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Originally Posted by Mr. Blonde
No, but I would like to expand on this
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Originally Posted by Dent
The only part of the world we have direct access to is the contents of our mind, the rest is inferential.
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at the appropriate time. Mainly about our relationship with our environment -- also, we will obviously have to get to the qualities of "mind", at some point.
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Do you find any sense in this blondie? indirect/inferential realism
“NUBBLIES.NET USER DENT, I think Galen Strawson is simply mistaken here. One no more has direct access to mind-independent objects when one is awake than when one is dreaming. The difference is that when one is awake one can infer that the objects in one's world-simulation causally co-vary with gross fitness relevant patterns in the mind-independent world.”
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Originally Posted by Repugnant Abomination
I'm not sure if that answer helps or not, but the idea is basically that if something by definition exists I don't have to experience it to know it's true.
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Can you define square circles into existence?