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We need true explanatory force. 'By means of a faculty' is not really an answer. But people who know biology can connect an organ like the liver with ...

:up: We get flow states too, sometimes! Our sense of exile from the garden comes and goes. Sometimes we spread our singed wings and laugh. Horror and ...

If you mean this : In philosophy, naturalism is the idea or belief that only natural laws and forces (as opposed to supernatural ones) operate in the ...

:up: I have to disagree here. As I have seen from interviews, some physicists freely imagine different versions of reality. Models are just videos gam...

I think you are misunderstanding me (pretty much completely) and taking a fairly technical and dry discussion way too personally. I'm not offended, bu...

This is a strange question. Of course we are always already embedded in rational/semantic norms. We inherit a culture in which certain inferences are ...

Sorry if I came off as rude or misread you.

What you count our manifest image (Sellars) or umvelt as part of this ? Is the land of marriages and contracts within this larger fiction ? Then physi...

Thanks ! I hope I'm starting to understand your view. So is it a map constructed by networked human brains which includes avatars of those brains ? An...

Are we not verging here on folkpsychology which cuts both ways ? To me that's a distraction from the hard work. What's needed is a detailed case for r...

Thanks!

How so ? As I see it, we start from something like: Just as all men have not the same writing, so all men have not the same speech sounds, but the men...

Sure, but they couldn't enjoy it. Youth is wasted on the young.

That's a deep question. As a jolly metaphysician, I'll argue for the primordial unity of the lifeworld. We live in our symbolic sediment which is ther...

This to me is the genius of Kant and Hegel as interpreted by Brandom (pragmatic rationalism). We live and move and have our being in a normativity, in...

I think you can find some bad philosophy like that out there, yes. But it's mostly among those who don't care enough to catch up with the conversation...

If memory serves, you lean toward indirect realism. Is that correct ? Are you offering a model or a map that is not the territory itself ? Some unders...

Yes, I think I was pointing at a primordial unity. But yes Hegel talks of a round trip, also interpreting the Christian Trinity in a new way (I don't ...

Intense, but it makes sense. Organized crime is / becomes law. The thickening of justification, yes.

:up: Eden and that break were created at the same time.

The tricky part for me (in understand your view) is how the metaphysical image constructed by philosophers is related to reality as a whole. Is that m...

Perhaps you are misunderstanding me. My point was that such a separation was impossible or confused. The truth is the whole. Entities have their reali...

I'd say that humans evolve to feel constrained only be themselves. We fucking decide now, --at least until the contemptuous and lecherous Neptunians m...

Can you justify this need for a justification ? Justification is part of the way humans cooperate and compete, it seems to me.

We are liquid temporal finite softwhere, always on the way toward more clarity, more power. Reason is purposive activity. Felix culpa ! Something happ...

But we are nature. We were implicit in Nature, which had to give birth to its wickedest and most beautiful child.

But you are among philosophers here, no? That 'existence' is not univocal is stressed in the intro of Being and Time. If memory serves, Austin had a p...

It's hard to say. In my experience, there are lots of ways to interpret and focus on Hegel, and I've checked out a decent number of them. I'd be glad ...

:up: It's like pulling teeth though to make that point around here. Folks love their methodological solipsism !

Another point is that mathematical objects do indeed exist. They are deeply involved in our inferences, so it's basically confused to deny them. The i...

The problem with such appeals is that they don't explain much, if anything. In-sight is a mere metaphor. An organ is simply postulated (as an 'eye') a...

For context : I take from Hegel the idea that 'subject and substance' (symbol and the symbolized?) are entangled and not truly separable. The lifeworl...

That's the problem, differentiating ourselves from p-zombies, so sure there is Something ---but this Something is Magically Private. I use capitals to...

I don't know. It's an organizing framework (?), making new observations possible, so probably not only. Just to be clear, I have no objection to seein...

The world is (or seems to be) through a particular pair of eyes, though we grasp it always as transcending and encompassing those eyes. How do you mak...

:up: He explodes and gives us the fragments. Some of them are lovely, others hideous. He reminds me of Hamlet, poisoned and poisonous and yet transcen...

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:up: Pure maths has been revised. I suggest looking into the great ideological civil war of mathematics. I don't deny that basic arithmetic is going b...

I suggest that we drop the ocular metaphor and talk about dancing. In other words, we perform 'universals' in the way we trade marks and noises. This ...

This one won't work for me. This one did. This quote helps. “Nature abhors a gradient,” they claim, and life arose in order to reduce energy gradients...

So it's something that is just found empirically. One looks and sees and articulates this tendency. It doesn't reduce to this or that aspect (thinkers...

:up: That seems reasonable, and I grasp that it challenges a more encrusted view.

:up: Right ! So words are just one kind of deeds in an inferential predictive explanatory nexus with others. 'Her back hurt when she woke up, so I ser...

But it's not. I claim that you've simply adopted bad assumptions from a more primitive era of philosophy.

:up: This idea is central in Hegel, as I understand it. Our concepts are never complete or perfectly articulate and never completely internally consis...

I suggest checking out that paper by Brandom. The big picture is pragmatic rationalism. Ethics is first philosophy. A person is an essentially tempora...

:up: That's also what I would call hermeneutical ontology or phenomenology. Philosophers scrape away some of the crust or sediment of traditional and ...

I need to track down those references, of course, but while you are here: Should we think of the 'second claw of thermodemonics' as something like an ...

:up: This makes sense to me. I guess the deeper issue, 'behind' Cartesian confusion, is the thereness of the there. The world is not 'only' concept. I...

Freedom from the world is a genuine lack of interest in more typical status indicators like wealth and fame, as well as (perhaps) a lack of attachment...