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:up: This is a sticking point for me, too. They pretend to themselves to hate tyranny but have no problem with a tiny proportion of the population own...

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I think we can improve our grip on such concepts, and that one good approach to understanding the self or 'I' is to think of it as avatar on the 'stag...

Randianism in a nutshell ? Connect everything to the demon collectivism ? We are social animals trying to work out how to thrive together. A ruling cl...

OK. I can relate to that. Just to be clear, I see how dated Hegel is, and I like those who criticize or update him from a materialist perspective. Koj...

Yes, backwards is one metaphor, and another one if flipping. Consider f^{-1} for the inverse of f , undoing it, like a 180 degree rotation (which is i...

That sounds right, and I think of him as emphasizing that we are fundamentally, profoundly social beings...that the self is unthinkable apart from the...

In my view, there's no need to cling to the sacredness of private property, for instance, if we want to maintain individual freedom. No particular, fr...

No doubt there's entanglement, but I'm unaware of any replacement. To me we should distinguish carefully between calling out hypocrisy and attacking r...

I understand your hesitation. These days Hegel seems a bit Panglossian. It's plausible that it'll end in a mushroom cloud or a boot stamping a human f...

If I agreed that your examples were situations with no practical ramifications, then I'd probably answer yes. But it occurs to me (thanks to your exam...

Good point. To me the point is something like current usage, and I see rationality as related to sociality, politeness, good sportsmanship. It's 'unre...

Well said. I suppose they can be more or less objective, but surely they are often motivated, satirical, polemical.

. I take you to be saying something like : just because we do talk this way doesn't mean we should. A valid move indeed, and maybe much of philosophy ...

:up: Agreed. This generation stands on those that came before, and it's not clear that such 'mistakes' or partial insights could or should have been a...

Well put, Mr. Storm, and you touch on another pet issue of mine with the word 'actual' and its synonym 'real.' In practical life it's great. I want re...

Here's my version. At some point in the philosophical tradition (Locke or Kant or implicitly in Democritus even), it made sense to think of human expe...

I'd say it this way, to head off a tendency to think we're pointing our telescopes at curious entities: Human experience is (contingently but signific...

Interesting that merely renaming this independent reality (godmind or whatever) is felt to be worth the trouble. I browsed Kastrup once, and he does w...

As I see it, some positions can be made to look incoherent or confused or indeterminate in the first place. I don't pretend that it's easy to get cons...

In my view, this supports what might be called the primacy of the space of reasons or of the philosophical situation itself. He invokes the concepts o...

This practical reminder, while maybe not the last word, deserves respect.

Yes, idealism is prone to collapse, as you mention. The problem is maybe a hidden tautology, a language trap. In order for a statement to be true it m...

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It's an absurd position. The concepts of reason and truth are entangled with the concepts of self and other. The rationalists are right to the degree ...

Perhaps we can agree that good philosophers realize that they are clarifying or adjusting a concept as such, while not-so-good philosophers assume fro...

I speculate that @"NOS4A2" embraces some kind of Randian ideology, conveniently ignoring the capture of the government by the rich. When bombs to drop...

I think you might want to look into Kant's CPR and Hegel's Logic.

This seems useful as a response the OP's questionable question. It'd be great to get reactions. http://www.ditext.com/carnap/carnap.html

I don't think there's any substantial disagreement between us on this issue. I try not to be too attached to any particular jargon, so to me we can ta...

The idea of class war need not demonize the rich but only describe a tendency of the rich to maintain their luxuries and privileges at the expense of ...

I remember when I used to take hotdog questions too seriously. The pragmatists and others help me see the game in the new light. You've discovered a p...

:clap: Excellent OP !

I think the final question in the quote above is subject to the same strong points you make at the beginning. Various uses of various words are approx...

Yes, exactly. I like cashing out 'worldly intersubjective engagement' in terms of mostly tacit rules for applying concepts. The traditional metaphysic...

As I see it, this is a language trap. That it is impossible for one to step out of subjective experience is not an empirical hypothesis. It's just a l...

As others have noted, one of the most readable paths into Hegel is his writing on history. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/13290/historical-...

Yes, that's what I had in mind. Our electoral system and gerrymandering also makes many votes seem worthless.

Nice ! This squares with Nietzsche in the sense a 'moral pioneer' (this is the stuff that scares people and gets Spinoza in trouble) and with Popper i...

Nice theory! He also tempts me to think he's a bot in his apparent failure to assimilate and respond to criticism. I imagine a bot that looks for a fe...

I think he's great, but his later work is fuzzy. As I said in another thread, Ryle's The Concept of Mind is close in concept and insight while being t...

Influenced by the pragmatists, I look to our practical/technological power as a species and think that we have more than a grain or two of truth or kn...

Well said ! I try to know when I don't know, and this is largely a matter of discipline, because I view what Brandom is doing as something like fixing...

The correspondence theory of truth has some serious problems. How are concepts/words 'equal' to or 'representative of' some kind of non-word stuff ? I...

I take you to mean a 'basic' observation statement (such as a measurement), as opposed to a theory? This is a deep question. My general advice is to r...

I think it's better to talk about synthesizing otherwise incompatible intuitions as we (naturally) want to be able to find products and not only sums ...

I get it, and I agree that negative numbers are something like one metaphor away from the counting numbers.

:up: That's how I'm taking it. It's fascinating, such complete incorrigibility.

Perhaps without realizing it, you are coming off somewhat like the theist who knows God 'directly.' It also makes no sense to refute a self-evident tr...

I take him to be talking about his vision of what philosophy ought be. One non-explaining activity of the philosopher is just that of calling attentio...