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This sounds like the Aristotelian idea of time as change , change as continuity and continuity as akin to the continuity of magnitude. Eternity is lin...
November 23, 2021 at 17:48
But it is a continuity based on the continuity of magnitiude. “Aristotle says that time ‘follows’ change and change ‘follows’ magnitude. Aristotle use...
November 23, 2021 at 17:44
Then it needs to be made clearer. If we assume that what makes mathematics and logic possible is the view of time as the processual transformation of ...
November 23, 2021 at 14:30
But Heidegger claims that for Aristotle time itself is derived from motion, a continuous change within something enduringly objectively presence. So i...
November 23, 2021 at 02:34
We also have definitions of God that are not dependent on time. Or I should say, that believe themselves not to be dependent on time.
November 23, 2021 at 01:16
The fact that it does not know change and time doesn’t mean that change and time don’t underlie it. If you stare at the period at the end of this sent...
November 23, 2021 at 01:11
You don’t get formal logic without assuming that you can return to the same identical symbol from moment to moment in reflection or perception. The en...
November 23, 2021 at 01:01
Are you suggesting that Wittgenstein begins from hinge propositions ( taking them for granted) in the way that Frege begins from formal logic?
November 22, 2021 at 23:35
Yes, a thoroughgoing reduction leads us to this simpler beginning.
November 22, 2021 at 21:47
Are these discussions a competition for you? Take a look at the two paragraphs below by Husserl. The first describes sensations as we identify them ob...
November 22, 2021 at 20:55
Tell me what is represented in a=a.
November 22, 2021 at 20:26
It wouldnt be more, it would be less. That is, the ‘a’, ‘b’ and ‘c’ presume too much about the minimal condition for ‘presencing’.
November 22, 2021 at 20:25
There is no way around the fact that logic and any variety of mathematics cannot begin without first assuming a ‘present’ object ( which includes empt...
November 22, 2021 at 20:20
It may be wrong , but why don’t you do me the courtesy of answering my questions?
November 22, 2021 at 20:01
Why isn’t it an answer? What does first order calculus depend on? A=A is a relation between A and A. But what presupposition lies behind the invocatio...
November 22, 2021 at 19:41
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All perceptual experiences are based on associative synthesis, wherein ‘higher’ senses are constituted out of simpler ones drawn from memory on the ba...
November 22, 2021 at 17:39
Because formal logic depends on the notion of the self-identical object. “A true object in the sense of logic is an object which is absolutely identic...
November 22, 2021 at 04:59
Any evidence-quotes from the later Wittgenstein for the idea that a language game is ‘in’ space? I don’t think you’ll find him describing space in thi...
November 22, 2021 at 04:52
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The simplest sense impressions; color , sound ,touch sensation, are examples of basic intuitions for Husserl prior to their being synthetically connec...
November 22, 2021 at 01:31
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I’d just like to point out that within phenomenology intuition means something quite different than the way it is being defined in the OP. “Husserl’s ...
November 22, 2021 at 00:35
I’m not sure how to answer this. If we equate space with ‘use’ as contextual performance and interaction we can clearly see the fundamentally temporal...
November 21, 2021 at 22:11
I think of neuro-cognitive models of the development of concepts of spatial relations which reveal perceived space as a product of a progressive proce...
November 21, 2021 at 21:20
I don’t see a contradiction here with either Wittgenstein or Heidegger. They are both talking about ‘doingness’ and ‘use’ in general, as you are.
November 21, 2021 at 21:05
Yes, thank you for finding it. Hard to type and hike at the same time.
November 21, 2021 at 21:02
He does t say beingness or existence are predicates. Or subjects. They mark the original relation between self and world before we idealize this binar...
November 21, 2021 at 20:47
Formal language , as a capacity humans possess due to brain structures , is one thing , but language understood in a much broader sense has been claim...
November 21, 2021 at 18:26
If this is true , then one can be justified in saying no more than this about the accomplishments of science. Newtonian physics did no more than clari...
November 21, 2021 at 02:04
Isn’t that what stories do?
November 20, 2021 at 21:31
Not for Heidegger. He has a very particular understanding of ‘world’ that is neither planned nor just ‘revealed’ , and not a product of reflective rea...
November 20, 2021 at 20:38
Yes, he makes the distinction between the ready to hand and the present to hand ( objectively present ). But he derives the present to hand from the r...
November 20, 2021 at 19:48
One doesn’t have to know why it was manufactured or for what purpose. Heidegger’s larger point is that , not only when we use something as a tool , bu...
November 20, 2021 at 19:05
Here’s a phenomenological way of putting it: “ “Equipment is “in order to.” This proposition has an ontological and not merely an ontical meaning; a b...
November 20, 2021 at 18:37
One doesnt have to accept Heidegger’s reading , but his analysis of Hegel’s model of time concludes that: “Hegel's con­cept of time presents the most ...
November 20, 2021 at 17:34
Now that’s what I call garbled. It’s garbled but I can still recognize the traditional notion of time dating back to Aristotle in it. This is what Hei...
November 20, 2021 at 04:49
Those are the Kantians. We phenomenologists don’t buy that unknowable stuff. Our motto is ‘To the things themselves!’.
November 20, 2021 at 01:25
I felt bad for threatening to take away his security blanket.
November 19, 2021 at 23:29
I know that apokrisis has gone on record as being anti naive or direct realism
November 19, 2021 at 22:01
Relax. Giving up naive realism doesn’t mean simply doubting what you know and preventing you from doing what you previously thought you could do in th...
November 19, 2021 at 21:55
You should ask @Isaac how the predictive processing model of perception treats naive realism. Here’s Lisa Barret , one of the proponents of predictive...
November 19, 2021 at 21:33
Naive realism simply isnt backed up by recent research in perceptual psychology or the more sophisticated thinking in A.I.
November 19, 2021 at 21:20
Mine too.
November 19, 2021 at 20:34
A weak point. Xtrix and I have differing readings of Heidegger , but they’re not that different. We both grasp in our different ways what makes Heideg...
November 19, 2021 at 19:16
I can add to that : If we were to be shown right now two pictures by Paul Klee, in the original, which he painted in the year of his death-the waterco...
November 19, 2021 at 18:27
I wanted to add a comment on the Heidegger quotes I took from the introduction to Being and Time. He begins the book saying his aim is to answer the q...
November 19, 2021 at 18:17
The ‘is’ is a happening, and the ‘is’ is another word for being. “ As a seeking, questioning needs prior guidance from what it seeks. The meaning of b...
November 19, 2021 at 17:48
I’d have to think about how Wittgenstein would distinguish place from time , but my sense is it would be secondary and derivative from context, which ...
November 19, 2021 at 00:44
Except that if you examine the language of being primarily via predicate logic you’ll have Wittgenstein rolling over in his grave. Witt didn’t write a...
November 19, 2021 at 00:25
It sounds like that from the quote , but for Husserl there isn’t a primordial beginning of consciousness in terms of a particular content that all hig...
November 19, 2021 at 00:17
I’m getting this from Heidegger. He uses lots of similies for Being. Happening, occurrence, the in-between , the ontological difference, the ‘as’ stru...
November 19, 2021 at 00:01
This is how Husserl modeled the pre-interpreted basis of experience: “Every apperception in which we apprehend at a glance, and noticingly grasp, obje...
November 18, 2021 at 23:00