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I will have a new copy soon (old one vanished in the hurly-burly of life.) Do we need a leader? If so, why not you?

I like that you also see this fuzzy, dynamic process. To break it into discrete acts helps us say what we hand in mind, but I do wonder if it's not ev...

This is lovely too. The idea for me is that words are a ladder to a state beyond words, or a state beyond any particular words. The 'point' of the par...

Nice points. I always loved the ending part of the TLP, never really grokked the complicated stuff leading up to it, maybe because I had read criticis...

.Here's some Wittgenstein on Heidegger:

I thought you'd dig that. Philosophy as ultimate. I think that starts to do it justice. If something could grasp it from the outside correctly, then i...

I agree that some kind of externality is at play, but maybe it's best frame as external to the individual imagination. Does the white house exist? If ...

I'm saying that language-as-a-hole or the 'operating system' lies coiled in the dark place from which we listen and speak. Since the operating system ...

I think so. Facts are intelligible.The mystery is meaning itself. What facts versus things gets right is a nexus of relations, the world as a kind of ...

Surely not the literal sun. The question is what is this thing that illuminates everything else and yet itself recedes? I can't speak for Plato's inte...

No, that's it. They like some stuff more than others, sometimes a lot more. Ask yourself which artists/musicians/philosophers you would most regret ne...

Yeah, I like that. Noesis seems to be pointing at that dark place from where we listen. It makes sense that the brain is doing some kind of assembly. ...

That does sound more like it. But why breaking down? Why not building up? We somehow assemble a sequence of words and end up with a complete thought. ...

I'd love to reply, but I have no idea what you are talking about. I can't see what you are doing right now. But assuming I could understand you, I do ...

At some point the demand for proof is artificial. It's like asking me to prove that you can ask questions. While it's hard to pin down what we mean by...

Hmm. I think you know what I am getting at. In so far as you can use ---without having it all present to consciousness --is what I am pointing at. RAM...

It sucks, but I have to get some work done. I would rather talk philosophy, of course. I will check in later.

Oh, OK. I think I know what you mean. For me this is related to fixed notions of the subject and meaning. One such notion would be that meaning is a l...

An improvised sketch: (1) Something like the self-clarification of existence in conceptual terms. (2) A clarification that results in a richer, more j...

Intentionality? That is what is consciously 'lit up.' If we talk about consciousness, we feel forced by grammar to talk about consciousness of somethi...

I have mostly read about Husserl in the context of reading about Heidegger. I think Husserl (a mathematician too) focused on 'eternal' phenomena. Heid...

Indeed. We have this theme of becoming in philosophy, mathematics, painting, music. Music is maybe supreme at this. Sure, those are good geometric exa...

What's funny here is that 'meanings' continue to be talked about. The objects are that 'meanings' are shared and stable. I understand what is meant, b...

I am saying something pretty safe here, I think. Is your ability to use English there as a whole in your RAM? Can you survey all of this linguistic kn...

That's a good point. I guess I am lumping him with the continentals because of Groundless Grounds. He is making very Heideggerian points (and the reve...

Have you looked into phenomenology? Grasping a phenomenon is just paying close attention to what experience is really like for you. It is trying to lo...

I respect that. I concur. I hate lots of it. I have never really liked the more recent French philosophers in this regard. But late Wittgenstein is ve...

I'm saying (in other words) : Meanings exist systematically. The semantic unit is not the individual word but rather the entire language which is most...

Thanks for the kind words, Posty. I really don't mind TS's honesty, since it wasn't rude. I must correct you on one point. My approach is anti-atomist...

I've noticed that you don't really get where I am coming from. I really am trying to find the words. But you say you don't like Wittgenstein. And I do...

You are right about that formal structure. What is fascinating is the attempt to capture flow in that formal structure. This attempt gave rise to a cr...

Also I think you are missing out on something. I'm guessing all this knowing business is not making sense. But that's at the center. I won't make sens...

There's nothing wrong with it. Indeed, I myself am trying to make the inexplicit more explicit --in its very resistance to being made explicit. I'm pr...

I think Searle is just pointing at meaning. Such meaning generates problems because the fantasy is that one can create a explicit system that does not...

Maybe I should lighten my thesis to this. I think individuals find some music more important than other music, and that they can grasp the idea of the...

I am open to ideas like that personally. Humans may need to try something very new in the next century. I feel especially undogmatic when it comes to ...

Sure. Anything is possible. But we know from experience that there is a vague spectrum. Just because our sense of the situation is vague does not mean...

Well I think we agree that the self-righteous mob is not to be trusted. As far as losing a job goes, this is quite complicated. We don't have a right ...

Here's a nice line or two, ripped from a larger context that I don't feel like typing out (wish it was online.) from The Fundamental Concepts of Metap...

Ha. I cleaned up my post to play it safe. For me I go through rap phases and get temporarily burnt out. Yeah, Dave is legit. Comedy goes right to the ...

Good question. I'm not sure. And when it is talked about it is often a little fake sounding. It is pre-politicized. On reddit you can see the real thi...

. Good point, and what does this relationship hint at it concerning God? Is God a current running through all of us? If so, the words don't matter and...

That is my fantasy --to write high ideas in the language of the street. I am torn though. If I am too folksy and insufficiently pretentious here for i...

Amen indeed. I have these little moments in my life. People I work with. Friends-at-work. There is a restrained tenderness in smiles exchanged. 'Love ...

Yeah, well said. Trying to fit everything into a scheme and calling that the height of being human seems wrong to me. Or not wrong but just an inferio...

Check out Heidegger. I don't really think the high idea of philosophy is dead. He's not the only name, but I think you'll find him at the roots of thi...

I agree. The circle. We push against its limits and stretch it.

But to me that's the passion! Passion is not just sexual lust and hunger. There is a passion for something lofty, call it what we will. That's why pra...

My pleasure. I appreciate the openness and sincerity of your post.

Yes, and maybe it is both. The words alone can only point. My question for you: do you think philopshy seeks something higher ? Do you feel any sort o...