The Philosophy Discussion Forum

pharaoh: When I read your second post I was reminded of a quote from Wittgenstein --- 'If all the problems of science were solved we would still be left with the human problem'. I once read a comic as a child which told the story of how everyone became happy. They were dancing in the streets and enj...

[quote]You are either talking bollocks or you are not expressing yourself very well. I look in the mirror, I see me. Case closed. Recognition does not have to be knowledge for this to be the case. What makes you think face recognition is problematic? When you looked in the mirror you assumed the ima...

assume you knew that you were looking in a mirror, and that in fact that image you saw was one of the most recognisable you know. Were that not the case I would have to conclude that you had damage to the fusiform area of your brain. No. Try it yourself. Recognition is not knowledge. I am asking ho...

Thanks for your interest. I am not sure if I have understood your question completely, but if I were to recreate the world so that doubt as to its existence would not arise, then the tools we have already ---language, sense-perception, mathematics etc, and the agent of them, would not have to re-pre...

Hi Everyone, I am not an academic philosopher, but wondered if I could have some pointers, and perhaps some clarification on a problem that concerns me at the moment. It was a thought experiment I recently conducted. When I looked in the mirror, I realized I did know what I looked like. I could not ...