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Returning to the definition theme, we might talk about how fluid and constantly renegotiated our concepts are. A definition pretends (?) to be a synch...

I think so, and it was cool that the bot understood that. I piped in because I was guessing at the proposed neglected intricacy, and that's what I cou...

Today I got the Winter Semester 1919/1920 Basic Problems of Phenomenology lectures. This is very early stuff which is already quite powerful, as good ...

Was it specified that the machines were identical ( functioning identically ) ?

That's awesome ! Any overall thoughts about Sellars and Brandom ? ( I haven't looked into McDowell yet.)

:up: That's part of what I'm doing in Nothing Is Hidden. But something like public concepts seems to be necessary, because we can't start doing philos...

We don't have to be behaviorist though. Folk psychology (central to the manifest image mentioned by Sellars, which he tried to integrate with the scie...

It's a tricky issue ! My approach is to reject the idea that meaning is a kind of immaterial stuff in the head. An idea is an equivalence class of exp...

:starstruck: .

For anyone interested, Joscha Bach (to my delight, but without mentioning Hegel) uses the concepts of spirit and operatingsystems together in regard t...

Pragmatic theories of truth have the effect of shifting attention away from what makes a statement true and toward what people mean or do in describin...

Peirce is not misled by the dualistic idea that thought language is unreal.

Below we see Peirce's version of the world is all that is case. https://courses.media.mit.edu/2004spring/mas966/Peirce%201878%20Make%20Ideas%20Clear.p...

I agree that philosophy begins as myth. Popper and Kojeve both see it as a secondorder tradition of criticizing and synthesizing myths. Mythmaking bec...

:up: I'd just add that for me consciousness is best understood as the being of the world for various discursive selves. I try to avoid dualism.

To me there are no answers but those which are reasonable --- and even those are tentative. We can always stop at a myth that feels good, but I consid...

Wet hardware. That sounds good ! We could also say wetware or fleshware. I also like softwhere, because it's hard to localize spirit (which is 'just' ...

If we forgive the appeal to sensation below, Peirce looks quite sophisticated in his investigation of the definition of reality. This connects to the ...

I see Hegel (and maybe edifying philosophy in general?) as right on the edge of Christianity and humanism. God in his truth is therefore no bare ideal...

I think that's been the traditional view (Aristotle quote below), that we have all private unmediated access to the same set of pure meanings. Just as...

If I claim that the world is the totality of things, I'm trying (?) to get this claim promoted to a hassle-free premise for future inferences. To me i...

I agree. It's that garden we were never actually in. Freedom and nihilism are two sides of one coin.

:up: Yeah. I understand this : in terms of an individual catching up with the graveleaping Conversation of centuries, which is like downloading softwa...

:up: Well put !

I read the OP as Make Philosophy Great Again ! Was Yesterday always simpler, at least in retrospect, as we face a future that looks stranger and is al...

We've been lost in the pluralitistic rubble since the infallible popes ? I was reading in C S Peirce though that the Catholic philosophers had enough ...

How about aesthetic because political ? I don't mean that one chooses because of one's politics. I mean that, because one has the choice (is not burnt...

This suggests that the issue is also political. Personal philosophical freedom results in pluralism, and it's maybe harder to believe in transcendence...

For me the inferential plane is just a metaphor that emphasizes that all entities (angels, attitudes, anvils, aardvarks) have meaning in the first pla...

The deeper the challenging of the basic structure of this space, the more philosophical the challenge, assuming that the challenge is constructive in ...

:up: People stuck in a representationalist mindset have trouble seeing this. They think concepts label entities. Exactly. Talk of objects plays a stru...

That's why (I claim) you aren't trapped in your head with immaterial meanings and imaginary apples.

Imagine a photograph taken of a dancer. It's just a frozen pose and not the dance. We are the most intensely temporal creatures we are aware of.

Look in the dimension of time. Can you summarize that concept in a sentence ?

What is needed is claims, propositions, premises --- though classification will often lead in that direction.

Now that you mention it, I think beliefs would largely (maybe usually ) function inferentially in the usual way of folk psychology. A guy on LSD jumps...

Concepts don't exist in the head. They exist in the movements of the body, including the movements of mouth and hand and all the action that claims ar...

Here's Brandom on Hegel: Hegel denies the intelligibility of the idea of a set of determinate concepts (that is, the ground-level concepts we apply in...

Some hold that idiolects in this sense do not exist or that the notion is useless or incoherent, but are nonetheless happy to use the word “idiolect” ...

I think it's cool that you looked into Brandom. I've put a fair amount of time into his work, but of course I've only used a few key concepts of his, ...

You are forgetting uncontroversial or undisputed basic statements. We might all believe the same witness, and reason from her testimony, to justify so...

This is another quote from that paper. Since Rorty was Brandom's advisor, we seem to be getting a younger version of inferentialism here. Note that co...

Concepts are public. Concepts are norms. How else could you even ask me that question with a sense of being entitled to an answer ? A tacit commitment...

Time is one's self-confrontation. A generation is a bundle of adversarially cooperative persons -- a parallel but competitive computation/articulation...

Here are some good points against indirect realism, IMO. https://philpapers.org/archive/KOORLT.pdf By giving a causal account of how ideas get formed ...

OK, that was quite helpful. I guess the delicate issue is whether the current scientific image (or any possible scientific image) makes sense as the R...

What is the intention of the philosopher ? To impose a claim, establish as a premise for further use, stack one more brick on the tower. Is there a fe...

Different positions in space, different sense organs, different personalities. The 'directness' is the absence of intermediaries and not (and never wa...

:up: Yes, and we can see it the grammar of the words. It's a different account of the same events. All of the accounts intend the same 'object.' But I...

:up: Yes. We might use the metaphor of a distorting lens. I might claim that you are biased, and you might claim that I am. But we look at apples, not...