Metaphysician Undercover

The problem I see is that not only retention is proper to the present for Husserl, but protension (anticipation) as well. This creates the divisibilit...

You seemed to be inclined to attempt to avoid the problem by claiming "semantic technicalities", rather than to face the problem for what it is. The p...

What's he got in his hands, a rifle?

"Tribal hippies"?

The problem within immanence in the strict sense, is that immanent, meaning inherent within, does not conceptualize the 'beyond', or transcendent whic...

Time keeping was needed by farmers to know when to plant crops. It was a matter of keeping track of the days with astrological charts, monuments on th...

You're living in your own private Idaho.

I don't think so, the pattern is in the description, it is described as a pattern. It is dark then it is light, that's how it is described. When it is...

No, that's the point I am making, there is no pattern inherent in the numbers. The pattern is a property of how the numbers are applied. So numbers, a...

That's right, as we can imagine human beings who don't think with words at all, and especially other animals which don't use words, but still think. T...

Yes, there are two levels of distinction referred to. In ch3 it was the distinction between the thing imagined, (the imagined word in this case), and ...

The problem I see with this is that in the quote from Husserl, on p41, it is clearly stated: "...there is no speech in such cases, nor does one tell o...

Of course there's a force! The question though, is the force within the compass, external to it, or both?

Well, it seems to be a pivotal point. If there is ambiguity on Husserl's part, then although StreetlightX has accused me of category error, and I have...

The patterns would have been of their own creation, how they interpreted what they saw. So they would have made geometrical figures, patterns, to repr...

I would not say that this ability to predict was founded on a reliable truth at all, it was founded on a falsity. If ancient astrologists, cosmologist...

Yes, sure there is a concrete act occurring as the act of fantasizing, but is it not the fantasized object which is immediately present to the mind of...

Before we jump on that springboard we should consider it for soundness, and examine it for weakness.

If you don't want to discuss the text with me, that's fine. But to make such unsupported accusations is not. Clearly, as per the quotes provided by me...

Here's the point StreetlightX. If absolute ideality is characterized as imagination (pure fiction) on the one hand, and the possibility of indefinite ...

p44: "In this way, against Husserl's express intention - we come to make Vorstellung in general and, as such, depend on the possibility of repetition....

But the issue goes deeper than the sign, which is the possibility of repetition, to the possibility of ideality itself. Expression, for Husserl seems ...

I don't see how impossibility can be derived from possibility, because I believe that they belong to distinct categories. Impossibility is a necessity...

I think that the realization of death is brought about by the transcendence of the ideal. Notice the difference between "presence" and "the present", ...

I think that what is meant by repetition in relation to the sign, is that if the missing food, in your example, is a sign of the rat, then this is a r...

I'm not sue that it follows necessarily that expression is subject to the repetitions of the sign. It might just mean that we have to go deeper within...

With words though, different people do imagine the very same words. For example, you and I can both imagine "word". If this is not a case of us both r...

Then what are you saying?

If the statue is fixed to the earth, and the earth is moving, then in what sense is it true to say that the statue is not moving? And if the statue re...

That may be your claim, and you can assert it all you like, but unless you qualify your statement to indicate this, I really don't see how your assert...

Well your example,"it's pissing it down" was clearly metaphorical. So how is it objectively true that you are not moving while you are hurtling throug...

If you want to discuss metaphor, that's fine, but it's not consistent with the op which seeks objective truth. "The sun will rise tomorrow" was offere...

That is not at all analogous. "The sun rises" implies that the sun is involved in an activity, rising. But it is false to say that the sun is what is ...

All right, I'll go with that. The act of perception itself posits the transcendent object. The object is apprehended as possible phases, perhaps an in...

Thanks for the clarification on terminology. My point being that we haven't yet seen the justification for positing the word, or the sign, as a transc...

I suggest that in such actions which happen fast without advance warning, "they let you do it" does not imply consent prior to the act, it implies tha...

The problem here is that the sun really doesn't rise. The scientific explanation of this phenomenon, the illusion that the sun rises day after day, is...

As I understand it, (though I haven't heard the exact recording of what he said), the issue is not one of "womanizing", but that what Trump described ...

I do not think that this assumed category of "real stuff", as separate, transcendental "things", is justified. The world is psychical. If there is suc...

More precisely, the schema I described has the eternal never passing into the past. That is how it is outside of time. Imagine that we always experien...

You know, we all die, it's sure to come about whether you will it or not. Could you explain what you mean here, isn't the conventional the mundane? Wh...

Thanks for the info. I find this a very interesting subject. as I have believed, for a long time, that there is a distinct difference between spoken a...

It may be worthwhile to consider here, the non-phonetic language of mathematics, and all of those mathematical symbols which are principally written b...

First and foremost, an object is a unity, this is described in your passage from Nonin-roshi. We see things as objects, unities, but it is our percept...

I think there are many different ways to interpret, so when thinking about time, it's good not to really "conclude" anything. This is a big part of th...

I was really thinking that you're clearly wrong about this Wayfarer, because God is immaterial, having the type of existence of an intelligible object...

Actually the whole thing really pisses me off, I can't even think about it because it upsets me. Paul did so much work, spent so much time building an...

Perhaps this is an extreme form of skepticism. This would be very useful, especially in today's materialist society. We tend to think that knowledge i...

There is a passage concerning this on page 35, what makes a word recognizable as the same word, "...the sameness of the word is ideal." "It is the ide...

Let's look at it this way then. Suppose I memorize "a centaur is a creature with the head, arms and torso of a man, and body and legs of a horse". Als...