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I mostly agree, but the boundary is blurry. Is the hard problem of consciousness nonsense? I tend to think that 'qualia' is a broken concept, a useles...

:up: Smooth functioning ceases and troubleshooting begins. (This is an oversimplification, but what aphorism isn't?)

That smells like a falsifiable hypothesis, which is not a bad thing !

Sure. I think Quine allowed even logical principles to be put in doubt by experience. Neurath's boat. The dance can mutate in lots of ways, but such m...

I basically agree, but do you see the indirect realism peeking out this? You say 'my version' of the world, which is your perspective on the one world...

Is this the statement of an unchangeable fact?

I agree with this constant experimentation (usually against a background of repetition.) This 'construal' is not so badly approximated by 'nailing dow...

Cantor's system seems to work just fine. Gödel would allow it in, I think, and actually believe there was such a place. Something similar to that has ...

Not in any simple way, no. I understand your concerns, and note that I'm not pontificating on a political thread about the threat of Cultural Marxism ...

In a way, yes, but the point of a single name is to indicate an abstraction. You are trying to make a point using logic, yes? That feels like taking '...

Ideally and oversimplifying perhaps, yes, but the drift and the targets are anything but random. I don't need an explicit valorization of unhip Truth ...

Yes, this is how I understand Hegel (or one interpretation that I find plausible/fascinating.) We organize our own history triumphantly, as a progress...

I don't think the 'pure witness' makes sense upon close examination. But the eye seems to refer to 'awareness itself' or some kind of pure consciousne...

:up: Darwin was quite a gentle person, very unlike a brash atheist today. I think the threat of Darwin is that he offered a detailed and evidence-supp...

Yeah, this is cultural relativism. You can think of each tribe as having a generic personality and the world as a room full of these 'people' who neve...

To do so would require that we use words, yes? Hence the hopelessness of starting from scratch. And what works in math won't work in philosophy. 'Lang...

I agree. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/gadamer/#LinUnd

I don't know if it makes a big difference to say one is prior to the other, but the symbolic/linguistic ego as opposed to the separate body looks like...

Yes. The norm is blurry and self-updating. Some variations become more common, others fade out. One metaphor here is that culture (the one) is a distr...

Yes and others have described something similar in terms of analogical/metaphorical, embodied cognition. I think they're right. I agree with Dreyfus t...

This squares with what I've learned. The future haunts the present in terms of the past, or something like that.

I don't think anyone ever gets out of all the cages they are in. But this cage metaphor might suggest that cages are always bad. It's more like a mass...

I don't mean definitions, which humorously supports my point. You 'automatically' (it seems) read meaning in terms of definition, but definitions are ...

Well this might not be so easy.... IMO, He's taken out of the equation only when a person isn't interested in the problem of meaning, doesn't 'feel' i...

Philosophers (and regular folks) still don't agree what 'God' means, what 'exist' means, what 'intervene' means (at least in this context), and of cou...

No. That's like a fish giving up water. We think metaphorically, maybe only metaphorically. The point is to not be trapped unwittingly in a metaphor.

Thought you might like to glance at Derrida on Peirce in Of Grammatology. ////////////// In his project of semiotics, Peirce seems to have been more a...

Some quotes on the metaphor issue: /////////////////////////////////////////////////// A metaphysical sentence is always symbolical and mythical. The ...

Like I said, I'm not terribly excited by the language games game. I could squeeze some stuff out, but I'm more interested in the way the past haunts a...

Understood, which brings us back to temptation of behaviorism. Or maybe to deep learning models that aren't about understanding but simply manipulatio...

Well I entirely disagree, but it's as you like.

So you get a machine for cranking out tautologies, or for checking formal proofs. This is on the level of programming a computer to check for checkmat...

I think you accidentally made a funny, unless you meant to do that....

I'd say....no. The basics are metaphors, frameworks, 'big pictures.' A really easy example (if you are an atheist) is people sincerely burning other p...

I think you underestimate their force and prevalence. Lakoff, Hofstadter, Wittgenstein. Folks have been trying to tell us that we think in pictures, o...

I'm sure your fine without him. But his emphasis on difference and early concern with semiology and 'grammatology' seemed relevant. He definitely blur...

Did you check this? I think of 'toy' languages, like the one where the carpenter can only say 'hammer' and 'nail' to his helper, and the helper hands ...

I have a collection of his essays. I've glanced at his semiotics. If there's a single best book on this in particular, let me know. Peirce seems to be...

That seems like an accurate description. Tribes and flags and badges. We're clever in some ways, but apparently quite simple in others. Spitballing, I...

Why make it fundamental? Sexy! To me this is as much poetry as philosophy...and maybe it gets a certain state of being right. Alluring. Many might agr...

I love math. It's my job. I recommend reading Cantor's work directly, if you are up to the challenge. It's not very formal. I think he trusted that he...

The weird thing is that we value the dead game because it does help us in the real world. On the basic level, a person can tell the government that th...

I know, and that lack of ambiguity pretty much continues as one climbs the mathematical ladder. The issue is not in the system of symbols but in the r...

Yeah, I think that's a big part of it. He offers no system. He pops lots of balloons. He demonstrates an approach to philosophy via examples. The batt...

Most language is too meaningful, too suggestive, explosively untamed. It needs context, context, context. Philosophy still doesn't know what it means ...

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Indeed. In that post, I was trying to think from a neutral place and acknowledge the aggressive clash of demystifications. We have metaphors of vision...

If I tell you that a tower of infinities actually exists in something like a Platonic realm, what does that mean for you and me? If you tell me that y...

Yes. Hence the success and prestige of science/engineering. Math is brilliantly stupid. In On Certainty you can find passages suggesting something lik...

This I do understand, and it was your posts on this site that brought this to my attention. idea This makes sense too. I think I grok the basics of di...