Solipsism is an ontological stance: in short, “there is nothing out there but my own mind.” I am saying something slightly different: “To speak of there being something/nothing out there is meaningless to me unless I can see why to care.” Then again, I’d say this is tautological/obvious in that “meaning” just is “why it matters to me.”
Do you cross the road with your eyes shut? If not, you are assuming, like everyone else, that there are things out there which are terminally disutiilitous.
My “position” (really a meta-position about philosophical positions) is just that language obscures what is going on.
Whose language ? What language? If you think all language is a problem, what do you intend to replace it with?
I’m not a naturalist. I’m not skeptical of “objective” because of such reasons; I am skeptical of it merely because I don’t know what the word refers to
It refers to the stuff that doesn’t go away when you stop believing in it.
“To speak of there being something/nothing out there is meaningless to me unless I can see why to care.”
Do you cross the road with your eyes shut? If not, you are assuming, like everyone else, that there are things out there which are terminally disutiilitous.
Note the bold.
Whose language ? What language?
English, and all the rest that I know of.
If you think all language is a problem, what do you intend to replace it with?
Something better would be nice, but what of it? I am simply saying that language obscures what is going on. You may or may not find that insight useful.
It refers to the stuff that doesn’t go away when you stop believing in it.
If so, I suggest “permanent” as a clearer word choice.
Do you cross the road with your eyes shut? If not, you are assuming, like everyone else, that there are things out there which are terminally disutiilitous.
Whose language ? What language? If you think all language is a problem, what do you intend to replace it with?
It refers to the stuff that doesn’t go away when you stop believing in it.
Note the bold.
English, and all the rest that I know of.
Something better would be nice, but what of it? I am simply saying that language obscures what is going on. You may or may not find that insight useful.
If so, I suggest “permanent” as a clearer word choice.