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In the most literal sense I think your final statement is true -- experience is not the same as words. And words are not cabinets into which experienc...

& @"Jamal" -- May the ancient dial-ups, BBC networks, and internet wayback machines remember the time before history. amen. :D

Attempting to compete with the thread on truth, eh? :) -- I'll admit this has been a thought in the back of my mind... The ineffable can't be said, by...

Yeh, true. The original person who took a chance on setting up a philosophy forum. Hear, hear to Paul.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frantz-fanon/

Me, I'm catching up on some of my self-assigned homework on a lazy lab day while looking forward to some time off. I'd reiterate -- it really is that ...

I registered and starting poking through today. I'm liking the sections on Descartes a lot, whom I've tackled and all but their presentation of him is...

Far too many reasons to make sense of :D -- for me, looking back now, I'd say I probably didn't have much of a choice. I certainly wasn't happy with m...

I'm glad we can agree that reason doesn't motivate. So I'm willing to grant we have knowledge of the future that's good. Else, I wouldn't be tempted t...

I've tried to be open about my depression on TPF -- because I don't want others who I know feel alone to have confirmation of their loneliness. So -- ...

Ah, you're right. There wasn't a citation, even. Alas, reading is theory-laden, even on a forum post.

I'm also curious about the context now. Do you have a citation @"KantDane21" ? Eh, I think that Kant's use of "cognition" isn't that loose. A cognitio...

This was an excellent resource for me, so thank you. Just the sort of terms I'm looking for to think through my thoughts. I've already assigned myself...

For me I thought of the "in which case" clauses as having the P xor ~P "distributed over" them, emphasizing the "Either" at the beginning, and these w...

I think eschatological thinking tends to be irrational. It's not just one's own death, but the death of everything, the death of being -- the fear of ...

Honestly I'd render this as "P or not P" where.. P = There cannot be cognition of noumena or P = All cognition is of appearance If cognition applies t...

heh, fair enough. It may just be the wrong question, really. It's not that things cannot be poems, but rather, if it isn't one it's a sort of challeng...

Oof. That's a sad one to read, but good. I connected to the last stanzas the most -- I can feel myself slowing down before going home as I read it, fr...

Well, today I need to do a bit of shopping. Bagels Cream Cheese cleaning rags I may add more later. But what makes this not a poem, may be an interest...

Heh. I'm having a ball. So you're welcome, and I'm having a good time too. I wasn't even sure if this would generate any conversation, it seeming such...

That was a pleasure to listen to -- there are parts of the poem that I couldn't quite sound out right, and Alec Guinness is great, of course :) His ch...

Sorry, while this pursuit is noble, I found them really hard to read is all. The Ukrainian war being so... now. And USians cheering on the whole affai...

Combing through posts to respond in kind -- I am unfortunately in the mood for gallous humor more often than not, so I laughed -- but it's kind of a m...

Heh, it's hard for me to separate the two -- I read poems like that, but sloppier than @"Dawnstorm" -- the figure is as important as the content. Howe...

Keeping with rule 1, I'll have a go at adding an interpretation rather than just wacky ideas -- *** I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and...

Always a pleasure to read someone's thoughts with substantive background. This was beautiful to read. Exactly what I'm after. Also, a beautiful poem. ...

Music to my ears. The exact sort of thing I'm asking after.

:) Thank goodness. I didn't want any bad blood after so much good interaction. And I appreciate being corrected. It's always better to change beliefs ...

Heh, yes, feel free to skip over the wacky thoughts. :D I appreciate everything you've contributed, and definitely do not want to lose that feeling of...

Sorry. I don't mean to be dismissive. You're right that it's important to get the facts correct, and I made a mistake. I was hoping the mistake wasn't...

Yup yup, true. Even the example sonnet 108 I gave doesn't follow what I said, too. (does it really surprise you that a person whose fine without form ...

Ah! I'm lifting the term from computer science. So, as the wiki shows, "This is a string!" is a string. And if it is a sequence then, to make things m...

Heh. Sorry. I may have even lost myself. Feel free to skip the philosophy-bits, as they may well just be nonsense anyways :D

Hopefully any of those, and more, given that poems tend to invent their own phrase kinds. Well, for now, I just mean a set of characters with some kin...

A thought on demarcation between poetic and truth-conditional meaning -- Would it be possible to develop a logic of phrases? (heh, probably anathema t...

I can recommend the same recommendation that was given me -- don't worry too much about the scholarly side, just feel it like you would any other poem...

Having added some modern poetry to our list of poems, I automatically feel the need to invoke something classical -- so browsing Shakespeare's sonnets...

While browsing for poems -- I have never before ventured down the path of The Wasteland until now. And I really did love it. I read an essay beforehan...

well, they are sort of similar -- since being applies to everything that is, it's not like we can say it's like this or that thing. It's everything. A...

Oh, I may not either -- but I think I got a gist at least. And I'm just stretching, really -- attempting to make use of concepts more widely than in t...

I used to think of reality as having a relationship to existence as having a relationship to being, where "the real" refers to lived experience, exist...

Cool, much thanks -- I was focusing on pong being played, for sure, and you've helped in pointing out that's not the point, but rather to demonstrate ...

This is super cool. So many neat intersections. It'd be interesting to look at the original paper, but it'd probably read funny to me -- i.e. the pop-...

So let's just say I agree with all this. What now? We wait until we die, persuade others not to reproduce, and thats it. Do I have that right?

Eh, all I can claim is sincerity on my part. I'm making attempts, but sometimes those are mis-fires, mistakes, confusions -- probably about where we'r...

Both, if I think about it. But I'm ok with just saying metaphysics, since I suspect that's what you'd object to.

I think emphasis is what's at stake, or at least recognition of emphasis. Rather than philosophy being thought of as only speculation on the nature of...

I'm including speculative physics. I'm saying there's more to metaphysics, not that it's not included. The examples would be from around here abouts. ...

No, that sounds like a definition. I was answering what is at stake. Speculative physcis isn't. RIght?

That's not helping my confusion as much as adding to it. Start over with this question? Is that the issue at stake? Am I not answering the question in...