:lol: "P" is true IFF P — Banno
...unless you are an idealist, in which case for there to be multiple minds, the truth "there are multiple minds" must be a mental phenomena... to try to put this into your odd wording. — Banno
No. I am supposing that the world is all that is the case. — Banno
Descartes showed that there is ONE thinking thing, not multiple thinking things. — GLEN willows
Descartes showed that there is ONE thinking thing, not multiple thinking things. — GLEN willows
To doubt is to doubt the truth of some proposition. But a proposition is an item of language. And there are good reasons to think that language must involve other folk - that there can be no private languages.
Hence in order to make use of propositions one must be part of a language community. The very doubting that Descartes made use of seem to already involve other people. — Banno
Isn't the job of philosophy PROVING something exists? Or did I miss something in my modest university courses? — GLEN willows
Again - in my opinion, we can agree a round square is impossible, but disagree that a virtual reality world that we are unaware of is "absurd" or "incoherent."
It may never happen, but that doesn't mean it isn't LOGICALLY POSSIBLE, correct? — GLEN willows
:100:In my view, the key development is secular rationality, escape from superstition. — Pie
:fire:'Idealism' seems to be parasitic on some notion of the real world (in which there is a vat of some kind) even as it attacks this notion. — Pie
Can you not imagine any situation wherein a person is living a life within his mind, seeing only a pre-set program, and is not aware of it. — GLEN willows
There's part of me that identifies with this. — GLEN willows
And there are good reasons to think that language must involve other folk - that there can be no private languages. — Banno
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