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:up: This is basically what I'm saying (and find also in other words in Witt's 'Blue Book.') This is what I was hinting at with Dreyfus on Heidegger's...

:up: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52319/52319-h/52319-h.htm I quote this not to agree or disagree with all of it but because it's stimulating.

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I like much of this, but I still find the unity at least possibly contingent. I very much agree with the Heideggerian last sentence, except that 'me' ...

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To me it seems contingent. It's convenient that there's one 'soul' or 'self' per body, because bodies have to be trained to wipe their asses and stop ...

We do have that metaphor, and doubt doubles, so it seems the metaphor suggests an exception to complacent single-mindedness.

Nice quote! Looks like things are messier than I implied. Fair enough, though I must say it's hard (for me, at least) to get clear on this 'mineness.'

The replacement of the 'mental image' with some painted, external image is simple but brilliant. If the 'occult' meaning that gives signs life is use,...

This was written somewhere in 1933-1934. The 'kind of hunger which cannot be removed be eating' is a great phrase. The definition issue is relevant. T...

Here's his clever demonstration that 'I' might have my pain in someone else's body. I like W's distinction between the man of common sense and the com...

For me the self-contradiction is best focused on language as a substitute for mind. For instance, why do we assume that there is one mind per skull? W...

I agree with all of this while yet being pro-pill. Consider that aging isn't the only threat and that self-destruction also remains an option. I like ...

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:point: I like the honesty. Blood will be spilled. I think we are here for that, even if it doesn't always feel good to bleed.

:point: That's one important use of 'real.' I'd go farther and say that it has many uses. 'Are you for real?" 'This almond butter is really good.' 'Th...

Don't forget war. But I can relate to the puritanical urge, which is something like an urge to be virtuously effective & significant. We might specula...

The sceptic here takes the ideas of 'direct knowledge' and 'justification' for granted. You mention 'sense data.' That's a philosophical idea. Typical...

Hey, ol' csal. We're both back & in the mood to throw the horseshoes. It's always good to see you in the pit. I was being somewhat ironic. But I also ...

:point: Adding to this, which I agree with, I'd say he's found that he's a philosopher, a public intellectual. Ignoring the issue of quality for the m...

It's OK if insiders acknowledge that. Otherwise it's treated like the fox and the grapes, which it often probably is. In this video, Susan Haack is ha...

What if the system is not perfect? In OC, Wittgenstein still treats humans being on the moon as an obvious absurdity. It seems to me that you are thin...

I think we'd need infinitely more words. Doesn't every speech act have a certain uniqueness? This quote seems relevant. http://web.abo.fi/fak/hf/filos...

At something like the opposite end of utlility, or as the outmost perversion of utility: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52319/52319-h/52319-h.htm Som...

I agree with the spirit of what you are saying. An important difference between carpenters and self-anointed philosophers, though, is that this site c...

:point: Could also be expressed as: the doubt-avoiding agent patches up beliefs so that the info is assimilated at something like a minimum of humilia...

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Perhaps 'abstract thought' (and the heroic posing that goes with it) functions like a drug. Is it caffeine or meth? Depends on the person & phase of l...

What did Tom say about what Dick said about Harry?

I'm secure in my general unbelief, so for me the issue is whether any evidence could make me believe in gods, ghosts, or ghouls. I'd have to 'talk to ...

:point: Seems right, except I'm not sure we even apply such intricate systems to practical situations in our personal lives. Or I'd have to see it to ...

:point: You've probably seen Her and some of the other sci-fi. We can already make it so believable, so yeah.

Good :point: I love the 'linguistic turn,' but I suspect it's because I've resolved your 'unsolved mysteries' to my personal satisfaction. Before that...

I don't believe in the immaterial soul, but I can imagine events that might convince me. If some Dr. Frankenstein could light up a corpse with dear gr...

:point: They probably don't even worry about it as they write a paper on it.

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As mentioned in another thread, consider the concept of lifeworld, which is maybe where phenomenology wakes up from its lonely dream. https://en.wikip...

How does Husserl's 'lifeworld' fit in here? https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-copenhagen/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeworld https://newlearn...

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