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:up: :up: Felix culpa ! Our glory and our fall. Finnegans Wake is between laughter and tears. :up: We need myths to put on the wound. Like those. Our ...

:up: I like the mix of reading and writing. I might add that it's great to read writers that attack one another.

How do you know when you are looking at it ?

If it's articulated, it's not just a feeling. If the world is given perspectively, then my beliefs about the world just are the world, for me. I think...

To me it was a huge clarification to move from thinking of consciousness as a private dream-stuff to thinking of consciousness as a view on the world....

:up: To me it's a bunch of metaphors, some of which have hardened into literality. Bottom, up, first, last, before, after. Embodied metaphoricity (Lak...

To me it's fairly obvious that Kant must have expected to be interpreted in a 'sane' way. So my own suggestion that the species is the real transcende...

I see from the emojis that you are joking. But as a serious question, I'd call it incoherent. It's self-defeating madness to call the obvious and give...

Note that I agree with this ontological claim. Only a few wacky philosophers forget that concept is merely one 'aspect' of the world. But I don't see ...

:up: Hence 'the worldly foolishness of philosophy' and the 'sophistry' of non-understood gear for a primate who needs bread more than a intensified (l...

Here are some of my beliefs on this matter : 1. All we ever have is beliefs. 2. We use 'true' to say that we have or share a belief. 3. My belief is h...

If one accepts that the world, so far as we know, is given perspectively, then the being of the world is always for (ignoring other animals) an entire...

But who ever claimed there was ? I've stressed that it's a fundamentally infinite project. As an ideal, it's always on the horizon. We will never live...

Rejecting indirect realism is a big move with the little unworldly world of metaphysics. Do we start doing philosophy trapped and isolated in a bubble...

As an attitude, I think what you describe is great. Embrace the world and embodiment and the strangeness of the higher emerging from the lower, 'mind'...

How is me disagreeing with you more than me expressing my own belief ? I think (?) your are implicitly picturing some naked reality (from no perspecti...

Yes, I'd personally think it'd involve the whole self. But this to me happens with 'normal' philosophy and 'literature.' This 'normal' stuff is as rad...

OK. But my point is that all we have is belief. The world is grasped as meaningfully structured. Humans may make up languages over time, but for the m...

I think Schopenhauer works best as a man who saw the godless deathfuck wheel. I open Dawkins and find Schopenhauer naturalized. In case it's obscure, ...

Ah but that's already Kojeve/Hegel. I mean I agree, but that's our familiar autonomous creative rationality determining its own essence. the core of H...

Your experience suggests a kind of 'tunnel' between perspectives on reality. I've had some powerful experiences (largely on the level of feeling and '...

To me we can either call protons instrumental posits (useful fictions) -- or fallibly accept them as real. I use to choose instrumentalism, which is s...

It's more of an unfolding of what that actually means. In short, my dramaturgical-discursive self is organized as an essentially temporal being by mak...

Our understanding of the word would, I claim, be an understanding of part of the world. As conceptual beings, we live not only in colorful objects but...

What refers to what ? I thought you meant a word referring to nonword stuff.

:up: To me one of the things that glues us together is language. We intend the same object from our differing perspectives. We talk at the world in co...

Sounds amazing and maybe scary.

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I think you were more correct when you said something seemingly very different: To me it seems like you are wavering between trying to explain what ma...

:up: Yes, and this is what I also try to get at with dramaturgical ontology. It's not some footnote where our ontology puts us and our role in the wor...

Sure. To me what you are missing is your agreement with me. Which is to say that you yourself are offering a founding assumption. 'We should apiori ru...

Understandable, but who said you could question things ? I'm joking of course. The point is that autonomy really is almost apriori. Will you ask me to...

I should stress that I am miles away from being an orthodox Hegelian. But I love certain passages in him, but I largely enjoy him transformed and in s...

In case it's unclear (and to further the conversation on fun stuff ) I'm a nondualist direct realist. I 'believe in' our sense organs. They are relate...

You said: I said: I also quoted Eliot and said: Then you inform me that:

Respectfully, that sounds like you repeating what I said back to me.

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For me, it's similar to the critical-synthetic tradition of science/philosophy. We work together to build the best set of beliefs we can by pointing o...

I suggest you reread the opening post. I explicitly emphasized (fucking underlined) all we ever have is belief. I go on to mock the idea of some persp...

I welcome the criticism, but do you not see the performative contradiction ? Are you not advertising that you yourself have a better view on what is t...

Just to be clear, I don't at all question your knowledge of Kant. I'm just pointing out what I find problematic in his work. I hope you experience the...

I should reiterate that I think Kant is a hero. The theory of the subject is, in my view, the essence of philosophy, and Kant pushed it even slightly ...

I'm not saying this is the final word by any means, but we can't ignore poetry and music. The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by ...

Overall I agree with your post, but what can true color even mean here ?

:up: The discursive self 'is' this coherence. Continual self-contradiction is no longer self-contradiction, but the discursive self dissolving into co...

You and I can see the same object at the same time. We see the same object in the intentional sense (it's that one shared object we talk about), and y...

This passage from Nietzsche is extremely close to Zahavi's understanding of Husserl's direct realism. I haven't emphasized entanglement yet, but to me...

:up: I love Joseph Campbell.

Relevant to the OP: The so-called Münchhausen trilemma—that is, that all attempts to discover ultimate foundations result in either logical circularit...

I don't go out of my way to hate on qualia, 'cuz there's an inferentialist defense of them probably, but I'm not a qualia-slinger myself. I'm a direct...