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I see how it could. On the other hand, I find an ecstasy in that which I feel I have come to understand. Not all the time (life has its ups and downs)...

Thanks for sharing. And I quoted what I also consider an important realization --that one is responsible or might as well act as if responsible for on...

Yeah, he's on to something. That's what I love about him. He was grossed out by people trying to make a science of the highest things. That approach b...

This is the attitude I have toward the usual categories. They become bland and lifeless. They keep us on the surface, bickering over nothing really (a...

'Idealism' is caught up in the storm. 'Idealism' has no more local meaning than 'two.' It's not false to find idealism in it but this 'idealism' would...

Now you are feeling my vibe. Look for local meaning. Try to catch it. Fail. Discover that meaning is global or distributed and we can't even say what ...

In certain contexts it's the name of a number.

How is a horse different than a Pegasus for someone who has seen neither but seen pictures of both? There is a difference, of course. I suspect that w...

Does 'empty name' even make sense? Can there be a name that doesn't point at something? Would we still call it a name?

I think it highly unlikely (though possible) that you could get someone to do the dirty work IMO. That's just my sense of human nature. An academia is...

To me this is a familiar situation. I think passionate and thoughtful people always end up being somewhat novel fusions of what they have been exposed...

Nice. Pretty much my view too.

I really want to get around to him, since I have the impression he speaks to this. Yes, time as space! That seems a good way to think of clock time. W...

That's a good question. I'd say to a shared image/notion. To me it's cleaner to just grant existence to all of these things(the horse and the horse wi...

If it's experienced as a command or a self-conscious project, then I think it's highly questionable. But it also reminds me of a description of higher...

If theory depends on metaphor and passion, then it would seem to require a significant world to theorize about. If it intends to be true, then it woul...

OK. That may connect to some of our variations of perspective. To be clear, it's not about shaming jingles. It's about paying tribute to the feelings ...

I invite anyone to reply. While it's fascinating to try to pin down what proper names are, I think it's at least noteworthy that seems to be like tryi...

I'm surprised to hear you say this. Is it meaningless to you that a set of n elements has 2^n subsets? Would a proof of this just be a string of dead ...

I left that exaggeration by itself for dramatic effect. I mean that objects get their being from the network gets its being from the objects. Kinda-so...

I guess my concern is that I don't believe in objects.

Well, I'm glad we agree that there is some kind of shared space, however we elaborate upon it.

I agree that he wanted them together and that they are part of a continuous journey, but I think that journey is dialectical. It's exactly because Wit...

And would you elaborate on what it means for you?

IMV, that is a beautiful spider-web, one more attempt to grab the phenomenon in concepts. How do you make sense of Wittgenstein himself abandoning his...

If I give you a proposition like 'the mental is public,' then that suggests an explicitness that betrays my own message. That suggests that I want to ...

Yes, and Yes, I like it.

I don't think saying meaning is only mental address the phenomenon exhaustively. We share meaning. So the mental is somewhat public. All these terms a...

For me the question is right there in what it means to 'become known.' What is it for something to become known? Before we can plug a thesis into the ...

The tripartite idea at least introduce complexity. I'd say that we are mostly flowing and reactive as we move through life. We 'live' the 'unconscious...

Yes. IMV both WIttgenstein and Heidegger are pointing at an unknown known, the actual ground of our doings and believings which is inconspicuous for t...

It's of more interest to someone with training in math, but it's of general interest as a critique of the one uncontroversial metaphysics we have: mat...

I believe you. I think we switch into a certain mode when we publicly talk about heavy ideas. Even just being polite is a transformation of the interi...

Yes, I'd say so. And I'd say that WIttgenstein is an anti-Platonist in some sense. He's hard to pin down. He just writes lots of remarks. All actual c...

Lots of debate about math involves infinity. How does infinity exists? It is certainly a symbol in the calculus. Can we apply the LEM to infinite sets...

Well there is the idea that God is love. I would mention a creative play also that dissolves the ego. I could also speak of 'eternity' existing only w...

Thanks for the recommendation.

It's hard to sum up. It fits in with the later Wittgenstein as I remember it. One example was his idea that the 'paradise' of Cantor's set theory wasn...

I like his philosophy of mathematics. It's weird and piecemeal, but illuminating. Braver considers some of it among his best work.

I can understand that reaction, but your mention of 'matrix' alludes to what I had in mind. The mother is the mater is the matrix. While this kind of ...

Of course. When did I imply otherwise? The point is that nature doesn't care. We have to submit to her blind regularity in order to master 'her.' As I...

In a word, something like a feeling that accompanies the doing of life. If 'God is a spirit and must be worshiped in spirit and in truth, ' the maybe ...

Illuminating OP. I just quoted some passages that especially spoke to me. I associate the 'traction of time' with the non-instanteity of meaning, the ...

Not a fan?

It's pretty great. In some ways I don't get the full value, because I sought out the book already convinced of some version of what Braver calls 'orig...

I relate to the quest for clarity and precision --as much as can be had without betraying the object being investigated. If, however, the object itsel...

I don't know if you've checked out Heidegger, but it's probably a great way in for a Wittgenstein fan. Thanks!

Nice! I haven't got to Augustine yet, though he comes up in some of thinkers I value. Indeed. To me it's almost a matter of context which word I pick,...

If I can pop in, I am reading Groundless Grounds right now. It concentrates on what Wittgenstein and Heidegger have in common. It's written by Lee Bra...

I don't see how this matters. We take risks in pursuit of our goals. I think the point is whether we think nature is looking out for us our not. Perha...