[extropy-chat] effing

[gts]

On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:18:37 -0500, Acy Stapp <acy.stapp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just one question here: How can you have "looking white" without the  
> "looking"?

I don't think you can have "looking white" without the  "looking" but  
whiteness seems nevertheless to be an objective property of white objects,  
a secondary quality or power in Locke's terms, and not a mere pigment of  
our imagination.

When we think otherwise then we find ourselves speaking absurdities. For  
example you started  your previous message to me with these words:

> Here's where I disagree. The snow does not look white...

Philosophy sometimes causes people to say funny things. :)

Of course snow looks white! We can disagree about our scientific theories  
about the way frozen H2O molecules act in sunlight, (about the primary  
qualities of snow), and about how the mind works, about the nature of  
consciousness and awareness, and about many other fancy concepts we hold  
in our minds, but we cannot disagree about the plain simple fact that snow  
looks white.

-gts