Under the framework you sketch out here, that is, depending solely on impressions and not bringing in any cognitive apparatus, it would indeed be corr...
I agree with such a proposal and it's the mental side of distinct perceptions which is problematic, given what you correctly say about the arbitrarine...
Correct. The object serves as a stimulus, which leads us to develop representations of that object. So we have the representation of the object even w...
There is a lot of material here to cover. One pertaining directly to Hume's own vocabulary, the other pertaining to your examples and illustrations. Y...
I agree that these explicit a-priori conditions are missing from Hume, aside from the very broad label of "instinct". But even if you take say, Descar...
Yes, that sounds accurate to me. A few comments: One part of the paradox, which he states but does not expand on, is the topic of the duration of thes...
No no, I mean, it's a great post and quite methodical, I'm not quite an authority on Hume but have interests in some of things he discusses, so keep t...
Well he doesn't have Schopenhauer's dual aspect view: of being an object and a subject simultaneously, at least not nearly as strongly developed. But ...
Ah, I see, sure in this sense we are talking about then, "instinct" is rather similar to "the human condition". In both cases, funnily enough, these a...
While browsing the preceding section which @"Srap Tasmaner" mentioned in his reply, I found an important quote, which also covers some of @"Mww"'s con...
Fair enough. My reading of Hume is that he does take reason to be a faculty on its own, but he consistently tries to show how weak it is - weaker than...
Well, someone else replied to you, which takes a task off of me, not in that I don't mind exchanging ideas with you - truth is the opposite, but I als...
Sorry for the late reply, it’s been a busy day. You raise good points, as expected. I’ll give you a due reply tomorrow. All I’d say is to try and keep...
We are speaking about different things. The quoted passage is about the reasons surrounding our belief, not about the belief itself. And even then, he...
No. I'm a Chomskyian, This is a thread trying to explain what Hume believes, I haven't said too much of what I think. In such threads, I think it make...
I mean, I think it does make sense to postulate something "behind" the objects as it were, and you can say that we take object X to be X, in virtue of...
It's, in a way a natural evolution of traditional propaganda as developed in the early 20th century. We just so happened to develop the internet, and ...
It is a total mind-f*ck. Also that we are, strictly speaking, looking at a new object every time we open our eyes. Makes no sense at all, but it's wha...
On 1 and 2, yes, absolutely. On 3, let's see... I'd only add or stress that the constant object we posit is identical (it looks to me) to the one we h...
Very much so. Heck, we even went so far as to ban Russia Today on YouTube and other platforms. Of course, these can still be reached online. But the i...
"Philosophers are so far from rejecting the opinion of a continu’d existence upon rejecting that of the independence and continuance of our sensible p...
No, he is not using the word "fiction" as is used today. A fiction can be useful, some more useful than others. The self is a fiction, yet we don't tr...
Very accurate and quite scary quotes, even some comparisons of Russia to Nazi Germany and the like. Again, very reminiscent of how mass propaganda was...
I suspect that this is the case in many instances of hallucinations or erroneous perceptions (visual tricks and the like). Then again, Hume does say "...
Sure. When studies are done on human beings concluding the efficacy of medicine, they assume the patients they choose will count for all people. Likew...
I think both in themselves and by environment are extremely complex. We aren't even aware of how we produce the sentences that we do at the moment we ...
I think so too, he even states something similar in the introduction to the Treatise, with the whole "science of man" comment. As Strawson concludes i...
These are from Book I, section II, part VI "...external objects become known to us only by those perceptions they occasion." (p.67) "...tis impossible...
That first quote you gave of Hume is indeed beautiful and I think, spot on. I didn't post it because I don't want to hammer home the "mysterian" angle...
Ok, now I can reply. There are many aspects one can choose to focus on in this chapter, so it can be interpreted in several ways, I want to single out...
I don't see how this follows. I mean, one can use the example of the Ship of Thesus: we replace one part of the boat with new wood and discard the old...
As far as I can see, he doesn't present it a choice, postulating an enduring object is kind of like breathing or perceiving. It's not that it's a bad ...
He says that: "The imagination tells us, that our resembIing perceptions have a continu’d and uninterrupted existence, and are not annihilated by thei...
Yes, and that's part of what makes this so fascinating and frustrating, we have indications of the existence of external objects, and plainly we take ...
Yes, that's a great quote from his Treatise. That's exactly right, or at least, that's how it looks like to me as well. This is somewhat paradoxical, ...
You're doubts about him depending on perceptions to speak about the continuity of external objects when not perceived. His gives a lot of role to the ...
But but, how can you be a pessimist if Schopenhauer is an idealist? I mean, his idealism is of the transcendental variety, but idealist nonetheless. H...
Ah. One of those threads. That's a matter of taking physics way, way outside of its purview. But, that's pertinent for that thread, not this one. Than...
You mean what is usually called an idealist? Roughly the view that there are only ideas and nothing else. But those who take these positions say ideas...
Where does math come from? Where does language come from? They come from people, who are made of matter, realized in brains, which are modifications o...
And it makes sense, because it is essentially the same thought presented in slightly different ways, which can go one forever. And it is a very narrow...
It is, and I agree. I do think you are being sensible here, I've protested once or twice before, but you guys do pretty good work by and large, in my ...
It's about 3 or 4 of them, mostly. But, I mean, what's the point? Like, you want to depress everybody? Read the news. You suffer so much in life? Then...
We're not content with merely heading towards annihilation, we are racing to it, with enthusiasm! https://news.antiwar.com/2022/10/26/us-accelerates-p...
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