You're really not making sense Russel. People are not external to their experiences. Experience is an intrinsic aspect of being a human being. It does...
Why not? You have a multitude of senses, a brain, and all sorts of tools within your body, which could enable you to experience the very duration whic...
Why do you want to bore us all the way to hell, just to tap into it's blazing furnace, when we all know that true freedom is to be found in the other ...
I don't think there is any science which truly reveals how long the present is for a human being, but I've seen reports of lengths up to a couple seco...
This is why I brought up the phrase "the identity of identity and non-identity". But to be clear, it is Hegel whom Adorno accuses of giving identity t...
I believe we actually perceive motion, activity, and this requires temporal duration, therefore we do perceive duration. I think that the "moment in t...
Consider this passage, and the diversity of difference referred to. When primacy is granted to the subject, this diversity, which actually constitutes...
I'll try to explain to you why I see it that way. Notice the end of the last section. "Contradiction is non-identity under the bane of the law, which ...
I believe the context for the next section is set by the opening sentence, referencing non-contradiction: "This law is however not one of thinking, bu...
Well, I had to look that one up. I didn't know how to take it, but thank you. We'll see how the reading progresses, but the critical question seems to...
I believe Plato went through a very similar issue with his dialectics, i.e. the failure of identity as a mediation. This is why Aristotle made identit...
I don't think "real" solves the problem. If our primary distinction is between concepts and objects, and we are talking about relations between concep...
I find that this is a very confusing use of "objective". We have the subject on one side, and deficiencies in the approach of the subject are called "...
The aggressive taxes are meant to curb peoples appetite for dirty energy, you know, like the sin taxes are meant to do. No one is going to put billion...
As far as I can tell that distinction is arbitrary. And from what I've read so far, Adorno treats it as such, regardless of whether or not he asserts ...
Due to the inconsistency in what you have written here, I interpret what you are really saying is that the distinction is not something real, it is me...
Sometimes, it is good to look specifically at inconsistencies. This I think, is "critical" analysis, and that approach helps to reveal the evolving as...
I would say that it is just a little but amended. And that is very easy to understand, because "society" is an extremely difficult and vague concept, ...
Yes, I think that's the point. Such a principle of universality of "use" would necessarily be false, because actual use is inherently formed to match ...
OK, so this difference of interpretation is rooted in the different ways that you and I apprehend "society". You have claimed that society is an objec...
I have just a few last remarks before we leave this difference of interpretation, which may not be substantial anyway. It appears to me, like the diff...
Good morning Jamal, I see that you somewhat misunderstood what I wrote, so I'll clear up that aspect right away: Oh, I see, I wasn't clear, and you mi...
It's actually a very subtle difference of interpretation, with significant consequences. First, consider all those different connotations of "ideology...
I agree with your interpretation, and the import of historicity, process, becoming, but Adorno leaves significant ambiguity for interpretations which ...
That's right, withot form, matter would be a no-thing, pure potential. As potential, it neither is nor is not. That's what we were discussing earlier,...
What he says is that subjective behaviour of human beings is just the appearance, while the objective social structure which in a sense is the cause o...
Strictly speaking, matter is potential. What gives it actuality is form. Matter without form, as "prime matter" which Aristotle pondered, is a no-thin...
That is what I dispute. We can only see at the moment of the present, so that there is something there which persists through time, a tree in your exa...
I would question the truth of this proposition. What is perceived is change, not persistence, and the supposed "persistent thing" which is required fo...
There's a type of activity, which is sort of passive, what Wittgenstein called idling. Wittgenstein criticized this, but he was wont to demonstrate in...
I don't really understand what you are asking but I'll try to answer your questions to the best of my ability. Form is, as I said, what the thing is. ...
This is simply wrong, and not at all representative of what is actually found in Aristotle's Metaphysics. I've provided much evidence for you, in our ...
Actually, you might research this. The law of identity, "a thing is the same as itself", as derived from Aristotle, is completely different from the m...
It's Aristotle who designated the identity of the individual as within the individual itself, commonly known as the law of identity, "a thing is the s...
No, that is what I am saying. The law of identity, "a thing is the same as itself" indicates that there is an identity ("correct construal" if you lik...
I question your use of "reason". Generally we associate reason with rational, and this aspect of the mind is not at all rational, even opposed to it. ...
This relationship between the rational and irrational was a bit perplexing to me. Look at the conscious/unconscious relation we just discussed. The co...
I think I indicated that it's not philosophically uncontroversial. The point is that we assume that there are real things, and that the thing's identi...
OK, you are refusing to accept what Hanover called "temporal necessity". This sense of necessity implies that past actions, and the present state of b...
Aren't you contradicting yourself? First you say "It's what necessity is". Then you say that alternate senses are catered to as well. If there are oth...
You present me with two senses of "necessity" then you limit yourself to one. I accept temporal necessity, past things are fixed, but I reject metaphy...
In order to properly represent the true nature of time, there are subtle differences of language which we must respect. "X could have been otherwise",...
I don't think I agree with this. The nature o time explains both, why things could have been otherwise, and also why whatever is, is necessarily the c...
I generally do. I do not completely dismiss the reciprocity between the conscious and unconscious, but I've come to think of it as more one way. Vast ...
I like to think about the role that intention plays in art. We tend to think of intention as a direct conscious awareness of a specific goal, guiding ...
"Possible worlds" is an interpretive term, and it's really irrelevant. It makes no sense to speak of a world which is possible. They are not actually ...
Actually, Hanover clearly agreed with me, that modal logic when applied to future possibility is not consistent with classical logic. So it is really ...
What I see in Lecture 9 is an overall goal of apprehending the creative aspect of thinking. It is an "intrinsic aspect of irrationality" which is esse...
This is sort of ridiculed, as trying to "enclose the infinite in a finite network of axioms". It's another instance of narrowness, the "provinciality"...
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