Skip to content
Carmelics
TopicsThinkersChangesContributorsLoading account…

    Carmelics

    A reasoning platform. Break down any belief into clear reasons, explore both sides, and weigh the evidence honestly.

    Navigate

    • Topics
    • Search
    • Recent Changes
    • Contribute
    • How It Works
    • Glossary
    • Thinkers
    • Contributors
    • About
    • Statistics
    • Terms
    • Privacy

    Database

    Statements
    —
    Perspectives
    —
    Topics
    —

    Press ? for keyboard shortcuts

    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
    Made withinDC&Austin
    Statements
    321,452
    Perspectives
    108,905
    Topics
    42
    The claim that sensa lack genuine existence conflates ont... — Carmelics
    Home
    HistoryEditSee Inverse

    Part of a larger discussion

    Challenges→Sensa do not really exist; they only create the illusion of existence

    The claim that sensa lack genuine existence conflates ontological dependence on a mind with ontological non-existence, a distinction Chisholm and later intentionalists carefully preserve.

    ?Rate how convincing each reason is below to see the overall strength.

    No one has weighed in yet. Be the first to share reasons for or against this statement.

    Sign in or register to share your perspective on this statement.

    Key Terms

    Chisholm(as a philosopher being cited)
    Roderick Chisholm, an important 20th-century American philosopher who argued for essentialism (the view that things have properties they must have).
    Ontological non-existence(as a type of non-existence being distinguished)
    Something that fundamentally does not exist as a real thing at all, in any way or at any time (like unicorns or square circles).
    Ontology/Ontological(in metaphysics)
    The philosophical study of what actually exists or is real, as opposed to what merely seems to exist or what we can know about things.
    intentionalists(as used in philosophy of mind)
    Philosophers who believe that what makes an experience meaningful or conscious is its ability to represent or point to something in the world.
    ontological dependence

    Next step

    Based on where you are in your exploration

    Explore a random proposition
    Start fresh with something unrelated.
    (Metaphysics)
    A relation in which the existence or nature of one thing is accounted for by appeal to other things (e.g., a complex object exists because its parts exist; a set exists because its members exist)
    sensa(NE §373)
    Percepta given by means of the sense organs of the body, as distinguished from mental states or spiritual data given by introspection

    Connections

    2 topics

    Consciousness & Mind1 linkedPerception1 linked

    Related

    Sensa do not really exist; they only create the illusion of existence

    Details

    Type
    claim
    Perspectives
    0 (0 for, 0 against)
    Edits
    1 edit

    Open for perspectives

    This idea is waiting for its first supporting or challenging perspective.

    Share the first perspective