Yeah, I agree with that framing - it is quite sensible and ought to be factual- but it apparently sounds contentious for some reason. Some people get ...
It may be more than merely a mental construction, but it is at least a mental construction, or we would have no way to perceive or model it. I presume...
This talk of idealism vs. materialism pops up all the time, but it is rarely defined. Or if it is, the definitions seem to me to be unsatisfactory. Ro...
Yes. It becomes a very big "meta" problem - hallucinations get clocked in as facts (this is already happening) and other AI's use the hallucinated dat...
It's hard to predict. Hume was basically ignored until after his death, he was known mostly as a historian. Not too disimilar from Leibniz who was mar...
I guess that this may have been mentioned. One thing is AI use in this place. But damn, it's everywhere. I had to get an extension to block it from al...
There must be a connection to certain trains of thought, otherwise we wouldn't be able to think or reason. How much of these thoughts are based on con...
True - though he admitted he did not have the gift for writing that Hume or Mendelsohn had. Some of his writing in his Prolegomena is much better than...
I am saying that outside of ordinary use of these words, we have no technical definitions of "believing", "knowing" or "thinking". Unless you argue th...
That's a wonderful quote. And he's quite right. Well - some philosophers of certain traditions seem to me to speak gobbledygook (the postmodernists: D...
Welcome to the forum! As for premise 1: Epistemically, belief and thought are identical. This needs clarification. What is a belief? What is a thought...
Confessions of a Philosopher by Bryan Magee is probably your best bet. He covers most of the great figures quite accurately in great, easy to grasp pr...
For this place? Absolutely. It degrades conversation, but as Jamal pointed out, that is already banned. Having a specific thread that uses LLM's is fi...
That can happen! All this is quite subjective, needless to say. Some may think it's just a bloated mess. I think it's the best book I've read. But tha...
Novel Explosives by Jim Gauer is no.1, hands down. Should be a philosopher's dream. Criminally unknown, imo. Then in no order: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño,...
I know many of you here are well read in novels - probably much more so than me. But having just finished The Brothers Karamazov I must say, what an a...
Any single on of us? Likely not too much. Maybe some people would be less happy - heck maybe they'd be happier, it's difficult to say. I'd miss out on...
Economically yes. Though they do have a looming population decline that is very very serious and that may change the outlook for them. But as of now y...
I don't see why we should believe that discourse of the "West" (whatever that means) can no longer be given. It seems to me that there are quite sensi...
I like QBism too, but I have no way to verify if my intuitions are correct, because I can't do the physics. An interpretation may sound elegant to us,...
That's a part of it. But he also talks about how certain ideas cause us to react in certain ways, a lot of it on his Passions and Ethics section of hi...
We interpret things mechanistically, yes. That doesn't mean that the world is the way we interpret it to be. It isn't. That may be part of the reason ...
Must? Why? If you want to do science, sure you do experiments, have a theory, see how the numbers work. If you want to describe a human being, well. I...
That's exactly right. A lof of these so called "materialists", if you question what it is they believe, end up being very strange materialists, becaus...
It's not a ghost in the machine. It's ghosts all the way down. Modern physics doesn't look machine-like, does it? It's extremely strange, abstract and...
I'm not sure what you mean exactly. Have you read Locke or Hume? Hume speaks about this quite a bit (not using modern terminology). There are others t...
Again, I don't think you've misinterpreted anything. I was just pointing out what I think is the more comprehensive account of Kant's epistemology. It...
I think you did fine. The bit I understand of what you put forth makes sense. But Kantian scholarship isn't something I'm an expert in; I suggested Al...
I won't get into the technicalities here - they don't fascinate me, with some exceptions of course. But I think looking at Lucy Allais' Manifest Reali...
Perhaps we ought to distinguish between meaning or signification with existence and then the puzzle is weakened. Unless one wants to throw away all th...
I don't know if I've shared this before. Even if I did, it's worth sharing again. It's a wonderful line by Hume on free will: "For first; is there any...
Man, there are just no words left. I don't even comment here and I just see headlines maybe twice a week. It's just... again no words. Well, I can say...
Personal identity consists in "continuity of consciousness", as Locke pointed out. As you say in the experiment, yes, there would be another person id...
There is extreme pressure to over-sexualize and look perfect and plastic surgeries and all that. That's for the most part pretty bad. However there se...
Correct, individuation is something people do, hence why Schopenhauer speaks of the "thing-in-itsef", or Plotinus on the One. It's tricky. Perhaps mon...
They're different formulations of the same issue. The way objects are (in themselves), absent the way they affect our sensation and intellectual capac...
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