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Here we get to Mach's implicit version of I-am-my-world --- of consciousness as the being of the world itself (a true monism in some sense, but plural...

The underlined part is more of Mach's spirituality, and I suspect that of many scientific and artistic types. I'm sure many of us here would love to c...

Here's a key passage. Here's a key part: Let those complexes of colours, sounds, and so forth, commonly called bodies, be denoted, for the sake of cle...

I'm going to quote from Mach and weave those quotes into my larger point. This is part of Mach's showing how relatively permanent enties (including th...

Yes. But, respectfully, so what ? What do you expect ? A voice from the whirlwind ? But even that'd just be God's perspective, no ? Belief is the conc...

This is why I insist that the lifeworld is always already 'significant' or linguistically-structured. Sort of what Wittgenstein was about in the TLP. ...

I think I should stress that I don't deny the necessity of an individual working brain for though. The point is that we are cultural beings, and that ...

I think you are making a good point about the fragility of relativism. But one can say (with me) that we only ever have belief without also saying tha...

? This doesn't seem relevant. Of course our brains are protected by our skulls and our flesh.

Moreover, critical rational discussion presupposes a shared language and a shared world. Rational norms are implicitly self-transcending. So one can b...

My own take is that language is fundamentally social, more social than individual. 'Language speaks the subject.' Basically like this : https://plato....

Perhaps your view is changing as the discussion proceeds. But here you said : So you have a brain which presumably 'really' exists (a brain-in-itself,...

Yes, commonsense tends to forget or not notice the transparent subject, which I equate with the very being of the world. So people tend to think that ...

I'm a correlationist (or something like that), so I think you aren't being radical enough.

But aren't you explicitly positing two things ? The representing and the represented ?

I think Husserl also handles this nicely. We can always get a better and more complete look at something. We have the 'transcendent' (inexhaustible) o...

It's not my term. It's just standard philosophical terminology. You can of course stick to Kant's terminology. But that's beside the point, is it not ...

I don't think the phrase 'indirect realism' was invented yet. But let's just look. The indirect realist agrees that the coffee cup exists independentl...

You can of course link me to secondary sources, but I was quoting primary sources to begin with. From the book he wrote after receiving that criticism...

I've read Kant's outraged responses to his early critics. He was truly pissed. I've quoted them here even, years ago. But I don't think Berkeley's poi...

:up: I'd say it's bad scientistic metaphysicians who tend to imagine these 'forms' as something somehow 'extra-mental' that is hidden 'behind' appeara...

This is maybe the grand issue of German Idealism, so maybe it's not so surprising that it's controversial. Kant's own followers questioned the pointle...

:up: It's fascinating how different personalities prefer this or that aspect of mathematics. I got into it later than most (~30). I was suddenly grabb...

:up: We end up with a boy in the bubble, who can't be sure there's a world out there.

This may be a wild misreading, but, following Mach, are you hinting at the fusion of my flesh and the world ? In a certain sense, I 'am' my coffee cup...

If you spy on your neighbor by peeping in through one window, and I peep in through another, are we not both peeping in on the same neighbor ? If I be...

Respectfully, I don't think you have responded really to my point. Indirect realism, which seems to be your position, is (I think) even the dominant v...

:up: Thanks, I am trying to follow a thread, including its running through Leibniz's The Monadology, and I was curious if it runs through Spinoza's wo...

I think maybe you are conflating perspectivism (at least as I defend it) with indirect realism. Perspectivism is not the view that we each get our own...

:up: Nice. Sort of like 'the face of a baby at a parade before it has learned to smile.' :up: I like to think that there's also a discursive path to s...

:up: Nice ! That's what I'm basically try to say in this thread. Of course we need account for the fact that there are many of us, each of us the bein...

:up: I'd be glad to hear more about your take on the perennial philosophy.

A good question. Maybe 'mystical' isn't the ideal word. Is philosophical wonder better ? The world loses it familiarity, but as a whole. Husserl write...

:up: Nice to hear ! It's not as easy as one might like it to be to feel understand on an internet forum.

I think we agree on this. I see intellectual progress as movement in perspective space, which is also character space. We become the universal person,...

For me the world includes promises and daydreams and prime numbers, as well as protons and pumpkins. The lifeworld with all of its cultural structure ...

Husserl's notion of the transcendence of the object is helpful here. Sartre opens B&N with it (does a great job). The spatial object is never finally ...

It could be. And I could end up revising my beliefs. All I can do is sincerely think and be open and be critical, and so on.

I'm not sure what metaphysical theory you have in mind. To me, perennial philosophy is not so exact or definite. The perennial philosophy (Latin: phil...

Well maybe our views are pretty close. It's always interesting to navigate others' idiolects. We all have our own way of saying things. But I think we...

How so ? This voidness ? In my view, 'pure' subjectivity is so radically transparent that it's really just the being of the world. I claim that the wo...

I know all that, already said it, spent years writing proofs for professors. Not asking random internet guy about the basics of analysis. Tried to ask...

Not you, of course, because you care about and have studied the details. I'm talking about how math and physics can be (and often is ) taken from the ...

This (as you may already know) is pretty close to Heidegger. The background is a kind of elusive 'nothing' that enables all the little things to make ...

I agree pretty much with the first two requirements, but I don't see why reality can't be in flux --- or why it can't be a brute fact. I do agree that...

We may have to disagree here. I don't accept Kant's idea (or what is often taken to be his idea) that we are cut off from reality. I think we are alwa...

:up: It's very near the beginning. The word 'vanity' in the KJV is a translation of hebel, which could have been translated as 'vapor' or 'breath.' Tu...

I'd wager that most of 'em would say not so much. Why aren't people interested in the difference between R and Q ? That is so much more relevant, in s...

:up: Yes, I've studied both. I've even developed twists on both. I have no doubt about the formal correctness of the various popular constructions. I ...

But is it important beyond mathematics ? Do people care much whether a Turing machine halts ? ( I find it interesting, but I find constructions of the...