So you are more rationalist than empiricist, but you don't believe in truth which means you aren't a rationalist either. Rationalist think the truth can be found through deductive reasoning inside your mind. Empiricism says that all knowledge comes from outside, and you just have a bank of...
This is not really related to the topic, but here it goes.
The is a general issue of personal identity in philosophy. It is generally agreed upon that you don t know you exist until you know language. You come to interpret your sensations, and form the notion of personal identity...
The fact that you exist does not imply you can see, or there is something "outside" of you.
All you have are thoughts of reality outside yourself created in your imagination by being embedded in a culture where the word "reality" makes any sense.
Maybe there is a thing called reality. I just don t think we need it, or have any connection with it. The question " What is reality?" seems to me to be just a bad thing to ask. The tradition notion is that there is something of a internal world of private thoughts, and the external world of...
This is more kin to the later wittgenstein. I think reality is something we don t know. We can map statements with reality( non-human thing), but this mapping does not make sense to me if we don t even know what reality is suppose to be( for the last 2000+ years). This is why i think we can do...
Maybe i sure be more precise. i am really taking about philosophers, and philosophers of science. They have this conception of reality as being something objective, external, and mind-independent.
I think i am againist the conception of reality( stated above). The traditional notion of a...
TheStatutoryApe,
How is test via trial an error to determine 'correspondences' merely an agreement between persons and not a measure of 'reality'?
This is going to be dense, but here it goes:
Normally, when people say "reality". They imagine it to be some non-human, mind-independent...
Not sure what you are talking about. Maybe it is funny( from your point of view). In any case, when i wrote that, i did not intent it to be funny. In fact, i spend many hours on it. I take it very seriously. If you have any honor at all, then place stop making fun( perhaps insult) of it.
another way of looking
What does "#$%^&*" mean? It does not mean anything. It is just a sequence of meaningless symbols on the computer screen. Am i referent to reality, or something objective? NO.
We take "#$%^&*" to mean something only by convention. We say a sequence of symbols...
Philosophers have very simgular definition of truth. The claim "E=mc^2" is true if and only if it correspondence to reality. This is the traditional notion of truth. I am am againist it my saying it makes no sense. What we have are mere agreements, and conventions. I am sorry, but this is really...