Dawnstorm

Not really, no. People die only once; the rest of the time they can expect to live. Plenty of stuff to prepare for inbetween, like your next meal mayb...

Language itself is an institution (at least in sociology). I'm not sure I remember how Marx used the word, but I doubt modern Marxist sociologist woul...

I find this really hard to talk about, as I'm not that firm with the terminology. Maybe what I'm getting at is more conceptual than phenomenological? ...

Yeah, I could have phrased that better. I do agree with the quote that follows what I've just quoted (and I remember you saying that more than once, t...

I think metaphors are always tricky, and they're never quite right (because if the thing you're comparing it to weren't different, it wouldn't open up...

I'm having trouble with the metaphor. See, the brain's first and foremost a wet-ware robot control system. Part of that includes a process we call con...

Just a short note: in that post about phrases I used the term "Determiner Phrase". I'd advise you to ignore it. It's a minority theory and might be mo...

I tried to google "shopping list" and "poem" to maybe find some hint as to what I remember. Instead I found a whole host of shoppinglist-poems. Seems ...

Thanks. To be honest, I'm not sure if you're characterisation of my post was inaccurate; what I think I write isn't always what ends up on the page, e...

I'm not sure with what? I don't speak much French, but turning a poem into song lyrics... changes things. To different degrees, depending on how it wo...

Oh, sorry. I meant the word "terse" is odd: I associate it with speech, behaviour of people. It's the first conspicuous time I noticed that nature was...

To be honest, I find this hard to answer. First the last sentence: my post is more about how I read the poem than about the what the poem did. I've ex...

I'm guessing it's that linebreaks slow you down, and you pay more attention to the words in themselves. We're conditioned to read prose for meaning fi...

Oh dear, there's way too much going on here, and.. well, it's a secondary topic I've studied on university level, so my problem is mostly how to be br...

Oh, it's definitely just a semantic issue. And there's no need to put it differently. I just wanted to put my bias out there, so if I misunderstand yo...

Just a little note on what my intuition tells me when I hear the terms form and function in relation to key signature: A key signature is neither func...

. I think I understand approximately what you're saying, but there are two things I find difficult: (1) What is artistic function? It's mostly semanti...

I'm enough of a relativist (intuitively) to feel this keenly, and I'm also aware of different philosophies in translation. A big topic is "How much cu...

I tend to agree when reading. Interestingly, when translating, I feel a sort of responsibility to get as close to the poem as I possibly can (even if ...

It's interesting to read the translation of the Rilke poem. Here's the German version, for those who speak the language, or for those otherwise curiou...

I think I'm getting better now, where you come from. I don't much care about real-world truth, when I read a poem. I was tempted to say I don't care a...

I'm not sure I can follow what you're saying. No, I didn't buy a cat today, and it follows that none of the other lines are true either. Is that what ...

Depends on what you mean by "poetic". I just improvised a four line poem with no metaphors in it whatsoever: I bought a cat today She came to me to pl...

The article says he won first place for digital art. AI is definitely a digital tool. I see no problem. From the article: If he'd submitted the first ...

Mead's pretty important, yes. He's conceptualising the self as a social process, the dynamic between the "me" (what you think you are in the eyes of t...

I didn't expect to come across a post riffing off Giddens. For context: I have a degree in sociology, but I haven't been keeping up with the subject m...

They don't appear to me to be saying that, though. See, the use/mention distinction is only relevant to the word iron. And words occur in the institui...

Okay, I have a few thoughts on this. First, language is an instituation, and it's a pervasive one. Almost all other institutions will involve langauge...

This is important. The institutional facts don't only care about what is said, but also about where, when and by whom it is said. For example: The nov...

It's not even about human nature, for me. I think any kind of utopian ideal, perfection, or whatever you may want to call it ignores inconvenient apse...

Regarding the poll, I voted undicided/no theory, and I'd have voted the same for the final question, except there was no option for that, so I voted "...

That's always been my working assumption when approaching he question of God and talking to others about God. I'm the son of Roman-Catholic parents wh...

Free will has nothing to do with God, in that sense. I don't actually find the idea of God interesting in itself; it's something I'd just shrug off an...

I find it fascinating that something that feels like obvious nonsense to me can be believed by so many people. I think to get to bottom of it, you'd h...

Raitionally justifying belief can help you if you're seriously consider the belief. I doubt it'll help at all if your intution tells you the item at h...

Thanks. It would be interesting to read that interview, but I suspect it'd be hard to find a translation online. I'm an atheist, too, but I can't even...

Without context, it's just a line, and I can't find the context. From his nobel lecture I don't even get the impression that literature and religion a...

I had a similar reaction to Caldwell, but for me it was the realisation that I've been reading the story "wrongly". It's actually never been confusing...

Sure. I think the point here is that perception is never quite naive? I'm not sure. "Same awareness": Same as what? I wasn't actually looking at a red...

If I do that, two concepts compete in my mind for attention: the entire visual apparatus (which I conjur up from memory), and the flower (which curren...

I somehow mixed up "determinacy" (which comes up in the title of this thread) with "determinism" (which doesn't). I did actually think you're a compat...

Well that could have been said clearer. As soon as I figure out what I meant to say, I'll let you know how. I do know that used the word "determine" i...

I'm not actually sure the consciousness/unconsciouness distinction is my major point, though it's definitely relevant. I think I'm trying to piece tog...

I'm thinking you'll need to look more into telosis (or maybe I should since I'm seeing it). Let me explain with an example: My telos is "Type 'typo'" ...

In addition, symbols on something a non-affiliated person brought into the hospital for private use aren't comparable to symbols mounted on the hospit...

I've been on another forum that combined likes with a short private message. I once wrote a really long post that I put a lot of time and thought in. ...

I think it's a mix of wholism and pragmatism. There's one world. Any way we might subdivide it is dependent on our needs (which are also a part of the...

That's me, too. My parents would play the Christmas/Easter game long after they knew that I knew where the presents/Easter eggs really came from. I ju...

I wonder how many atheists ever get to a clear conception to what it is that doesn't exist. I'm the son of Roman Catholic parents, and the god concept...

Yeah, but that's not what we have here, really. To calculate probability, you need two things: A random variable, and assumptions about its distributi...