(Presumably your first “that” is meant to be a “what”?) That question implies a false dichotomy too. The mistaken people might not be mistaken about what anyone thinks unmediated experience is; perhaps everyone pretty much agrees on what it is, and the mistaken people are simply misremembering or misinterpreting their own experiences.
This conversation might be more productive if you switch from Socratic questioning to simply presenting a reasonable definition of “unmediated experience” according to which unmediated experience exists. After all, your true objection seems to be that I’m using a bad definition.
Anybody can be wrong about anything, That isn’t an interesting observation, because it is general. Earlier you gave a specific reason, which you think is empirical, and I think is partly conceptual.
So are people who claim unmediated experience lying?
Or using a different definition of “unmediated”, or confused about their experience, or...
My best guess is that the vast majority of them are sincere. Being correct vs. being a liar is a false dichotomy.
So are they sincerely ,mistaken about that they think unmediated experience is, or about what you think it is?
(Presumably your first “that” is meant to be a “what”?) That question implies a false dichotomy too. The mistaken people might not be mistaken about what anyone thinks unmediated experience is; perhaps everyone pretty much agrees on what it is, and the mistaken people are simply misremembering or misinterpreting their own experiences.
This conversation might be more productive if you switch from Socratic questioning to simply presenting a reasonable definition of “unmediated experience” according to which unmediated experience exists. After all, your true objection seems to be that I’m using a bad definition.
Anybody can be wrong about anything, That isn’t an interesting observation, because it is general. Earlier you gave a specific reason, which you think is empirical, and I think is partly conceptual.