That's useful. Now if only I was clear enough in my own thinking to say what I'm interested in. :D Also for @"Vera Mont" For one thing I'll be clear t...
Yup, I think so. People have to want to understand at some level -- so I've been insisting upon trust and charity as interpretive virtues within a con...
Well, I did nothing, that's for sure. And there is no "we" in the sense of a species-across-time, so I'd go that far. If the biological story is accur...
Let's take "socialism" -- I'm not sure I could write a dialogue demonstrating, but maybe our experiences with this word could suffice? What does "soci...
What I think I'd resist with respect to biology is that such explanations don't operate on the same level as these virtues which are solutions to the ...
I'm adding you at the end @"Srap Tasmaner" because it seems like you're part of this thread of thought in mentioning limitations to some of the sugges...
Your expression gets at a split in my thinking on the subject that's not easy to negotiate -- there's the historically real science as actually practi...
True! Especially in self-evaluation we certainly have some kind of attachment to our body. But unless we actually want men to have penises, we make th...
I generally view your opening with favor -- we come to understand a great deal of our concepts through contrasting them with other concepts: But my co...
So in this picture we have a common sense of meaning which is distorted by desire, of a kind -- but the desire is stoked by leaders who know how to sp...
The philosophy of God, in the big picture of all philosophy, is part of what I like about philosophy -- not irrelevant, but also not the most importan...
So "in most cases" -- what's stopping people who are not the leaders and would-be leaders from seeing that ideas or meanings are distorted or misrepre...
My previous post was meant to point out what level of apathy we're really dealing with. And I'd say it's even a rational apathy -- it's only the peopl...
Same. :) I love this stuff. Might be a reason why I stick around here. I agree happiness is not a thing one can find. That's part of its elusiveness f...
So this is a nice demarcation of scope, to me. Rather than reaching for Big L Language, as I was, this focuses the meaning of meaning, in our case, to...
I agree that's my assumption. Do you have a belief with respect to what does bring happiness? Not in a final way, I agree there -- but also in making ...
Against the shelf -- wasn't it our own continued repetition of using "water" (for obvious needs) that allowed the translation to take place? And we un...
The rejoinder would be -- if your decisions didn't make you happier, then were they really wise or is that a strike against the philosophy? But I thin...
Heh, then I'd say we're in a conundrum: at what point is there not enough overlap? Is it just more like a feeling of frustration which we give into, a...
Good point. And maybe that's the better question too: why don't we understand, sometimes? Or maybe I'm just barking up the wrong tree. A handy list of...
Earlier in the conversation I said to @"180 Proof" that we should at least be able to, through philosophy, get to the point of saying "needs further r...
Hrm! I don't see them as unrelated, obviously. What else would wisdom be other than the kind of knowledge that leads one to make better decisions? I'd...
One of the things I like about the Oxford English Dictionary is that it is empirical in its research -- it looks for actual uses to support the record...
Now that's intriguing, and I think forms the most radical interpretation of @"frank"'s "creative" side of the gradient of meaning. At a certain point ...
I think that when we've become inundated in propaganda the guilt starts to fade away. It's just another emotion floating along with the others. Earlie...
It is for me, but I definitely attribute that to my being raised with all these questions like they had certain answers and always finding the answers...
This is the better way to put the question given the nonsense of private languages: Given that meaning is public -- for what reasons do we disagree ov...
In favor of this picture of linguistic change I'd say that languages do, in fact, take a long time to change. There's a stability there which is the r...
In this libidinal economy? Totally understandable. Glad to hear it :) -- though I'll give stoicism to the truly stoic, I think it's lessons are over-e...
It's the metaphor I reject from the outset, at least. Though it seems we're in agreement on the limitations of the PLA, too. So I think it just makes ...
Probably best to leave the context behind. That was the idea behind starting a new thread -- I didn't want the conversation on identity in the masculi...
Yup, that fits the form. The original question was with respect to gender-identity, but the form is there. The one thing about the form that might elu...
Please, by all means, be provocative. I don't mind. You're not wrong: Epicurus' philosophy comes across as aphoristic and motherly, especially in my e...
No worries. Yes, and not just yes, but absolutely yes. The reason politicians can get away with saying what looks like obvious bullshit is they know w...
Your title reminds me of Martha Nussbaum's The Therapy of Desire. And I'm a lover of Hadot's take on ancient philosophy. He's definitely worked his th...
I thought that at one point, though sometimes I flirt with the notion too. But it is absurd, I understand. (though the world is too by my reckoning, s...
Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "collective entity", I think that's the idea behind Propositions. But I thought your original proposal mo...
My penalty is too heavy to bare! :D I probably have earned the sentence, though, given how often I wonder about meaning. I like the relationship betwe...
:D I'll only take a minute of your remaining fame. We both agree that words have a recognized usage. Meaning is public. I think the part of the metaph...
Bullshit:(Creative---Orthodoxy):Bullshit Is Bullshit on the left-hand side the same as Bullshit on the right hand side? And do you mean Bullshit like ...
In the spirit of the original thread, though, I'd ask what is the meaning of identification statements? Is there a Public Shelf Meaning to: "I walked ...
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