(October 4, 2016 at 8:59 am)bennyboy Wrote: Okay let's try it out. I open my eyes, see a dog, remember the word "dog," say dog. So far so good. I have a label for my experience, but haven't asserted anything beyond that label-- I've made no assumptions, even about the dog existing independent of my experience of it.
You assume that dogs are numerically distinct as a kind of thing within an apparently seamless reality. It is a tacit assumption that people make unconsciously.