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I don't get it

That's definitely food for thought. Thanks :up:

Ok. I was just asking you to tell me what you think it means.

Ok. It's just that you posted a passage from Kant in a thread about disproving solipsism. Subsequently, I've been unable to determine how you're readi...

I'm cool with resolving it with a "fair enough." What else?

Cool. How do you interpret the passage you originally posted? I'm curious.

Yes. It's a nice passage.

I do. To get my bearings, I try to place the text in its historical context. Like, why is Descartes writing this? What is Kant responding to? I'm not ...

You're projecting.

We've long had this conflict between us (you and Foolos4) where you dissect passages of text, and I have a much broader outlook. No need to try to res...

The stoics thought of the logos as a kind of divinity. I don't think it was a re-interpretation.

I continue to have no idea what you're trying to say. I'm sure you're not being purposefully cryptic, but that is the way you're coming across.

The Christian Logos isn't the Bible. It's Jesus.

I'm not sure what you're saying. Kant is basically arguing that consciousness of the self is generated by the mind's organization of experience accord...

And?

I don't know what an ontological limit is. That we know about space and time a priori is the outcome of a series of arguments. I don't know what "any ...

Per Kant, we don't learn about space and time a posteriori. As for a reference, I don't think we can do better than Kant himself. Have you read the Tr...

He's just saying that consciousness of my own existence requires something to compare and contrast with me. The use of dialectics runs through the CPR...

Habermas believed that respectful exchange of ideas in the public sphere is essential to a functioning democracy. His critics say that's a nice idea, ...

I don't think Kant's point is really all that complicated. Can you not encapsulate it?

Excellent. Why don't you flesh out Kant's argument for us?

Sure. It pains me to agree with Leontiskos, but he's right that this theory about human life suggests a fixed, transcendent vantage point. That's just...

It's a bunch of different narratives, in a way. There's rationality that's basically just fashion, there's rationality that's logical, etc. Do you agr...

Isn't it that the meaning of a sentence is context dependent? And both the sentence structure and its meaning emerge from social practices. It's confu...

:up:

https://youtu.be/Ra-GiusdK1w?si=-Pbk2_e8kMtxlUpt

Are you familiar with Kripke's argument that meaning can't arise from rule following?

Surely some part of you knows how it works? Your personal Lord of Illusion?

That same image came to me once: of God with finger puppets, doing a puppet show for herself. Bloody puppet show. :scream: So your answer is that ever...

Cool. My interest is in how a community recovers from a catastrophe related to nationalism. Apparently the narrative was that Germany has a tendency t...

Does it? How so?

Ok thanks! Shot number 1: Doesn't your solipsistic view conflict with your everyday behavior? For instance, you talk to me without knowing what I'm go...

With rye bread?

If you're up for it, I'd like to try to persuade you that solipsism is wrong. I just need for you to play devil's advocate and defend it. Ok?

No sauerkraut?

Anglo-American philosophy has been stranded for some time in an attempted pivot away from Cartesian dualism. The OP is pestering the issue anew. You c...

I agree that there's a good side and bad side to downvotes. It's helpful for identifying trolls.

It works. I have a couple of subreddits which I've never had to moderate. Downvotes do all the work.

:up: What do you like about him?

Maybe we could trial downvotes? They have a harsh side where immature people downvote to signal disagreement, but they can also be an effective means ...

Ha! Habermas figures large in the book I'm reading, about German nationalism after WW2.

Another Country --German Intellectuals, Unification, and National Identity Jan-Werner Muller

The Normans were uber bad-asses, yes. If the people living in England would have joined Harold Godwinson, the Norman invasion probably could have been...

Oh. :grin:

Anti-realists don't have to explain how there are unstated statements.

Sim brushed away the crumbs from his drawing of a micro apartment and paused to wonder if there is any difference between a story and a thought. If he...

This is from an interesting interview with Noam Chomsky about his experiences as a Zionist:

I agree. As you say, the idea is that the world is made of events and states.

:up: And this ties back to Wittgenstein's statement that the world is all that is the case. He was referring to the insight that the world does not se...

The bit from the Enlightenment that I think about from time to time is that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. So true.