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Yes and this is one of the great qualities of philosophical enquiry! You commence a path that appears to be singular and linear (due to ignorance and ...

There is this excellent history of philosophy lecture series by Arthur Holmes

Glad I am not the only one who feels this way. We might as well argue how many angels can fit on the head of a pin.

The fact that you can even play these language games displays the inherant ambiguity

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Yes. A couple of times. I wish Wilde had written more books! I'm reading Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson by David Lapoujade

And there are many different ways to solve a problem in programming depending on the programmer, paradigm or programming language. Object orientated i...

The problem is not that some philosophers keep things ambiguous, but that some believe ambiguity can be eliminated. It is OK that there is still some ...

I don't really care much to equate programming with philosophical thinking. At most it can only map to a logical modality of thought. In programming y...

In France it's mandatory in many places. So, I am wearing a masque not because I believe in its efficacy at preventing virus spread, but because I lit...

Virtual particles do not appear from nothing. They are a result of energy converted into mass. So, we can't find 'nothing' there either.

It's not clear what you mean by chaos exactly, but nevertheless, chaos would still be the chaos of something. It may even be a fact that chaos represe...

"why is there persistent disagreement in philosophy?" I suppose because we haven't got everything figured out yet. And disagreement could be considere...

A knock-off of who?

Dissappear?

ah OK. I'm not very familiar with peirce's work. I suppose the answer to the irony of Bergson using those spatial analogies is that he was attempting ...

I wonder if aletheist is referring to Bergson’s notion of durée. Continuous time (durée) is a heterogeneous multiplicity, which differs in kind to tha...

"We only experience time when we're awake" I suppose it doesn't necessarily follow that dreams themselves are non temporal (iyo), but in any case you ...

Different signifiers, same signified?

So I dispute your assertion that dreams are a non temporal experience. Is there any conscious experience outside of time? If the answer is no, then we...

I have experienced dreams that had temporality as an important factor. To give a general example, imagine a nightmare, in which the dreamer is aware o...

Henri Bergson.

Ah objectivity is faith based then

I agree that a generalised rule shouldn't be formed from an objective specific.

How can you know nothing about reality and also know that it's objective?

It seems like you both made assertions, but actually it was just his opinion and your post was just your opinion. Clearly your opinion differs from th...

Really? What is better? For some 'better' is winning in the shortest amount of moves possible. For others 'better' is the ingenuity of play. If you me...

This thread is just a collective stream of consciousness. How can consciousness be objective?

Of course there are 2 distinct perceptions. We are not an identical entity, we are disparate. I did not argue for idealism. So your gem argument has n...

I don't object to the statement but I do have to understand it through my subjectivity. How could I not? I have my doubts about strict objectivity.

It doesn't need to be the case that 'true' is exactly identical for everyone. It is sufficient that everyone finds enough truth in a statement to make...

Do truth statements need to be absolutely objective? Can truth statements be both objective and subjective at once? In that case, I would prefer to sa...

does perception require a reference point?

This is just your imagination of another perspective, from your reference point.

They do require a reference point though, because the data provided through these domains must be subject to interpretation.

You do not have to account for extention if the act of perception occurs at the object itself; that is to say that perception operates from the periph...

It is an intrinsic function of our perception that breaks time up into discrete moments and spatializes it. This is an external perspective. Real time...

'Blitz spirit!' Here in la France 'nous sommes en guerre', as macron has repeatedly stated.

No, narrow minded.

To take it to an extreme: would you be capable of "not giving a fuck" if someone raped and murdered your children? I think not.

It's also important to note that 'Notion' (or concept) is used here (beginning in section 6 iirc) in contrast to 'intuition'. Hegel is critiquing thos...

I think it would be preferable, to avoid cluttering up screen space, in simply referencing sections, rather than quoting whole chunks of text at a tim...

It will pass. Go see a psychoanalyst perhaps.

So your definition of art is that it shouldn't be defined.

Alright OP, but why make it a universal?

Emily Apter - Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects Emily Apter - Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsess...

Thanks! You are correct, there is not much around this topic. I found this set of podcasts though: http://generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/rhythmanalysis...

Henri Lefebvre - Rhythmanalysis Dawn Lyon - What is Rhythmanalysis? Yi Chen - Practising Rhythmanalysis (anyone have recommendations around this?)

I know he's not on the list, but Heidegger gets my vote.

Why do you need a why?