Are you getting this view of logic from the Tractatus? The Wittgenstein of Philosophical Investigations seemed to treat logic very differently “… the ...
Whitehead goes some distance toward what I’m getting at in claiming that an observer alters what is observed in the act of observing it. As a result, ...
When you say ‘human’ do you have in mind an a priori ala Kant? To be human is then to be possessed of a prior categories. This makes humanity a divine...
A perspective is not a passive observation from a certain vantage, it is the creation of something new from a certain vantage . Any ‘observation’ alte...
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt says this is the era of stupid and he blames it on social media elevating the political fringes, which thereby bully every...
I dont think there is being without perspective. Every facet of the universe produces its own changing reality via its relations with its environment....
For those who say that the direction of scientific knowing is an asymptotic progress toward truth, what grounds perspective isn’t some ‘really real’ v...
That your son could be one of these ‘intermediates’. For instance, if your son turned out to be a very effeminate gay man I would assume you would rec...
If biology and hormones can create masculinity and femininity, why can’t they create hybrids or intermediate forms of these behaviors? Think of these ...
I am asking you what causes male dogs to behave differently from female dogs, or if you are denying that they do behave differently. And I am asking y...
I understood your response to mean that you acknowledge that female and male dogs and cats have gender-specific behavior that appears at birth. That m...
So if you accept that masculine and feminine behavior is controlled by brain wiring in humans that is in place at birth, then as someone who has an un...
You know what’s also fun? Asking what is a male or female dog or cat. Mor specifically, what causes make and female behavior in animals? For instance,...
All my favorite philosophers are dead. Their accounts of the source of morality are more satisfying to me than those put forth by living writers. I wo...
Are you defining philosophy and metaphysics as dealing with phenomena which cannot be proven? How about the idea that metaphysics is the condition of ...
You can’t trust the contingent content of your senses, such as ink marks on a page, to the extent that they link to meanings that are relative to indi...
Seems to me the distinction you’re pointing to here is between volitional and non-volitional self -awareness , not between an event lacking a componen...
Researchers in enactive cognition like Evan Thomson and Ezekiel DePaulo define a living body as a self-organizing system that can be defined by a cert...
It exists as the experience of something in a certain. mode of givenness, as recollection, fantasy , perception, etc. These are distinctions between w...
It was likely stated by a scientist. Only commoditized and conventionalized philosophy becomes the sciences. Science is sort of like an unself-aware p...
So something like this from Merleau-Ponty: ” My friend Paul and I point out to each other certain details of the landscape; and Paul's finger, which i...
Remember , for Gendlin and Heidegger, the o my past that we have access to comes to us already changed by what it occurs into, that than sitting there...
I hold a paradoxical view of boredom, the basis of your thesis on repetition of events. Rather than expressing the lack of change, it indicates the in...
Didn’t mean to ignore you. Was dreading the task of simplifying Derrida’s verbiage. But it seems to me that the shared agreed on rules and shared spir...
Why don’t we conduct a course on philosophy of science right now? First lesson; a survey of the history of philosophy of science. You have represented...
Why are they in our way? How do we know they are i.our way except when we are ready to replace them? Aren’t these prejudices what Nietzsche called val...
Maybe the metaphors arent as dead is it might seem: According to Gendlin, following Wittgenstein, an event(whether conceived as conceptual or bodily-p...
Kind of , except that I’d say there no ‘entire context’ for Derrida. That’s a structuralist notion, the idea of a centered structure, or distributed o...
Reminds me of this from psychologist George Kelly: Confusion and the Clock: Some Things I would Like to Know, But Not Yet It has often occurred to me,...
Derrida and Peirce on genesis and structure make an interesting comparison. To throw my two cents in, not to state a preference for one over the other...
There are ways to mitigate against that haze. When in doubt, consult the empiricists, or those who at least have one foot in naturalism. My list of fa...
These ‘hinge propositions’ are not meant as irreducible grounds for all my deliberations. They are the preconditions for language games, but that does...
I wouldnt say agenda. I’d say the eternal transformation of agendas. Is that still an agenda? So freedom is play within an overarching frame? Free var...
Here I can’t help thinking how Wittgenstein would respond. What would be of interest to him is not simply the fact of the matter ( whether Jones shot ...
But isnt my version part of this world? And every time I elaborate or revise my version I am contributing another piece to the world. The question the...
It is a construct that must expose itself to potential invalidation by events at every moment that I make use of it. It only continues to be ‘true’ to...
This isnt formal logic. It is the logic of construing not conceptualization in the traditional sense of the term. The difference is that the presuppos...
This is my model of the aim and capability of science. It is a relativistic pragmatist way to keep a certain notion of progress without assuming a ‘re...
Priority, status and don t forget power. In fact, let’s focus on the concept of power that has become so fashionable and makes its way into all sorts ...
I’m not sure what a ‘body’ is in general. I get that in this example ‘body’ is point of view. I like Merleau-Ponty’s understanding of the body of embo...
I guess this is the heart of the structuralism, the laws of thermodynamics and entropy. What does such a structure entail? If not particles then certa...
There is nothing ineffable and mystical here. It’s stating a fundamental concept common to Heidegger, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty , Derrida , enactive embo...
How does a body know what is emitted ‘appropriately’? Via social reinforcement , shaping, conditioning? How is it that each of us emit what is sociall...
We see the importance of the future defining our present in Heidegger, too. Heidegger describes the proposition ‘S is P’ as ‘seeing something as somet...
But that’s the whole underpinning of ‘the ‘becoming-based’ thinking that took off after Hegel. That the barf of one age is replaced by the barf of the...
He talks to them as the others to his self-othering monologue, a compounding of otherness. Of course , he will only discover their otherness by their ...
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