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Single Idea 2960
[filed under theme 12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 1. Common Sense
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Full Idea
Commonsense realism has to account for the subjective similarity of the genuine perception of a green surface and the experience of, say, an after-image.
Gist of Idea
Commonsense realism must account for the similarity of genuine perceptions and known illusions
Source
Michael Lockwood (Mind, Brain and the Quantum [1989], p.142)
Book Ref
Lockwood,Michael: 'Mind,Brain and the Quantum:The Compound 'I'' [Blackwell 1991], p.142
The
24 ideas
from Michael Lockwood
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16362
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An identity statement aims at getting the hearer to merge two mental files
[Lockwood]
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2949
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We have the confused idea that time is a process of change
[Lockwood]
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2958
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No one has ever succeeded in producing an acceptable non-trivial analysis of anything
[Lockwood]
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2959
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If something is described in two different ways, is that two facts, or one fact presented in two ways?
[Lockwood]
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2960
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Commonsense realism must account for the similarity of genuine perceptions and known illusions
[Lockwood]
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2961
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Empiricism is a theory of meaning as well as of knowledge
[Lockwood]
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2962
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Maybe causation is a form of rational explanation, not an observation or a state of mind
[Lockwood]
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2963
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There may only be necessary and sufficient conditions (and counterfactuals) because we intervene in the world
[Lockwood]
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2964
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How come unconscious states also cause behaviour?
[Lockwood]
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2966
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Can phenomenal qualities exist unsensed?
[Lockwood]
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2967
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We might even learn some fundamental physics from introspection
[Lockwood]
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2950
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Only logical positivists ever believed behaviourism
[Lockwood]
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2969
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How does a direct realist distinguish a building from Buckingham Palace?
[Lockwood]
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2970
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Dogs seem to have beliefs, and beliefs require concepts
[Lockwood]
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2971
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Perhaps logical positivism showed that there is no dividing line between science and metaphysics
[Lockwood]
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2951
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Could there be unconscious beliefs and desires?
[Lockwood]
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2952
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A 1988 estimate gave the brain 3 x 10-to-the-14 synaptic junctions
[Lockwood]
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2953
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Fish may operate by blindsight
[Lockwood]
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2954
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Identity theory likes the identity of lightning and electrical discharges
[Lockwood]
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2955
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If mental events occur in time, then relativity says they are in space
[Lockwood]
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2956
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There is nothing so obvious that a philosopher cannot be found to deny it
[Lockwood]
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4054
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I may exist before I become a person, just as I exist before I become an adult
[Lockwood]
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4055
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It isn't obviously wicked to destroy a potential human being (e.g. an ununited egg and sperm)
[Lockwood]
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4056
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If the soul is held to leave the body at brain-death, it should arrive at the time of brain-creation
[Lockwood]
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