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I'm not familiar with study-leaves. So it's economics with a focus on energy? Or something o' that?

Nice! I watched that movie on the electric shock guy (Sarsgaard was the lead). It makes one a little suspicious of the tricks up psychologists' sleeve...

Ha! Well, I really like bringing the conversation down to earth sometimes. I wish you luck on the downloads. My internet slows down occasionally (or j...

That makes sense, because I'd expect a physicists to derive the existence of said laws from still more general laws. But the the question might be a p...

One might also ask where this God comes from. Did he spring out of nothing. No. That violates nihil fit ex nihilo. Was this God always here? Exactly. ...

Talked about group actions in one class, outer measures in another, and cardinal numbers in an independent study. Stopped by Kroger on the way home an...

What I'm saying is that the "atoms" in these axioms are not so atomistic. They are nodes in a network, or rather they are nodes in billions of similar...

Just a note: I've seen the SJWs out there on one end of the spectrum and followers of Milo ("Feminism Is Cancer") on the other. They need one another ...

Reading this, I'm surprised you weren't more open to what I was getting at in Sophistry: The Obscene Father. I don't know how to quantify the game you...

I agree with everything that you said. I'm just trying to point out how sensation-emotion exceeds the same concept system that organizes it or is its ...

Hi, Schop. I'm a big fan of the orginal Schop, so maybe I can jump in here. I think we do "pleasure" just to do pleasure. Full stop. But that's almost...

I like this. It's a hell of lot like Sartre's "man is a futile passion." It functions as a maxim that makes us wary of the quest for "closure" or immo...

I agree. I was maybe a little sloppy. Thought is like distinction itself, cutting the totality into self and non-self for instance. But also cutting t...

Thanks for your reply. I'm still not clear on how you see the value of your ideas. As a pragmatist, I "market" my own words as potentially useful mark...

Oh, then we're on the same page. Math is charming because it escapes this mess by fiat. But away from math identity is tangled in context. "No finite ...

I hear you. Lots of math has some kind of intuitive reality for me, but it's a big step from that more or less inter-subjective intuition to metaphysi...

This where metaphysics gets exciting and bold. If "material" is our idea of that which is not idea, it's a sort of doomed thing-in-itself. So there is...

That's a great post. Thanks. But I do have a little point. We have these mathematical models, almost like "video games" or simulates that spit out the...

Oh, that helps. It sounds like you don't want the future to bear so much on the present, or the projected, hoped-for self to bear on the present self....

Thanks. That was a great answer. I'm not saying that all difficulties are permanently abolished, but it was a nice clarification.

I wasn't trying to offend you, just to be clear. I don't even identity with Romanticism. I don't care much for nature and I don't find suffering impre...

I like the idea of the subject and object being disentangled (starting with neither in its purity), but who is this "we" that must talk about observer...

In a sense maybe some of them do know a temporary secret about the universe in such moments. From over here, it looks as if you're thinking about the ...

I like dialectic. That's the process. The thesis swells (via anti-thesis then synthesis, repeat) and becomes more capable. I like the instrumentalist ...

Oh, well those can indeed be called ghosts and spirits. But perhaps you'll grant that numbers are also figments of the imagination. So science is just...

As I see it, math is machine-like. "Here are formal definitions. Here are rules of inference. See how these definitions are related in terms of those ...

It's hard to see how you're not talking about a conceptualization of that which, by definition, cannot be conceived. (Sensation, redness for instance,...

I don't know if you're using math metaphorically here, but the compliment of S is going to be relative to some set X. If X = S, then, yeah, the empty ...

Well, it's hard to imagine a non-dialectical leap from teen angst to world-affirming wisdom. I'd say that criticism, properly understood, is the way w...

I've probably been sloppy here or there. I just intended to focus on the fight for status in the realm of "the sacred" (an archetype of discourse-stru...

Thanks for the input. I really like "I'm an extra-cave initiate." It's the star on the belly of a Sneetch. We seem to abase ourselves to be exalted. F...

The dictionary at the top of the search gives the (first) definition of radical as Am I saying that my pragmatism is radical with respect to other str...

I don't see it that way. I remember when I realized how dominated most discourse is by the assumption/projection of universality. It's like unconsciou...

That's what's beautiful to me about pragmatism. The "radically pragmatic" more or less is the good. Ideas that scratch the itch are prioritized. This ...

For me it's not bleak. I didn't expect it to be perceived that way. I love my radical pragmatism (sophistry). Of course there would be no duty to stop...

I see what you're saying, I think, but that image in my mind/reason of minds/reasons external to my reason is still an image within my own mind or rea...

Actually Stirner was criticizing criticism for being still too pious, albeit something like the final station of (generalized) religion. He thought th...

I like your iconoclastic edge. I like viewing humanism from the outside (I've read Stirner's book closely). But what is this "taking human life seriou...

Well I did address why it's not taught at the end of my post. Not everyone believes that the world would be improved by a universal belief in determin...

This is where we really overlap. Rescher likes "methodological pragmatism." The epistemological system is machine-like, a normalized discourse.The sys...

This is a great conversation. So, first, thanks for that! Again I'll reply freely to your entire post, since, well, I love this stuff. This is deep wa...

We can insist that every change have a cause, but maybe this is just a hard-wired prejudice. We see change, assume some past event or rather the sum o...

Exactly. The "stream of experience" or the "totality" or "everything" simply includes the scientific image and is itself much richer. Talk about the i...

I trust science on its own turf, but I think they're right. Is there a clear line between science and non-science? What sorts of "proof" do we demand ...

This is great, but you neglect to mention anti-scientistic strains of secular philosophy. A pragmatist can view both physics and theology as instrumen...

This is a fascinating issue. Can we conceive of "pure randomness"? Even white noise has a structure. Related, I like to think of the sensation/emotion...

Thanks for the background. That helps. You didn't have much to be liberated from, it sounds like, since you're parents were intellectually sophisticat...

I'll go ahead and reply to both your replies, since they are related. I'd say that we have unstable systems of beliefs that we are constantly testing ...

You remind me of Feuerbach a little. He wrote that Christianity was dead in fact if not in theory in his times. It was the leg of an uneven table, dan...

So would say that philosophy was just an amusement, then? I was an angsty little f*cker in my teens and twenties. I wrestled with whether there was a ...