I was recently looking into Epistemology which contains of Internalism and Externalism.
Internalism holding belief in validation arising from one’s Self alone.
Externalism holding belief in an outside source as a means of confirmation.
This confirmation may be linked to any idea.
I thought one determined the factuality of an idea through himself, however does he not have to use outside sources to confirm his thoughts?
What exactly has the most influence?
Of course the environment in which we have grown and the facts surrounding the confirmation pay a great deal to our end confirmations. However, what persuades us in the end is what got to me.
It gave way to the Exclusion Principle.
One is influenced to do anything through his mind FIRST. His body, in other words, would respond to his Mind.
An inverse theory, called Epiphenomenalism, or Type-E Dualism, states that each action is separate from the thought. They are two independent properties.
However, physical states do affect mental states. Not at all conversely.
The only way I could understand this is a mental state would come into AFTER something in existence is conceived. However, only if that which is currently in existence occurred without one’s happening.
In other words: Qualia. The state of feeling something. BEING in it. But can this not also apply to the Exclusion Principle?
If speaking of the Exclusion Principle, suppose one were to undergo a certain pain - he would be experiencing Qualia as well. But is that a separate form or is it not the Exclusion Principle at all. For that which caused the pain must have been an outside source. Pain cannot come from within. There has to be a cause and that cause has to arrive from Elsewhere. Not one himself.
Yet, the pain is from within. There is no definite reason that it should arrive. It is not definite that it should arrive at all. Yet it does.
There was a book printed in 1923, by the name of The Meaning of Meaning.
This book contained of three ideas:
The conceptual domain - thoughts that are in our minds
The symbolic domain - words and symbols that we use to communicate with others
The real world - things in the real world that we refer to in our thoughts and with symbols
The Conceptual Domain and The Real World of what is being spoken of in this book is what would refer well to Internalism and the Exclusion Principle MOST.
What exactly is the beginning or end of semantic reactions at all?