Manuel

Quite. For all we know the cup could have vanished from existence, or turned into a basketball or anything you can imagine. Quite unlikely, but we can...

Well... One thing is to state this within an everyday context of tables and chairs and going to work and going to sleep and the whole routine thing. T...

A disaster. It may grow much bigger, maybe beyond the Middle East.

Iran is firing misses at Tel Aviv

So now we move to Lebanon, which, given the current dynamics at play, and explicit and overwhelming support by the Biden administration of Israeli evi...

It's just my perspective, you could end up liking it and finding it convincing. His aesthetics might be good. If you want to, give it a go. It just di...

Edit: more details. His analytics were quite shaky and dubious. His physics were ok, some interesting stuff in it. His metaphysics were pretty bad. Th...

But it isn't. But it isn't true. But it isn't true, manifestly. But it isn't true, manifestly you can go on forever. But it isn't true manifestly you ...

Oh man... they are torture... But once you find the good stuff, then you get top tier idealism. Yes, they should, though Burthogge is not a Cambridge ...

Damn! On Amazon for MUCH less: 8 dollars for the Kindle version. Don't know how much it would be in Australia. My paperback was around 30 bucks, while...

Correct! :cool:

You know of Cudworth and More. Music to my ears. :cheer:

Yes - His Treatise though not his True Intellectual System. And also Richard Burthogge - extremely, extremely interesting - An Essay Upon Reason. A mi...

Other forms of consciousness are not even hypothetical, we have all kinds of animals which, according to all available evidence do experience the worl...

Ah. Maybe. It's hard to say.

Full sense meaning being experts or elite at something? I mean, very few, there is an important genetic component to consider when talking about elite...

Yes, that did come out much more literal than it should have. It's a metaphor, not literal, meaning, we can see how certain activities are reflected i...

It might be interesting or useful if choices were made by brains. But choices are made by people. We have learned a bit about the strings and the pull...

Ooo a Discord server, nice! Will join later today. The other philosophy servers on Discord aren't bad per se, but the topics I've seen covered are qui...

Sure thing!

I suppose a bare minimum has to be symbolic representation akin to something that arises with language use. Animals do not have language, if by "langu...

To clarify and or get rid of certain words or tendencies that prevent discussion from advancing. This applies to a lot of metaphysics and a part of ep...

If so, then it is a sensible approach. It would be hard to believe that ethical or aesthetic considerations could be eliminated.

I don't know Austin's claim. I was replying to your comment. Sure - words can be problematic in philosophy. People get stuck discussing words rather t...

I have not read Austin. If the claim is that if everything is indirect, then nothing is because we would have no notion of what an alternative could b...

This would depend on what type of panpsychism one envisions. The panpsychism I am familiar, Galen Strawson's, does include incomprehensible (to us) su...

These merely reflect the respective impact on me, which of course is the only thing I can say. Politics: Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky The Great...

I mean, I don't think we can become the thing in itself either, at best we can perhaps say some negative things about it, or we can use "as if" (or "l...

Yes, I believe it does, but we don't know how. As in, once you remove all senses from our experience of an object, I think something remains, which it...

Reading some parts of The Philosophy of Redemption by Phillip Mainländer. He has some interesting ideas in his Analytics and Physics, but his Big Idea...

Yes, good. If I understand correctly or roughly, sure we can think what we please and face no contradictions (save logical ones) and we could go on th...

Well, I may have been either tainted or mislead, but for better or worse I have taken in Lucy Allais interpretation of Kant so if I removed this aspec...

Out of fear of forgetting to do what I wanted to, let's just go straight into it. I don't know if it is appropriate to this thread or no. So, Kant spe...

My brain is fried. I dunno how I am typing right now. Yeah there's some stuff in what you quoted from which is potentially problematic from my perspec...

We may need to chat about this one day. Not too too long in the future. But not right now, I Kant. It's been a lot of work. :cry: :cool:

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Quantum physics merely makes Newton's observations much more evident; Newton (nor Locke and Hume and Priestley) could not understand gravity. We don't...

Ah. That old debate. I can say my usual spiel, but I fear I may have discussed it too much already. In a sentence: There is good evidence to believe t...

You can substitute "thing" for "phenomenon" or "act" or even "realization". The issue here is that we have ideas - quite clearly. What is gained by as...

A thing is, a thing may be, or a thing is not. We plainly have ideas. Using the word "real" beforehand does not render the topic under discussion more...

Consciousness surviving the body? If you are dualist, perhaps. I don't see good evidence for consciousness absent a body, never mind consciousness bei...

Yes, different ways (methods) and different ways of understanding what is revealed in experience. One is more intuitive, the other theoretical. But it...

The issue is the assumption, they need not follow. The sciences ask how questions all the time: how does relativity connect with quantum mechanics; ho...

Exactly. Rorty once called it (according to Dennett) the "vegetarian version of truth". Okay...so? truth is truth, vegetarian or omnivore. Maybe, and ...

They can, if you are not careful, turn you (pun intended) into a Heideggerian! But seriously, something about society (or governments specifically) pr...

I believe Hoffman gets along quite well with Kastrup, so I don't think he has specific problems with philosophers. He has issues with philosophers who...

Philosophy is what the philosophers worry about. Issues that have not been made into a science, or issues in science that have not been so systematize...

Sure, "ordinary" everyday objects are extremely complex, consisting of many physical, chemical and sometimes even biological processes which seldom re...

To your question yes, it's internal. The "external aspect", if one wants to make this distinction, would be to speak of wave-lengths and photons, whic...

It could be a problem is you choose to take it as a problem. We usually don't. If someone is in pain, say we can see a person is missing a finger or t...