The interpenetration of fact an value means that in order to cope with, adapt to and anticipate new situations, we have to construct schemes of interp...
"Will the ideal pragmatist select values which are in his estimation pragmatic or try to determine goals based on his values and strive towards those ...
Use and form interpenetrate each other, They cannot be separated, any more than scheme and content, or fact and value. Every fact is organized within ...
Husserl says what we perceive primordially are the things themselves, but this means that we perceive perspectival variations and modifications , that...
With "objects don't exist in nature, they are our constructions of nature" I had in mind Kant , Husserl, current theory in perceptual and cognitive sc...
"I still find it impossible to experience that which would be required to provide a definitive answer to my original question." Of course you can't fi...
Succumbing to Das Man may be a temptation, but it doesn't work. That is to say, evefn when we try our hardest to conform, we are applying norms that w...
You defined pragmatism only as a means to an end. That's an accurate reading of the common definition of the pragmatic. My only point was that it is n...
" I, therefore, cannot explain empirically why the latter circumstance should generate fear, while the former does not. All other conceptual explanati...
"We're grounded in the other, and a part of us will always think as "they" do. " But I think the point Heidegger was making is that neither pure auton...
Keep in mind that for Heidegger Das Man isn't simply being-with, it's a particular way of thinking about Being-with, a way which presupposes that comm...
We don't fear nothing as a pure concept . We don't even think nothing as a pure concept. Meanings are comparisons, contrasts. Notice that the word its...
“Even if we had a perfect way of observing exactly what a brain was doing, we would never be able to understand how it made us have the kinds of exper...
You're not making your pragmatism self-reflexive. Philosophical pragmatism is not just the means to an end. It also recognizes that the ends (values, ...
"Simply, the formula of this transcendence is to say that something neither x nor not-x, because it is beyond both. Derrida adopted this formula and i...
"One recognizes that all past experiences are caused by unconsciously taking part in a variety of machinic assemblages. Therefore, to avoid a mechanic...
"Essence precedes Being" From Wiki: "The proposition that existence precedes essence (French: l'existence précède l'essence) is a central claim of exi...
"To overcome a pure positivistic –behavioristic approach to a human as a cluster of subjectivities, we can apply the Deleuze-Guattari thought. Before ...
“Live objects do not necessarily have a finite number of outputs","the live dog will necessarily take a larger number of actions over a long enough du...
" nature still unfolds (also for Heidegger) even if there are no clocks or clock-time." What do you think 'nature' means for Heidegger? What on earth ...
"Heidegger is hell bent on finding something that is is as the meaning of time. But time is anything but what is." Heidegger doesn't construe time as ...
"We're shaped by others in the account, through discourse and das-man, and this capacity to be shaped by others is a fundamental moving part in the ac...
"The shift in emphasis changes the subject of interpretation from a socially/culturally/experientially conditioned understanding of being distinct fro...
Maybe you should take up the issue with Lee Smolen , who recognizes the dependence of physics on its own worldview(Heisenberg recognized this too), an...
Heidegger will give you some: ""Of course, the question of "being-in- time" is exciting, but it was also raised prematurely. The question is exciting ...
"social sciences have all a normative element." So do the natural sciences. They are founded on presuppositions that they are not equipped to recogniz...
Seems to me Marxism has a normative and a descriptive element. Dialectical materialism is a non-normative model of the historical mechanisms of econom...
Hiedegger rejects both objectivism and subjectivism. He's not saying the world is a construction of mind. He unravels the traditional notion of the su...
" It seems, then, that whilst Heidegger can tell us a lot about what it is like to be a human being, he cannot tell us what reality itself is like?" H...
You're trying to use a mode of description(mathematical description of motion of physical objects) designed for one purpose, and apply it to an entire...
Nietzsche on Will to Power: Value is, according to Nietzsche's words, the "point-of-view constituting the preservation-enhancement conditions with res...
"Present a case from those texts to show it was his intention." I'll start with Heidegger. 1)The Word of Nietzsche:" God Is Dead" in The Question Conc...
" But he was pretty clear that "perspectivism" was not a thesis as such." Heidegger argues that "The will to power is the ground of the necessity of v...
"I'm generally familiar with most of the historically prevailing qualitative and quantitative interpretations of value; which one do you think is bein...
NIetzsche's perpsectivalism is related to American pragmatism in its recognizing value as more important than truth. It is not that we cannot choose b...
Your attempt to assess value via a calculative procedure reduces the 'value' of value so severely as to make it useless except in extremely narrowly d...
being true’ with regard to knowing is being in accord. Beiing ‘ true’ to the facts as being in accord or correctness is a matching between an actual s...
Heidegger did not say that beingness only becomes a reality when it is affirmed by another being. On the contrary, he argued that being always already...
Let me try to deconstruct your account of Deleuze-Guattari. In doing so i'm going beyond Merleau-Ponty and instead channeling the thinking of Heidegge...
Terrapin wrote: "Transcendent" as it's used to make excuses for the idea of a god, for example, is just nonsensical." It is the opposite of nonsensica...
You have defined transcendent in a particular way, as "that which does not pertain to or does not occur in human consciousness and is inherently outsi...
All value is already sentiment. Valuation is the way we are affected by something or someone. The value does not originate in the thing nor in ourselv...
"why this idyllic scene does take place in faraway Ecuador?" I don't know Maybe because it's 5 degrees and snowing here in Chicago. "Most of the machi...
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