See now, what if tomorrow, you are walking down the street and clouds overtake the sky with thunder and a voice says “AmadeusD, the movie was …” and h...
I will try to make my point again just to see if I can make it. This doesn’t have to be about God until the end of the basic point. We can only come t...
Yeah, “being in the middle” isn’t even a sentence, let alone a noun like “existenz”. I like “thrown-ness” which I think is Heidegger. But ‘being in th...
If you notice, I said identity evades. I didn’t say identity is not. I agree we can know things. My point here is that in order to do epistemology, yo...
Three things: ability to parcel; the totality of experience; as one chooses. This is pivotal to the argument so I am adding support here. You are basi...
Also a good quote. Same sense of “good” as my last comment. But language is the only place in this universe where something might truly be fixed, made...
I thought it did. But if God doesn't blip the radar, I get it. Always a possibility. Anytime we listen to anyone else's words we are in jeopardy. Espe...
What if what was said was exactly what the person needed to hear and the person didn’t even know they needed to hear it? Like in the movie the Sixth S...
But there is the saying. We say. The becoming that is us, make saying come to be. Once saying is, things are said. Once things are said, dichotomy blo...
Yes, direct awareness is becoming. I called it awareness because Janus did, to keep in line with that. But I would rather call it being aware. You hav...
I think I need to step back. Nietzsche was aware of Kant, and though he picked on Kant, he saw that knowledge was cut off from the objects it sought t...
Then my coin would be missing a side. I still like animating everything else though… I think I like a version of your coin better. I see science as th...
I like it. The oscillation of living human beings is to tell stories that attempt to map paths to beginnings and endings. Do you count philosophy and ...
I agree. It makes sense to me that empirical science was later distinguished from philosophy which came first. They are more essentially connected as ...
Fair question. I maybe shouldn’t have said questions. Someone has a dream of God or sees a burning bush and hears a voice - that is one whole thing to...
If God speaks to someone at all, that person is presented with two different questions, was it God and what is this God trying to say. If you look onl...
In what sense? That the philosopher doesn’t understand the symbols but can use a manual to create responses that work but have no understanding behind...
I can see reading me that way. Basically agree with you. You’re seeing me from a perspective, but you’re seeing me. But I’d frame the reluctance (whic...
Good stuff. You said it all there. “direct awareness” - the present becoming of experience.. Thrown there, in motion, with it. It immediately presents...
You sound like an expert, deep in the cave, unafraid of the light and the dark - welcome to the forum! The concept of the qualia of experience is a gr...
In the following sense, yes. Philosophizing is a reflective, meta activity. The earth formed and out of the waters animals diversified, and human bein...
It’s easy to misrepresent Nietzsche, and when you try to briefly summarize what he says you are in danger of leaving so much out. A lot of philosophic...
But a statement like “certainty is relative” is not relative. I agree that we are only certain of things within a context, but when we say “certainty ...
Science is science of x. Except philosophy, which is the science of science or the science of scientiIzing. So philosophy is inherently self-reflectiv...
“Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon wh...
It would better be put “there is only belief.” Or “there is no knowledge.” You can’t know what a belief is or what the difference between beliefs and ...
I see that because the story of the God of the Bible has to emerge from a patchwork, and a patchwork that is as much fact and history as it is fantast...
So I asked you what does Descartes mean. And you said. If he was making an inference, then he was making or inferring. If he was setting out an intuit...
You said “justification”. I thought of a third way to address your question. You distinguished “certainty of the Cogito” from “without justification”....
I don’t know what you are asking me. If you are asking am I certain that I exist while I am in the act of thinking “I exist”, than yes - I am certain ...
Then I don’t know what you are arguing with me about. I already said I’m not interested in the gaming of logical analysis of “I think; therefore, I am...
I can coherently deny any sense data, like reading “this post”. But I can’t deny to myself that I am reading, or at least that I think I am reading. (...
The “validity?” Of the cogito text? An “analysis”? The point of the cogito, once you get the point, is that no analysis is needed; by analyzing anythi...
No, no urgency in the cogito or anti-cogito argument. Just trying to analogize looking at the logic of the words before addressing the meaning of the ...
Descartes says: “You are standing on the train tracks, and that train is coming fast, therefore you are going to get hit!” Opponent: “First of all the...
The inquisition, the crusades, the child abuse and pedophilia - these aren't Christianity. These are the perhaps the gravest sins ever committed becau...
I am. ..saying that. I have been. …saying that. I say, therefore I am. (Just ignore the “therefore” if the game of expressing “I say” or “I am” as a c...
Yup. It’s hard to say anything without presupposing. Even hard for you to say “It is denied” without presupposing all of the logic and games surroundi...
My general take is that there is no good way to say what the cogito is trying to say. But at the same time, what it is trying to say can’t be denied, ...
There is a reason 90% of all people 10 years old or more think “I think therefore I am” is a stupid argument. It’s not because of the logic; it’s beca...
So observing and thinking are different. I was talking about observing my own act of observing, like a self-reflection, which is like relfection, or t...
No it’s not. The statement is “I think, therefore I am.” This is the same statement as “I am thinking, therefore I am.” In the alcohol induced version...
If “think” means “think” then “”think” warrants for the meaning of “think.” So you can’t say think doesn’t warrant for anything. No one is saying “I a...
I swim, therefore I am wet. If you define swimming as propulsion through water, then being wet is contained in, or comes along with, or is a consequen...
Lots of vodka drinking causes one to be drunk. I am drinking lots of vodka, therefore, I am drunk. “Therefore” causally joins drinking to subsequent d...
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