RE: What's the point of philosophy any more?
March 25, 2018 at 1:05 am
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2018 at 1:21 am by The Grand Nudger.)
How do you know that you do? 
That's the trouble with the crutch of a conceptual black hole..it swallows everything. If you can answer the question of whether or not you experience, and how you know it..then you can answer the question of whether or not others experience..and how you know it...and you can answer the question of whether or not a thermometer experiences..and how you know it.
It is, after all, a singular question. No different than asking whether or not it's raining in three different cities. You may live in one, be familiar with the other, and never have visited the third, but was that the question? Your knowledge of self is no less subjective than your knowledge of others, or your knowledge of thermometers. It's a meaningless subjectivity, imo..but if you insist on it being a problem in any city it's just as much a problem in your own. Just as your pragmatic assumptions are a problem if Matthildas are. You couldn't even establish that -you- aren't a thermometer..in the manner you've tried to argue the subject with others.
Is that a problem?
That's the trouble with the crutch of a conceptual black hole..it swallows everything. If you can answer the question of whether or not you experience, and how you know it..then you can answer the question of whether or not others experience..and how you know it...and you can answer the question of whether or not a thermometer experiences..and how you know it.
It is, after all, a singular question. No different than asking whether or not it's raining in three different cities. You may live in one, be familiar with the other, and never have visited the third, but was that the question? Your knowledge of self is no less subjective than your knowledge of others, or your knowledge of thermometers. It's a meaningless subjectivity, imo..but if you insist on it being a problem in any city it's just as much a problem in your own. Just as your pragmatic assumptions are a problem if Matthildas are. You couldn't even establish that -you- aren't a thermometer..in the manner you've tried to argue the subject with others.
Is that a problem?
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