This is a good point. It's easy to mistake the poll as a poll about existence, instead of epistemology or knowledge.The danger of this poll is that it feeds the layperson’s impression that the existence of the external world is the central issue in philosophy. — Jamal
This is a good point. It's easy to mistake the poll as a poll about existence, instead of epistemology or knowledge. — L'éléphant
Kant would say that there are true empirical statements, but still claims those statements are true for the human observer. — schopenhauer1
External World: I accept or lean towards: — Banno
If Kant had said this, then he was just repeating what's already in his premise -- empirical statements are made by humans. — L'éléphant
Radical constructivism is an approach to epistemology that situates knowledge in terms of knowers' experience. It looks to break with the conception of knowledge as a correspondence between a knower's understanding of their experience and the world beyond that experience. Adopting a sceptical position towards correspondence as in-principle impossible to verify because one cannot access the world beyond one's experience in order to test the relation, radical constructivists look to redefine epistemology in terms of the viability of knowledge within knowers' experience. — Wikipedia
(Other interpretations) all have something in common: They treat the wave function as a description of an objective reality shared by multiple observers. QBism, on the other hand, treats the wave function as a description of a single observer’s subjective knowledge. It resolves all of the quantum paradoxes, but at the not insignificant cost of anything we might call “reality.” Then again, maybe that’s what quantum mechanics has been trying to tell us all along — that a single objective reality is an illusion. — Quanta Magazine
The danger of this poll is that it feeds the layperson’s impression that the existence of the external world is the central issue in philosophy. — Jamal
It still remains a scandal to philosophy and to human reason in general that the existence of things outside us … must be accepted merely on faith, and that if anyone thinks good to doubt their existence, we are unable to counter his doubts by any satisfactory proof. — Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, B519
It is interesting that none goes for idealism yet. I remember debating in some threads with members who were Platonist. — javi2541997
The danger of this poll is that it feeds the layperson’s impression that the existence of the external world is the central issue in philosophy. — Jamal
The central issue οf Philosophy is the construction of wise theoretical frameworks capable to expand our understanding on all aspects of the world — Nickolasgaspar
and the only available way we have to evaluate our conclusions as wise or not. — Nickolasgaspar
Our existence(self) is one of the aspects of the world we experience.What about the existence of ourselves rather than finding knowledge on external world? — javi2541997
-well you can not study your self without taking in to account your environment. We are the product of the external world.I don’t think that external world is necessarily the main point or cause of every philosophical theory... — javi2541997
By evaluating their knowledge value. A claim is wise when it is based on knowledgeAnd how we "evaluate" conclusions — javi2541997
well you can not study your self without taking in to account your environment. We are the product of the external world. — Nickolasgaspar
A claim is wise when it is based on knowledge — Nickolasgaspar
Knowledge is nothing more than an evaluation term. We declare a claim to be "knowledge" when it is in direct agreement with objective facts and it with demonstrable instrumental value.And knowledge is based on what? — javi2541997
Funny thing is: it doesn't make sense to call a world "external" unless you think there's an "internal" somewhere — frank
As opposed to claims about how things are independent of us. — Fooloso4
Is there an external world? Yes.
Do we experience it as it is? No.
Is our knowledge of it an accurate representation of it? We try. — Fooloso4
I struggle with the words 'as it is'? — Tom Storm
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