Terrapin Station

I define morality in more of a meta fashion than that.

Ah, thanks. Yeah, I was using the pdf--I'm not sure where my copy of the book is. I searched for it a bit yesterday, but I've got a bunch of books out...

Because (a) logically they're not the same, "big government" isn't conventionally defined as "fascism" and it doesn't imply "fascism" analytically, an...

First off, definitions aren't facts beyond being reports of how some people are choosing to use terms. Aside from that, pleasure and pain don't by con...

Re 20, yes, one could think of anything as denoting some complex of relations, actions, etc.--so a sentence, or even a paragraph or entire book, etc. ...

When you get an individual who says, "I disagree, I feel that exercise is bad" what do you do--tell them they don't actually think that? Say, "Well, y...

False dichotomy. Re your nets, aside from the fact that you said nothing about it being a net matter earlier, just how are you doing a calculus on thi...

A better way to ask what I'd assume you're asking is if oneself is akin to a "transcendent 'I'," somehow removed from, aside from, above, behind--what...

Re 19, he kind of loses me. First, I'm confused by "Slab I" ("Slab <Roman numeral one>"? Or "Slab <indexical for oneself>"?)--also, there was nothing ...

So, what I get out of the beginning (up to 16 so far): There's a view of language that posits it as being learned ostensively. Language isn't just a m...

Don't you think that what people are doing in defining it is attempting an abstraction/general/overarching conception of their intuitions?

Touché.

It's arbitrary in the sense of it being you talking about how you feel about it. You're not reporting a fact. (Well, not beyond reporting the fact of ...

If we wanted to focus on the "pre-theoretical," we certainly wouldn't (need to) read Heidegger.

The problem is that if you're doing anything with this different than effectively making a laundry list for yourself, you quickly run into people who ...

I hate, Hate, HATE any sort of snobism, elitism, and any sort of high art/low art, "serious"/"non-serious" etc. distinctions.

Re this by the way, as with anything, recommendations only make sense if they're tailored to the tastes of the person you're trying to interest. I don...

I don't get to choose that because no one agrees with me.

For one, big government and fascism aren't the same thing.

That site looks pretty cranky.

"If you're going to forward an argument hinging on explanations, you'd better have a theory of explanations that is coherent, consistent, etc." Object...

So why is it only in this thread and from me that there's nothing useful for you if I'm not falsifying something you said, but in other contexts and/o...

No. I don't agree with any of that. For one, I more or less agree with the "intentional fallacy." Isn't that rather patronizing and arrogant on your p...

So when you're watching a sunset it may appear that it is happening, but it may not appear? It seems like you're not familiar with the term "appear."

lol re thinking that people only say useful things to you when they falsify things you said.

There's no reason to require certainty for knowledge. Explain how you're doing a probability calculation. "These could be false" is possibility. I've ...

If you're going to forward an argument hinging on explanations, you'd better have a theory of explanations that is coherent, consistent, etc.

You'd have to explain how you're reading it that way, because that comment makes no sense to me. Your argument is based on the explanation not seeming...

I don't buy the first premise. I neither agree that all thought consists of correlations, nor do I believe that all thought is correlations between th...

So I didn't seem to be saying that I was falsifying anything. I agree.

Noting that the good reason is not certain is kind of dumb, because I didn't say that it was certain. I questioned the whole enterprise of desiring ce...

What I'm saying is that no explanation of anything seems like what it's explaining. If someone says, "This explanation of neuronal activity (etc.--aga...

Re observing a sunset, say, and re thinking "this may not be happening," instead of worrying about certainty, you should ask yourself why would I beli...

You're using "actually" as a substitute for "certainty" there, so that you're asking a vacuous question (In other words, you're just restating "withou...

Why would you care about certainty?

From your comments about this, we have to conclude that you believe that there are things external to yourself such as road signs, glasses, and so on....

Okay, but I'm saying that the idea of shared meaning is wrong. It gets wrong what meaning is, and if the observable phenomena are posited as shared me...

Yes. And my account of meaning, understanding, communication etc. does not at all have shared meaning, yet it very easily accounts for this. So that's...

None of that helps at all, unfortunately. That part makes sense, at least, but if we're going to say that we are "wearing blinders," we'd need somethi...

There are two texts called The Concept of Time?

And I was just saying that the patterns you're reading into things--for exmple, the idea that the universe at all resembles the neuronal structure of ...

You were saying something specifically about fractals? What were you saying about them?

Looking at info about The Concept of Time on Amazon, it doesn't seem any more coherent than anything else Heidegger wrote. Someone quotes Heidegger sa...

You're actually more kind to him that I am.

And what did I seem to be saying I was falsifying?

Only in the way that these rocks resemble an elephant when viewed from particular angles and with sufficient imagination: https://upload.wikimedia.org...

I can't make the slightest bit of sense out of the notion that there could be anything that isn't material, relations of material, or processes of mat...

In what sense can you simulate it, though? And statements like this, "Because photosynthesis can be understood in terms of chemistry, physics and biol...

Things make sense to individual people or not. Not to anything else. Presumably you think that we have explanations of photosynthesis, for example, ri...

Sure. So neural activity isn't going to itself explain consciousness (if we read that literally). A person would have to explain consciousness. What "...