Understood. But, for me anyway, there's no authority beyond something like our own earnestly critical investigation of the matters themselves. I'm not...
Here's Locke's version of what's maybe the classic dualism of modern (subject-centered) philosophy. Note that Kant (in one dimension) merely radicaliz...
I sometimes think our views are pretty close, but your insistence on the pure subject seems to require a pure object (the ever-hidden-from-us world-in...
But you seem (to me) to be flitting from position to position. Either it makes sense to talk about some object apart from all subjectivity or it doesn...
. I choose this is a mere sample. Maybe 2/3 of your post was just (I'm sorry ) sentimental sophistry. I agree with some of your criticism of pragmatis...
Maybe we aren't that far apart after all. My belief is (I claim) just the 'meaningstructure' of the world from my point of view. I live 'in' that stru...
I've explicitly rejected this pragmatic criterion in many posts. Note that I don't need to get around anything in the first place. Purveyors of mystic...
I say only that we tend to settle beliefs, when troubled by cognitive dissonance, and that we often tend to understand ourselves as making progress, t...
:up: Perhaps you can share any thought you might have on Spinoza's perspectivism, and connections to Wittgenstein's 'I am my world.' https://iep.utm.e...
:up: I think your 'rejection approach' is good. The word 'idealism' will be difficult or impossible to rescue, but I like Hegel's understanding thereo...
But Pinter's featureless stuff here is empty of content. This is close to Hobbes' view, who took only matter in motion to be real (independent). What ...
I've followed your math posts for a long time, and I appreciate the care you take to get things right. I'm not a logician, but I have studied math, an...
I like some of what I've seen from Delueze. He's on my list, etc. If you feel like curating some gems, I'd be glad to see them. By the way, Ong's Oral...
I agree with Aquinas. I count myself a direct (perspectival, phenomenological) realist. We see things themselves, not our images of them. But, followi...
This quote nails it for me. Correlationism consists in disqualifying the claim that it is possible to consider the realms of subjectivity and objectiv...
I see the charm of the idea. Reminds me of (as you say) Kant. And of course Schopenhauer. The Will is the Real 'behind' the Veil. That sort of thing. ...
This is from a different section focused on thought, but time is central: In all our voluntary thinking there is some topic or subject about which all...
Here's some more wood for the fire. Not offered as authority, but perhaps as an influence on Husserl. Both he and Heidegger mention James by name with...
FWIW, I think a certain kind of knowledge strives to transcend both time and space --to be valid or worthy at all times and places. But this is the on...
:up: Even Hobbes was on to this. I'll just offer a sample, but the chapter 'Of Man' is surprisingly temporally aware. And because in Deliberation the ...
I mean the idea of something existing which cannot even in principle be perceived, something like 'things in themselves,' when it's also assumed they ...
I do love that kind of stuff. To me the situation is tricky. I think there is an 'eternal now' in the sense that there is a form of the present, but t...
:up: Yeah, reading Husserl directly has been eye-opening for me. Ideas II was clearly an inspiration for Heidegger, along with so much else. Heidegger...
:up: To me it's still feels pretty bold to doubt the 'independent object.' It reads almost like impiety, even if one is an atheist. I tend to interpre...
Husserl shows that (the 'experience' of ) time is stretched. There is no pointlike now, except as a useful mathematical fiction (the glories of \Bbb R...
:up: Here's Husserl in a text about first philosophy. Genuine rational life, and in particular genuine scientific research and achievement, must, by m...
Which is basically what Wittgenstein offers in the TLP, and which seems right to me. The subject is time (or being becoming) . But this zero-point cle...
Ah, I see. That's a reasonable way to understand bracketing. But phenomenology is a big tent. Husserl alone was amazingly prolific and always revising...
Or is it ultimately time itself that procures for itself the clock in us? I think it was Gadamer who summarized Being and Time with 'being is time.' E...
The painter, when he has to draw a round cup, knows very well that the opening of the cup is a circle. When he draws an ellipse, therefore, he is not ...
That's just you reading in your own biases, as far as I can tell. Some philosophers have imagined that to start an inquiry it was only necessary to ut...
I think we can 'fix' and update Berkeley. Or that it's already been done, but it's helpful to retrace the steps. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/...
You make a good point. But there's still maybe a gap here between steering sentience and creating or understanding it. I readily admit that technical ...
It seems to me that self and world would have to be elaborated at the same time. The body is especially entangled and undecidable, for it is revealed ...
I like to think of maps as little pieces of reality that have some of the same structure as bigger pieces of reality. I think we can (and do, without ...
I think J. S. Mill has a nice take. Objects are only independent in the sense that they are 'permanent possibilities of sensation.' So the world is no...
Hi, Leontiskos ! Though I'd jump in here. The boulder's shape is independent, in some sense, from this or that individual human perspective. So it tra...
I still think you maybe aren't addressing the being issue ? Or, more likely, I'm being muddy in making my point. First, there's the relatively boring ...
There's much to like about this quote, but the world and the subject are interdependent. The subject 'is' the care-structured streaming of the world. ...
We must have radically different conceptions of phenomenology. I'd say it's largely the opposite of naive realism. Though I will grant that it sometim...
:up: Perhaps you don't see that I see that part very well. The object-for-me is not, in an important sense, the object-for-you. But it's the essence o...
But if consciousness is the being of the world, we have what's maybe even a deeper problem. Just to be clear, I'm not in the 'nothing to see here' cam...
I think so lately, and for me it feels like a great clarification. Lots of ways to say it, but one way is : consciousness is precisely the being of th...
:up: I like the concepts of sapience and sentience. I'd say there's a un-self-thematizing consciousness in sentience, and that something fancier appea...
A shallow objection to this involves handing the seer a mirror, but I think that something like being is intended, and that seeing is a metaphor for b...
I like to read this in terms of the famous ontological difference, in terms of being itself not being an entity ---though of course the concept of bei...
I think this gels with what you are saying. The truth (or rather its best surrogate) is belief which is objective and bias-transcending as possible. T...
I shared some beliefs about belief. how I understand belief. I of course call them 'true,' for this (as I make explicit) is simply to trivially agree ...
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