Thanks, that all makes sense. But the issue for me is that the act of imagination is a mediation between the imagined word "centaur", and the noema, t...
Nice summary TGW, thanks for that. Here's my take. I see three phases of separation, or "removal" in this chapter. First, and primarily, the word as i...
Dominic Osborn, do you not think that there are others beside you, such as me, who have experience as well as you? Doesn't your experience of communic...
Yes, these are preferences in sense #2 which Pierre-Normand brought up. When we have decided that a principle is good, and accept it, we can say that ...
OK, so let's assume that we identify nothing. I take it that your argument is that we cannot proceed toward the law of non-contradiction, or any other...
Right, for the sake of argument, let's assume that reasons are "static preferences". Being static, they cannot act as a cause. It is the reasoning min...
This is where you are incorrect. The "override" is a judgement that the habit is bad. It is only a "preference" to be rid of the habit in the second s...
Well, do you recognize the difference between perceiving something and conceiving something? If you do, you can question what lies in between these tw...
This preference #2, is only determined after a choice is made, posteriorly, it describes the choice which has been made. "She choose X, therefore it w...
Well, I must admit that I don't see any logic to this type of criticism, so I generally ignore it, seeing no need to defend against it. It is just a s...
By "identified nothing' do you mean identified nothing as if it were something? Is this like seeing something which is not there? So when you no longe...
Why would you say this? It appears as contradiction. How can you say that "it chooses", if whatever it chooses it must choose? How is that a choice at...
I've read a fair bit of theological material, and I don't see God as that "which is inconceivable to us. I see God as that which is not yet fully conc...
The free will! If you understand that there is a process of evaluating preferences, how can you conclude that a preference is the cause of the choice....
That claim might be difficult to defend. God is one, but first and foremost, "one" signifies unity rather than simplicity. Surely the Christian God is...
I think you have things backward wuliheron. There is nothing in existence prior to the present, in the future, this is the "void". The void is that wa...
This is the power to not choose, to decline or deny any preference. Since it can decline any preference whatsoever, it cannot be a preference itself. ...
What is your notion of "void"? Is this an absence of everything, including gravity, space-time, everything? How could a void have contents, isn't this...
I find this to be a particularly meaningless statement. How would a large solid mass, the size of a wood stove achieve a velocity of close to the spee...
No, you have to follow the direction of the professor. This is why it is better to study philosophy at school rather than simply on your own, you are ...
Here's the problem. Every "fact" which I know of consists of a relationship between things. This fact is taken advantage of, by relativity theory. Not...
We do choose our preferences, we can examine any particular preference and choose to kick the habit. The fact that we are given preferences at a very ...
OK, so here's the part which stumps me. He refers to the "contents" of ideal objects, and the relations between the contents, and that these do not be...
Consider this passage from p25 then, and see if you can interpret it for me, because I'm stuck. "Motivations linking lived-experiences, the acts inten...
Derrida is very clear, that "the world" is psychical, and "the transcendental" is what is not contained within the world. He is quite unclear with his...
I don't think "denser" is the proper word. As I understand it, expansion doesn't affect density. What I think, is that when general relativity is appl...
The problem I see, is that in the end, it is "sign" which needs to be defined, and this cannot be done by reference to expression alone, we need to re...
But that's the point, it is essential to Husserl that indication is independent of expression. Take a look at the beginning of the chapter. The subjec...
Thanks for the vote of confidence, I'll consider that. General relativity, in conjunction with observations of the universe, have forced people to con...
That's not true at all, we can make judgements by referring to principles, such as moral principles. And often the principles will send us in a direct...
Surely Husserl wants a complete separation between expression and indication, but not just to keep expression away from psychologism, more importantly...
Craig's argument is defective because contrary to other versions, such as Aquinas', he simply assumes that the universe has a beginning, rather than p...
I really don't find Craig's version of the cosmological argument to be particularly useful, nor do I find it to be completely consistent with versions...
I think you're missing the point. The argument demonstrates through logic, that causation as we know it is insufficient to account for existence as we...
I think we've been through this already in this thread jorndoe. We use "cause" in distinct ways. Aristotle outlined four distinct ways. The type of ca...
No, I'm not about to start making my philosophical decisions based on what "I feel is good". So you might well forget about that suggestion of followi...
Right, so we should all take you lead, try to be as biased as possible, and deem those beliefs which people hold, that are inconsistent with our own, ...
Sure, and it's a fact that no human being is morally perfect, but that doesn't prevent us from trying not to be immoral. You are simply rationalizing ...
Well, I've clearly argued that the person who breaks the vow ought to be punished, or else the vow is pointless. Now, if it isn't going to be the law,...
But this does not take into account the pain caused to the other party. The one who is cheated on deserves no punishment, yet is forced to suffer the ...
Further to my last post, and more direct to the op, why make a promise if you don't expect to get punished for breaking that promise? What purpose wou...
What's the point of a vow if you are not somehow bound by that vow? If I go around making promises which I will soon be breaking, doesn't the word "pr...
Well that's a nice way of rationalizing being prejudiced, by saying that you don't believe a lack of bias is possible. I suppose you could rationalize...
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