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Existence would be the way that the particulars ( a thing that is f) alters the sense of the subject that they are particulars of. Formal logic suppos...

Yes, being is a happening.

It depends on the context in which they’re doing it. If someone who never played chess puts the pieces on the board the sense and purpose of what they...

How about, a thing is a dimensional construction which we create in order to organize and anticipate future events?

Alrighty then. Anyone for the idea, expressed to the OP I think, that existence is in the relation between subject and predicate rather than inhering ...

Or having one’s life changed by a novel whose characters ‘don’t exist’.

I would say instead that Western philosophy of a certain stripe and era treats existence as a predicate( we can trace this logic back to Aristotle), b...

Is that like pretending you’re a president , and pretending you’re really a president?

It was Popper’s way of showing that he was stuck in a Kantian time warp.

You have a lot of opinions, which is good. But it doesn’t sound like you’ve read a lot of philosophy.

not according to KUHN. He says that reality appears differently under different scientific accounts. It is up to the scientist to choose which account...

What about the relationship between me as a scientist and an empirical realm? A construct is like a scientific paradigm. Do you think Kuhn’s paradigms...

Who said anything about doubting it is a vase? I can construe something as a vase but there are many, many different ways of doing this. Remember, to ...

I’m nit sure I understand why a construct is ‘missing something’ or doesn’t ‘tell the truth’. Missing what? What truth?

What would it mean for it to have a fixed identity? If we say that it is composed of subatomic particles , do these particles have a fixed identity? L...

What if the object doesn’t crumble into pieces? Does it have an identity up till the time it crumbles? If the identity doesn’t lie in the thing , wher...

Built into your model of reality is an ‘in-itself. You wouldn’t call it reality otherwise. How else does what happens negate or correct if not by the ...

One of my favorite psychologists says that every experience we have of the world is a construct. To experience anything is to construe it. And he defi...

Let’s not forget Derrida. “ To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.” “ Writing is irresponsibility itself, th...

There is a more fundamental thinking that penetrates beneath the idea of a world as a container with ‘parts’(existing beings) of which we are just one...

What Kant fails to do is to take away his notion of space as and idealized abstract geometry in order to reveal how it is produced by primordial acts ...

Applying this to Goodman’s example of points and lines, one would have to extract from the various accounts he offers of them a single word to unite a...

In other words , is agreement that it is a field due to its being a neutral fact or thing, or is agreement on its being a field an example of one of m...

If a fact of the matter has no status outside of an account which gives it its structure and sense, then there can be no facts independent of accounts...

Interpreters go back and forth about where Heidegger stands with respect to the self and the social. For instance, Zahavi is among those thinkers who ...

Getting back to the gas station example, notice what our empirically oriented way of thinking causes us to miss or tuck under the rug. When you and I ...

You’re right. ‘ Determined’ implies a notion of causality. Empirical causality , because it presupposes enduring, self-identical objects, allows for s...

My agreement here doesn’t rest on my sense of my self being a memory. It could be a non-reflective intention. My point remains that you are treating ‘...

Being-there comes from being in the world. The central focus for Heidegger has always been Being. That is, a questioning of the word ‘is’ that we stic...

Self is determined by its world , and the world ‘worlds’. That is, the world for me ( AS me) is an intricate unfolding of continuous change. There is ...

A huge difference , when you add what else he says about Dasein.

That’s Hegel , not Heidegger. Big difference between the two here. Nothing undetermined about Heidegger’s Dasein.

Exactly. And that’s what I mean by subordinate details of life that are informed , organized, guided and defined by the superordinate aims , goals, co...

When you look in a mirror in order to reflect on yourself you are studying an object ( the image of yourself) and comparing it with your memory of ano...

Reflection is considered to be a turning back of consciousness to draw an experience from memory in order to examine it. It is generally distinguished...

Let’s talk about what a subject is for Heidegger or for you, so we can see what exactly is going on in this structure of ‘reflection’. How do you thin...

There is nothing objectivized about Dasein. It is not an. object or a subject. It is between the two as transition. ‘Being there’ isn’t a stasis or st...

I’d say very little. This is a temptation. we are drawn to when we cannot rethink how on earth someone could possibly seriously brice something f with...

Dasein is inextricably linked to his model of temporality. Do you see how his model of time differs from Husserl’s internal time consciousness? For on...

Davidson wasn’t ever able to shake off a ‘same world’ realism , as Rorty showed. Do you think a fight between a rightwing supporter of Trump and a far...

Why does there have to be an ‘it’ independent of my perspective and your perspective if we can reach agreement? Isnt that the usefulness of the idea o...

I don’t think it’s a question of meanings not being real but of meanings not being fully shared, being perspectival. What we call physical objects are...

If we dont intuitively understand the philosophical background to a set of ideas, it will appear incoherent. Today we don’t need Plato to read Aristot...

Are you familiar with the fact-value distinction in analytic philosophy, and the critique of it by Quine, Putnam, Sellers and others? Or the myth of t...

One might think that positivism of any sort is the farthest one can get from morality. But in actuality , positivism presupposes a moralism. Positivis...

Or maybe the philosopher happens to be surpassingly insightful and claims of deliberate obscurity and unclarity are rationalizations on the part of th...

I think the paper I linked to draws from Being and Nothingness, too. I should mention that I dont agree with those who talk about a pre-reflective sel...

From what I’m reading, Sartre makes a distinction between positional and non positional , and between reflective and pre-reflective consciousness. Pre...

“As Sartre also once wrote, “pre-reflective consciousness is self-consciousness. It is this same notion of self which must be studied, for it defines ...

In one sense , Heidegger may agree with you. He made a distinction between human Dasein and rocks. He said that inanimate objects were ‘devoid of worl...