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One das Man ] may well assume such a thing, assuming also that B&T is trying to do the same kind of thing as Chicken Soup for the Soul. That is not th...

:up: I'll also bump my pet theme. So often we don't seem to have much of a grip on what is supposed to be meant by 'consciousness.'

Getting something wrong about the tree need not be understood as nevertheless getting something right about my tree. We can talk about the world and j...

Fair enough, and I'm not arguing for it, but this still sounds like optimistic progress narrative to me. I don't object to that narrative. I'm just ma...

:up: Even little folks in peacetime get a taste this way of standing on the front line with clean pants (not shitting themselves, since we are talking...

@"Joshs" To me this speaks to one kind of sentimental populist reaction to offensive creativity: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/work...

Do we do so ? IMV, this is like Hegel warning against thinking that pithy summaries (substance is subject!) can mean anything to today's busy consumer...

Sure. But for me anyway there's no Moment when the real Heidegger please stands up.

the worst are full of passionate intensity...

:up: That's effing hilarious. I don't laugh out loud much, but that's just the twisted kind of thing that I enjoy. It's the kind of joke Nietzsche wou...

This is how an indirect realism can't help misunderstanding what the direct realist is trying to say. Please don't take my playful bluntness for ruden...

Respectfully, the direct realist doesn't believe in pineal gremlins or private perceptions. The direct realist claims that talk about the tree is actu...

Of course. That's the grammar of 'see.' A direct realist might say that you see the dress itself and not an image of the dress, and I'd agree. But I'm...

:up: Yes, indeed. And many can mouth the words 'justice' and 'truth' without caring much for either.

:up: Wittgenstein did this, offering a hint of what he was doing in passing. Heidegger not only did this but made his approach itself explicit. Philos...

from Kiesel ( in case it's helpful) about early H: In fact, it was in this semester which inaugurated his phenomenological decade that he first discov...

Dude was an actual strong poet, same way Cantor was, inspiring the same crankish resistance to his offensive originality. To me you sound on this issu...

It depends on what you want to count as philosophy, I guess. To me it's almost tautological to call philosophy 'hermeneutical fundamental ontology.' P...

To appreciate and study time, one must genuinely ask: Am I time ? This is from the Dilthey draft, page 60. Am I softwhere ?

In some cases that seems to be it. Nietzsche is often on that list too, and he's every bit as indulgent, it seems to me, a veritable mystic buffoon at...

See above.

I don't think (?) early Witt discussed the 'transparency' of the tool in the hand, the way that tools exist. Nor did he make worldhood explicit. If yo...

I'm not saying you can't find this in one of the texts. Nor do I disagree. I will say that his earlier stuff was more experimental. There's not just '...

Nossir, exactly. "Dasein is time, time is temporal." This is on page 20E of the McNeill translation of the lecture The Concept of Time, which is affec...

In case it helps anyone, here's some more context for my interpretation of H: Language is not merely a tool which man possesses alongside many others;...

Nice. We can think of reason as a network of semantic norms which is used on itself. Philosophy rationally articulates in an accumulating way what it ...

I'll show you this again, from the Dilthey draft. You can find a similar thing in the official version. Being-there as being-in-the-world is primarily...

Yes, of course. Yes, you would.

'Don't nazis suck' is just too easy to say. Of course they suck. It's the most banal self-flattery that I can think of. If you think even Heidegger's ...

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Frankly, I find this kind of thing childish. I don't mind it personally, but it's weirdly just the kind of evasive gossip that Heidegger wrote about.

Oh all kinds of interpretations are possible of course. To some people there's a nazi in every crevice, and not just at the library. But I try to tell...

Dasein is time. What can you make of that ? Is that metaphor or what ?

Haven't you read the guy ? Of course. But successful metaphors become literalized. I'd say it's more like a continuum that runs from hard wax to hot w...

I think it's better to talk about people being able to be wrong. The point is they are trying to talk about the world. 'Sorry, I thought I paid that b...

Oh it does interest me. Didn't mean to offend or be rude or evasive somehow. The question of the meaning of being is great. We can dig into that if yo...

We can successfully criticize the past 'as' that same past. We can indeed bring one metaphor to bear on another. We are also 'generative.' We somehow ...

Just to be clear, Heidegger and my creative misreading are both using temporal terms with different intensities of metaphoricity. Let me try another a...

The issue is what you want to identify with. Are you that body ? A merely occurrent thing ? Are you the legs and not the dance ? To be clear, I'm not ...

As I see it, at least some of Heidegger's work is as good as philosophy gets. I won't burn Pound's Cantos for his political stupidity, and I won't bur...

I think the word seems has messed with folks. I talk about the world. I may indicate uncertainty by saying It seems to me that that's a tree. This is ...

:up: Oldschool metaphysics is folk psychology.

Perhaps it's apriori like riding a bike is apriori for those who can. It's easy for us to talk everyday talk now. It's easy to not pee the bed. I find...

. :up: Sure. But I think we should ignore the internals altogether. Forget pineal gremlins and immaterial private showings. Let's look at how in fact ...

:up: Yes, of course. I'm throwing a rope down a well and trying to pull you out of this metaphor of internality. Forget everything else for a moment a...

In principle, informal proofs can be translated into extremely pedantic formal proofs and checked by computers. So it's possible to think of all as a ...

All we need is structure. Check out group theory to see this vividly. This I can talk about with a fair amount of confidence. No one in grad school ev...

We can maybe call this the empirical-normative ego. In its radical purity, I think it's best called just being and not consciousness. We realize upon ...

We are always carefully on the way to something. We are always bringing something to fruition, making it present. We come toward our possibilities, wh...

:up: Exactly ! The idea that I'm inside (my skull or wall of intuitions and concepts) to begin with only makes sense by a secret taking of common sens...