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Ah yes, I was influenced by that too. Our thinking seems to be directed toward an ideal community (a better version of the current one.) The very noti...

True or false or too ambiguous to decide, I can't help but read this as more insistence on the preciousness of the particular personality. I've grante...

Paradoxical click bait, which is not to say that such gnomic absurdities can't be transformed dialectically into either commonplaces or slight advance...

If I can circumvent anticipatory hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia and perfunctory floccinaucinihilipilification, I'd like to suggest rolling small...

Who ever suggested otherwise? But that's that viewing it too simply. We can think of a network of beliefs/habits with some more being more crucial (ri...

Ye shall know them by their windmills? ///////////////////////////////////// To a considerable extent customs, or widespread uniformities of habit, ex...

I don't think so. I'm with Witt & Gadamer on this. We are loaded with prejudices, AKA culture. So we need them and yet they are in our way. Metaphors,...

You are missing the context. I'm being accidentally trolled and fooling around, Well I could offer up an opinion, but I don't think individuals legisl...

Since it reasoning value is isolated from according to your Yours failed informs me about their I will epistemology in recognize the importance You so...

To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_O._Brown ....indeed, he...

////////////////// “Philosophy is the true home of irony, which might be defined as logical beauty,” Schlegel writes in Lyceumfragment 42: “for wherev...

Another version of the metaphor theory: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schlegel-aw/#PhilArt

I have a rotary phone and it's not plugged into the wall or anything but I can talk to God on it. My nurse likes to pretend I'm just imagining things,...

If I cry out: Ideal, ideal, ideal, Knowledge, knowledge, knowledge, Boomboom, boomboom, boomboom, I have given a pretty faithful version of progress, ...

This passage from Ari is quoted in Of Grammatology. Loaded with ore. First we have pure-concept => speech => writing. We have the 'same mental experie...

Well I'm not really trying to talk you in to checking them out. I just think Braver found a nice way to string them all together. They're all talking ...

Well you know I love concepts on this side, but 'emotion and inspiration' is tricky there. I tend to understand inspiration as having more than just e...

I agree w/ the last part...or do I? I mean I always assumed I was after the truth....

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...on her breast is inscribed: you will die. This is her only remedy. Who still believes in doctors? I prefer the poet who is a fart in a steam-engine...

So the idea of the pure witness is basically just...consciousness. If you want to ghost story to attack, consciousness is a good one. Religion is such...

It's a concept related to one you depend on. As I went on to suggest. You are knee-deep in metaphysical assumptions that you haven't even noticed yet....

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'Deepities' is the best thing you've contributed so far.

Are we on the same planet? I am criticizing the concept of the pure witness in this thread. If you can't see that, you are lost in a private dream. Ta...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymological_fallacy It might be that the worst form of magical thinking is the fantasy that one is free of it. The batt...

I bumped into the term 'pure witness' in a Wilbur book, and I realized that Husserl and Kant maybe had similar starting points. I'd put Wittgenstein, ...

I'd say what really matters, to me and maybe everyone, is feeling, feeling, feeling. Some philosophers have suggested that concept doesn't grab the ab...

A nice piece of Blake, showing a kind of fusion of the mystic and the metaphysical/philosophical.

If you think it's an unworthy example, say so. Show me the good stuff. But if you think it's a good text, then you should be defending it with more th...

You could read it that way. Another way is that the body of a human is trained to talk about itself like there's a ghost inside it that's responsible ...

Imagination is a form of awareness (quiet assumption), so imagining the absence of awareness is a manifestation of awareness. Seems like an elaboratio...

:up: Which I can't make sense of, so maybe I'm Cypher. It hurts to stub my toe, whether or not I call the pain 'real' or 'simulated.'

Nice vid. Maybe scientists don't care, but I want insight on whether to trust or not trust the emission from this or that institution. Also don't like...

This is a grand, self-endangering claim but maybe relevant.

:up: T. S. Eliot is pretty great on this. Reminds me of Hegel/Feuerbach too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradition_and_the_Individual_Talent You can...

@"apokrisis" and I were discussing the machine versus organism metaphor as applied to physics/nature.

:up: I like looking at it that way. The 'big' metaphors are the basic structures of an era or a personality.

The past haunts a future that haunts the present. Inherited metaphors frame possible futures. We need the same dead metaphors that trap us. We are sna...

My current opinion is that we are mostly stuck using new metaphors to dislodge old ones. Consider Wittgenstein's fly in the bottle, or his insistence ...

. Must the notion of better be understood in terms of proximity to a postulated 'truth' which I interpret as a perfected morality? This would be somet...

He's outnumbered. 'We' don't tolerate such things, nor do 'we' feel the need to justify every justification. On Certainty seems relevant here: "Giving...

I don't know if you include Hegel in PoMo, but Braver's charting of the journey of 'anti-realism' from Kant to Hegel to Heidegger to Derrida features ...

I love his idea that our exploration/interpretation of the object is always also self-discovery. We 'are' our prejudices in a certain sense, and we ar...

I tend to agree, but the sign 'utility' only gets it meaning from other signs (or in the spaces between.) I read a few Dawkins books lately, so I'm te...

Good points, so maybe Saussure wasn't such a bastard after all. Probably the medium independence idea is aimed at possibility more than actuality, suc...

:up: Underlined part reminds me of Gadamer. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/gadamer/#PosPre

In other words, we don't ground/fix the 'meaning' of our sign in some private intention or unboxed beetle. It's a 'token' which is implicitly iterable...

I love the theme you are touching on, and Limited Inc is one of D's books I've studied and enjoyed, but...the exposition (yours and his in the post ab...

A Derridean point, by the way. Phonocentrism is 'bad' because it prioritizes speech as uniquely close to 'meaning stuff.' There is no privileged mediu...