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You aren't persuaded by Chomsky? I'm more interested in how we would manage to have the idea of privacy if, as you say, it's nothing. How does that wo...

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If you saw it that way, I'm glad things went your way and the thread was deleted. His mistake was to locate the vileness of humanity in one portion of...

I can't show you how to communicate (I'm talking about the more basic aspects of it, not superficial stuff like wording). You must already know how to...

I was trying to grasp why we assume that a theory of everything is possible, and what it might mean to accept that no such theory can ever exist. Coul...

But you could know how to do something and not be able to articulate that how. Stole that from Heidegger.

OK bye. Good puzzle, though. Read more Nietzsche.

Minds are thought to have something to do with brains, but there is a clear distinction. If you want to change my mind, don't come at me with a drill....

We are. Since we're both in a reflecting state as we talk about this, we see a distinction between ourselves and our world. That distinction exists. A...

So an expectation of completion is part of the background of Game of Thrones. We assume that a full map and history could be constructed if the inform...

I wouldn't be interested in participating on this forum if a pure message of hatred (toward anyone) was being spewed and allowed. But I think if you l...

Absolutely. I'm going to read more and get back to you later.

To whom are the questions directed, that's what I meant. If we project our own way of being onto the world, do we implicitly expect it to be able to s...

It occurs to me that potential is the same idea.

That's kind of hard to digest intellectually, though. I think the intellect needs things broken down a little more. One angle on it: when a scientist ...

Yes. What's there in a reflective moment is the realization that we can't explain how we're able to ride the bike or speak. Maybe some portion of phil...

You bought some new shoes?

That link sent me to a pinterest page that had a lot of pictures on it. I picked one at random as your message. It was a Pacific Northwest style totem...

Eh, it's easy to judge when we weren't in his shoes.

Take a grain of salt with everything I say because I'm trying to think it through (that's why I started this thread, so thanks for engaging). In the m...

Do you advise Husserl over Heidegger?

Yes. Exactly. That's what I think. I think we might behave in a way that upon reflection seems to indicate to us that we think the world can speak to ...

I would be disappointed because I've been turning into an anti-realist existentialist. I started reading about Heidegger because I thought he might sh...

Just donate the money to the Red Cross. I like the word "loon-bag." That's a keeper.

No, I just have a thing for honoring victims. It's a personal issue. And since I overcame such great emotional barriers to finally (after years of bei...

But you do believe the suffering of the Iraqi people should be acknowledged, right? I'm working now. Maybe later.

Hmm.

And they use 25% of the world's energy resources (which is probably mostly the Canadians). How did that happen?

About 500,000 Iraqis have died of war related causes since 2003 (in case you wanted to take a moment of grief over some people).

Hanover's Guide to Creative Writing: How to Be 10 Times More Disturbing Than You Thought You Could Be

More than 83% of daily active users are outside the US and Canada , so who's influencing whose exposure?

I agree that we hurt the ones we love the most because they have made themselves vulnerable. There is a kind if fear that would make that vulnerabilit...

"Theoretical Holism. Plato's view that everything human beings do that makes any sense at all is based on an implicit theory, combined with the Descar...

It may be that Heidegger meant this. I'll take the question with me as I continue my book. If that is Heidegger's view, then I'll be a little disappoi...

But Dreyfus says: "Heidegger does not deny that we sometimes experience ourselves as conscious subjects relating to objects by way of intentional stat...

That makes sense. The reason "mindless" is resonating with me is that I've long thought of analysis as the primary activity of mind. It's the part of ...

I think Dreyfus is saying "mindless" just to mean unreflective existence. As long as there's no reflection of the sort that implies withdrawal from th...

You're in agreement in Heidegger. Though we may imagine that beliefs explain our behavior, Heidegger says we spend a lot of time in a state where ther...

St Anthony: https://www.catholicsaintmedals.com/images/about-saints/anthony-with-baby-jesus.jpg

Per Dreyfus, critical reflection presupposes something that can't be articulated. For instance, we can't have a theory about how theories are possible...

Heidegger dispenses with some of assumptions that have been starting points for some philosophers such as explicitness. "Every decision... bases itsel...

That's what's weird about it: it's not death or sleep, but it's mindless, thus the need for a special word to refer to it. Its along the lines of the ...

The image that comes to me is of waking up out of darkness. That darkness is like a background for consciousness of consciousness. Do we then expect t...

True.

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I knew a guy who had a version of this. It was rough. He dealt with it pretty much by himself with a lot of deep philosophical reflection.

There is no recipe to follow. We're just making it up as we go. I think that devotion to the basic principle is pretty strong, but we would at some po...

Social norms cultivate talents and strength in one population and spray herbicide on another. Our efforts to create more fairness may have limited suc...

I want to ask you if your wife is afraid of you. Mainly because I want to know the answer. If you feel that I must be trying to insult you for asking,...