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We've been slightly at cross purposes @"T Clark", no worries.

Ostensive definition From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia An ostensive definition conveys the meaning of a term by pointing out examples. This type o...

What does probabilistically (located) mean in this context?

Hi @"Possibility", Perhaps I should have said "affect" rather than "emotion". I was speaking quite loosely and I did put "emotion" in scare quotes. Wo...

Can you say why you don't buy the "hard problem" thing? In a new thread if you think that's best.

My definition of ostensive definition wasn't a non-standard definition of ostensive definition. HTH.

His take is that "emotion" is primary, and is located in the brain stem, a more "primitive" part of the brain. We've been looking in the wrong place. ...

No, there isn't a single correct definition, so it's a waste of time looking for that. I think you have to state your own working definition, in the s...

Thank you, I have enrolled.

I have been very struck by this recent video lecture by Mark Solms, who is both a neuroscientist and a psychiatrist: https://youtu.be/CmuYrnOVmfk He d...

I don't agree with you there Apollodorus. In the present context the way the word has been used for centuries is irrelevant. OP wants to know how we a...

I have a degree in Linguistics, and my teacher in the area of definitions was Professor Noel Ossleton, who was at that time President of the Internati...

Do you have a page reference please?

What exactly does Searle say about intentionality and background abilities?

I've found if you ask two Buddhists about Buddhism you get 3 contradictory answers,

"Abstract: Neuroscience investigates how neuronal processing circuits work, but it has problems explaining experiences this way." But "fields" doesn't...

Those who speak don't know. Those who know don't speak — Laozi He said that did he?

I did have in mind things that could never be seen, but not in the way your examples suggest. It would be better to say "could never be experienced " ...

Thanks for all the thoughtful posts, I've had a minor medical emergency, I will respond soon (I'm getting treatment).

Hi Coben, I'm working towards an understanding.

Has that happened yet?

I remember how I mashed my finger in a door when I was seven. I still have the scar. The memories are in my brain, nobody else's, the scar is on my fi...

How do you identify what is entering into relation with what? Those two asteroids are where they are because of Jupiter's gravitational effect, Jupite...

Thanks Andrew. Perhaps the words are being used in a technical sense but I feel there's something jarring about "ideal" and "transcends" here. Could w...

The local dialect where I come from, Tyneside, North East England, is certainly among the most extreme accents of British English, and we say "ya kna"...

Thank you. So do you think aspects can enter into relations with other aspects, let's say an asteroid hits another asteroid?

Where did you get that pronunciation from Olivier?

My interest was initially piqued by Andrew M's suggestion that we can see the world as it is, and his subsequent acknowledgement that colour-blind peo...

How did Austin deal with it?

There are also the unknown unknowns.

So if there aren't any creatures about, there isn't a way things are?

My thought was that we can tell from the robin and the tetrachromats that there are aspects of the world that are inaccessible to us.

Hi Banno, I was picking up Andrew M's suggestion about colour-blind people (see quote in my first post) and running with it. I don't have very clear v...

Hi Mww, I don't see why the mere arrival of the observer should change the way the world is in the way you suggest, so that it is now dependent on his...

I'm working off @Andrew M 's idea (or acceptance) that colour-blind people can't see the world as it is. Fish and birds can see into the ultra violet,...

You got a candidate something that we can see as it is?

I found it quite difficult to read beyond Chalmers' description of functional organisation and his announcement that he would defend it. It's absurdly...

Yes. But anyway it's not just patterns of behaviour?

I don't mind if you want to expound on that, but that wasn't what I was asking. I was trying to get clarity about whether you had said that a belief i...

I was under the impression you were saying a belief was a thing in your own mind. I asked if a belief was a thing in your own mind, or just a pattern ...

Don't want essays, just enough to go on. It seemed to me that you were saying that a belief was a thing in your own mind, which puzzled me.

You responded that it would have to be both. So I sought clarification: But you said that was very badly expressed. I'd just like to know what I got w...

I would like to know what you meant Banno.

Hi Andrew M, I'm seeking to apply the Principle of Charity But your response here seems like irremediable bollocks. Were you serious? Are you really s...

Is a colourblind person capable of seeing things as they are?

In case there's any doubt, I was straightforwardly asking Janus if he or she knew of a school of Ontological Pluralists. As for your question, surely ...

Do you know of any philosophers who espouse(d) OntPlu? I'm interested to know where that forms/constitutions terminology comes from. "Fundamental" is ...

I wasn’t really aware that Pluralism is a recognised school of thought. I’m not sure how I feel personally about ‘fundamental’ categories, so there’s ...

Does it matter whether we say that "physical" or not? "Everything is x" doesn't explain anything.

Or "pluralism"? There are lots of different kinds of things in the world. Not just two, not just one.