NotAristotle

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:up: :100: :up: Receiving what is there, gazing upon in a receptive way, letting what is present show itself as it is. Not an aggressive -looking at- ...

Agree. Agree. Not sure that I see the problem; can you further articulate the problem here? Outer and inner, no?

Sorry if this was said before but this seems impossible. In other words, why can she remember the experiment, but not one day prior?

Not sure if anyone said this already. But it seems to me that the original argument has an additional conclusion. "...Hence an external world does exi...

Seems to me that truth is caught up in subjective experience; the two are inextricable. Meanwhile, if you ask me, all human understanding is coming-to...

Here is an epistemological argument for God's existence; it is similar to the metaphysical argument I stated earlier in the thread: Knowledge requires...

Why did you not add that the created beings, in addition to being omnipotent and omniscient, could also be created so that they are omnibenevolent? Or...

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Marxist theory is contradictory. It fails. Here are two contradictions in Marxist thinking: 1. Capitalism supposedly adversely affects the worker's re...

If I am understanding you correctly, the forgetting of the concepts, the moments in the dialectical process leads to the apparent (but illusory) indep...

If that is true it is not my language that is incoherent but the entire notion of non-conceptual. Even the word itself is nonsensical if what you are ...

Hmm, maybe the idea is not "non-conceptuality" as such, the non-conceptual as distinct from the conceptual. Rather, perhaps the "non-conceptual" is in...

Adorno calls consciousness "universal mediation." Some questions: When does idealism become ideological? How are we to define ideology?

This looks right to me. What confuses me, is how can non-thinking lead to a "bad positive" and at the same time enable seeing something "as it is." In...

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. "Since Hegelian logic always had to do with the medium of the concept and only generally reflected on the relationship of the concept to its content...

What would nonexploitative labor look like? And do you maintain that such labor is necessarily inconsistent with a capitalist system? (And if so, plea...

I would agree that Adorno is critical of Marx, but only insofar as he is a revisionist of Marxist thought. As I understand it, mass culture and media ...

Do you think Adorno talks about Marxism as if it were objectively true? If so, why? Given the terrible things done under Stalin during Adorno's lifeti...

To analyze is to objectify, but not in a way that allows the objectified to be what it is, rather it appropriates the other as a kind of thought-meat;...

Well said. The object is the face of non-identity; it is beyond thought in its objectivity. ND works because it aims to unravel, not the object, but t...

But God is not an idea. And I am a rational human being who does not rebel against God. God is simple in being, yes, but I should think the creator of...

I personally don't think all objective laws are fictions. And I think you are correct that Adorno also believes in objective laws and truth. There mus...

Right.

I think P2 excludes the possibility of the C1 disjunctive introduction and therefore foils the entire argument.

I agree with the way you defined validity. If I remember correctly, Tones in Deep Freeze defined it formally as an argument whereby there is no interp...

I am also not concerned about including any modals in the argument. Let me consider what you stated: All I am doing is giving more detail to "1." 1 = ...

The "objective law" is objective for someone who has consented to its objectivity, its reality; it is not truly objective but the one who consents to ...

Right, ideology is properly more than is thought qua thought, but I think Adorno would say it is thought nonetheless. In other words, ideology has yet...

I get what you are saying. However, I maintain that it is strange for me to think of the initial argument of this thread as "valid." In fact, it makes...

Here is the rewritten formulation of my interpretation of your representation of my argument: A. ((¬3 ? ¬2) ^ 2) ? 3 B. ((¬3 ? ¬2) ^ 2) C. ? 3 Premise...

I really think Adorno is aiming at exposing thought for what it is, namely thought; he wants to show thought qua thought. This is achieved through con...

I would not say I misrepresented my own argument, I would say I miswrote your representation of my argument. Would you agree that your representation ...

Good questions. I would tend to think MT is another inference rule that cannot be "derived" from a different inference rule like MP; that is, MT is no...

Not that it is an instance of MP, which is a logical "move," not a merely formal property.

My point in these last few comments is just that MT is not an instance of MP metalogically. I think it would be more accurate to say that formally, th...

Negative dialectics is a term of irony. Thought negatively appropriates the thing in the conceptual, a concept that is broken off from the non-concept...

I thought we were differentiating between a use of the material conditional versus modus ponens as a mode of discursive thought. In what world is "1 a...

I was reviewing this thread and it occurs to me that I disagree with the contention that the argument I stated: is metalogically an MP argument. In fa...

I am a novice with quantum mechanics, and it has been awhile since I've seen Schrodinger's wavefunction equation. Could you spell out what you mean by...

Seems plausible to me although I do not have a specific argument in mind. You say that change depends on time, I don't see why that would be wrong. Bu...

I'm not a scientist so I have no idea what you mean by a "pure state quantum system" or that it "evolves." Would you explain? If you have an argument ...

Because I think change or alteration implies a kind of dependence on another. If the foundation merely changes form, then it is dependent on what chan...

Point being: "A" would have to creatively make everything else in order to be a veritable metaphysical foundation. A mere alteration of "A" would rend...

I would think that the metaphysical foundation of everything must be different than what it is the foundation of. If it were not, then the metaphysica...

Are you suggesting any other candidates?

To say there is a way the world ought to be seems, to me, (and whether it were actually that way) to make a transcendent statement.

Okay, hmm, so we both agree with premise 1. When I say there is a way the world ought to be, I have in mind the sorts of things people say from a rati...

Would it make sense to say that, while an offense may be against one with infinite dignity, if the effects of the sin are only finite, not infinite, a...