At a certain age we are so trained in a language that our minds are privately differentiated when it comes to various brightly conscious beliefs. We c...
Well said. Action grounds meaning which is distributed throughout an entire form of life(oversimplifying which may be impossible to avoid, which may b...
I'm thinking of basic structures of consciousness. The inarticulate sense of a shared world with others, the animal faith we live by when we say what ...
What comes to my mind is 'nothing is hidden.' We already live and experience these phenomena. Beyond that we can articulate them better with superior ...
I'm glad you agree about the relations between words just becoming a second issue after defining the 'atoms.' I don't know if you'd agree to this: an ...
Indeed. Though I'm still trying to find the words for it. I'd say think of a conversation with a lover or a friend. Think of those two faces communica...
I don't know, but it sure seems like he is doing a version of my knowledge (or really his) in his OC. At some points if not in others. I think we can ...
I don't know about (other) animals. But we can also call it reading time. It doesn't have to be so linguistic, but that was how I began to think about...
I think we agree on this point. What surprises me is that you think we can capture this animal pre-thinking in an explicit account. I think it's too p...
Right. But I'm suggesting a strange thing, that physics time is (at least for human cognition) derivative from a more basic experience of time. Heideg...
I think our main point of misunderstanding is that maybe I'm more on the semantic holist side. I think explicit accounts need to use the same word in ...
This is of course a good idea, but one must already be in a language to begin with. Similarly I think one has to feel one's way into another personali...
For me there is a tension between what I call physics time and meaning time. Meaning time is the time of intelligibility, the time it takes to read th...
It's nice that someone else sees where I'm coming from on this issue. Yes, I think explicit accounts tend to emphasize some aspect in a useful way. Bu...
I appreciate your answer, too. I just like to say that it's a personal tool. I'm an apolitical being, more or less. I take this world as it comes. Jus...
The crux is perhaps that I regard metaphor/analogy to be the cutting edge of creation. The essence of math is that creation. The rest comes after, lik...
That does sound like the voice of Evil. Well played. I think you make a good point. A complete absence of structure would be unintelligible. Some kind...
Well, I'll drop it if you want. But I'm a mathematician, and that's not what I do. Those who just use math might fit that description, but to do math ...
This is arguably an out of the blue tangent, but I like to read the Germans as a progress, or at least as a family. I have a sense that Feuerbach is n...
I follow you here. I agree (without pretending to have gone beyond my first QM class --but I did get that A!--which is not to say that I remember the ...
In a friendly spirit, I must say that computers don't really do math. Saying so is close to saying that an abacus does math or that a magazine writes ...
I am generally open to the point you are making, but I think you underestimate metaphor. Speaking from experience with math, the whole enterprise is a...
So the sign is just pure meaningful being, the primary 'atom.' My speculative mind is there. The only question is not the 'consciousness' for which th...
I found that video pretty moving. It's a hatred of cliche, or sentimentality. 'Wisdom' can be a sickening word. For me this is part of the inability o...
Sorry if I didn't read you charitably. I just don't see why metaphor isn't a mode of knowing. Must science be determinate? Can all objects be grasped ...
Great quote. I like this point very much. Sensuality. Not the pre-theoretical but the non-theoretical. This reminds me of Feuerbach's joyful materiali...
I agree that there was some kind of quasi-scientific quest involved, but there is also a rejection of this. What struck my mind was the word comportme...
I've been dwelling on this question more. I think he implied something like that. I haven't read much of the later Heidegger, but I have read secondar...
For me the point is to move on to more exciting philosophy, more suspicious and literary stuff. I know I'm not doing science via philosophy. It's not ...
I said that that's what idealists have really meant. You are missing the big picture. This game is endless and artificial. The pragmatist critique put...
Of course I believe in the external world. As for the rest, I've already chanted aporia, aporia, aporia. This old subject-object realist-idealist game...
I think lots of early readers of H really liked the death and authenticity stuff, for the same reason Sartre was liked. One can find an atheist ethics...
On the contrary, 'Anyone' always sees it as far off and considers it morbid to talk about or at least not worth the waste of time. The idea is that ce...
As I understand it, death is intended as a constant possibility. It allows us to grasp the phenomenon of the world from the outside, as a whole, from ...
I agree that it is quite formalist. Really I don't like that book, despite liking the ideas in it. I get impatient. I prefer to zoom in from the big p...
I like what you've written, but I think I've interpreted death differently (perhaps a misreading.) If death (as possibility at every moment and not so...
You'll just have to look into more with sincere open-ness or pat yourself on the back for not being taken in. AFIK, you also think Nietzsche sucks. I'...
No, Anyone is immersed in practical life. He did think metaphysicians were trapped in Cartesian presuppositions. We can think of this as a kind of pro...
That is what you can find in Heidegger. If you contemplate ready-to-hand-ness (we become the hammering), that already shows that the strict subject/ob...
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