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Skepdick wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:28 pmThe number of unicorns is most definitely not zero.

There's at least one in your head.

Back to square one with you. Learn English language.

Let me try another way. Mathematics is intentional logical errors. Choice. Axioms which save time. We know there's an error, but we turn a blind eye. Like reifying nothing(0) making it something. If you ever asked me to show you 0 like atheists demand evidence for God I can't show you anything othe...

I don't understand your argument. That's more than obvious. But when you don't understand something, you're supposed to make an effort to understand it, e.g. by asking questions, long before you respond to it. Have you done that? I don't think so. You have a lazy, dismissive attitude. "I am ri...

Burden of proof is not on me. It's on you to show where all these 1s you keep adding are coming from. What makes you think that? I'd rather say the burden of proof is on the one making the claim. And you're making a claim. You're claiming that we cannot always add 1 to an integer to get an even lar...

Here are my point; Philosophical Realists believe the physical-T-rex toy [1] exists as absolutely mind-independent, i.e. it exists regardless of whether there are humans or not. Philosophical Realists when informed understand [2] is an illusion , i.e. it is "dependent" on the mind of the ...

There is a difference between "a thing that can exist in the absence of any mind perceiving it" and "a thing that is not an appearance in the eye of the beholder". Do you agree with that? If so, which of the two things is to be called a mind-independent thing? Both? Both 'thing'...

A question for moral objectivists: what in reality could make the assertion 'rape is not morally wrong' true, independent from belief, judgement or opinion? I don't understand why you find this extremely simple issue so difficult to grasp. When you say that "Rape is not morally wrong", yo...

I reject the claim that you can always add 1 to a mathematical object to get an even larger object. What that means is that, for each integer that you can imagine, you can come up with a larger integer ( e.g. by adding 1 to it. ) If you think that's false, all you have to do to prove it is to show ...

If anything, shouldn't little V's consensus-FSK-FSR-proper-MickeyMouse-nonsense conclude that the T-rex really keeps an eye contact with us? Without an objective reality, we are left with consensus opinion, so the majority is right and the schizophrenics are making it up.. or even worse, we are lef...

Can you define the term "mind-independent"? What does it mean for something to be mind-independent? Note, Philosophical realism – – is the view that a certain kind of thing (ranging widely from abstract objects like numbers to moral statements to the physical world itself) has mind-indepe...

I have critiqued Philosophical Realism in many threads; How does claiming that you've critiqued philosophical realism in other threads justify the fact that the opening post of this very thread has no substance whatesoever and that it's merely a personal attack on Peter Holmes and philosophical rea...

Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 2:08 pmThe thread is basically an insult. It should have been a private message.

Precisely. And he should stop referencing Peter Holmes every chance he gets.

Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 10:33 amPhilosophical Realism claims that reality and things exist as absolutely mind-independent to the extreme they exists even if there are no humans.

Can you define the term "mind-independent"? What does it mean for something to be mind-independent?

My point; The above example is to demonstrate, those [Peter Holmes & gang and the likes] who claim there is a thing-in-itself or things-in-themselves independent of the human conditions, are like the above majority who in their confined conditions claim the apparent 'real 3D-convex face'. What ...

Then how come I understand what these words mean? How did you teleport meaning from your my mind to my mind? You understand my words because I'm speaking in English language and you kind of understand English language. "But how did I learn English language?" Well, you didn't actually. You...