I not disagreeing with distinctions begin with consciousness, but I don't so why this isn't the answer to a metaphysical question. I suggest that even...
However far the six contact-media go, that is how far objectification goes. However far objectification goes, that is how far the six contact media go...
I think you should justify your dismissal of Wittgenstein. In my view, you are underrating him. I'm not his agent, and I don't take him for an authori...
I've look into that book, but I didn't find it gripping enough to keep going. I may give it another chance. I'm trained as a mathematician, so I recal...
I think 'illusion' has to be a kind of metaphor here. As I see it, all 'experience' is 'real.' But of course we make practical distinctions, and the w...
I'll meet you half way. There's a certain type of philosopher who is a fundamentally and even methodically boring. Maybe this is connected to the ways...
Prisoner's dilemma, right ? We do manage enlighten self-interest, to some degree, within groups that have enemies. Is it just a coincidence that such ...
:up: I very much appreciate the clarification and the politeness with which you addressed my concern. To quote an excellent show (The Bear) : heard, c...
You yourself say that metaphysical questions are undecidable. That's a fairly positivist claim, it seems to me. The positivists are saying 'we might a...
:up: I might agree with you here. 'Mysticism' is not easy to define exactly. But I will agree that plenty of 'skepticism' can be close-minded, which i...
I'd say that those ideas and details are philosophy. Tho I will grant you that the point is to grasp some 'theorems' of value. In math, for instance, ...
I'm trying to make a case for the centrality of of the issue of subjectivity. I'm not saying we we agree on the details, but we seem to agree on the i...
What is the 'solipsist' trying to say but 'can't' ? https://www.wittgensteinproject.org/w/index.php?title=Blue_Book In my view, much rides on our appr...
That's a vague response, but to me it seems a bit self-righteous. 'Anyone skeptical about the possibility of utopia is just unwilling to put in the wo...
To me phenomenology is a kind of positivism. Husserl : We are the true positivists. https://www.britannica.com/topic/positivism It is a more honest or...
To me it seems you are underestimating Western philosophy. The greats have not feared to charge the edges of the map. Lately I've been looking into Hu...
Just to clarify, I mean simply that there is sound, color, hunger, pain. I mean that there are trumpets and not just the thought of trumpets. I mean t...
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as ye...
As long as you include Kant in your criticism, I hear you. I do appreciate the relative clarity of English philosophers like J. S. Mill and Hume and s...
Personally, I think those six elements are a plausible decomposition of all possible experience/reality in the abstract. So I'd answer no. Intellectio...
I'd say our skill with the word 'I' is part of that thrown falling immersion or they-self that we only can even begin to investigate after the fact of...
:up: In other words ( ? ) , language speaks the subject. A convention of selfhood emerges, a very early piece of intellectual technology. This concept...
I agree with your values, but I don't think it's a problem, mostly anyway, of us not individually wanting the good. I'm reluctant to even share my thi...
A man from the country seeks "the law" and wishes to gain entry to it through an open doorway, but the doorkeeper tells the man that he cannot go thro...
One of my concerns about hidden-in-principle stuff in the self is that it leads us back into dualism. If to be is to be perceived or experienced, then...
I agree that Heidegger was influenced, etc., though I personally have no trouble yanking 'falling immersion' and many other concepts into a secular/'u...
Sure, we are a wicked bunch, and there's an entire tradition with a right way for talking about that. I've been reading some mathematical biology stuf...
Indeed, and it's like being thrown into a kind of driving or sleepwalking. We are thrown into doing things the Right way. One eats with a fork, says p...
:up: Have you ever seen rectangles of dots used to prove the commutative law ? Very persuasive. For me math is more visual than temporal, though it's ...
I'll agree with you partially here, on Heideggarian terms. Our fundamental form of being is a kind of 'subrational' understanding or knowhow or skill....
I loved Pinter's book on abstract algebra, and such algebra is a great example of abstraction. Group theory ignores absolutely everything about a syst...
But all apriori knowledge is fished out of experience in the first place. Patterns in experience are noticed, articulated, and then relied upon. Even ...
Ancestral objects are a totally reasonable concern, but I think they've already been covered by Mill's theory of possible experience. The meaning of a...
I grant that we could also read the thing backwards, with nature as a 'segment' of spirit. We create the scientific image from within an encompassing ...
I agree that Mill was guilty of psychologism on the issue of logic. But this doesn't establish some kind of metaphysical machinery hidden in the Self....
It'd be very un-Kantian to make those faculties more than structures or possibilities of experience. I have not the least objection to psychological e...
I really like the bolded part of the Kant quote, but I find it in tension with the first part. The objects are given only in experience and don't exis...
'What it is like to be' is an interpretation of something prior to mind or non-mind. That's the way I'd go here. What interprets then ? If mind is not...
The article on neutral monism is a bit scanty, but something is better than nothing. ************************************** Mach and James understand ...
Last one for now, I promise. Mill dissolves the subject too. https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/mill-the-collected-works-of-john-stuart-mill-volume-ix-...
Mill tries to explain how we could come to believe in paradoxical substance beyond the possibility of experience. It's maybe like Husserl's examinatio...
https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/mill-the-collected-works-of-john-stuart-mill-volume-ix-william-hamiltons-philosophy There's so much insight pack in ...
https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/mill-the-collected-works-of-john-stuart-mill-volume-ix-william-hamiltons-philosophy I think there are two views that...
For the convenience of others, I provide some crucial quotes from J. S. Mill. https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/mill-the-collected-works-of-john-stuar...
So much could be said on this excellent topic, but I'll mention a possible sampling bias approach. The problems with solutions we agree on are for jus...
I like to think about the encompassing as the darkness that surrounds a campfire. Or the dark woods that surround a torch on the trail. I've been walk...
But I'd say it's metaphorically nothing, unless that 'nothing' is supposed to point at the framework character of space and time. From my POV, the not...
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