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In early materialism we see a movement toward life, not lifelessness. Heidegger and Feuerbach were both trying to dig below calcified 'theologies.' Fo...

I'll share some thoughts on Feuerbach's philosophical religion. 'God' is all of us, greater than any one of us individually. Some are wiser and bright...

Yes, I agree. Or rather I get that. I start from that. Maybe I should stress that, because I have the sense that jumping to the lived/ordinary point o...

Yeah, our conversation was good and promises more in the future.

I guess you figured out the typo. Thanks for considering my response. I enjoyed your OP. Very well-written. Crisp.

'Deduce or infer' is not perhaps the best description. Even if we grant that ultimately the brain is quickly processing sense-data, the experience of ...

I agree. The key issue might be the ridiculous use of 'certainty' in the sense of beyond all idle or insincere doubt. There is a basic falseness to su...

I don't think you understand what I mean by 'shared meaning.' It's not a supernatural 'thing' in the world. We can just describe it as a structure of ...

In which cubic millimeter of the brain does meaning live? Or does it exist as a mathematical point? At which exact instant does meaning live? I sugges...

It's always possible that everyone but me is an android passing the Turing test, logically possible. But I'd say we just do act within a massive field...

I agree. But see how we keep shifting from word to word. It's clear that no particular word is going to finally say it and contain the elemental meani...

I agree, but now we've shift to 'associations.' What or how is an association?

I'd agree myself that in simple sentences it is fairly cube like. 'The sandwich is on the table.' Very simple sentences involving familiar objects sug...

I can understand that leaning, but I think the movement of meaning itself is dynamic. It makes sense to put meaning in the head. I agree. But how does...

I'm not saying that that is your view. If you agree that the meaning in sentences is very un-cube-like, then that's something we can agree on and inve...

I'm not saying your theory is wrong. I'm just pointing out transparency. Again, just explaining 'transparency.' That entities can exist for us in this...

As I see it, the attempt to really ground the entire system in this or that part is more or less doomed. Language is there like our lives. I mentioned...

I agree with you here. The question is about the nature of subjective of meaning. It's not the juxtaposition of meaning cubes in one's mind. Very simp...

I refer to the way that words just pour out of us on the one hand and are immediately understood on the other. In most cases no effort is required. La...

A 'form of life' is the way of living of an entire community. It's the way we talk, for one thing, but also how we drive on the roads, wave to one ano...

You too. Have a great night,

I can relate. It is suspicious sounding talk. But IMV this is what they were doing, exploring the lifeword. If Sheehan is right, then we aren't that f...

Yeah, and this is also in some of those Feuerbach quotes. Language is something like a 'god' we participate in. I like his metaphors, but I don't want...

Yeah. It's feels that basic. To say too much more gets lost in stuff that is debatable. What is the minimum commitment? That interests me. Others, A w...

Precisely. The space where meaning lives. To be clear, I intend nothing supernatural. Anything supernatural is just more explicit metaphysics --which ...

That's all I meant by self-enriching space. It's our creative thinking, creative soul, that I have in mind -- and we do this with our macrosoft operat...

What are we as humans? Are we not currently adding meaning to this space? Perhaps your vision depends on something I find problematic. I was trying to...

For me the shared world is the 'life world,' the world as it is for us in our ordinary lives. This world includes sense perception but also the percep...

Wow. A flame leaps from melting candle to melting candle.

For me this could be explained by a self-enriching space of meanings. Meanings are 'objects' in the space. Right now we are adding meanings to the spa...

This quote actually touches our conversation more directly. I am pretty amazed by how much sorta-Heidegger I'm finding in Feuerbach.

This is more like After Finitude perhaps? The arche-fossil?

I do have concerns here. Is this necessary for the rest of your view? How does it function if unperceived? I'm concerned about the 'thing-in-itself' a...

Put it in this context for me. (Please.)

One thing that might be clarified is the world this is happening in. Are you taking a metaphysical position? Or is this just the co-perceived world ? ...

Well, I think I see much of what you are saying. And I tend to agree and connect it to some things I've been thinking about.

I mean bodily acts like perception and movement. I chose the wrong word. This goes along in some ways with the image of the coat in the closet. It's n...

This is more proto-Heidegger. Looking back, I think this encouraged my holism. Mortals come and go and participate in a form of life, sustaining it wi...

I am open to this idea. Indeed, it goes along with my suggestion that the language/world distinction is not sharp.It's also examined in Groundless Gro...

For me this gets tricky when we report on the nature of truth for instance. If I associate truth and correspondence, then what is that?

Ok. That makes sense.

That Feuerbach grasped this so directly still impresses me. I love Nietzsche, but it's hard to imagine Nietzsche writing this. Feuerbach writes from a...

If I read you correctly, this underlined part takes into account the vagueness I'm interested in. We just ignore a certain vagueness as unimportant. I...

You tell me. Do you recognize your view in my words? I see the positing of objects and thier relationships in a shared space. Is it like that? I think...

I tried to slip into your worldview a little, and I realized something important (to me anyway.) Semantic holism becomes important only as sentences g...

In this context I see why you want it sharp. I think that's justified by your interest here in brightly-lit linguistic belief specifically. We might c...

Oh, well I can relate to this. This predication is something like being. Existence of things is presupposed. And thinking is something like their mean...

For me all the different uses would be (potentially) infinite. Context dominates. Maybe you can just make your case and I'll just really open my mind....

What is explanation? I'd say he adds meaning to the situation, but I still don't feel satisfied. What would an answer to the hard question even look l...

Is substance the right word? I've wrestled with a similar idea. Consciousness is (or has seemed) to be being itself --at least from a first person per...