But prior to the use of predication, perception handles recognition and likeness. Predication is just an abstractive invention tacked onto perception....
This isssue is formulated in an interesting way by Joseph Rouse, who contrasts his view of discursive normativity as functioning ‘all the way down’ fr...
Is it really the preservation of pure identity over time that we need in order to benefit from a concept of truth, or is it inferential compatibility,...
The concept of ‘object’ serves a purpose for us. It allows us to unite features and attributes into a single ‘this’. The concept of feature or attribu...
We are not disagreeing that the world poses constrains on what we can do with objects, so I have no problem with your laundry list of all the things w...
That’s right. We don’t simply fabricate the world according to our wishes. And yet, the only access we have to the world is through our aims and purpo...
Yes, neither realism nor idealism. But for Husserl, the factual world only has its intelligibility on the basis of acts of coordination and correlatio...
Taking this step by step: I should say sense of meaning rather than meaning. When I talk about the use of pi I dont mean applying it to different prob...
You have it exactly backwards. It is the factual world which is dependent on the processes of transcendental consciousness. Husserl was not a realist....
We are using more or less the same sense of meaning of pi if we are proceeding within the same language game. This form of life is not strictly define...
Post-realist approaches would agree with you. Realism is indeed true, but that’s just a circular statement. Realism is that way of thinking which thin...
What I’m trying to say is that a description of what pi refers to cannot guarantee that what I do with it is the same as what you do with it. Witt goe...
Apparently you dont have much use for practice-based accounts of discursive normativity either. Use determines the sense of meaning , and use is a fun...
Pi is like any other word. It is communicated in partially shared circumstances. This circumstance includes your brain processes and my brains process...
I assume he means , that which truly is is that which remains self-identical in its substantive qualities as it undergoes quantitative change in spati...
Res extensa forces onto objects the concept of persisting identity, which is also the basis of enumeration. Heidegger explains: Heidegger argues that ...
I think math is more than a tool for physics. Physics deals only with those aspects of the world which are mathemetizable. The objects of physics are ...
I like what you, and Bunge, have to say about numbers being fictions created by the brain (idealizations a might be a better word than fictions). But ...
If you haven’t spent much time in the few truly large gay communities in the U.S., you may not appreciate how important they were to gay people of a c...
It’s easy to get hung up trying to figure how to make categorical separations between religion and science , and between magic and understanding. But ...
Just read the man instead of working yourself up into a tizzy. Do you honestly think he’s stupid enough to claim that we can’t do what we obviously kn...
What we are using a thing for shapes how we perceive the constraints and affordances offered by that thing. If we understand what a computer is for , ...
You don’t think one important reason for the rise of categories of gender identity is that individuals found themselves rejected and ostracized over t...
This is, up to a point, compatible with Husserl’s phenomenological analysis of the construction of empirically objective facts via the coordination of...
Scientists aren’t paid to think about their work, they’re paid to produce results. That’s why we need philosophers of science. When scientists do enga...
I think it’s a different story when it comes to neurophenomenology and enactive embodied cognitive science. Like Witt, these approaches reject the ide...
Given your emphasis on language as use, I want to point out the implication of truth not caring about what one believes, desires, feels or cares about...
As Antony pointed out , issues concerning the normativity and correctness of rule following are outside the scope of the reading, but let me just offe...
Here’s my long-winded attempt at a Husserlian explanation of the subjective constitution of number: In Philosophy of Arithmetic(1891), Husserl describ...
I believe Husserl argues that all perception is conceptually driven. What appears as concrete data of experience are themselves given relative to mode...
Mathemarical concepts for Husserl are no more ‘real’ than the spatial objects we interact with in the world. That is to say, their reality is the resu...
And what does Wittgenstein tell us about the authority of norms, customs and rules of language when it comes to the actual correct USE of language? As...
There was a famous confrontation between Wittgenstein and Godel that has been interpreted in different ways. The way I see it, Wittgenstein honed in o...
I was thinking of the later Wittgenstein rather than the Tractatus, but yes, math would be a community construction. It’s not that the world isn’t inv...
And the structure of the universe isnt the product of imaginative construction? Wittgenstein would say you’re being tricked by your own grammar, that ...
If Platonism seems to ‘undercut’ empiricism, it does so only by occupying the opposing pole of the binary implicating both physicalism and platonism w...
One can always answer the question of why something is useful by attaching it to a sovereign ground. This works equally well for the true , the good a...
There are more nuanced ways of thinking about the alleviation of suffering via the realization of the no-self within the grasping ego. For instance, p...
You say you have criticisms, and point out that Nietzsche can be interpreted in many ways. I’m sure you would agree that in order to be fair (and accu...
I would never claim there is a correct reading of Nietzsche or any other philosopher, so you should pick a side which reveals a philosophical interpre...
Deleuze grapples with the issue of the relation between an implicit creative dimension of sense and an explicitly logical, extensive field of actualit...
Yes, Nietzsche can be read in many ways. The same is true of any great philosopher, and I would add that natural scientific paradigms are interpretabl...
I agree that consciousness is a natural process, but understanding this natural process can give us a new way to understand the concept of the natural...
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