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I'd say that insofar that it does the fact has to count as significant in the first place. When we falsify something, for instance, we have an idea wh...

Neat! I never expected Bose-Einstein condensates to be useful.

Sure! Derrida, Sartre, and Levinas aren't fascists but Derrida, in particular, credits Heidegger for his philosophy. And thus far what I'm liking more...

But it can be interpreted elsewise, yes? Which is the best, in your estimation? Either way the reason I brought up Heidegger is his notion of disclosu...

Cool. Glad that I understood you. "The dao that can be said is not the eternal dao" definitely popped to mind in asking my question.

Seems to me then you'd come out as a firm "no" on the OP's question? We can't record it really, and the defense of poetics falls to the same narcissis...

My biggest doubt with respect to the existentialists is the emphasis on authenticity, and with respect to Heidegger especially, his use of "authentic"...

What's your feeling on Heidegger? The notion of Dasein seems to fit here as a place for thinking about this.

@"unenlightened" -- looks like we've come to a similar path you've described: that identity serves as a kind of "center" for philosophy at large.

I can give an answer, though my position necessarily requires me to say that in other circumstances I might change the answer due to the circumstances...

My best guess is it captures questioning -- it's a much more literal poem than people usually mean by "poem", but all the same. I feel confusion throu...

As long as its intended as such, sure. But sometimes poem-looking writing can be intended otherwise, and vice-versa -- the proem. That is, there's not...

In this response I'm going to try and loop back to the OP -- not that the conversation isn't interesting, only that I feel we're beginning to lose the...

No reason that I can think of. When you say... I don't know how I'd differentiate between the two. Similarly so with the histories you list -- I've re...

@"T Clark" 's reason for the pasta cooker is exactly why I like having a rice cooker; don't have to pay attention to it and it's perfect every time wh...

Cool. Insofar that you have some intuitive sense of what I'm on about that's enough for me. This might be the in-a-nutshell version of our differences...

"Shouldn't" because the phenomena isn't a scientific one, but historical. So while we can draw up statistics and trends and correlations this won't be...

Can't? No. But this is the very point that I begin to question Marx on -- whether history even can be treated scientifically, or more to the point, wh...

As always it depends upon how we understand the terms in the first place. To my understanding I don't think we need to place bets either way. If neith...

Nope! I agree with this. I rarely use the word "insane", because it doesn't have any real referent. But if someone really and actually wanted to becom...

I agree! It's something that bugs me, actually -- but building the science is a lot harder than being bugged by it. True. Oh yes I have no desire to l...

I'm not sure that I'm even challenging these ideas as much as using "hierarchy" differently. That's kind of what I was getting at with the notion that...

This makes more sense of the quote to me. Especially with.... The only thing I'm really wondering now is what does "elements" refer to? Wow, never exp...

Yup. Not intentionally, of course. But human nature is to seek out what you want, and even if not everyone does it some people will take advantage of ...

I wouldn't call it Heidegger-lite, no. It reads more clearly than Heidegger to me (at least in translation to English), but it's just as hard in the s...

That's basically what I think about all social structures, but I'll admit I'm an odd-ball here. (EDIT: I mean, we should be horizontal, always) I don'...

That tracks with my experiences, though cuz I did theatre stuff I ran into Sartre and Camus much earlier than becoming interested -- and much much bef...

Looks like I have more to learn. Good! Access to the paper you linked will be restored upon going back to work ;) I use it in the pejorative way with ...

Hah! Movies, probably. I agree that scientists are human beings, and I don't mean to target scientists in saying "scientism" "Scientism" is a pejorati...

heh, fair. I'm just surprised to see someone express a continuity between Epicurus and Sartre. I mean I see that continuity but I'm not used to others...

Thanks to you for asking -- I don't know what the underlying concept is! I have some ideas upon you asking, but I didn't mean to invoke a whole ass co...

Heh. Wow. I never thought I'd meet such a kindred spirit!

I'd say that Heidegger's philosophy is one which attempts to overcome the Cartesian subject, and so anyone who would reject Descartes ought be familia...

There's the part which I agree with -- LLM's are dangerous -- but the part I disagree with is his philosophical move. Rejecting the Cartesian theatre ...

Oh yes it's definitely weird. I don't know exactly what to make of the notion that there is more than analogy here. The best I can come up with is tha...

Sure! I mean like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph_record When growing up the vinyl discs were literally called "Records" and the disc-spinner...

Heh, probably not years. Kudos to you for saying you don't know. The basic idea is that when you look at a paper map of an area you ought be able to d...

Would you also agree with ? That's what I'm thinking, anyways. I write poems as a record of feeling, and when I go back to them I can re-experience th...

:) She's great. Nice. :) Would you agree that this poetic expression records human experience?

Yes. Consider: Which demonstrates that the record of human experience is deeper than re-experiencing my own experiences -- with the old volumes we can...

Okiedokie. Sounds good. It was just a thought I had to be accommodating. Then people can choose the topic that most interests them. The difference bei...

Sure! Tho I'd probably only count the ones who care enough since presumably the third optioners are fine with either outcome.

:up:

Either is good by me. 15th or 30th. It sounded like you wanted it later?

Ahhh ok. Sure that's fine. So guidelines Feb 1, then essays June 1st, and discussion topic posted when? When' is "the end" ?

I was thinking to use the poll option which the forum has and then going with whatever side gets more votes -- so option 1 is "Open topic" and option ...

I'm fine with switching it up. I said my bit, but I'm not committed to it. Perhaps with the guidelines we could also submit a poll for preferences? "O...

Probably. But perhaps overthinking it leads to insights. "Overthinking it", in philosophy, is far from a bad thing ;)

:up: You read the reference from the wiki yet? https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/quine/#IndeTran

Another thought -- I have not but would like to distinguish between critique and criticism. I'd say what I'm presenting here of Nietzsche is more of a...