savageorange comments on Realism : Direct or Indirect? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shiftedShapes 15 February 2013 01:20:56PM -1 points [-]

I meant direct

Comment author: savageorange 15 February 2013 02:17:06PM *  -1 points [-]

So, right at the beginning of this thread, you meant 'direct'. And you never corrected this misunderstanding, even after I repeatedly talked about indirect realism in my replies?

Comment author: shiftedShapes 15 February 2013 02:34:44PM 0 points [-]

No when I said indirect I meant that as well. My problem is that they both use "reality" to reference a theoretical construct that arguably none of us have ever experienced.

Comment author: savageorange 16 February 2013 12:32:30AM 0 points [-]

They do. What else would we use the word 'reality' to mean? I'm not seeing any alternative here (infinite recursion on the concept of 'reality' doesn't count as a solution.)

Comment author: shiftedShapes 16 February 2013 04:37:42AM 0 points [-]

Just what one experiences, with the external world that we agree upon going by consensus reality. Is that what you were asking.