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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...
October 03, 2016 at 10:45
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...
October 03, 2016 at 00:33
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...
October 02, 2016 at 21:48
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 ...
October 02, 2016 at 20:57
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...
October 02, 2016 at 20:38
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...
October 02, 2016 at 20:17
How is "the only thing I know is that I know nothing" related to Aristotle's rendition of The Law of Identity?
October 02, 2016 at 17:21
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...
October 02, 2016 at 13:17
Well, do you recognize the difference between perceiving something and conceiving something? If you do, you can question what lies in between these tw...
October 02, 2016 at 12:35
One of my all time favourites! I still spin the vinyl, it's pretty scratchy though
October 02, 2016 at 11:17
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...
October 02, 2016 at 02:17
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...
October 02, 2016 at 02:04
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...
October 02, 2016 at 01:15
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...
October 01, 2016 at 22:07
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...
October 01, 2016 at 21:51
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....
October 01, 2016 at 21:39
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...
October 01, 2016 at 21:32
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...
October 01, 2016 at 21:12
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. ...
October 01, 2016 at 20:55
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...
October 01, 2016 at 19:39
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...
October 01, 2016 at 16:26
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 ...
October 01, 2016 at 11:43
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...
October 01, 2016 at 11:31
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 ...
October 01, 2016 at 11:11
How would you mess with space-time itself, tweak the mathematics a little bit?
October 01, 2016 at 10:45
What's a logical simple?
September 30, 2016 at 23:48
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...
September 30, 2016 at 10:52
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...
September 29, 2016 at 21:51
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...
September 29, 2016 at 10:37
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...
September 28, 2016 at 21:59
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...
September 28, 2016 at 10:52
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...
September 28, 2016 at 00:45
What is inflation, expansion?
September 27, 2016 at 21:42
Thanks for the vote of confidence, I'll consider that. General relativity, in conjunction with observations of the universe, have forced people to con...
September 27, 2016 at 10:43
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...
September 26, 2016 at 22:14
Surely Husserl wants a complete separation between expression and indication, but not just to keep expression away from psychologism, more importantly...
September 26, 2016 at 10:51
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...
September 25, 2016 at 23:35
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...
September 25, 2016 at 17:12
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...
September 25, 2016 at 12:17
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...
September 25, 2016 at 03:50
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...
September 25, 2016 at 03:28
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, ...
September 24, 2016 at 21:21
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 ...
September 24, 2016 at 18:25
Where I live, speeding is not a criminal offence. Such things vary from one country to another.
September 24, 2016 at 12:08
What's that got to do with it, I get punished for speeding, and that's not a crime.
September 24, 2016 at 11:36
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,...
September 24, 2016 at 11:32
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 ...
September 24, 2016 at 02:40
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...
September 24, 2016 at 02:22
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...
September 24, 2016 at 02:17
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...
September 23, 2016 at 22:09