creativesoul

I typically reject dichotomies. I mean, it's become almost unconscious, but for sound reasons. The notions of "top down" and/or "bottom up" have the s...

Granting the veracity of your account, it seems that Kripke was aiming at the same things... I'm unqualified to remark on the historical implications....

There are a ton of snobbish elitist people running around in the art world. That's not the only place. Promoting friendship loyalty and goodwill is no...

An event that leaves an impression on someone needs to be parsed in terms of what such an impression consists of and what those things are themselves ...

Yes. We agree that those are consequences of those starting points and neither is adequate.

Translation is existentially dependent upon something to translate. In this case it is a common language expression. All translation is of that which ...

So he's including all the ones that can be and/or have been already translated into logical notation? Nah. That can't be what you mean here. He's incl...

Or a red herring?

That would be a very queer move for someone to make. Each and every day people say meaningful things in common language that are not amenable to logic...

My objection is not about that. I agree, without prejudice, that by speaking about entities that are not taken account of, we are taking account of th...

When we acquire knowledge of something's elemental constituency(that's the result of a universal criterion), we find ourselves in a position to be abl...

Well. I would first suggest a verbatim quote. Re-arranging key terms in an order that I would not use them does nothing to help you understand what I ...

In Merk's defense, he is attempting to use my framework, and in doing so is being very diplomatic in checking for my agreement. If you are seriously i...

Given the history of philosophy proper... You can say that two times! :wink:

Well, no. I take issue with the above suggestion on several counts... I reject the absolute/relative dichotomy. Existence is not the sort of thing tha...

All notions of "identification" and/or "identity" are existentially dependent upon metacognition. Metacognition... language. Language... thought/belie...

Special pleading. I'll ask you the same question I asked the OP. What is the criterion for consciousness such that when it is met by any and all candi...

I'll put it as succinctly as possible. To be the value of any variable, bound or otherwise, is to be taken account of within some framework of logical...

That's ok.

Rubbish. The latter is existentially dependent upon the former, and not the other way around. Tommy can discover a pen, by seeing it for the first tim...

I do not see the problem. What have we discovered that did not exist in it's entirety prior to our discovery?

Ya think? Do we not discover, throughout our lives, the inventions of other people?

Nah. It's just taking proper account of the existential dependency of a pen. They are existentially dependent upon humans. If there were never any hum...

Correct. Pens didn't exist prior to their invention. One who is unfamiliar with a pen can discover one though. They do exist in their entirety prior t...

There it is . It can be proven that humans invented pens in this world.

Yup.

Rubbish. It's a pen. Pens can be put to use in different ways. The same conflation of names with uses... Pens are existentially dependent upon humans....

Rubbish.

It's discovery. What follows "then" is not a valid conclusion. The identity of all things is existentially dependent upon being created by a human. <-...

I don't know about all that.

Upon what ground would one doubt that?

I would not put it that way.

What part is unclear?

Wait. I think it's coming.

If one cannot simply agree that screwdrivers are human creations and all human creations are existentially dependent upon humans, then there's not muc...

The screwdriver is a human creation.

Having an outdoor lighting system which responds to physical stimulus.

Because amoebas are people too.

Surely you can set some out?

Thinking/believing that one's worldview - about art - is better than an others' is not equivalent to being an elitist.

The appreciation of art is something that art loving cultures have. The appreciation is of their own culture. To appreciate one's own culture is not e...

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Field equations = things that all six-year-olds ought be able to comprehend. Einstein was not a god... assuming the veracity of the quote. I completel...

So that we ensure that we're talking about the same thing here... What is the criterion for consciousness such that when it is met by any and all cand...

Could one of you help me to understand how?

So it's more about accounting practices than existence?

Well. In one sense, certainly. As I said to andrewk earlier... If being the value of a bound variable is equivalent to being (adequately?)taken accoun...

Can I play?

I've been wondering what you think about this...

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