Sure, all counterfactuals are models. But there is a distinction between counterfactuals that model experiences, counterfactuals that model models, and counterfactuals that model physical objects. Certainly not all models are models of models, just as not all words denote words, and not all thoughts are about thoughts.
When we build a model in which no experiences or models exist, we find that there are still facts. In other words, a world can have facts without having experiences or models; neither experiencelessness nor modellessness forces or entails the total absence of states of affairs. If x and y are not equivalent — i.e., if they are not true in all the same models — then x and y cannot mean the same thing. So your suggestion that “obtaining fact” is identical to “analyzing (=modeling) an experience” is provably false. Facts, circumstances, states of affairs, events — none of these can be reduced to claims about models and experiences, even though we must use models and experiences in order to probe the meanings of words like ‘fact,’ ‘circumstance,’ ‘state of affairs.’ (For the same reason, ‘fact’ is not about words, even though ‘fact’ is a word and we must use words to argue about what facts are.)
When we build a model in which no experiences or models exist, we find that there are still facts. In other words, a world can have facts without having experiences or models
Not sure who that “we” is, but I’m certainly not a part of that group.
Anyway, judging by the downvotes, people seem to be getting tired of this debate, so I am disengaging.
Not sure who that “we” is, but I’m certainly not a part of that group.
Are you saying that when you model what the Earth was like prior to the existence of the first sentient and reasoning beings, you find that your model is of oblivion, of a completely factless void in which there are no obtaining circumstances? You may need to get your reality-simulator repaired.
Anyway, judging by the downvotes, people seem to be getting tired of this debate, so I am disengaging.
I haven’t gotten any downvotes for this discussion. If you’ve been getting some, it’s much more likely because you’ve refused to give any positive arguments for your assertion “experience + models = reality” than because people are ‘tired of this debate.’ If you started giving us reasons to accept that statement, you might see that change.
This is a counterfactual. I’m happy to consider a model where this is true, as long as you concede that this is a model.
Sure, all counterfactuals are models. But there is a distinction between counterfactuals that model experiences, counterfactuals that model models, and counterfactuals that model physical objects. Certainly not all models are models of models, just as not all words denote words, and not all thoughts are about thoughts.
When we build a model in which no experiences or models exist, we find that there are still facts. In other words, a world can have facts without having experiences or models; neither experiencelessness nor modellessness forces or entails the total absence of states of affairs. If x and y are not equivalent — i.e., if they are not true in all the same models — then x and y cannot mean the same thing. So your suggestion that “obtaining fact” is identical to “analyzing (=modeling) an experience” is provably false. Facts, circumstances, states of affairs, events — none of these can be reduced to claims about models and experiences, even though we must use models and experiences in order to probe the meanings of words like ‘fact,’ ‘circumstance,’ ‘state of affairs.’ (For the same reason, ‘fact’ is not about words, even though ‘fact’ is a word and we must use words to argue about what facts are.)
Not sure who that “we” is, but I’m certainly not a part of that group.
Anyway, judging by the downvotes, people seem to be getting tired of this debate, so I am disengaging.
Are you saying that when you model what the Earth was like prior to the existence of the first sentient and reasoning beings, you find that your model is of oblivion, of a completely factless void in which there are no obtaining circumstances? You may need to get your reality-simulator repaired.
I haven’t gotten any downvotes for this discussion. If you’ve been getting some, it’s much more likely because you’ve refused to give any positive arguments for your assertion “experience + models = reality” than because people are ‘tired of this debate.’ If you started giving us reasons to accept that statement, you might see that change.