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I'm not fully equipped to grasp this, but I appreciate the economy of principles involved. No small feat, grasping the life of the universe at all sca...

Oh it's a nice piece of technology. I have an old switching theory textbook. It's beautiful stuff. And Peirce had the spirit of a scientist. That's cl...

Ha. Well you know I think you are oversimplifying, but I recognize that you don't seem to need them. It's like starting from either the inside or the ...

There are some exciting theories on this theme. For instance: https://terpconnect.umd.edu/~israel/lakoff-ConTheorMetaphor.pdf I recommend Metaphors We...

Now you are saying something, theorizing, and I think you are on to something. The 'pure witness' is a version of eternity. It is what is always there...

Have you not realized that I'm analyzing and criticizing the concept ? The real work is done not by repeating well-known mantras that fit on bumper st...

I'm afraid that your eccentric use of 'philosophy' is anything but authoritative. You can do what so many have done before and try to impose a narrowi...

I think this is what Foucault was getting at. Another similar idea is that the subject is an effect of language, a kind of ghost created by/as pattern...

Funny point, but this is as dense and elusive as anything Derrida wrote. I think you know what you are talking about, but I confess that I can't parse...

I think 'the vague' is excellent as the undifferentiated continuum. A first distinction would perhaps install/create/be the self-world dichotomy. This...

:up: I totally agree. So it's only about 'seeing around' this invention when appropriate, recognizing that it's not some absolute starting point for i...

I suggest you start your own thread on this issue (should have said this in my previous reply.) Or please try to address the topic of this thread.

FYI, You can highlight text and then push the quote button so that the quoted person is notified and the quote appears more readably in a bubble. We c...

That's helpful. Curious what you'll make of my concerns. I'm a bit of a 'consciousness denier.' I don't mean that I don't have the usual 'sensations' ...

Thanks for the reference. I'll check into these.

Don't want to detail the thread, but maybe consider the possibility that meaning isn't mental, that it's out there in the world with our bodies, betwe...

It doesn't matter much. The big issue is whether one thinks the meaning of a sign is grounded in some kind of pure mental stuff or instead in the rela...

Ah yes! I'm guessing that's part of his work he didn't find metaphysically sound. I'm pretty much OK with mainstream math. The outsider versions are i...

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Yes. And 'the world' (an otherwise vague continuum) constrains our use of signs, I'd think. So frequently used signs will be short/cheap, etc. This al...

Not clear on this. Derrida transforms Saussure's signs into traces. You like signs or traces more?

I agree! That's an ideal way to go. Examples, examples, examples. But apparently some subcultures consider that a buzzkill. The super-clever mystifica...

Well, given how disliked he is, I'm motivated to defend my own appreciation for him and to prove to myself that I'm squeezing some juice from those in...

Yes indeed. And I think of reality being modeled by digital simulations with tiny step sizes. I've programmed stochastic gradient descent in various w...

That's what I take to have been inspiration for the difference that Derrida misspelled and generalized. But it's already in Saussure. Exactly! Yes. An...

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I understand Derrida to call out the play/ambiguity of our signs. Since they primarily refer to one another (describe the blur of reality with a set o...

I'll check out more of Peirce. But recall that Derrida criticized Saussure in his own terms, praised Peirce, and showed how the dyadic sign broke down...

I agree that it makes more sense to think in terms of evolution. Humans weren't dropped into the garden with undifferentiated thoughtstuff. Well one c...

. Well I was justifying my 'certainty' that language is received like the law. But take it from a linguist.

A more generous rendition, which maybe only applies to good examples, is that following the implications of a text or system often reveals otherwise u...

I don't mean to offend you. Maybe the metaphor is obscure. The point is simple. You didn't choose the sounds you chew when you have to talk to strange...

I think 'pomo' is as baggy a term as 'metal' or 'country' or 'jazz.' I like some metal, some country, some jazz. But of course not everything in the g...

How does one measure certainty ? As a matter of style, there are only so many qualifications and timidities that can be justified. 'Language is receiv...

A little bit. I respect his passion for the meaning of mathematics. Errett Bishop had the same fire. I like Chaitin's ventures in such philosophy too....

I think you're being a little too hard on it (it's not all wordsalad to me, albeit at the limit of intelligibility a little too often), but I enjoy th...

Saussure does imagine signs as cutting into an otherwise undifferentiated continuum of thoughtstuff. //////////////////////////////////////// Psycholo...

Haven't looked into them, no. I want to make a list too: Henry Miller, Nobby Brown, Cioran, Bukowski, Suetonius, Gibbon, Hobbes, Houellebecq, Dawkins,...

Good question.

One can say that language does not refer at all. I understand the case for that. 'Jones shot Smith' is not a 'picture' of reality-in-itself in any sim...

Nice! The knight and the dragon...an enduring structure.

I have the first volume and never finished it, found it a bit tame and dry. I think my interpretation of Wittgenstein is pretty radical, or I know how...

I don't know exactly what you are getting at, and I'm not sure I agree with those interpretations. Perhaps you can elaborate or make more of a case. I...

Actually saw some of this in Spencer-Brown. I like the circle notation (negation and conjunction simultaneous, clever...). This stood out too. I like ...

But consider: ...as if 'has any meaning outside of agreed on criteria' has any meaning outside of agreed on criteria... Consider also that such 'crite...

I'll check those links out soon and get back to you. Exercise time.

Well thanks for checking it out and giving an honest reaction.

Our apparently shared general outlook allows us to enjoy lots of wild perspectives while keeping the rent paid. A few academics somehow manage to pay ...

Yes. I can't remember who it was, but some thinker said that each movement of every fly is part of history. What if Joyce had expanded Ulysses to 5000...

Thanks!