's like to experience X?

What on earth could be wrong with saying "other people exist"?

I cannot have your pain. I can most certainly have my own. If we know what having pain consists of... then it doesn't make much sense to say that havi...

I do not see what's so perplexing aside from it perplexes me to see people keep talking like that... Why is it that when our ears engage in hearing th...

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I'm jealous. Threads about Banno's views... :wink: Goes to show that some folk know how to leave an impression!

Perhaps you're worrying too much about whether or not someone else understands you because you've not quite been able to come to acceptable terms in y...

So you would agree that people can use the notion of race without believing that it is a legitimate method of scientific classification.

Yes.

Ok.

Of course! The scientific history of the term is atrocious! A synonym for species nonetheless! However... A lack of belief that there are such things ...

Yes. I'm simply making a concerted attempt at setting out the underlying habits of mind, the kinds of thinking, that constitute racism and having a ra...

Devaluing asians based upon looks alone is racist, even though asian is not a race. This clearly proves that racism does not require a biological clas...

How can you charge another with conflating race and ethnicity if there is no such thing as race?

I understand what you're getting at. However, my whole project here is to show that the belief in the biological taxonomy of "race" is irrelevant. Peo...

The same way you can say that one is conflating race with ethnicity while at the same time believing no such demarcation exists.

Again, belief in distinct biological groups called "races" is irrelevant. Such a belief is neither necessary nor sufficient for devaluing another huma...

You tell me. I do not think that there is such a thing as an "Asian race". You're the one using the terms. You're the one who needs to answer. What's ...

That's a legitimate question. Valid. Relevant. Answer?

Then what were you talking about when you referred to confusing biological race with ethnicity?

What's a biological race such that it can be conflated with ethnicity?

Well, no... That's being ignorant. Lots of racists(most) are ignorant, but not all people who are ignorant are racist. One can think that there are hu...

My personal belief about biologically distinct groups(scientific classifications) is irrelevant to whether or not belief that there are human races co...

That does not matter. Belief in race does not make one racist. That's what I'm trying to get through to you. It's not even necessary. If you have milk...

I'm simply attempting to show that believing that there is a group of people called Asians does not count as having a racist worldview. It's not my pr...