To be clear, when I equated ‘stating a truth value as a property of propositions that function as assumptions in an argument’ with ‘laying out the ter...
It seems that you and I read Witt in alignment with different communities of interpretation. The group I identify with believes that all uses of conce...
Would you say that deciding to change the rules of chess in order to make a more interesting game is an example of ‘doubting’ the current foundation o...
You wrote that humans are reflexively aware of themselves. This aligns with the notion of subjectivity as consciousness, and consciousness as self-con...
I like the rest of what you said, but could you clarify the above? Sam26 pointed out in an earlier post that the sense of ‘ know’ and ‘true’ are not t...
But they not just undoubted foundations. They are systems of significations which act to qualitatively organize facts in a certain way, with a certain...
Consciousness is not some special place walled off from the rest of the functional activity of an organism. It’s merely a higher level of integration....
The nature of living systems is to change themselves in ways that retain a normative continuity in the face of changing circumstances. Cognition is an...
Wittgenstein seems to suggest that the intelligibility of ‘water boils at 100 C.’ depends on such a bedrock of hinge propositions ( a ‘whole way of se...
I edited this in later, so you may not have seen it. Wittgenstein seems to suggest that the intelligibility of ‘water boils at 100 C.’ depends on such...
So for example, when Moore raises his hand and says ‘I know this is a hand, and therefore it is true that it is a hand’, he is confusing an epistemolo...
You may not talk explicitly about philosophy or philosophers, but that doesn't mean that you dont ever think philosophically. Every time you take a st...
Who says correlationism is a bad thing? Answer: folks like Harman and Meillassoux. You may be aware that Meillassoux has been accused of positing an o...
Yes, the actual and the virtual communicate and affect each other as heterogeneities. And yet notice how Deleuze characterizes the molar as ‘false’, a...
I think what is important to the authors is that Harman, like the others they discuss in the paper, break away from a subject and language-centered on...
It depends on which brand of New Materialism you prefer. For ‘negative’ new materialists like Graham Harman (Object Oriented Ontology) and Quentin Mei...
You claimed that a model or norm implies something true and pre-existing in the external world on which it is based. The quote I included argues that ...
DeLanda does have an interesting take on assemblages. I read Graham Harman, and came to the conclusion that his approach is a throwback to certain str...
Ah yes, I think might agree that this is what Deleuze-Guattari refer to as the molar dimension, which they argue is a surface effect of processes with...
Not from, with. It’s an important distinction. Artifacts are produced by the way we incorporate elements of our world. What that stuff ‘is’ is their r...
And can you see how this notion doesn’t take away from science the usefulness that we know it has in our lives? People tend to go into a panic when yo...
Chess rules are not true or false in themselves, the moves in the game which these rules specify are true or false. Since the laws of chess are the gr...
On the contrary, it is because mind-body and world are inseparable that the world we perceive is a world that matters to us in particular ways We are ...
Apparently he has some ideas concerning why that is so. Wigner wrote: If Wigner’s point is that the laws of nature are written in the language of math...
When you talk about treating a person as a subject, you bring into play notions of empathy, seeing things from the other’s perspective, allowing yours...
I thought the whole point of hinge positions , language games and forms of life was that the concept of truth was precisely irrelevant to them? Hinge ...
Would you consider expanding your concept of idealism to include not just the mind but also the body, the organism and perhaps even the inanimate worl...
Wigner believed that mathematics is unreasonably effective at producing forms of description that ‘just so happen’ to fit the patterns of the physical...
This may be a quibble, but it seems me a difference between Gallagher’s approach (and other enactivists) and Deleuze’s is that Gallagher’s model of bo...
The propositional statement ‘x is y’ involves the manipulation of logical symbols. Cognitive science, using the computer as its model, used to depict ...
Predicational judgement is one kind of conceptual discernment, and the perception one uses to draw shapes without making use of prior knowledge of obj...
Language itself is contingent on our material interactions with the world, interactions which constitute a field of possibilities of action out of whi...
I draw and paint also, so I understand what you’re saying about the shift in stance that is required to ‘paint what we see’ rather than our linguistic...
The way I think he would put it is ‘all propositions, including 1st person plural, are derivative of 1st person singular stances, but the 1st person s...
A way of treating something as something is a convention. How can a convention pre-exist the existence of human beings on the planet? It’s one thing t...
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