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This is plausible but somewhat useless ? Who can say ahead of time what we can manage ? How many times must the 'impossible' be achieved to make us do...

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Wait a sec ! I wasn't calling a foul. I was asking epistemologically. I was pointing out what I thought was an incoherence in your position. We are ju...

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Some might, but I would not say all. Meet Nucky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5XNSETB5MY 'You don't know me, James. You never did. I. am not. seek...

I agree with most of what you say. I tend to view gods in terms of group egos, a tribal egoideal. As you mention, a local god can be developed into a ...

. Respectfully, if you are trapped in a subjective perception of the world, how can you so boldly assert that others are in the same position ? How ca...

I might be more in the direct realist camp, so I'll try to answer this. We need not assume in the first place that we are trapped behind a wall of sen...

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Ah,?solving that question Brings the priest and the doctor In their long coats Running over the fields. https://genius.com/Philip-larkin-dayss-annotat...

Reacting to some quotes from the text here : http://www.ditext.com/bunge/crisis.html In philosophy, obscure writing is sometimes just a cloak to pass ...

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In general we seem to be thrown into a way of saying and doing things that we mostly don't even notice enough to begin to question. Descartes took the...

Calling something 'red' or complaining of 'pain' only makes sense within a larger system. Who cares that something is labelled 'red' if nothing follow...

Personally I don't mind if you think Wittgenstein is boring. It's dry stuff. But to me, on this particular issue, you might as well be a chat bot. The...

Just to be clear, we are 'instances.' We are relay runners for our DNA. Some of us don't pass the torch. Enough do though, so far anyway.

Personally I reject the thesis that signs have private immaterial referents. I also reject the assumption of some immaterial Given from which an image...

This may or may not help. https://sites.pitt.edu/~rbrandom/Texts/Panoramas_of_Mind_and_Meaning%20(1).pdf **** Descartes worries about responding to th...

You know exactly what sensations are ? Did you discover their exact nature ? Or is it a tautology ? Synthetic or analytic ? I'm guessing it's analytic...

Strange. I thought you were describing pretty well why 'private language' doesn't make much sense. Maybe this will help : Words don't mean whatever yo...

Motte and bailey. Ordinary mentalistic talk is fine, but the metaphysical dualistic radicalization of this mentalistic talk (private immaterial refere...

:up: I claim that irreducibly private basically means or implies nonconceptual. It's like money. We can discuss the idea that each of us has our own '...

If sensations are understood as radically immaterial, perhaps it's not so clear. I can however easily imagine experiments where people smell something...

This reminds me of genesis versus structure. 'Language is received like the law.' But language does slowly mutate thanks to the creativity of individu...

What do you make of the end of the world ? Is it important to your vision of Christianity ? Was/is it a wrong thing to expect ?

Thinking, one wants to say, is part of our “private experience”. It is not material, but an event in private consciousness. This objection is expresse...

If we are confident, is such confidence logically justified or just mere meatbias ? For most of our history, we have done what we like with machines, ...

:up: Ah. OK. So the end of the world was running late.

:up: It's good to know someone can relate to my weird sense of humor.

What, in general, may (?) motivate the adoption of 'mysteryism' ? Man distinguishes himself from Nature. This distinction of his is his God: the disti...

I think that we can apply such concepts, and I think we can do that now with pigs being treated badly in processing plants. The baby could be hungry o...

I think we've evolved a tendency to 'secrete' orienting narratives, and it seems that we need such software to get along in the world.

Creating a child violates some of our intuitions of what we owe other people. Yes. But I also think it's disgusting the way we treat animals. And so o...

Yes, it's my final name for my final resurrection.

Yes, I believe that your hardware (your brain, etc.) carries an independent copy of the tribal software. You can end up as the last man alive. But you...

I don't think the self makes sense as a present-at-hand object (it's never just a body.) It's temporally stretched, socially constituted. It's more of...

I don't see how that can be done. Norms might be primordial or irreducible. They are the foundation of sense. We can't 'think away' language.

It's not too outlandish to think technology will become powerful enough to know our socalled insides better than we do. "Hold on a moment: let me see ...

If you want to pretend that 'pain' has a different grammar than it does, we can try to play that game and see what happens.

Why not ? I don't have a finished theory of reference. I just think immaterial references don't make sense, for the same kind of reason I don't believ...

Time matters here. We do not have static concepts tied to platonic essences that hover in eternity. We keep track of one another. You hold me to what ...

People can lie, but that's not the issue. To be sure, the grammar of the word 'pain' could change, but currently (as far as I can make out) it's more ...

This is the motte-bailey issue I've been trying to point out. I have no objection at all to a blurry continuum that runs from more physical to more me...

This reminds me of Kojeve. This Christ is not unlike the skeptic who escapes into a 'free' interiority from the risk of life required for the attainme...

The triumph over resentment ? The triumph over system ? There's nothing there to refute. It looks like subrational or transconceptual mysticism to me ...

:up: Yes. To be clear, Nietzsche's Christ is a literary creation. Nietzsche himself, as he let us know him through his books, is also such a protagoni...

A more reasonable approach is to include everything in the same inferential nexus. A drug or injury may disable a certain kind of love. As I see it, t...

You might like this: https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/08/17/blind-people-understand-color/ You have your finger on the issue. Immaterial private referents are...

I think the issue is that the observer without observed is like the left without the right. Some concepts come in pairs.

It was an offhand remark, so I will say that 'what hurts us is real' is not a considered final thesis. But let me try to expand it so that it's more d...