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Because that has absolutely nothing to do with the epistemological dilemma I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is a situation that can be formalized this way: (1) F only involves x (2) Y (re F) is not possible given G (3) We know (2) via F (4) To know (2) requires y as opposed to x The above ...

Of course, you mention epistemology, with no further explanation of what about the situation requires elucidation. I explain to you, in quite a lot of detail, just WHY our developing minds don’t question that mental content, and why it continues to not be questioned. But that’s not good enough for ...

No. No direct realist claims, as a function of direct realism, objectivity or perfect knowledge or lack of bias. Nor are any direct realists, as a function of direct realism, unwillin' to review evidence and update theories. My bad. You see in my research of direct realism I think I stumbled across...

I didn’t go into the nature of the self/perceiver, and it’s relationship to all of this, because it tends to make things more complicated, but since you asked, I will elucidate as best I can. The organism has awareness. This is as close as we can get to the subject. Awareness is not an entity. It i...

If I am incapable of grasping the issue, it must also be because you are not correctly or adequately explaining the issue, Why would it have to also be that? Because you can't believe that you have any cognitive blocks? Isn't it a possibility that there are some things you're simply incapable of gr...

No, you didn't. IF we're only aware of our own mental phenomena Then We can't observe something like an eye where we're saying something about an eye per se rather than our own mental phenomena. Why not? Because the conditional--the "If" statement above, just stipulated that we're only aw...

I addressed the initial gripe you had about how we can even know perceptions are anything outside of the mind. No, you didn't. IF we're only aware of our own mental phenomena Then We can't observe something like an eye where we're saying something about an eye per se rather than our own mental phen...

the ACTUAL state of affairs is different, I.e. representationalism No one, in any of the threads opposin' direct realism, has demonstrated this to be the case. question our perceptions You don't have to abandon direct realism to ask did I just *see what I thought I **saw? If, as I say, you take int...

But, the ACTUAL state of affairs is different, I.e. representationalism. Okay, but for that claim, you need to be able to address the issues I was talking about earlier, and the first step of that is simply understanding the issues I was talking about earlier. I asked you to paraphrase those issues...

the ACTUAL state of affairs is different, I.e. representationalism No one, in any of the threads opposin' direct realism, has demonstrated this to be the case. question our perceptions You don't have to abandon direct realism to ask did I just *see what I thought I **saw? If, as I say, you take int...

You didn't address the other points/answer the earlier questions I made, but in any event: What then does this say about how we see the world. Surely this is NOT objective, but subjectively filtered, even if what we say doesn’t veridically coincide with the identified conception, the case is that, ...

Here are my “thoughts”. We have intentions, which are separate from thoughts. Intentions drive behaviour. Thoughts clarify intentions, as well as allow decisions to be made over conflicting intentions. First comes an intention. If the intention has no barrier toward producing a behaviour, a behavio...

Here are my “thoughts”. We have intentions, which are separate from thoughts. Intentions drive behaviour. Thoughts clarify intentions, as well as allow decisions to be made over conflicting intentions. First comes an intention. If the intention has no barrier toward producing a behaviour, a behaviou...

When our perception has imperfect information about an object, it will “guess” about what that object is, and present it to us AS that guess. Furthermore, sometimes, perception can malfunction, such that its guesses are completely wrong, such as when under the influence of a hallucinogen, or for in...

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 ...