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You misunderstood me. This essay becomes gibberish if we substitute "unintelligible" for "nothing." This dread of unknown etiology is just the case wh...

I did previously in the thread. I'm pretty sure he's simply tweaking Hegel in this essay, but I guess it's possible that his obscure language turns hi...

Maybe, but not in this essay. Pay attention to his references to Hegel. This essay is not complete gibberish. It seems like you're suggesting that it ...

Science doesn't pay attention to being as such. I just mentioned What is Metaphysics because H explores why science doesn't pay attention to the issue...

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They are. H talks a lot about the way science ignores being in What is Metaphysics. You can capitalize the first letters in your sentences if you want...

I'd say science is about entities and definitely not about the nature of being.

Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others valu...

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On the internet you can watch trolls trolling each other. Is there any corollary to that in real life? And: you want to fill the bird bath with water ...

I didn't say it was from self to nothing.

"Human openness can relate to what-is only if it is held out into the nothing." We look out at All from a transcendent position, specifically, opennes...

I don't think any of that is related. What is the opposite of life, alive, or living?

Thank you on behalf of the Empire. For your services to philosophy we will pay you in salt.

It's just the negation of everything. As I said before, H wants to breathe new life into an issue that becomes dead in the hands of a logician. Some p...

Maybe your way is productive. If I could drop a couple notes of caution on you, ignore them as you see fit: 1) Many of the people who adhere to Trump ...

Duty to be upset? Emotions are just there like an ocean. The ocean has no duties. If you realize that the scene in front of you is a repetition, the a...

That kind of misinformation does more harm than good.

'It's true of a nation as it is of an individual: what is a man profited should he gain the whole world and lose his soul?' -LBJ

Catch and release.

Trump is thinking he'll get money for his wall in exchange for mercy. That is grotesque. I'm not being political about it. It really is just plain wro...

:meh: You don't know what negation is?

Where do you place the blame? The people? The times? The governmental system? I say if we want a government of the people, we have to be prepared for ...

The world is full of assholes. Do you think it needs one more?

You've developed thread amnesia. You protested that we don't talk about what is not. Have you realized now that you were wrong?

Trump is a good thing. If he hadnt been elected he would have droned on and on for years about how the system was rigged against him, continuously ero...

Sure. And they draw us to think about what is not.

Speech about illusions refers us to what is not. Per H these small cases of negation are secondary to "the nothing." Why dont you read the essay? It's...

What would be an example of that?

It has many senses.

It's not everybody's cup of tea. He doesn't rely much on the force of logic. It's more: does it ring true? But note the question faced by those who do...

Another word for soul is psyche. There's a branch of science devoted to it: psychology. You may decide that the soul is not immortal. If Plato, for in...

My assessment of this essay: H really is talking about negation in this essay contrary to the repetitive claim that he isn't. He's just treating negat...

He says the nothing can't be understood logically. He notes that we seem to claim knowledge of it anyway, for instance when we speak of what is not. H...

He covers that issue at the outset.

Where the experience of pain is being discussed.

Should probably look to use to discover meaning. In some cases Bob will not understand what's meant by "pain".

Ok. He still doesn't know the experience of pain.

Mary, prior to leaving Mary's Room, has never had the experience of seeing red. Where John is talking about that experience, Mary does not understand....

I see. An expression of pain will be understandable to everyone except that rare person who has never felt pain, even if that person is a neurologist....

I don't know what you were saying. If I had understood you, then you easily would have understood me. I think we've sufficiently explored how profound...

"...being itself is essentially finite and shows up only in the transcendence of openness, held out into the nothing." -- What is Metaphysics Heidegge...

nevermind

Yes it's pretty obvious.

I was using Lewis to defend qualia. Funny.

When seeking meaning it's wise to look to use. Where "meaning is use" is used as shorthand for behaviorism, it's wrong.

It sounds like you're saying we have options in the way we talk about pain. For instance we could imagine a community that doesnt talk about pain at a...

@all: Hmm. Interesting.

Hard to say. I think she just didn't engage people emotionally or with important issues.

Could be. But look what the swing voters swung toward. Clinton just seemed less trustworthy than Trump. They should have run Bernie. I believe Clinton...