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For me this word "real" is part of the "problem"? What do we mean by "real"? Or do we mean all sorts of things in all sorts of contexts? I think a pri...

I didn't mean to imply that it was all a waste of time. I'm just saying there have been philosophers who eschewed a certain kind of a philosophy for a...

Right. That's how I understand it. Then entities are revealed as 'unities' in relation within these intuitions. I agree. It's amazing. I think we tend...

As I understand it, Heidegger doesn't think in terms of the "core" or the true entity --with the exception of the 'core' or most deeply explanatory ki...

That sounds plausible. I read parts of Plato closely but have utterly neglected other parts. For me that's secondary, I suppose, because something lik...

I don't know much about theology in general, though traditional theology does use logic to "prove" the existence of God. I did study some "negative" o...

This is pretty great. And aren't we all Kevin, at least a little bit? There's an "excess" that makes an individual an individual. Take out all of the ...

I'm not trying to gang up on you here, but I wanted to respond to this. As I see it, only philosophers ever bother with the issue in the first place. ...

I should maybe say that they make space and time possible as concepts. They make talking about space and time possible? Putting event A before event B...

I don't think it's a paradox. I'm just trying to squeeze a little acknowledgement from you with respect to what I like to theorize about. Your positio...

I can relate to that. One could even say that the forms are outside of space and time in the sense that they make space and time possible. I suppose K...

I don't exactly know how I'd arrange the quantity-quality and subjective-objective dichotomies with respect to one another, but otherwise you get wher...

I like Nietzsche, sure, but my favorite part of the The Antichrist is the portrait he paints of his opponent. Nietzsche is often too political, too ea...

Yeah, I think you misunderstood my tone and intentions. That's OK. I hope I wasn't too rude in return. I can relate to this. I don't know if you saw N...

This is too cynical, IMV. No doubt that's part of it, but "hushed tone and clever reverence" as the highest aspect of experiencing art ? Also reducing...

Interesting point. I hadn't thought of it that way. What I had in mind is the direct experience of meaning. Meaning is. Similarly redness is. We "live...

You'd probably really like the description of everyday Dasein as "taking care" in The Concept of Time (the ~100 page first draft of B&T). He talks abo...

But isn't the problem the interpretation of meaning as reducible to bits? I love bits. It is eye-opening that the universe can only "store" a finite n...

I agree that we fabricate selves. "Marvel comics" involve a less sophisticated version of this, but how are you and I exempt from having to fabricate ...

I'm by no means against quantitive evaluations of assertions. But is it not a "non-quantitative" assertion that only such assertions should have weigh...

Thanks. That was eye-opening. On Vygotsky: The bicycle is "ready-to-hand" in the knowing-style of "know-how." This is largely the way that things exis...

By "pre-science" I mean the establishing of what counts as evidence in the first place. Even the idea that disputes 'should' be resolved in terms of w...

That's sounds plausible to me. It's just that this notion of the shared world in terms of tool-use is at least as old as Being and Time. So it's odd t...

I think that "works" points to the 'irrational' motivations at the center of life. Why do we care if our house is destroyed by the tree? Why do we wan...

As an aside, you may want to highlight what you respond to and click the quote button that appears. That'll put the quote in a box and let the quoted ...

I think they naturally occur. But then a sophisticated tradition emerges. Would you agree that metaphysics can become a clever game? I would separate ...

I get that, but I'd suggest that "mind" itself has no exact meaning. It too is a fuzzy tool employed by practical concern. For me we clearly have acce...

On affordances: Isn't this just Heidegger? Sorry for what may be a digression. But I think we can work this into my response to the OP by understandin...

Perhaps you misunderstand me. You give exactly the example that I gave. Non-metaphysically that's where the distinction matters. Do I need to worry ab...

I really like this. I can imagine a comedy about a very theoretical guy who tries to encode this kissing of the cute girl in a string of ones and zero...

For what it's worth, I agree. 'Interpretation' is a good stab at a synonym for human existence. The "mind" is a token within or derived from the inter...

Indeed. And these interpretations exist systematically. A fundamental interpretation of existence (what am I here for? What is virtue?) "radiates" out...

I'd approach this in terms of different language games. I don't think there is a game-indepedent truth of the matter. The mental-physical distinction ...

You make some great points. That's the dark side, which is there. But let's acknowledge that the highest level drones are no longer drones at all. Or ...

That is indeed the question. To be clear, I think it's a personal matter. For me it looks to be the best path. What is life about as a whole? What is ...

For me the issue is that language itself is a "container" -- at least to the degree that we believe in translation. Do we think in words? In my experi...

From my perspective you are playing a kind of game. It's the game of radical but merely theoretical doubt. It has its charms. But I don't know if it's...

Another question: how does a God make morality objective? Is it just His power to punish? But the state has power to punish. Does creation of consciou...

I largely sympathize, but philosophy has "cured" me of thinking of myself as one the good guys. I mean that I see a gap between the "knowledge hero" a...

Right. But this orginary time seems to be quite un-time-like, except for its ability to explain time as we (vaguely) conceive it. So the "future" and ...

I agree with there's a Platonist or intuitionist motive involved. I suppose I experience it in terms of a virtue intersubjective reality. I don't know...

Wouldn't it have to be something like intuition? Or perhaps, on the other hand, new formalizations that are truer to intuition? For me the finite and ...

We live in strange times. What does it all mean? We are atomized rats. I keep myself open to the massive cognitive dissonance, seduced by the heroic i...

Good points, BC. I feel like a wolf in a cage after 6 years. Soon I'll be able to more or less choose what I study. But six years is a long time to wa...

Yes, we agree. So I was just pointing originally at the kind of conversation that can shape or influence the "irrational" foundation or institution of...

What would your expectation mean here? Why would you bother to expect something other than what you could comprehend? That expectation looks to me lik...

You make an important point. I'd call it expert culture. But even participants in this expert culture (scientists or engineers in one field among many...

This is a dark and profound quote. Suicide is arguably important as an option. It allows us the sense of having chosen to persevere. I sometimes think...

But for me the problem is that this itself is an assertion about God. What do you understand about God that suggests that people in general overestima...

Just to be clear, I wasn't accusing you of mysticism. I was just explaining my dislike of the capitalization. I read Steiner's book on Heidegger with ...