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Something I have wondered recently about what Wittgenstein calls "forms of life" is whether this is the limit of language to function. Isn't technolog...
July 20, 2024 at 22:23
What I say about use I can say a fortiori about the organic ends of the organism. At this point the power of language extends beyond the organism and ...
July 20, 2024 at 19:33
I would say that at the level of the signifier there is an inability of use to master language and signification. For example, supposing that two cult...
July 20, 2024 at 15:34
And I agree with that. But I consider that pain must be seen as part of a significant whole. In this sense pain is not only the sensation but the memo...
July 19, 2024 at 18:56
Hello. In my opinion any idea of minimal blocks of the universe to be valid or true must specify what those blocks are and carry out an effective reco...
July 19, 2024 at 13:25
The reason of why I identify the ego with the self is because the common core of both notions is unity in identity as self-relation excluding alterity...
July 19, 2024 at 03:05
Hi, In my point of view the suffering of other people is given to us (as a possibility) through a process of alterity that affects the self. This proc...
July 19, 2024 at 02:24
I claim that there is indeed a process of interpretation. As I said, suffering does not occur in the absolute singularity that you claim. And this is ...
July 18, 2024 at 14:15
"We use language to talk about language". In this sense, language becomes the space of essentiality. It is what Heidegger pointed out when naming lang...
July 17, 2024 at 18:31
It seems to me that this is an inconsistency in the approach. An evil animal would be an animal that does not follow its nature. Consequently, no anim...
July 17, 2024 at 17:52
In general today we understand evidence as scientific evidence. Scientific evidence depends entirely on repetition in controlled environments where pa...
July 17, 2024 at 04:32
I would not confine language and all the mediatedness in which we are involved as a simple medium that divides two poles so easily: man and the world....
July 16, 2024 at 04:19
In a sense my point is very similar to what Derrida says about how the identity of the self in order to transcend and have a certain ideality implies ...
July 15, 2024 at 17:23
Think about how you discover for the first time that an eye is used to see. You obviously don't know that a priori, until it is actually functioning. ...
July 14, 2024 at 18:35
I would say conditioned but not predetermined. As I said, predetermination implies foreshadowing, or rather, that assumes that the future is implicit ...
July 13, 2024 at 23:41
In my view nominalism fails to recognize the persistent and repetitive element of things. We can take time as the framework of the demonstration: If w...
July 13, 2024 at 22:50
You are right, it is better to talk about self-deception. However, I think there is a misconception. Bad faith does not refer to the absence of freedo...
July 13, 2024 at 05:56
From my point of view a very important thing to ask is: If we are free, are we condemned to be free? If so, then the act of bad faith is the attempt t...
July 13, 2024 at 01:23
I cannot agree with the teleology of being. It is a form of preformism that in my opinion is already well refuted. To illustrate this, one can take th...
July 12, 2024 at 02:11
But religion would be our reaction to the deployment and imposing force of the law which constitutes us as theoreticians or followers of the law. We, ...
July 11, 2024 at 23:32
As I remember, advaita philosophy resorts to a process of identification just like monism. As I understand it, there are three metaphysical realities ...
July 11, 2024 at 13:46
We cannot prevent our assessments from slipping into how things should be. We cannot avoid that our assessments are posed on a quasi-universality spac...
July 11, 2024 at 04:15
From my point of view non-duality means monism (there is only one substance) and duality means dualism (two substances). But I am not a substantialist...
July 11, 2024 at 03:18
I'm referring to ideas like of the Good, which are found in a hyperuranian topos and cannot be constructed but can be discovered. That is, as simple i...
July 01, 2024 at 02:55
My stance is kinda particular on this matter. I claim that Universality is always virtual, it is under construction and surpasses our subjective parti...
July 01, 2024 at 01:26
Think about the embodied-mind. There would be a relation between our ability to grasp objects and the appearance of things as objects in our perceptio...
June 30, 2024 at 15:58
Well, according to my view the idea of God is located at de limits of the reasonable. Just because is a limit-idea which overflows any context of a po...
June 30, 2024 at 15:38
I think you are misleading my argument. A proof like Gödel's continues in this step of enclosing God through logic. Again, can't God be contradictory?...
June 30, 2024 at 15:30
There is something interesting that arises from considering the possible proof of God: Why do we believe that God is something that can be proven? A P...
June 30, 2024 at 07:25
Hello. When we say that objects are a product of language, we are simply shifting the problem from the external world to the interiority of language. ...
June 29, 2024 at 23:57
When I think about emergentism, a lot of questions always arise (and of course I don't ask to be answered, since they are a bit rhetorical): When we s...
January 10, 2024 at 05:35
I think you do not take into account that the gravitational singularity is defined according to space-time, although we are talking about an infinite ...
January 07, 2024 at 20:36
I wouldn't say Newtonian. I conceive spatiality and temporality as part of the thing to the extent that it is always in relationship. However, when ta...
January 06, 2024 at 15:38
In that case "two fingers" is the third one I am referring to. "Two fingers" is the sign here. To the "two fingers" you have to ADD "oranges" or "appl...
January 06, 2024 at 01:48
A toddler can see the difference but does not see it as a numerical difference. He can see the difference between an isolated object, and see objects ...
January 05, 2024 at 22:50
So you think you are as old as the big-bang? If not then you have come into existence like many other people. And not only that but you are different ...
January 05, 2024 at 16:16
Yesterday I went to the market and told a worker "give me two of those melons." He gave me the two melons. But! The imaginary worker-philosopher might...
January 05, 2024 at 02:56
I wouldn't say "in-built math". Toddler can differentiate and identify. The quantity appear in another level perception. After all, when we think in n...
January 05, 2024 at 02:37
Well, if he doesn't know how to count he probably doesn't know that there are two things. He knows that there is a difference and that they are separa...
January 05, 2024 at 02:26
I have said "I have" as I can say "I have counted." To you it seems that apples and oranges are numbers, to me their numeration may simply be external...
January 04, 2024 at 20:12
We do not know. "Have" refers to property. I prefer to say apples and oranges can be counted as something potential. We learn to count. But first thin...
January 04, 2024 at 19:40
I don't mean given in the sense of something given once and for all without the need for explanation. I am referring to something given in a historica...
January 04, 2024 at 18:31
If I have 5 oranges in one basket and I have 5 apples in another basket, the 5 does not seem to participate in Appleness nor the orangeness. So the nu...
January 04, 2024 at 17:51
If I understand correctly, you are referring to something similar to Kant's categories. In this case to the quantity category. Well, I'm not a big fan...
January 04, 2024 at 15:52
I mean phenomena in the sense that they are objects that are presented and prepared for scientific work. These objects, however, may be the product of...
January 04, 2024 at 06:23
Actually we do see many new things appear: new stars, new human beings, new social problems, new diseases, new hopes, new philosophies, new theories, ...
January 04, 2024 at 05:31
Certainly what I have said is close to what Chalmers thinks. Although I would not go so far as to talk about the mental, the mathematical, etc. as som...
January 04, 2024 at 01:22
I don't think this is the place to discuss the reductionism involved in conceiving meaning as simple brain processes. There is an association but no i...
January 03, 2024 at 17:27
Yes: without the need for this reduction we can access truths, demonstrations, deductions, correlations, empirical verifications, and so many other sc...
January 03, 2024 at 17:00
The question is whether physicalism should be founded on knowledge. Founded on the knowledge provided by our sciences. Otherwise, ironically, physical...
January 03, 2024 at 16:29