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I think you are missing the point. The theoretical mind has taken itself for consciousness itself, despite being a derivative mode. Heidegger is himse...

I don't know. Accordingly Rorty, Heidegger was trying to leave the power play of metaphysics behind in his later work. I've mostly studied his 1920s s...

There is also the dictionary problem. One word is defined in terms of others. And these others are still defined in terms of others. All a dictionary ...

That would be the temporal aspect. I think we naturally have this notion of instantaneous meaning. We see the sentence in our visual field all at once...

I'll give you an example. Just track your own reading below. Try to watch the flow of concept. Of this sentence the meaning you expect. Its end is kno...

Is there a strict boundary? I'm not so sure there is. Given semantic holism as I understand, none of our supposed-to-be explicit categories cut very s...

I might be more surprised, but they are Lee Braver's favorite philosophers, and he wrote a first-rate book about what they had in common. Highly recom...

Knowing is acting with automatic faith, with a sort of basic animal know-how and trust. Our bright and shiny theoretical edifice of explicit propositi...

I can't comment much on OC yet, but I do agree with the statement above. Hinge propositions are too conscious, too explicit. After finishing Groundles...

Maybe I can zero-in my question on this. Is the self above the model or idea of the self for another self that is pure consciousness? Are we thinking ...

In short, your 'reality' is just the virtual entities that are economical. And that also suggests (seems to me) some kind of Platonism. What are elect...

One more, which is especially to the point. I'd say that we have a slow semantic drift. Revolutionary philosophers shake the tree closer to the trunk.

In case you or others haven't looked into it:

I'll meet you half-way here. A random sentence generator could send out an email to 6 billion human beings. Maybe some of those emails would be convin...

I can't read the road-signs without my corrective lenses. When I put them in, I can. Did the signs change? Or just my mediation? (I was trying to give...

I am trying to point at a primary sense we have in ordinary life of being intelligible to one another. Our language functions transparently for us mos...

Expand. We are already all over the place, and thatis appropriate, IMV.

Well said. That does square with my perception. I've got On Certainty. I haven't reread it for years, but I had the impression that he was more sophis...

This nears the question I am getting at. Who is it that reads the sign? What makes sense to me (in a speculative mode) is that there is no 'I' and no ...

I think I see what you mean and agree. In ordinary life we just largely bounce off significations, responding to the signs as individual signs and not...

. I agree mostly with Apo's post above, so I'll just add what maybe he's not emphasizing. A simple example: a linear model is simpler than a quadratic...

OK. I guess I somewhat knew that. But in my view this stuff isn't mystical except as a kind of mystified mundane. I think incarnation is the operant t...

This is a surprising perspective. Philosophy strikes me as being largely itself a thinking and believing about thinking and believing --and a thinking...

You may already know, but Hegel made a big deal of the Christian trinity. I haven't grasped exactly why, but chances are it's along your lines. As far...

Fair enough, but I would frame this in terms of the instability of any given interpretation. And fair enough about the 'simplified view of things. Per...

I don't know if Sheehan is right about Heidegger, but I like this attempt at a general description of what it means to be human.

I think the views are related. I still haven't immersed myself in Peirce, despite my respect for him. The damned Germans just speak to me with all the...

An excellent question, and that is where meaning holism comes in. All I can possibly offer you is just more words. And how are those words intended ex...

When you typed this out to ask me the question, you expected with no genuine doubt that I could understand you and answer. When you got out of bed thi...

Fair enough. That sketch was helpful.

I think you and Heidegger are similar on this issue. One of his fundamental ideas was that humans do not exist like rocks. For him, we've been mistake...

Beings that are present at hand are experienced like objects (for a universal subject) when we just stare at them. For instance, I can stare at my bik...

You can skip to near the end if you want when Heidegger calls the scandal of philosophy the idea that such a proof is needed. The phenomenon of 'world...

hks, you are being silly here. You are basically accusing Santa Clause of hoarding all the toys. Are you not just gossiping about a philosopher you ha...

Basically Heidegger and Hegel are sometimes a pain in the ass to read, but there is no fast food summary-substitute for at least sweating out a good s...

Yes. A lecture and an article written for a journal that was only published much, much later. Because the article was never published while H. was ali...

Stress the word object and method. In short, Heidegger thought the standard approach to history was shallow. One of his big themes is a taken-for-gran...

I found that book dry at first, but then I started to get it. The basic approach of philosophy has been theological. It always reaches for something o...

Yes, well said. As I see it, an anti-philosophy embraces this life, forgoing the vantage point of the dead. On the other hand, Heidegger too puts deat...

That's a tough one, Noah. I suggest something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip As for free will, I don't think a theoretical...

The 'eye trying to see itself' does seem related. To me he's basically sketching one kind of heroic lifestyle. The phenomenologist described above as ...

Btw, Heidegger hates all of that solipsism and prove-to-me-that-there-is-world junk. I'd say beware of making judgments especially on Heidegger withou...

Thanks for jumping in. Here's my take on your take. All thinkers are flawed, IMO. An idea I've been working on is that all explicit formulations 'must...

This quote points to something that I like about phenomenology as a kind of 'spiritual' path . We don't need anything on some other side of life. We n...

I think I left in a typo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meister_Eckhart

I can relate to that distaste. I can also see that Heidegger is right on the edge of that. IMV, he is outright rejecting deep/final truth, but clearly...

I found my way in by tackling earlier works, lectures especially. The Ontology of Facticity is almost as clear as one could ask, given the non-trivial...

What is this separation of words from thought, though? To me it seems that our thoughts only exist as words embedded in history. The realm outside of ...

I'm no scholar, but my understanding is that one can just start with 'dasein' as individual human 'existence.' I often translate in my mind as I read ...

OK. But the ant sounds all mixed up. Do those things go together? The ant doesn't care. He's Walt Whitman. He contains contradictions.