Metaphysician Undercover

I wonder what's the difference between devotion and conviction.

So your argument, that we are all physical beings is based on what you are hoping physics will discover some day. OK, I'm a millionaire too, based on ...

It seems we all like to think of ourselves as farmers on this site. I guess propagating plants and animals naturally leads toward propaganda. Hey, eve...

I don't know about adding oxalic acid to food stuff. That's what they bleach wood with to get nice white paper. It's also really good for cleaning toi...

What is commonly known as quantum uncertainty, is an uncertainty which is caused by the objects in question not following the laws of physics.

If the first single-celled organism required something immaterial (the soul) then physicalism is excluded. So this basic description does not provide ...

To be clear, I am not saying that Aristotle's accidents are equivalent to Adornos non-identical. Equivalence itself is taken as an identity type of re...

I think that's a very good assessment Jamal. I completely agree with the substance of what you wrote, especially the last few paragraphs. There's one ...

I'm always open to adjust my view point as I read the text further, and often forces me to reread. So I don't know if we can get past the impasse at t...

That's good. We'll just continue, I'll speak my words, you speak yours. When we clash we clash, so be it.

Before anyone cuts me off with heavy criticism, I'll go a bit further to explain the need for the turn around. Plato exposed this need with "the good"...

Think of the "object" as the grounding, what objectifies or substantiates the philosophy. Hegel has the false ground of idealism, absolute spirit, whi...

We are essentially in agreement, other than some fine details about word usage which creates the appearance of inconsistency to me. The principal disp...

I will offer my opinion here, but our modes of interpretation have diverged significantly, so much so that unless you adopt the principles which you r...

I think it is definitely not possible, that's why we categorize by types, to extend our comprehension of what is possible as much as we think is possi...

Isn't that the opening phase of a migraine?

Sorry Outlander, I really cannot follow your argument. You talk about experiencing emotion, and I have no problem with that premise. It is a broadly a...

Yes, every emotion is an internal condition of the material subject. Why would you think that this implies that consciousness is not real? In Marxist ...

In case you weren't aware, suffering is an internal condition of the subject. Clearly he acknowledges the reality of the internal nonconceptual. That ...

If you can't follow that, it becomes more explicit later. Here's the second paragraph in "Thing, Language, History". It starts with the assertion that...

It's what the section on the solidified is all about. Here's some cherry picking. Notice that he is inverting, turning around, what Hegelian logic tea...

Perhaps, but I think it is the tool, as the means to the end, which actually overcomes the circumstances. It is more proper to say that the means is w...

I broached this already with Jamal. If "dialectics" refers to Hegelian dialectics, then Adorno is not practising dialectics, and this is not "the fram...

I don't think so. First, i didn't say anything about how mistake would be determined, only that we ought to believe it is possible. Then, when we look...

I've got a heavy arsenal and I'll choose the weapon according to intent and circumstances. Just kidding, we're not doing battle, nor even debating, ju...

The problem with this description is that under the principles derived from Karl Marx, there is no proper separation between the internal mind, and th...

In this context, I think of ideas as being composed of form and content. The formal aspect is the conceptual, and the content is nonconceptual. The co...

I think the issue is the nature of "representation", and the different types of mistakes which are possible. Suppose that we consider words as an exam...

Are you talking about that old lady who happened to be a supermodel?

To him, Life is a great big bang-up Wherever there's a hang-up ,,,

But the issue is the meaning of "nonconceptual". If "the nonconceptual is the negation of the concept", this just makes the nonconceptual something co...

That's why I was talking about the possibility of mistake. Instead of insisting that there must be real independent objects, because we perceive objec...

I think you are just stating the Hegelian perspective which Adorno disagrees with.

Each of these concepts is tied up with a whole lot of other concepts. Concepts are defined by others. I think Adorno is describing the nonconceptual i...

There is a certain self-contradictory aspect of your terminology. A concept is a universal. So it is somewhat contradictory to refer to "a particular ...

Anything perceived as an object, a book, a desk, a chair, might really be activity. Doesn't physics tell you that these supposed objects are just a bu...

Yes, that is the subject of process philosophy. And, I think it's exactly what modern physics has determined to be the case. So I believe it is likely...

I don't quite understand what you are asking Paine. Any activity I suppose. At each moment it is new and different, therefore there is no temporal ext...

Yes, that's right, he does. But the question we are looking at is the approach to the non-conceptual. Is the non-conceptual which is spoken of, an ext...

"Required as an assumption" implies that the assumption is a necessary aspect. That is why the sensation is commonly called a representation. It is as...

The meaning of "content" is the difficult part. I suggest you pay attention to Marx who was explicit in separating form and content. The distinction A...

Sounds like a TPF hangover. Maybe you are overindulging, inviting too many comments, then feeling the responsibility to reply.

The thing perceived is not necessarily objects. The person may judge oneself to be perceiving objects, but if "objects" doesn't fulfill the criteria f...

That's very good to hear AmadeusD, But what is this "over-hang effect"?

I'm afraid I probably can't help to untangle this mess. However, I'll give it a try. I believe there is a number of conceptual relations being discuss...

Ohhh, even the words feel so nice.

i understand "abductive reasoning" as a broad category encompassing a number of different types of informal reasoning processes. Some people want to r...

Sure, how does that mean that what I said makes no sense? It seems to make complete sense to me. There is something which caused the reality of the un...

But rotation is an activity which requires time. This puts time as prior to rotation. Rotation cannot get started without the passing of time. Therefo...

Ok, suppose "the social whole" is assumed as a means to tie things together. That could be a bit of a mistaken interpretation, uncharitable you might ...