Huh? How does that relate to what I said? Are you saying that the thermometer is useless if you don't know how to read it? I think that's kind of obvi...
I saw you briefly in our Derrida's "Voice and Phenomenon" reading group Mongrel. Check out the summary of Ch6 which I'll quote here: "The ideal object...
This may be the case, that we can make such subjective judgements without the need for an absolute, but that's not "all that really matters". What rea...
I did name the thing, "moment". So I have the principle of identity right here within the moment, as an identified thing. But each moment is a differe...
But I think the issue is whether or not there is an absolute good, not exactly what such a good would be. If we are of the opinion that there is an ab...
Each moment in time is a return, like you say that each Sunday is a return, but there is difference in each moment, and so it is unique. I would say t...
I was a little hasty with my replies yesterday, so let me explain a bit better the way I see this issue. I am actually very interested in the idea of ...
We say that they are different because we notice that they are not the same. The reason why you are distinct from the computer screen is that we perce...
It appears like both StreetlightX and Willow of Darkness want to think about things which words cannot describe, then discuss these things using words...
OK, so you take a well used, well defined word, like "selection", give it a secret definition, which no one has heard of, or knows about, then claim t...
Oh, and by the way StreetlightX, it was you who brought up the notion of will, by saying that selection is non-voluntary. And this is indicative of th...
OK, selection is the subject of the inquiry. Now you ask what thing acts to make a selection.Your answer, "nothing". My point: if nothing acts to make...
You haven't yet addressed the key point of my argument though, and that is the nature of selection itself. Deleuze characterizes selection as non-volu...
Chapter 7 is rather long and convoluted, and no one has offered a summary yet. I vote we give it another week. I, for one have been rather busy, and u...
If you have an inkling of what I'm saying, I'll proceed deeper to what really concerns me. What is at issue here is the nature of "the same". "The sam...
It's not at all like asking what causes God, because God is conceived of as a real actuality, you are talking about "nothing". Yes, being selected by ...
What you say doesn't really make sense. You claim that immanence denies the possibility that form may act to select. OK, form cannot select. So, what ...
OK sure, I can understand that. But you've already said that this eternal return "ensures that a selection must be made at every point". So I take it ...
StreetlightX, are you able to explain a basis for the assumed "eternal return"? I ask this, because there must be a principle whereby a "return" is ne...
But the argument assumes a particular quantification, a first, second, third moment of time, etc.. Without this quantification of time, there is no ar...
Time is continuous. To assume that there are moments in time is to contradict "time is continuous". Therefore either my assumption that time is contin...
I guess we're pretty much in agreement then, but this "seeing is believing" thing is a little bit disturbing. It seems quite selfish to hold this pers...
I don't agree, I think we ask others to corroborate, and this is the epistemic gold standard. I realize that in common experience there is a tendency ...
But don't you think that there's a difference between believing something and knowing something? I don't think that anyone here doubts that Colin had ...
Isn't it necessary, that as real existing things which can be seen and heard by others, we are also ourselves noumenal? So why would we not be able to...
Punshhh, Do you agree, that noumenon is described by Kant, as "intelligible object", similar to what Wayfarer has explained? As such, it must be inher...
With respect to (1), what I said is that the experience must be identified. We have only the person's words to go by in identifying the experience. So...
The fact is, that deception remains as a very real aspect of our existence. And, this fact supports, as evidence, the reality of the secret inner worl...
Those are "others" whom Colin refers to. He envies others who seem to understand easily what he had so much difficulty with. There is nothing here to ...
No, that wrong, that's what I said, but I wasn't thinking it. That's how deception works, saying something other than what your thinking, and deceptio...
When you experience something, you can say "I know what that was", and proceed merrily on your way. That is simplicity. Otherwise, you can stop, analy...
In this case, Granny has offered us some specifics. Mister Paws was on her bed. But we might know Mister Paws was buried in the ground, dead, with a c...
"Soapboxy", I like that. Does that mean I have something to stand on? The fact is though, that you used "equal", and so I commented on your use of tha...
In Wayfarer's words, "driveby contributor". This statement betrays a slight scientific bent. The term "equal" is inapplicable here, it is derived from...
Yeah, but it's all paradoxical. Natural is contrasted with artificial, but anything a human being does is something artificial. It is natural for a hu...
As I said, the issue here is one of convention. The convention of natural science is one which takes time for granted. Under this convention, eternali...
Yes, of course, suppressing the bad in yourself actually does something toward getting rid of it in humanity as a whole. It is one step toward that en...
What I think is at issue here is the conventions employed when we describe our experiences. It is by means of these conventions that my description of...
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