You are not following what I've said. My point is only that perception is a mental construct. — Hanover
What Kimhi adds to this, in a manner I'm still grappling with, is the unity part: the claim that "the assertion 'p is true' is the same as 'I truly think p'." — J
In Judaism the messiah is not God. — BitconnectCarlos
To break the Law is not limited to infractions. — Fooloso4
Absolutely not! — Fooloso4
Point being, from what are likely the very earliest Christian sources Christ is seen as divine. — Count Timothy von Icarus
I thought that that 'issue' had been long since resolved. — creativesoul
Fair interpretation — Hanover
Why would I demand that language not be a factor in how we interpret the world? — Hanover
This past 30 minutes of conversation arose from this comment of Banno's:
'Things in the word, and the people around us, also have a say in what colours we see." — Hanover
This seems like the same equivocation between determination and influence that Banno pointed out to begin the exchange.
The claim seems to be that things in the world influence what we see, and our linguistic community influences the names of what we see and the aspects we pay attention to. It does not follow from this that babies do not see. — Leontiskos
You indicated language was a necessary element in the formulation of a perception — Hanover
so I asked why my example was inapplicable — Hanover
I assume babies can't see color because "Things in the word, and the people around us, also have a say in what colours we see." Since babies don't know words and words determine what we see, babies can't see, color or otherwise. — Hanover
Would it help if we noticed that Wittgenstein is acknowledging uses of "know" that he subsequently argues are illegitimate? — Banno
No. It is a prompt towards seeking justification - "Can't you see it?. Look closer". — Banno
Wittgenstein takes it as read that knowing requires justification, and hence were there is no proposition to supply the justification, one cannot be properly said to know. — Banno
I have given textual evidence that speaking against the Law is regarded by the accusers as blasphemy. — Fooloso4
To break the Law is blasphemy. — Fooloso4
It is not simply a matter of breaking the Law, as it every offense however minor would be a blasphemous offense. What is at issue destroying or abolishing the Law. — Fooloso4
Again, you make my point. A son of man is a human being. — Fooloso4
and behold, with the clouds of heaven
there came one like a son of man,
and he came to the Ancient of Days
and was presented before him.
And to him was given dominion
and glory and kingdom,
that all peoples, nations, and languages
should serve him;
his dominion is an everlasting dominion,
which shall not pass away,
and his kingdom one
that shall not be destroyed. — Daniel 7, RSV
'One like a human being' receives the kingdom from the 'Ancient One'. Is this second figure a symbol of the nation that will exercise the dominion (the Jewish people), depicted as a human rather than an animal? Or is he a divine figure (such figures represented as in human form, Dan 8:15; 10:5)? If so, is he Michael, who 'stands' for the Jews in 12:1? — The Oxford Bible Commentary, Daniel
Acts, as quoted and referenced, says that Stephen spoke blasphemous words against Moses and against God. To speak blasphemous words against Moses means to speak against the Laws of Moses. — Fooloso4
I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath.” — Matthew 12:6-8
The accusation of blasphemy, according to this story was false. — Fooloso4
Most of the time this neural activity is a response to sensory stimulation of biological sense organs, but sometimes it is a response to other things, whether those be artificial sensory aids, drugs, sleep, or mental illness. — Michael
This would be a neat argument for why colors and percepts are not the same thing. The percept of the ball changed, but its color stayed the same. — Leontiskos
They are seeing in the sense of having a visual experience but not seeing in the sense of responding to and being made aware of some appropriate external stimulus — Michael
Okay good, and this is true even if their percepts are identical, yes? Therefore to see an external object is not merely a matter of percepts, yes? — Leontiskos
But other mechanisms such as a cortical visual prosthesis can help. Much like a cochlear implant helps where an ear trumpet can't. — Michael
Of everyone with a brain, there are some blind and deaf people who can be helped by aids to sight or hearing, and others who cannot. To understand the difference between the two is to understand why sight and hearing are not reducible to [the subject]. — Leontiskos
They are seeing in the sense of having a visual experience but not seeing in the sense of responding to and being made aware of some appropriate external stimulus, much like the schizophrenic is hearing in the sense of having an auditory experience but not hearing in the sense of responding to and being made aware of some appropriate external stimulus. — Michael
Sleeping pills are not a cure for blindness. — Leontiskos
I'm not confusing myself because I haven't claim that "hearing voices" isn't a euphemism for "hallucinate". — Michael
No one is arguing brains can hear without input of any sort. The argument is that no can hear without a brain. — Hanover
It's not equivocation to say that the schizoprenic hears voices. That's just the ordinary way of describing the phenomenon. — Michael
What distinguishes the dream with the electrode example is the claim "there is a chair" does not correspond with reality in the dream, but it does with the electrode. — Hanover
Why does that matter? It is still normal to describe someone with a cochlear implant as hearing things, and the same for those with an auditory brainstem implant.
If you only want to use the words “see” and “hear” for those with normally functioning sense organs then you do you, but it’s not wrong for the rest of us to be more inclusive with such language. — Michael
That's also false. The blind can't see anything no matter what their brains are doing. — jkop
The blind can see if their brains are directly stimulated. — Hanover
This is due to the uncontroversial scientific fact that perception is created by the brain regardless of whether the stimulus enters the brain through the normal means of sensory organs or whether it is hot wired directly through a probe. — Hanover
I point to sources that support what you claim I made up. — Fooloso4
If you were arguing in good faith you would admit that. — Fooloso4
psychiatrists by comparison are more in the way of witch doctors — tim wood
Psychiatric treatment is model or theory based, which may not work for a particular patient, and may even be just plain wrong for a particular patient — tim wood
You may not like the psychiatric approach to mental illness, but what alternative would you propose? — Leontiskos
it seems to me the best treatment is holistic in approach, providing what is needed: drugs if needed; counseling/therapeutic/custodial support as needed, and likely a mix. — tim wood
There is definitely something wrong, that's not in dispute. — unenlightened
Is there a way to delete private messages? — Leontiskos
I figure Spinoza made short work of this. We deliberate between choices as means to achieve our ends. Whatever is making it possible for this to happen is not a copy of our nature.
If the agency we experience gives us no conception of what is happening, presuming a 'determinism' is not an argument against the reality of deliberation. — Paine
It's a hypothetical example - nuance is to be avoided in making the distinction between the personal psychological analysis and the social relations analysis. — unenlightened