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To be here is to time. ('time' as a verb)

I see. Well I have seen that philosophy expressed if not lived by. Max Stirner just burned down everything --in theory. He was very famous for a time,...

Indeed, but he forgets where he learned the language to make that claim. (Can we say that he dreamed up the colony and his ant-childhood? I guess so. ...

I think maybe you are misunderstanding me. IMV, thoughts are extremely real, even perhaps the essence of the human as human. I've been harping on the ...

Just a little comment: It seems to me that we have a living, breathing network of concepts that is continuous with social practice. Is there a sharp l...

Could you expand? I love Heidegger, no doubt, but I am very open to criticisms. What did he get wrong?

I'm pretty sure that he really nailed it down in KNS 1919. I could only quote some of it, since I can't cut and paste. I tried to choose the highlight...

In case this gets missed (and because I already typed it up), here IMV is one approach to the matter of philosophy, connected naturally to my posts ab...

I can't quite understand everything you are saying here, but it sounds positive, and we share a goal: the experience without qualification, a desire f...

Not to be difficult, but anything less than direct experience would seem to be a talking about what is finally not understood, a difference as differe...

Indeed, it may be a misreading or a shift of emphasis. After a slow start, however, the book takes off. Even if Sheehan is wrong, his misreading is a ...

Here are a few quotes that may help. I think this holism is anticipated in Hegel (and surely others as well.)

At some point there is always some grounding in the obvious --and this itself is obvious upon even a brief consideration. We are already in a shared l...

Don't take the following sketch of a caricature personally, please. I'm trying to contextualize why I think a certain approach to philosophy is obsole...

To me this is a good description of the atomic approach to meaning. It ignores the fluidity and complexity of actual life and gets caught up in differ...

The irony in Herg's anti-idealism is that s/he takes a model (the idea of hydrogen) for the thing itself. Science has evolved over the centuries. No d...

And I think this is a questionable assumption. Language is something like the primary human phenomenon. Humans are radically social, palpably sharing ...

I don't drive without my contact lenses in. I'd be breaking the law. Or are the blurry signs not the same as the less blurry signs? The supreme kind o...

Indeed. And that is where the personal, 'existential' position shows its face. And I suggest this is all vaguely structured by an image of the ideal h...

Have you happened to look at Sheehan's Making Sense of Heidegger:A Paradigm Shift? It's one of the best reads I've had in a while. He insists the Heid...

I agree that the theory of universals is not accepted. I'm saying that it has been replaced by the problem of meaning. And I find it plausible that we...

That obviousness is actually what deserves being challenged, and not from some notion of magical machinery but in terms of the phenomenon of being 'in...

I'd say just look at the well-worn pragmatist critique of differences that make no difference. I agree that 'just seeing the tree' and 'only seeing or...

That would be a quasi-Kantian view. Our cognition mediates or distorts the object. We never get the object prior to this mediation. I'm not saying tha...

This is where I think you are missing my point. You assume that the lingo of hydrogen is fundamentally different from the lingo of Lincoln and DC. And...

For me though the issue isn't about certainty but about intelligibility itself, the very existence of meaning or concept. For me epistemology is secon...

Indeed. That is part of what is so fascinating about pre-rigorous calculus. The 'infinitesimal' was a philosophically problematic grasp at pure becomi...

As I understand it, conditioned is mind-dependent and unconditioned is 'pure' or mind-independent reality in this context. Some kind of Kantian view i...

I agree. I think the problem here is that I see your point but you don't see mine.

For some background that similar to where I am coming from: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-metaphysics/#TheReaTraIll Is the real world there ...

The idea of the real world exists within an individual skull. And yet the idea of the real world is meant to include this skull and the meaning it con...

I agree with you on this point more than you might expect. As I've said, the real value of this is to reveal a certain aporia from taking either persp...

There is a big statue of Lincoln in DC. Both statements are the same kind of uncontroversial statement about our shared 'mind-dependent' world, one mi...

All of this is loaded with the mental. We have the idea of a rock. We have proper names that exist within an historical context. I'd call this public ...

Nope. Not idealism. I agree it's a dead end. And so is its opposite. That kind of categorical thinking is naive, IMV. I have to disagree that 'externa...

I am willing to do so. I think the best way is to ask you to say something about mind-independent reality. Then I will try to point out the contradict...

It's very much your choice if you want to toss around 'development retardation.' But then some of the famous philosophers are developmentally retarded...

I think you are missing the fundamental difficultly in cashing out 'mind-independent.' Nobody doubts that there is mind-independent reality of 'some' ...

That is an arguable position, but I'm not a default Platonist. The problem is just repeated here. What is this 'external' to us? IMV, we have unclarif...

To say things about this stuff is just to 'project' concepts on it. Even if you don't agree, it would be good if you could grasp the idea that project...

If you are trying to talk about something beyond human conceptualization (mind-independent reality), then you would seem to have to strip all conceptu...

Just some passages I think are ripe for discussion.

This already-having-to-know seems important to me. We can't start from zero and build everything up explicitly. We 'fade in' to having language. We al...

Words side-by-side on the page (out of the context of their use) look to be all the same kind of thing. But we aren't looking at them in their dynamic...

That confusion about what 'meaning' means is completely appropriate. It is confusing! If philosophy is an activity, the process of clarifying our thin...

I understand why one might say that. But a person might ask what the motive away from the human is really about. It is itself a typical human motive, ...

This may sound strange to you, but I think that my conversation with TS is already wrestling with the PI. What we could do is work more Wittgenstein q...

You define meaning in terms of undefined words. I think it would be good to address how the language is learned as a whole and seemingly can't be anch...

Personally I'm a bit of an anarchist on such matters. I'd suggest that people just bring up passages and interpretations and let the conversation rip ...