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He studied medicine but couldn’t stomach the sight of blood or the suffering of the patients. Me, I was a lazy student and couldn’t get into Edinburgh...

Yes, and it may have helped that he was at the University of Edinburgh for two years before he dropped out and was sent to Cambridge to take the theol...

I think you succeeded. Nicely put. If I had to quibble or add something, I’d want to emphasize that “material needs” for Marx included social, creativ...

“I see the tree as it really is” is either normally true but sometimes not*, or else it’s incoherent, along with its contrary statement. These are two...

Did you also know that Jolof rice is named after the Jolof Empire 1350–1549 and the Jolof Kingdom 1549–1875? I didn’t. There’s a lot of shit to know.

:cool: Did you know that the Gambia is entirely surrounded by Senegal, except for its coastline, and that from 1982 to 1989 the countries were combine...

Have you been to that Senegalese spot yet?

Now that’s something I’ve had. I used to know a guy from the Gambia and he made it one time. It was great.

I'm inspired to go out and try Ethiopian food. I see there's a restaurant in Moscow. Four stars on tripadvisor :chin:

Non-sceptical realism. The danger of this poll is that it feeds the layperson’s impression that the existence of the external world is the central iss...

I banned @"Agent Smith" for refusing moderation. Having deleted several of his low quality posts yesterday, I gave up and told him publicly to stop. H...

Title for new discussion.

With elbow patches, I hope.

but without the good time.

Maybe a tumour was the wrong analogy. Fungal infection?

Yeah, like a tumour.

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Possibly. I do recognize that my post in the Shoutbox describing the disappointment I experienced yesterday when eating a plum pie was a good example ...

Without knowing exactly what you mean, I tend to agree. However, it’s probably essential in understanding Marx to see that he was attempting a philoso...

Enough with these comments Smith.

/uploads/resized/files/cs/hd5qwmmbgexyod5t.jpeg Finger muffin.

Sounds lovely. But I’ve run out of things to say about this, because I haven’t worked out what I think about it.

No I don’t disagree. It does look too ontic.

I see. Yeah, I don’t entirely agree with him. At the same time, I don’t think I’d want to promote philosophy as some sort of personal comfort. I think...

As I understand it, his deep project was about the meaning of being, so wouldn’t that entail an “understanding of how things can come to be as they ar...

I don’t think it’s a contradiction but I’m unwilling to work out exactly why it isn’t. The main point is that what you call a transformative process o...

Even the best of us have a fatal flaw.

Exactly. He wrote it around the same time he was writing DofE with Adorno. But it’s much clearer.

I have two modes that I haven’t quite been able to reconcile. One is my Anglo mode, in which I’m a plain-speaking direct realist, and the other is my ...

It’s not just me who thinks so by the way. The view is set out nicely in Possible Experience: Understanding Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Arthur C...

I’ll tell you what I think is most objectionable. It’s when people are explicitly and politely told that what they are attacking is a position that no...

I suppose you could say that. I felt it confused the issue to use “immediate” in that way, because Kant is using it specifically with regard to the pe...

I think it’s more that he is reacting to the equally incoherent claim that we don’t perceive things “as they (really) are”.

Ok, I confess: to describe Kant as a direct realist tout court is an exaggeration. But as Horkheimer said, sometimes only exaggeration is true. By the...

Yes, he was a transcendental idealist; that’s implicit in what I’ve said already. I’m emphasizing his system in a particular way to bring out what I s...

I admit that for Kant, objects of experience are real insofar as they are conditioned by the transcendental conditions of experience. In other words, ...

Kant was a direct realist. The external world is the “empirically real” and the tree is an empirical object that we experience “immediately”. See the ...

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Yes, although I’d put it a little differently just by saying that it is not reducible to physical explanations. But crucially, I wouldn’t say that thi...

If recognizing others as selves is an integral part of learning to be a self, then isn’t it going too far to say that individuals do not recognize the...

It was disappointing. Underneath the pie- or tart-like visible exterior, it turned out to be more of a spongecake than a pie, with nothing identifiabl...

I'm not sure why you think anyone is interested in the fact that you are not interested in Hegel, in a discussion specifically about Hegel. There are ...

/uploads/resized/files/ks/ex50l2ldmt8gu0co.jpg I happened upon a plum pie. Gonna have a piece.

You’re welcome. We are here to extend your mind. It was the same with me: I learned about embodied cognition and the ecological account of perception ...

Yeah, and I was trying to cover a lot of things: embodiment, sociality, and the ecological view. I should read Lakoff, keep meaning to.

Look it up. A clue: when you fly directly from London to Istanbul, it doesn’t mean you don’t have to get on a plane and move through the sky to get th...

There is no version of direct realism that I’m aware of that would deny these. A major type of direct realism is distinguished by its claim that we pe...

Off the top of my head… The self is the overarching temporally extended narrative construct of a necessarily embodied and social consciousness which t...

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One cannot be through with Marx until human emancipation is achieved. :grin: