Well, I do not think that seeing red requires language. Our discussion of it does. I'm just baffled by the claim that seeing colours and shapes does n...
I understand that. Are there trees inside the blind person's head that they can see only after activating the biological machinery? If so, then all th...
I think there's something to be said about the claim that seeing shapes and colours only requires the activation of the appropriate parts of the cereb...
Very nice. The best yet, and he will not have financial motivation to be here as most of the others have had. One need only read through the previous ...
That pretty much says it all. In order to know that A is not equal to B, one must have access to both. By definition, an indirect realist stipulates t...
I'm very sympathetic to the idea that thought and belief are efficacious. The explanation sketched out above makes sense. Given that all knowledge tha...
I'm sympathetic to Kant(given his time), but much as Banno hinted at earlier, he's far too confused/confusing and - I think anyway - overcomplicated t...
Hey Ludwig! So, I've been partaking in an international move. Sorry for the delay! I'm curious if you are still interested in continuing this discussi...
Seems extremely helpful for readers... to me anyway. I mean, when there are terms that have more than one commonly accepted use, it's certainly helpfu...
Not at all. To quite the contrary, I'm saying that attempting to parse meaningful experience into either/or dichotomous language is a fatal flaw when ...
Not too certain how clear I am about it either, but in fairness to convention... Historically speaking, it became increasingly necessary for humans to...
Well, I'm not familiar enough with our theories of consciousness to say. However, I tend towards the fundamentally basic objection that meaning can be...
It seems clear enough to me that meaningful thought and belief(experience or consciousness, if you like) are reducible to neither physical events nor ...
The issue with knowledge is that we cannot always check to see for ourselves if something or another is true. Hence, our becoming aware of that and ou...
No worries. No need for apologies, it's not like I'm offended or anything. I figured the fact that you copied my reply to Michael and treated it as if...
What I'm saying is that Max's and Jessica's beliefs are equivalent to neither the proposition "John should not marry Jane", nor their attitude towards...
I'm a bit puzzled. On the one hand, you've expressed the desire to have an all-encompassing solution. On the other hand, you've expressed several time...
1. Yes, Al believes his car is where it is. 2. If he believes it has not been stolen, and it has not been stolen, then yes, he knows it has not been s...
Okay. Seems we're in agreement here as well. Gettier may well have presupposed such beliefs about propositions being clearly distinct. Michael seems t...
That's not true either. See above. The irony here is that what you said afterwards is what I complimented. You've said all sorts of things, and then s...
That's not true. You can see it. You may or may not understand or agree with it, but you can definitely see that I addressed something you said. I quo...
Is that alone not enough to warrant assent? I agree that the Gettier problem has an element of ambiguity. What counts as "clearly distinct"? I disagre...
If that's all you meant, it's much more helpful - to me anyway - to understand you by saying that rather than the other stuff you said leading up to i...
I agreed with a particular critique that Meta offered against your position. Well, to be more precise, I generally agreed with Meta about a problem wi...
The public/private distinction breaks down completely when the 'private' part becomes existentially dependent on the public part. Shaming. Pride. The ...
Flowery vague ambiguities all packaged up nicely into a name. It's all in the name. It's all about the name. What's the name picking out to the exclus...
Dennett has very interesting lines of thought on that... well worth watching. The gulf between the purported complex complete picture of something peo...
Yes, I do. Some people know that success often comes after many failures. Others have guts and determination. I've had far more failures than successe...
Greetings! We can revisit the above at a later date. Oh, we most certainly can deny that. I already do, for different reasons than you, however. Those...
Interesting exchange between you and Banno. Pardon the quibble/pedantry. The above looks suspiciously like an equivocation fallacy. A substitution exe...
The "hard problem" is so hard because it's built upon the idea that we can solve all the easy ones, but what's left... that... that is the hard proble...
If the aim is at what all predication is existentially dependent on, there is much room for growth in all the right directions within this discussion....
When determining whether or not an action is good, we can ask ourselves what the world would be like if everyone did that. That's a pretty good rule o...
No worries about the delay. This conversation may have many. I'm very busy as well. Too busy to offer anything other than this at the moment... :wink:...
Cheers . Happy New Year! Nice job managing these threads lately! I'm taking notes on that for months down the road when I'll have more time. :wink: Fo...
Google helped you two draw the correlation between the name and the thing being named. There are many correlations shared between worldviews as well a...
I think that this line of thought would be well served by introducing a bit more regarding how the relationship emerges, how the relationship persists...
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