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Indeed. We can only expand the circle of meaning using what is already in there in strange ways. Probably not that much is at stake. It won't rock you...

Excellent sketch of your general position (which I happen to find congenial). Thanks.

I agree, but I think the fantasy of that kind of meaning is at heart of some approaches to metaphysics. I agree here, too. We get what is going on wel...

I'd say consider our experience right now. Are we not in some sense sharing a meaning space accessible in some sense also to everyone following our co...

Hey, just to get a sense of where you are coming from more generally, have you read Groundless Grounds? Do you find that kind of grasp of our situatio...

OK, we are back on track and really talking again. I largely agree with what you say above, though maybe it doesn't exhaust 'meaning' for me. I don't ...

I don't see the problem. The ice isn't going to politely melt before I unthinkingly skate on it and break my arm. If I am fixing a roof and tumble off...

my pleasure. it has been fun. and thanks for being openminded and tolerant of my enthusiasm

This point about the rock is great. Humans create time because they care. They have a perspective informed by memory and a project. They have to wait ...

I hope I haven't been too annoying. I just get excited about these ideas and want others to enjoy them with me. It is indeed late, so I will probably ...

Hmm. Heidegger is trying to shatter the sequential order of time as a fiction. --or as a discourse appropriate for natural science but not for existen...

I think our views are very close. There is maybe only the specific issue of that flux. How is it pinned down? Is it pinned down? I want to say somethi...

I very much understand what you are saying, and I do not deny any of that. But perhaps the most important part of the past is the way we interpret the...

I do generally agree. So what is really at issue is perhaps in what way the past does live on. When you write messages to me or I to you we can unders...

Respectfully, and only to continue to try to share why I think Heidegger is so fascinating, I think you are still taking for granted the time of physi...

Bingo! Because all of those A-holes were just mortals like you. And you were going to live your life and die your death your own way. 'Everyone' (AKA ...

For me the point about time is a point about language. I'd say that it leads to a continuous view of meaning. Here's a quote from Nietzsche (about Chr...

I think your ethical point is beautiful. I agree. I'd just say that Heidegger's time (as I understand it) is a morally neutral pointing-out of somethi...

I think what maybe that statement neglects is the connectedness of mental life. It's not pure noise, for instance. The past is reinterpreted in terms ...

I think it just means that knowing one will die. His idea of death is this version of death as a possibility. I think this is beautiful way to view th...

Hmm. While there is a case to be made for your view, I think that is basically a sophisticated version of (meta-)physics time that prioritizes the pre...

Well I think there is a complex of meanings that are hard to sort out. Even in The Concept of Time that chapter is considered the sketchiest. Of cours...

How true. And yet on the other side there really is something we call love that is good, and this seems to motivate the great philosophers--even in th...

If it was easy to grasp, Heidegger might be forgotten by now. It is really a phenomenological point. In short, the time of common sense is more or les...

Sartre is an absolute genius at times, but in some ways he missed one point of Heidegger entirely, which is an escape from the dominance of the theore...

Yes, I think we have the same general grasp. Life is justified by feeling, ultimately. And even if we think it is justified by something in the future...

Well they are strange indeed. In my view, Heidegger himself made it more difficult than it had to be as time went on. His early lectures are clear, bu...

Since the central theme is language/meaning in which all of these topics appear, we have really been talking about one thing, something like the being...

If you have the space and funds for one, I think it's a great thing to try. My cat is playing the fool right now. I just love that evil little thing.

Do you though? The audacity to say such a thing indicates some kind of self-affirmation. I'm just spittballing, but I think a rejection of the ways of...

If adults are not playing much, then IMV they are missing out bigtime. I think that many couples engage in verbal play. It's highly complex, so that I...

Well you don't need more bad feels. When I use it these days it's just the tiniest amount to cross a threshold where the surroundings are freshened up...

We might also look at the gap between conceptualizations and a more ordinary sense of speeding trucks that might crush us, holes we might fall into, i...

Are you careful about nutrition? Do you get enough exercise? Enough sleep? I find that a good long bikeride almost always fixes me up. Tire out the bo...

Well said, and I feel the same. I try to be forceful in pursuit of clarity, but sometimes in retrospect I'm afraid I verged on rudeness or being too s...

Great line. The art of existence, the art of life. A clumsy beginner learns to dance. The young mind that starts by repeating common sense can end by ...

Indeed, that is how nihilism experiences itself and what makes it a dark night of the soul. The self is thrown back on its own existence. It is beyond...

Nice example. We impose on the shared space of meaning not only with words but through smiles, frowns, body language, rude tones, welcoming tones. I t...

Exactly, which is a classic Hegelian point. One cannot compress a philosophical result into a proposition in the usual language. The meanings of the t...

Of course I know what you mean in the everyday sense. Who doesn't? We start from this what-everybody-already-knows. IMV, you are repeating this as if ...

That itself is a good question. And it brings me back to the ultimate authority of science being grounded in utility, public utility, the things that ...

I think you are ignoring the complexity involved. And really identification-in-common is already mysterious, already a form of shared meaning. We don'...

And of course all of this is fine, but (from a philosophical angle) how does this unseen something exist? What is the gap between our models and what ...

I relate to this too. I didn't know what exactly I was looking for, but it was always a thrill to see the world from a wider perspective, having synth...

I suppose for me philosophy is just one of the deeper aspects of being human. IMV, it (among other things) dissolves or problematizes the everyday und...

Hi, Janus. I was responding to your 'really' above. This is the metaphysics. I get it. I trust science so that this 'really' is natural and defensible...

You may be missing something then. How does meaning exist? How can science be shared if meaning is not somehow public? How is the spider egg interpret...

Is 'subjective meaning' really real, in your view? And if it is trivially obvious that science exists as 'subjective meaning' (at least part of it) an...

I think we share a sense that philosophy should not collapse into something 'small,' dazzled so much by the undeniable public power of science that it...

I deny the absoluteness of this 'really.' Making this narrative (science) the 'real' one is where metaphysics comes in. I indeed agree that science is...