Wed 12 May, 2010 10:08 am - [QUOTE=kennethamy;163046]But I certainly thought I had given one. Namely, that what is ordinarily meant by the color of an object is the color it appears to have under normal conditions for the... (view)
Tue 11 May, 2010 12:57 pm - [QUOTE=kennethamy;163022]And for whatever purposes scientists want to use that definition seems to me fine. But, why should the scientific definition replace what it is that is ordinarily meant by... (view)
Tue 11 May, 2010 12:42 pm - I do not believe that anyone can say anything bad or negative about 'pimps' in America today without it at least being implied that they are racists against black people.
If you suggest... (view)
Tue 11 May, 2010 12:15 pm - [QUOTE=kennethamy;162991]The color that something has rather than only seems to have? What that will turn out to be will, of course, depend on context. "The true color of Sandra's hair... (view)
Tue 11 May, 2010 10:36 am - [QUOTE=kennethamy;162845]I suppose that is an argument. But it is an [I]enthymeme[/I]. An argument with a missing premise. The missing premise is that if the color is dependent on the method of... (view)
Mon 10 May, 2010 12:15 pm - [QUOTE=kennethamy;162237]It does not seem to me that a red apple is potentially blue or green. What would make you think that? But the issue is (again) how does it follow that because a blue car... (view)
Sun 9 May, 2010 04:16 pm - [QUOTE=VideCorSpoon;162186]
I suppose that's where it has to be determined what is a predicate of what.[/quote]
It seems that modern science has gone ahead and provided ontological... (view)
Sun 9 May, 2010 01:15 pm - [QUOTE=kennethamy;162165]Why would that show that it was only potentially red? If I viewed my nose from several different perspectives, and it looked a different length from each perspective, would... (view)
Sun 9 May, 2010 08:46 am - [QUOTE=kennethamy;162139]I would. How could a red apple be only potentially a red apple.[/QUOTE]
By understanding that it may be viewable under different coloured lights, or by analyzing it in... (view)
