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we agreed prior that we see the world through our perceptions, which are representations. No, we don't agree. I'm a direct realist. There are no representations; there's direct apprehension. To be clear... Direct Realism The world exists, exists independent of us, and is apprehended by us as it is ...

The world exists. I'm in the world. I apprehend the world. I respond and react to the world. I develop or adopt symbols to name the world. Thru those symbols I develop or adopt beliefs and opinions about the world. There is no model or representation of the world in my head.... .... No. We apprehen...

If everything is actually inside us That's the thing: everything isn't actually inside us. We're permeable, in specific ways, to the world. We naturally apprehend the world and conduct it inside ourselves. We don't experience the world: we respond and react to it. We aren't enraptured by some inner...

If we can only experience internal phenomena, then the experience of kicking something, and even any notion that one has a leg to kick anything with, is simply internal phenomena and one has no way to even begin to tell that it's not just a fantasy. When you watch a really good movie you get “lost”...

If that's all we got then how do you personally avoid idealism a la solipsism? That's easy. If you can kick it, it is real. If we can only experience internal phenomena, then the experience of kicking something, and even any notion that one has a leg to kick anything with, is simply internal phenom...

You're completely ignoring the issue. If you're ONLY seeing something your mind is creating, and you can't actually observe anything external to you, then how would you even begin to say that anything is external to you? The first step would be _______? Fill in the blank. What's the first epistemic...

I'm not going to run through the whole thing--you typed a lot more than you needed to, but here's the problem for the first couple things you suggest. The objections would keep going this way throughout: On your view, what you're actually seeing is a mental image of a wall. You're not seeing anythi...

I'm not going to run through the whole thing--you typed a lot more than you needed to, but here's the problem for the first couple things you suggest. The objections would keep going this way throughout: All the Senses are Correlated with each other. If you see a Wall On your view, what you're actu...

Elon Musk and others think we may live in a simulation. What do you think? Is it probable or plausible? And if we are living in a simulation, then what is the "reality" that the simulation is running within? For example, if we use the game Grand Theft Auto as an example of a simulation, t...

What if I have a computer which can simulate things which have never exist, and could never exist in this world. Why must the things which exist in the “external world” exactly match the thing in the simulated world? It isn’t a necessary thing. But, I think it’s the case that, our experience capture...

I would define understanding as, the ability to express a concept in one’s own words. If one has the ability to express a concept in their own words, they have an understanding of the concept. The reason why I think language is important is, understanding is different to knowledge, as you mentioned....

Actually no one is saying you don’t see an external world. Steve wrote, and I quoted back on page 8: "We do not See things in the external World." What is being said is, the external world that IS seen, occurs indirectly, via perception. So, we don’t see THE outside world, we see impressi...

Okay, but then, especially in the context of doing philosophy, we need to think about this and address why/how we'd know that it's justified. We're also not addressing how we'd obtain any information about other people (under the assumption that we can't actually observe them). To your first questi...

The question would be, though, why we'd use consistency and predictability as markers there? If we can't access an external world in any manner, then what could justify a belief that if there is one, it's consistent and predictable? And how in the world would we obtain any information whatsoever ab...

There seems to be some misunderstanding here. There are two things. One is, our actual understanding of what our conscious apprehension of an external world is in reality. This is a conceptual and abstract understanding. The other thing is, the immediate implicit belief of our minds in the reality o...