A mother hating herself and a mother hating something about herself are not the same. The latter is a practice of love, the former need not be. If it ...
Good question. There is good reason to doubt that Descartes doubted all he claimed to have doubted. After all, he took his motto from Ovid: So why doe...
In general I do not like talk of enemies and war, but like it or not talk of enemies and war are at the root of our culture and history. Nietzsche use...
A few quick comments. I see in Nietzsche the ancient and transcultural theme of the politics of the soul. In Zarathustra he says: (I. 17: The Way of t...
It is easy to get lost if we don't keep in mind what is at issue: Put differently, what is important for Wittgenstein in the Tractatus is not what we ...
Because they do not tell us what is the case. They do not tell us anything about the world. It has no factual content. It has been a long time since I...
From the Tractatus: 4.46 Among the possible groups of truth conditions there are two extreme cases. In one of these cases the proposition is true for ...
What Plato is claiming is that we do not have knowledge of those things that are of central concern to the Republic, that is, of the just, the beautif...
It is not at all close to a sense-datum theory. This is what Socrates says, the image of the cave is: (Republic 514a) The images whose shadows we see ...
The irony here is that those who rely on what you go on to call the "traditional view" are chasing shadows. The shadows are the opinions that influenc...
The first thought that occurred to me was: Why would we need a reason to believe the world exists? Reason suffers when such unreasonable demands are p...
It is, rather, post hoc. Just another example of how just about anything can be put through the meat grinder of Christian apologetics and come out loo...
In defense of @"Corvus", he says he has on order Catalina González Quintero's "Academic Skepticism in Hume and Kant: A Ciceronian Critique of Metaphys...
Since appeals to Hume and Kant and academic skepticism will take us too far from the topic of this thread I won't pursue it here, but I would be inter...
And yet both you are Hume write for an unperceived public. How long must the lights stay out before this form of skepticism takes over? Do you doubt t...
I make a distinction between learning about philosophy and doing philosophy. The former is a view from outside, being given someone's views on what ph...
Then we are in agreement. We are also in agreement that they failed to correctly identify the building. If by "we" you mean those who are not duped, t...
Right. What would be the point of camouflaging it if not to fool those who do not know that it is a church? The point is about what it is that we see....
If "a church were cunningly camouflaged so that it looked like a barn" why would you think that what you see is not a barn but a church? How would you...
A brief comment on the Butterfly Dream. The last two lines are important: . Distinctions are made between Zhuang Zhou and the butterfly and being awak...
I think the indirect realist gets it backwards. She sees the cup and based on a theory of perception infers that she sees patches and blobs. Put her i...
Terms such as 'realism' in all its variety of flavors confuse me. I try to avoid them. The fault may be entirely my own, but I have not been able to f...
In the case of the camouflaged church what we see is not, as Austin claims, "a church that now looks like a barn". (30) What we see is a barn. If we d...
From an earlier post: The sense data (indirect)/material object (direct) dichotomy, taking either one or the other or both together fails to encompass...
I think it is more a matter of what we do than what we say, of what cups are made and used for. The role or function that cups or, to use two examples...
What I am getting at is that there is more to perception than passive reception. What we see when we see the cup is not something separate from or ind...
I think this is a good point. In the case of a table, and perhaps more clearly in the case of a pen or cigarette, what we see in not simply an object ...
The Greeks used the term phusis ('nature') to distinguish it from what is by convention or law or custom (nomos). When applied to ethics, what is by n...
Sorry, I did not catch that you were shifting gears. The passages you cited are helpful in making the case for conceptual seeing. It cuts across the n...
There are several issues raised including what a law of nature establishes, the problem of induction, contingency and necessity. Contingency, certaint...
We can know that the sun rose today, but can we know that the sun will rise tomorrow? It seems clear that he did not think we could. I think his pictu...
Since the primitive people interpret what they hear, the difference is that one uses language and the other does not. There is, however, a difference ...
The reaction might be, at least in part, biological. There are several animals that play dead and other animals that will not eat or in other ways com...
I read through that thread, including your response. With regard to it: It should not matter whether one is a philosopher as long as one is reasonable...
As well you should be. Concepts of nature can be a reflection of perverse desire that things be a certain way in accord with one's opinion of how they...
This might be a good place to start. What quickly becomes evident is that his interpretation of Wittgenstein is grounded on the problems and analysis ...
But some do. There are no examples of reason completing itself. Although Thomists might believe it does in some limited way, because they believe that...
Nope. What I am saying is that if, as you assert, there is a telos of reason, then it has to date failed to complete or realize itself. Aquinas and I ...
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