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. You must be talking to an imaginary postmodernist behind me. That's the problem, man. It's a one-bit worldview. Only a commie penis-snipping transve...

That seems true to me, but we ignore such differences for practical reasons. As Nietzsche saw, cognition makes unequal things equal. Such 'lies' are l...

I feel compelled to emphasize here that Derrida does not take writing (as commonly understood) to be the ur-language but rather sketches/develops the ...

Since you know some math, perhaps you know of structuralism in the philosophy of math? I think that's adjacent to Derrida too. The meaning or content ...

I hope something comes along and make your work suddenly practical. That'd be exciting. I know it's happened for some mathematicians. (I'm a lesser an...

Derrida is interested in this kind of thing. Our math these days depends on symbols that are only very awkwardly translated into English. We learn to ...

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You have a right to be offended (there's no law against it, yet (joking)), but feelings alone are not justifications. Surely some are/were offended by...

Cool vid. I guess my concern is that 'postmodernism' has taken on a new meaning in a new context. This meaning is legitimate inasmuch as it is consist...

Thanks! That sounds good. I'm not terribly happy with the 'two images' view myself. In general, I don't philosophers have done (and maybe they can't d...

As I understand it, it's a slicker version of Writingology. Basically there's a deep structure in sign systems that's more like writing than (an ideal...

Maybe you can tame what you are getting at. I like Derrida enough to have actually read a decent chunk of his work in my free time. And this is withou...

That would also be my view of Derrida's view. Correctly or not, and speaking metaphorically, I understand him to insist on the total incarnation of th...

I don't know if the word is worth cleaning at this point.

I didn't call you a nazi. I do find 'organic values' a bit suspicious, hence the allusion. How exactly shall values be sniffed for their primordially ...

I don't think you can do philosophy without some risk of your claims or expressions being challenged, and I am not defending pointless hostility by sa...

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Should I find the tiny violin player or will you? I imagine you sounding like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Z2CklSxM0

A Derridean point, by the way. But Plato may feel that writing is a lesser evil than oblivion.

You offered a mere report of your feelings. So I razzed you for it.

Should I find a journalist or will you? Point being that you don't care about Derrida and I do a little and pretty much no one cares about those first...

Whenever I hear talk of culture 'organic value systems,' I release the safety catch on my Browning! Just kidding. Be well. //////////////////// SCHLAG...

Of course he wasn't. He didn't only write of speech. But speech was the ideal and the focus. Yet Saussure can't help relying on the written 'face' of ...

Personally I agree that presence in general is a tricky thing to gripe about. Hence the hint toward German Romanticism. Sartre also comes to mind...th...

Well...I've read Saussure, and Saussure privileges speech. But I am very open to the idea that Derrida whipped up a boogeyman or sniffed out a conspir...

I'm new to Brandom, so buyer beware, but rationality is all about norms. Forget (or move to the background) all the ontological chatter about minds an...

Anatole France's criticism strikes me as important, but its limitations (Derrida's contribution) seem just as important. 'Philosophy' is just the whit...

I hear you, but I don't think we think can or should just jettison that very distinctions that make such exciting claims possible in the first place. ...

Like the face of God. There's maybe some German Romanticism in Derrida. And/or a certain slant of light, winter afternoons,... Bennington turned me on...

Of Grammatology also has a great introduction, and lots of copies were printed, so one can get used copies pretty cheap from Amazon, etc.

A little more, without comment, and a link to the source: https://tfreeman.net/resources/Phil-480/derrida-white-mythology.pdf

Another aspect of Derrida that stays with me is his investigation of metaphor in philosophy (and therefore in the rational investigation of rationalit...

This point really can't be emphasized enough. Along with "don't trust others, credentialed or not, to do your reading for you." I understand that an o...

My pleasure, and thanks for the positive feedback. You make an excellent point about the two layers in Derrida's deconstructions. One has to try and k...

Indeed. A man gets lost in the mountains and carves his name on some peak before he dies. A thousand years later his inscription is discovered for the...

You've just got to see an example, if you really want to know. One my favorites is Derrida's reading of Saussure (in Of Grammatology). Saussure is him...

I think this makes sense, though folks can fuss over the ideal application of 'use.' Along these lines we can picture a distinctly human metacognition...

I guess I was just emphasizing what Popper also emphasized. Theory creation ('projecting' a pattern on reality) can itself be 'irrational' or mysterio...

Good questions. My knee-jerk answer would be to mumble 'evolution,' since I tend to see us as continuous with the other animals, despite the great lea...

Just thought I'd add some passages from '76. I value him most so far for his critique of phonocentrism (he got me reading Saussure.) I take him to put...

Or, as he might say write, Derrided.

Another theme from Brandom, tho I'm more freewheeling than paraphrasing : We humans were rational before we were good at talking about that rationalit...

You are riffing on some classics here. I mean that in a good way. I've put some time in on these questions, so I'll offer my limited current understan...

. Nice post on Berkeley. I'm glad to hear he's more sensible than the cartoon version of him.

The 'self' I'm talking about is the persona or reputation. A rough analog is your LinkedIn profile. The metaphysical subject, on the other hand, is a ...

I think this is fairly reasonable but still a little problematic. As long as the mind is (understood as) a factory of stuff that will "forever remain ...

I'm on a Brandom kick, so I'll mention his take. Representings are responsible to the represented thing, which functions like a target. Gadamer may co...

Basically I agree with you. But it seems this same argument cuts both ways. Assuming that gender expression is otherwise unconstrained, it seems that ...

I think you are joking, but this is maybe a tricky issue. It's hard if not impossible to get by without linguistic norms (like those gendered terms of...