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To what are you appealing to say so ? How could you possibly establish truths about the nature of perception without relying on inferential and semant...

:up: OK. I'm a math guy by training, so I can relate. As I grok it, certain norms are set up and then other norms fall out pretty naturally from them....

:up: Heads too are hallucinations in this mad but popular interpretation of our existence.

Sure, that's the grammar of 'experience.' Who can deny your beetle if they can't even signify it ?But to do philosophy is to push on tribal norms. As ...

:up: Moloch demands a tower ! Drop us on fossil fuels and watch the explosion of selfreferential complexity.

I think you misread me. In our 'impostume of peace' in which nailbiting adolescents find new diseases every day to wear for a camera that follows them...

:up: This is a Hegelian point. History moves toward more freedom and justice. People suffer terrible things now in this world. That's why an antinatal...

Speaking as a direct realist, I truly get this point, but I think you are missing the point that the self is not 'in there' to begin with but more lik...

To me Brandom is the beautiful collision of AP clarity and continental insight. FWIW, an equivalence class is still abstract in some sense, what exact...

How you could possibly know though ? If 'external' impossibly gestures toward whatever we don't 'experience' ?

:up: We all had the same fixed faculties too. :up: Perhaps comment on the future too here ?

I agree that there is suffering in the world. I'm of course not trying to silence you. Does the story 'cover up' subconceptual pain ? I'd say that the...

Consider the sigil of a lion on a shield on the morning of a battle. The glory and immortality of its god is the glory and immortality of the tribe. W...

It's unfortunate that the deepest stuff gets overshadowed by the lurid stuff. We are the (historical) house of being, not so much timebinding as bound...

I think there's value in that approach. We can talk about the tree as a unity of shapes, as atoms, as a piece of the ecosystem. The key though is that...

Or am I wrong about my 'image' of my characterisation of direct and indirect realism ? Of course I'd be wrong about direct and indirect realism 'direc...

I'm sorry, but you've lost the thread. I claim that we see talk about the tree and not some image of it in our minds. This is not a claim about the in...

Have you looked into Sellars' 'space of reasons'? What is applying a concept ? Where do concepts come from ?

Why should I be accurate, seriously ? (I'm not being rude or irrationalist here but trying to make explicit what we are doing at this very moment.)

Have you considered equivalence classes ? You seem to be using the container metaphor. Different wrappers can contain the same candy. We can also thin...

Pretty good and pretty eerie !

The indirect realist (as I understand it) posits a internal image which simply is what it is, glowingly present, and may or may not represent accurate...

Hegel is not denying the use of our sense organs. As I see it, you are locked in a particular metaphor so that you can't yet make sense of alternative...

Also bumped into these Dennett quotes which remind me of Heidegger / Dreyfus: Competence without comprehension is the way of life of the vast majority...

:up: ...like waking up at the wheel of a roaring race car.

The more I read Heidegger, the more Heidegger I find in Hegel --- and the more I believe Heidegger carries a torch passed by Hegel, namely this metaph...

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Are we the same culture since the Enlightenment ? How does one separate this abandonment of our metaphysical base from our abandonment of superstition...

To me it matters whether or not a movement has a real chance in my decision to spend much energy on it. If I'm not really going to change things, then...

All of these in whose eyes though ? :up: Bingo!

:up: Whether it's offensive or not to call us robots (an admittedly risky metaphor) seems to be a matter of how we think of and feel about robots. Des...

I think we agree that humans aren't just their bodies and that consciousness should be explained as much by philosophers as by scientists. Perhaps sci...

Your criticism, which is fair, reminds me of what Dreyfus writes in Being-in-the-world. But I think the tension between owness and falling immersion c...

Sure. That's more technically careful (I've looked into the text very recently), but I still maintain that its existential payload is that the gods th...

:up: If (?) we make Dali something that never quite arrives but is always over the horizon... Fear of death is maybe (also) fear of change. Some paint...

:up: This leads to Feuerbach and others grasping that the divine predicates are of course just the kinds of things we humans like, so that God is an i...

Far as I've been able to tell, Wittgenstein is talking about Feeling that eludes conceptualization. He also seems to make ethics a matter of taste (em...

:up: I do like the respect for people's suffering. But it can also cause people's suffering. I can hurt people by wrecking their final vocabulary (the...

Fair enough. That is some dense stuff. To me this is the essence: God in his truth is therefore no bare ideal generated by imagination; on the contrar...

:up: That remind me of Lakoff's take on metaphor as the way we cognize. William James wrote of the (existential) world as a stage for heroism. I hypot...

One last chunkydense quote, which I hope you'll tolerate. I'm a bit of an 'atheist Christian' or some such in the sense that the incarnation myth spea...

I think you've nailed down a great issue. Of course the professor just couldn't appreciate the kind of beauty available to the atheist, that maybe the...

This reminds me of Schegel versus Hegel, which I mentioned in passing before. As I see it, the world as spectacle requires the assumption of at least ...

I'm not sure where you are getting this all.

Thanks. But let me stress in the light of a thousand candles that I'm not intrinsically interested in Kant but rather in reality which Kant may indeed...

Seems to me we can't say anything at all. But maybe part of the problem is a Cartesian fantasy that we are spirits for whom it makes sense to gaze on ...

Sure. I think the world was here before us and will be after us, in some sense. But I don't think that implies science studies mindindependent stuff. ...

Here we are though discussing the very norms you don't find plausible. Which inferences play by the rules ? Are valid ? That's us discussing what conc...

Respectfully, can you not hear the vagueness in this ? Is the difference qualitative or more a matter of complexity ? When will the bots become good e...

We talk about the world (directly) in our language according to our rational and semantic norms. How dare I make such a claim ? Simple. A philosopher ...