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I agree with your reading that passion is a compliment of action. I also agree that Aristotle uses grammar to illustrate the condition. But I also thi...

I am not familiar with Vervaeke. Can you hook me up with a bit of text where he presents this view of Platonism?

We have both quoted 1066 in this discussion. Perhaps 1046 provides the most succinct expression of active and passive potentiality: In such cases, the...

Werner's observation is interesting. I directed my comment more at the objections I have made over the years addressing Gerson's argument about "natur...

It is not only that "form and matter coexist in the same substance." The nature of change in the realm of coming to be and passing away is different t...

Yes, the differences between the activities of nature and artifice are clearly drawn. But how everything is capable of change or not is whatever it is...

In regard to the various ways building a house has come up, it has been presented by Aristotle as a contrast to natural causes. It is a poster child o...

That is an interesting question contrasting the ancient against the modern. I don't know how to think about Gerson's thesis in that context. My retort...

Your premise that it was a weak and petty case needs to overcome the decision by twelve people who do not agree. Your expectation that the case will b...

Perhaps it will change the mind of the convict. He could turn to writing poetry and title the collection: My Imprisonment.

Interesting response. I will think about it.

What if the Aquinian view misrepresented the role of universals in previous philosophy?

I have been a juror 4 times in the New York State court system. It is very difficult. The knife edge of 'reasonable doubt' is very sharp.

On all counts

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I, perhaps, suffer from the opposite problem where everything in the discussion remains where it last stopped. Responding to your added text, the idea...

I recognize an archeological perspective in Wittgenstein, using language to uncover experiences we do not have a clear view of. That element seems to ...

It is funny to hear the self-identified champion for Trump complain about the nefarious consequences of excessive litigation.

I have seen bad faith actions in U.S. corporate culture. Some of it happened in the context of managers competing for resources. But they are limited ...

We discussed the activity of mind in relation to individuals two years ago. I had drawn the distinction between Plotinus' and Aristotle's views of the...

Well, from what I have observed in the world of work and personal interactions, little else matters.

Leaving aside my (or other people's) objections to Gerson's idea of Ur-Platonism, Gerson certainly seems to group the 'naturalists' as unified in thei...

The difference between psychology and philosophy is expressed this way in Philosophy of Psychology: That places the two activities in closer contact t...

That is a predominantly psychological observation. Where does the philosophy start? Or not?

Before going into the details of what Aristotle said or did not say, I would like to think about Rorty as the poster child for what Gerson militates a...

In regards to the problem of 'totalizing' propositions, there is an interesting historical comment made in the Tractatus: This supports my previous co...

When one goes to the first page of the search for Gerson, the comments I made there are some arguments against his view. Further in the past, I expres...

We have disagreed over Gerson in the past. As a devoted student of Plotinus, I cannot fault his view of Plato since Gerson follows Plotinus' reading. ...

This is a sharp contrast from the language of "participating in Forms." As he says a little further: This focus on the limits of what can be known thr...

I appreciate your willingness to continue the conversation. I apologize for my intemperate comment. If I can pull together a response, I will put it i...

What is your native language?

This sounds like an AI generated thing.

I am challenging your description of what the writing is about. If it is not worthy, just ignore it.

Where does he say all propositions are language? They all are language, of course. But your reading of "domains" is not in the text.

That statement does not say:

Which statements support this interpretation?

In my various disagreements, they have mostly been made as understanding the text differently than what was offered by others. Your approach of placin...

Metaphysics connects the concerns stated in Nichomachean Ethics and Politics by asking if it is wrong to pursue the primary causes: The search for cau...

If one takes your approach, no person is speaking for themselves in response to the text but are parroting "so and so's" who speak for others. That me...

This, too, fills in a space left empty by Wittgenstein. It mischaracterizes the role of "forms of life." The work does not mark out what a "legitimate...

Rorty supplies additions to what was written that are sharply at odds with other ways to read those words. I don't understand Wittgenstein to be denig...

I disagree. I need time to frame my rebuttal.

What does the opposite of an obsession with language look like?

Interesting. The text does not follow you to your conclusion. I will ponder upon it.

What do you make of the following? That view is distant from visions of discourse defined solely by use or general purpose.

That is an interesting observation. Will think about.

That is one interpretation. There are others. The statement "purely linguistic" indicates a particular point of view. Are you proposing that is a self...

If all that is a side track, what is the main path? What is supposed to be studied?

What examples of this sidestepping attract your notice?

Yours is a fair representation of what Heidegger was about. Where does an opposing view start? A rebuttal of a narrative? A different frame of referen...