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Derrida quotes Aristotle. Ryle doesn't name his targets, but here's a terse version of the ghost theory, way before Descartes. Have you looked into Se...

Oh yes, we agree about where the path leads (mind is what we do.) As I see it, lots of paths are equally good, and I tend to find them complementary. ...

I guess I'm not clear on the showing/saying distinction. I relate more easily to the later work, tho I like the TLP.

What I like about Derrida is his direct attack on the idea that 'meaning stuff' is 'directly present' to (or for, or identical with ) some immaterial ...

I recognize your freedom to say so, of course, but in my view 'magick' is in the same family of ways of thinking that the Enlightenment reacted agains...

I see myself as suggesting that certain theses aren't sufficiently meaningful to be worth taking a position on. In the usual practical sense, the worl...

Are the sense-organs their own product then ? Are noses and eyes real ? Are you sure we have brains in skulls ? Do you trust your eyes to tell you the...

I like Derrida's critique of phonocentrism (his early stuff), and I think it fits in with Wittgenstein and Ryle. Not saying I love the style or all of...

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Yeah, that's pretty much what I think too. Or, if 'wrong' is too strong a word, 'not advised' or 'worth the trouble so far.'

This assumes something like 'real' human bodies reacting in a law-like fashion to molecules, or asleep somewhere in 'real' beds.

The imagination itself would be imagined. The contrastive force of real/imagined vanishes.

What's good about it though is that truths are sentences, so it's close to Wittgenstein. An objection might be that it still says too much about truth...

Indeed, but if this is what certain claims boil down to, then those claims aren't so exciting anymore. What if certain 'discoveries' turn out to be me...

Indeed, and to deny it is absurd. "I will now prove/argue that we are not bound by a universal reason..." Maybe there's a little wiggle-room on the 'u...

And at this point the concept of 'simulation' has lost its contrastive force. (Saussure comes to mind, with meanings of words to be found in a system ...

:up: Hicks is often great. Rogan is...OK, I guess. But even Hicks does not appeal to me much as a philosopher. I do love comedians for their honesty. ...

I love the table that only exists when we look at it. It's a great target for pragmatism's insight. What practical difference does it make ? I'm a mon...

I ask you, friend, reflect on the bolded pronouns. How can we debate the multiple minds theory ? The notion of debate (and the notion of truth?) presu...

Metaphysical realism is relatively harmless. But then so is idealism that grants the existence of other people. Here's my metaphysical foundation: the...

Practical skill, the manifest image, ordinary life. Of course, as mentioned, I embrace secular rationality, reject superstition. The Western Enlighten...

Including perhaps the very notion of the good reasons which a solipsist might claim to have for his its solipsism.) A good reason ought to bind others...

:up: Let me add that I think the human situation is pretty weird. We do have individual nervous systems, so I understand the temptation of the 'enclos...

I can imagine it, yes, but the program has to be situated within some reality that's deeper or realer than the dream or illusion. The evil God or the ...

I can relate to the intuitions you invoke. I've seen The Matrix and other excellent sci-fi. It seems to me that all such fictions depend 'grammaticall...

Our positions seem close. I also think we agree that there's not much to be said about truth, though it is useful to talk about what makes assertions ...

The job of philosophy is continually modified and debated by philosophers. We should also consider that philosophy wasn't always professionalized. Hob...

:up: Indeed. It's hard to make sense of what doubt or truth could mean apart from some community living in the same world. The solipsist can no more l...

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But I challenge this thesis. That Descartes assumes the unity of the 'I' is one of my objections to his system. As I've argued recently, this unity is...

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I agree. Just because a conclusion is unpleasant doesn't make it false, but an incoherent thesis (claims of a rectangular circle) can safely be set as...

My underlining is intended to point out how implicitly social thinking is. I agree, the meaning of 'absurd ' is questionable and debatable, just like ...

As I see it, there's a sneaky piece of bad logic in here that Ryle and others have tried to point out. If you think (each) human experience is essenti...

It's strange. For one thing, we could just grant that we don't know things as they are in themselves, adding also that we don't know what the hell it'...

I like this theme, and I connect it to a inescapable ethnocentrism (having only our current norms for a not-so-final authority, the way we do things, ...

One of my big philosophical realizations was that we often don't know what we are talking about. We can argue passionately about whether X is real...w...

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To me it's not simply true or false that drills do or do not have such features. The answer is not out there, waiting to be revealed. We can look at h...

. I don't disagree, but it makes sense to me to understand this as a debate about which usage (both allowed by the apathetic gods) is preferable. It'd...

Well said. I grow tired. I think this troll is broken.

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I had some fun with Stirner once too, but the whole thing comes apart in the end, with the self just as much of a spook as 'the collective' (or, bette...

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It's like bright without dim, left without right. If there was only one person, what need for saying 'I think X.' Or of saying 'it seems to me that X....

Actually I'm strongly influenced by various conservative thinkers, and I don't expect Utopia to ever quite arrive, but we can and should try to do bet...