Correct. Red is not a property of extra-mental (or mind-independent) objects but is a subjective affection which arises from a combination of our inna...
"If it be Inquired how it comes to pass, that sentiments and notions, which really are not in the things that are without us, do yet appear as if they...
I'm not sure I follow. Why would you assume that (mere) sentience gives you enough to be able to form beliefs (or thoughts) about anything? Maybe you ...
Not really. I mean, there is a kind of pragmatic approach which is that if you treat others well and do good things, people will tend to be nice in re...
Read: Select Discourses by John Smith. Some good stuff wrt innate ideas and a little bit on things in themselves. Clavis Universalis by Arthur Collier...
Yeah, what you describe looks to me like the most likely scenario. It's very bad. Insane even. One is kind of at a loss for words to see these two guy...
Oh sure. Vote for cow manure over Trump, that's easy. But what an embarrassment. Trump is just garbage, and Biden is senile. Hard to believe that out ...
Mostly at the end of explanations - in so far as we believe we are close to reaching this level. It's almost never satisfactory, in my experience, but...
Yes, there is always going to be a potential issue with any word we choose, but from my perspective the whole "physical" argument is so often repeated...
Maybe. But since we are by and large visual creatures and we cannot well visualize how physics at the most fundamental level would look like, it's har...
Yes. That is correct as a matter of intuition, or folk-psychology. It's built-in the way we interpret things. Something like this seems to be the driv...
I mostly agree. I would merely add that if we keep in mind that what we are constantly dealing with are mental constructions, this should not be surpr...
Well, there's a lot to say in favor and against of suicide. But, at a very fundamental level, if you don't have control over when you end your life, t...
What age makes the break off point by which we can say: "I've lived 62 years - that's more than most intelligent creatures will ever get." Or "I'm 62,...
I assume that it isn't enough of an issue such that it merits being taken care of. If the current system works for now, then that's how they'll do it....
I think that kind of depends on where you stay. We get lots of tourists going to the beach, if you stay at one of those resorts, the water would be go...
Hey schopenhauer1. I am not from Brazil; I live in the Dominican Republic. I do recall recently reading that Mexico City is not at all far from a seve...
No. Unless they are primarily focused on ethics and wishes to show how one's beliefs lead to a change in behavior. That aside, it's a (near) complete ...
Apologies for the obscure formulation. But you interpreted correctly. Mainly granting the given in experience much more value or force than it merits....
It's an extremely hard topic that does not have empirical evidence by way in which a demonstration could be given that would settle the issue. So why ...
By non-systemic you mean non-systematic? If so, I think that it merely has to do with the fantastic advance of the sciences, by which one can spend on...
:scream: Nope. In defense of Hume! Against his mis-interpreters! It's near the very beginning of his Prolegomena. Wow, I got one point over you on Kan...
And he is correct. Well, this is pure speculation. If nothing else, metaphysics teaches at least about how philosophers go about building mental struc...
The crazy view that there are problems and mysteries. Problems are those areas in which we can hope to get some insight, mysteries are those parts whi...
Extremely interesting discussion and I agree with many points on different sides. It is true that Wittgenstein does have a kind of school, in which pe...
I find some of his discussions, especially his most recent one with Curt Jaimungal (a FANTASTIC podcast btw, Theories of Everything) to be very very g...
Of course! I don't recall if I discussed it much in that thread, but one thing that was very eye-opening for me was reading Galen Strawson's interpret...
I also agree with you about that on Locke getting several things wrong. As for Hume, I like him at his best, which for me include his arguments on cau...
Fascinating discussion, I never did get around to starting a thread on Locke's "Essay", it is a wonderful book, perhaps my favorite one out of all the...
Sure. And these are quite interesting to discover out psychological constitution which could bear fruit in other areas of inquiry. Ha, now I think thi...
Yes. The point is that there seems to be an innate mechanism that causes us to believe in these things, which is why I do not think they should be dis...
The goal is to seek better understanding. Perhaps the topic of God is not as simple as the "New Atheists" take it to be, for we know that most primiti...
It's not so clear to me, many people treat God as if it were something explanatory, sometimes even empirical, in the broad meaning of the term (which ...
But we would have way to check if this proposition is true, we can send a telescope to Jupiter, or several of them. If you say that this donkey is imm...
I don't think it's illogical per se, in fact, today, maybe it's more logical that standard institutionalized religion, maybe not. The issue is that it...
That was remarkably well written M, even by your standards (of which I've always considered to be extremely high). There's A LOT that could be said he...
So you do like that Schopenhauer wrote what he did, or would have you preferred him not write? I once thought I read you saying something along the li...
Yeah, I think so. My feeling is that we are by default Meaning Giving creatures, it's just what we do, we find it everywhere. So, to go on to say that...
Solipsism is intellectually interesting, but as Borges pointed out, it admits of no reply but produces no conviction (echoing Hume's remarks on Berkel...
The Philosophical Writing of Richard Burthogge by Richard Burthogge and Margaret W. Landes Wow. Only read 15 pages so far, but damn was Chomsky not jo...
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