I like coffee ice cream. That over there is coffee ice cream. So far, objective facts — tim wood
Be good enough to provide your definition of "fact." You can refer me back and I'll look for it. — tim wood
A heroine addict mother wouldn’t be good for her child — Frotunes
Who would disagree with that? That a mother addicted to heroine is worse for a child than were she sober? — Frotunes
On your definition of subjective/objective, everything is subjective - how not? — tim wood
The world may not be, but everything we do with, in, or about it is brain based. — tim wood
How do you know anything about the "objective" world? Not do, but how. — tim wood
The crux of the difference here (as I’m seeing it) is that Tim is asserting that mental activity is ultimately based in the physical world, whereas Terrapin is asserting that there is something fundamentally different about mental activity. — EricH
My point is that Terrapin's division into mental and non-mental - which I appreciate him providing - is very problematic, and for his purposes untenable because inconsistent. — tim wood
Just exactly what is it? — tim wood
Only inconsistent if you make your division between mental and non-mental. — tim wood
But you never, ever, saw a tree in your whole life, and never did anyone else, ever. — tim wood
But the fact is that whatever you take to be the tree, just is your mental representation. — tim wood
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