I'd say that the concepts of time and space are one thing, but that moving my arm around of seeing an object in experiential space is another thing. I...
Your tone has sometimes been, from my POV, too much on preachy / condescending side. I view us as doing something like science here. When you bash Wit...
Here is Kant at (in my view) his most phenomenological and empiricist. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4280/pg4280-images.html#chap78 This 'good'...
I add some crucial passages from the TLP. https://www.wittgensteinproject.org/w/index.php?title=Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus_(English)#5 A highlight...
You may be surprised like I was to see how much the brain already figures in Descartes, and therefore, presumably, in Kant. http://www.classicallibrar...
I wouldn't be surprised if the East had it first, tho I'd check the Christian mystics for a premodern grasp? FWIW, I think what Wittgenstein was getti...
I tend to blame a sort of hitchhiking bad metaphysics rather than science itself. Good clean science just creatively postulates and confirms patterns ...
Let me clarify. 'Looking right through' is genuine practical achievement, even while being an ontological disaster. I mean we literally train to ignor...
I tend to agree, but there's a reason I avoid the word 'consciousness.' I really think the way to go here is a kind of monism. It's not that conscious...
I hear you, but for me there's no sharp boundary. My own phenomenology-inspired view rejects the idea that reality is hidden somehow 'outside' of a so...
When I read (for instance) Husserl's Ideas II (which is thought to have inspired Heidegger in a pretty direct way), it made me remember the way I unde...
I think this is solved with J S Mill's permanent possibilities of perception. It's a semantic twist, really. The point is that what we mean by the exi...
Well I think my own view (and Husserl's) is very close to a certain side of Kant --- that part in the CPR where he writes about beings on the moon. Bu...
All of our 'experience' of the world features it surrounding our sentient flesh. But we tend to look right through our own looking. Russell writes of ...
What I mean by such realism (the kind I reject) is the postulation of 'aperspectival stuff' being primary in some sense, existing in contrast to ( and...
I do understand what you are getting at. I think it's a reasonable concern. We already know, using our reasoning, that some animals have better or dif...
I understand the temptation to say there may be completely unknowable dimensions of objects, but I'm asking what kind of meaning can be given to such ...
That may apply to some objections to Kant, but it's very much beside the point here. I've explicitly challenged scientific realism, embraced correlati...
I don't think you are seeing the issue. Kant's radicality makes the brain itself a mere piece of appearance, not to be trusted. He saws off the branch...
If you follow me and understand 'mind' as just the being of the world, then maybe I'll agree with you, for I think space and time are as real as anyth...
I'll add a quote from Husserl too, because I think it's the 'temporal horizon' of objects that tempts us to project something that hides behind them. ...
I hope you all find this quote from Sartre, basically the opening of Being and Nothingness, relevant (tho maybe all will have a different use or react...
My point is perhaps best understood as semantic. Let P be claim that objects exist as more than their possible adumbrations (in a wide metaphorical se...
This is not a philosophical way of doing business. I think for now we should take a break in the conversation. But no hard feelings. I just think it'l...
I'm not the one who denies time. Indeed, I'm insisted that being is time in some sense. I write of 'interpenetrating worldstreamings.' In this context...
Not disagreeing, but Why ? Note that 'fundamental' is a metaphor that gestures to the ground, the soil, that upon which everything stands, typically u...
We only have fragments to go on, and of course we don't take (at least I don't take) any jaw-flapping human for an authority, but there's this: This w...
I claim that we can only talk sensibly about something at least possibly experienceable by us. I'm saying connected to our experience, not fully and f...
That sounds right to me, tho I don't claim to be an expert on such matters. I do think life is noisy, muddy, and wobbly, even if we can smooth it over...
I don't go out of my way to meditate, but I can report of my happy and at-ease states, which are fortunately pretty regular, that there's a leaping fr...
:up: That sounds right. I like Rahula's What The Buddha Taught, and I imagine the state you describe as the goal. This is a kind of auto-affection or ...
I've looked into that book recently. Of course Heidegger is famously eccentric in his grasp of Nietzsche, but there is something to be said for even a...
Oh I love those symbols too, because they speak to and for me. I think in those symbols. I truly love epsilontics. My understanding is that Weierstras...
I think the most charitable way to read it is as gazing on The Unchanging with adoration. Or feeling oneself in a sort of divine stasis, having tempor...
How so ? To be sure, I'm using a fairly concrete analogy there (taken from L) , but I embrace the existence of all kinds of mental entities, mathemati...
You raise a good point. I can't endorse all of his claims, but some of them are great. I recommend checking out 5.6 and its leaves, which largely insp...
A question that might be asked is whether this is true by definition --- whether we tend to understand 'Being' precisely in terms of constant presence...
I know that there are aspects of Nietzsche that hard to enjoy, but I definitely personally defend his overall philosophical greatness. To be clear, it...
Not to be difficult, but claiming that all metaphysical questions are undecidable seems to decide an important metaphysical question. Though I can act...
I'm glad someone caught my little joke. I feel you. Did you ever look into the famous TLP ? It's got a tree structure, where you can open up any claim...
One more quote that I think/hope you will relate to: ... if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immedi...
I guess I find the discursive and 'the rest' to be pretty entangled. But I've been known to talk about the feeling of being 'behind language.' Or mayb...
:up: Beautiful. Yeah I think we are on the same page in the most important way. The feeling tone, the sense of philosophy's radical potential, the sen...
:up: I suspect that this : Indra's net (also called Indra's jewels or Indra's pearls, Sanskrit Indraj?la, Chinese: ????) is a metaphor used to illustr...
I'm going to add a supplement to the OP here. I think (?) the 'transcendence' of the object in phenomenology is little known and yet important. The re...
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