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I'd say we just have equality before the law, individual rights. In our polarized climate, is it 10% of the population that thinks another 10% is dang...

Well this is a rich issue. I'd say that almost no one believes in the actual equality of people but only (ideally, hopefully) in the framework of equa...

Yes. An Inner Circle is potentially tyrannical --- like the Inner Party.

I can't imagine anything better than phenomenology at its best, though it's the job of the phenomenologist to try. Husserl, early Heidegger, Merleau-P...

I just meant 'meaning' in the tapwater sense that we are conceptual creatures. I would never deny that we need stories and symbols to mitigate the hor...

You'd be wrong if you think I can't relate. I'm quite fascinated by the idea of the esoteric, which is after all the shadow cast by rationality. Struc...

To me this just points to the necessary being of ontology itself. Or, more mundanely, to conceptmongering humanity. How many people deny the existence...

I'd say that ideas are relatively incorporeal -- lighter than air. But we only know them as living flesh. While concepts transcend any particular host...

To me there's nothing apriori objectionable in that. The issue is again whether the rational community is the arbiter or whether a prophet who alone c...

The issue for me is really just social-rational versus esoteric-private. We could all agree to a God, but that God would still be determined rationall...

In this particular thread, I'm talking about both inferential role semantics (actual inferential norms) and the crucial role they play for philosopher...

I'd be glad to hear more about this. I neglected it at first as I was caught up defending my 'flat' metaphor.

:up: I don't stand opposed to that stuff. In fact, I think anything potentially experienceable is part of the lifeworld, which is essentially 'horizon...

I insist tho that I am 'existentially' humble. Maybe the mystic is on a better path. I don't preach my suffocating & claustrophobic* ontology to anyon...

And, I'd think, with a willingness to meet challenges, elaborate, edit, comment on others' work. A young Wittgenstein may occasionally get away with o...

No doubt that's a crucial part of it, but we can't forget the attitude of fallibility and a willingness to learn from others --- the second-order synt...

Does he get around to critiquing other superstitions like immanence ?

Now you know my intention was obvious --- but indeed even over here they are not all red.

Again, you agree with me. A consistent skeptic/ironist avoids the temptation to play Kant.

You are only agreeing with me. Transrational mysticism, educated irrationalism, ... I'm not saying it's bad. Just that it's irrationalism...ironic-amb...

I'm taking inspiration from Deleuze in my flat ontology thread. Haven't studied him closely, but I like the immanence theme.

OK, I got a pdf of CIS. Here's a good one. He's doing the thing he says he can't do. He's speaking within a finite vocabulary about all possible vocab...

This sure sounds like that familiar river. The intentional object has a certain place in the justification of claims. The word 'same' has never been p...

I assume the correct answer is infinitely complicated, but I'm confident that it involves individual subjectivity (dramaturgical ontology), with vario...

Rorty was one of my favorites for years. As much as I love the guy, I wouldn't take the old sophist at his word on that. I will grant that many people...

I can imagine a much worse life than I have. So a pure sadist isn't plausible to me. What I do find plausible is the 'demiurge' sketched by Darwin. Wh...

:up: Yes ! Hence my love for Feuerbach's Essence of Christianity. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/feuerbach/works/essence/ec00.htm I'm not ...

That's undeniably slick, but you put the stability of the meaning of your own claim in such jeopardy that it's hard to take you 100% at your word. If ...

Newton said : fuck it ! I make no hypothesis ! A mere mathematical pattern is good enough for me. That mechanical world devoid of meaning is (I hope y...

Actually ontology (I claim) takes that for granted. But then goes on to clarify that blurry taking-for-granted. Actually ontology often has to first f...

This gets a little more complicated maybe. Concepts intend the world. The map is not the territory.. is presumably about the territory ? If say there ...

Conceptuality is not sound or shape or smell. I can see the mountain and not just reason about it. The mountain as mountain is 'organized' perhaps by ...

Yes. Of course. But fundamental ontology is where we finally tell the essence of the whole truth. Others can sweep the embarrassing/difficult aspects ...

Note your own intention to articulate an atemporal structure. To be sure, philosophy gets more self-referential in this way as the story progresses, b...

Can we step in the same river twice ? I think so. Brandom tries to put meaning entirely in inferential practice. We perform concepts. But unless there...

Our commitment to the truth is not quite enough. The prophet also intends the truth. Gods can whisper truths in the ear of the chosen. The missing ing...

:up: I'd say we only have 'practical fictions' (reductive maps) within the normative lifeworld that abstract/ignore this normative dimension. We tend ...

I'll grant there are limits to what might be synchronic fictions approximations. But I'm only accepting a social-structural conception of meaning as a...

Did you notice I was trying to show the limits of a structuralist (rulebased) approach ? Inferential role semantics gets something right, but I think ...

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Sure, but didn't you yourself stress the dependence of meaning on context ? I have a rough idea of what you meant. The point is your intention to arti...

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That's not pragmatism or truth-as-utility. That's truth as truth. It's not a fiction. A fiction is a claim, a story. It's just a created category or s...

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That's a very strange reduction. Respectfully, I think you are reading it only for what interests you at the moment. Let me summarize it: The very ide...

Is it so shocking to recognize humans as conceptmongers ? Have you looked into Husserl ? I used to try to reduce concepts to language, bu I think I've...

I could have called what I'm about a radical pluralism. I admit every kind of entity with every kind of access to that entity. Even round squares. I m...

But they are always already married. I'm with Husserl on categorial intuition. I'm anti-philosophical in the sense that I insist on the naked reality ...

I don't know about that. I think we agree that philosophy is mythic and oracular. It's all religion in that sense. But is it a private esoteric brutal...

Assertion is irreducible. That statement would be true if indeed systems must never rely on the goodwill of the powerful. Famously, 'snow is white' is...