I agree that a value judgement is an activity, an event. But I’m not talking about a particular value created by such a judgement - a measurement. Tha...
To judge is simply to form an opinion about importance, worth, significance, usefulness, etc - to configure a relation of potential to a particular pe...
He’s not reducing time to gravitation, he’s describing the mathematical variable of Newtonian time as the gravitational field. There’s a difference. N...
Importance and significance implies value, yes - but be careful not to assume that all value is judged by human minds, or according to a single system...
Understanding reality is not about adequacy, but accuracy. The bible can be considered adequate to form a solid foundation for an understanding of rea...
The main difference is that you believe any understanding of reality must conform to grammatical conventions (which is a reduction of logic), whereas ...
I accept that one can describe or configure this activity as being a property of ‘something immaterial’, but I see it as an unnecessary contrivance to...
By ‘created’, as a so-called ‘collapse’ of the wave function, it seems you’re referring to an instant of differentiation - and yes, I agree that there...
It is highly technical, but it’s really just that the relativity of time is in fact a relativity of all four dimensional variables - their non-commuta...
I was using ‘intelligibility’ in the narrow form that it has been presented to me here, and employed to dismiss quantum mechanics. But you and I at le...
Despite institutional conventions, philosophy is about wisdom, which is not ‘to know’ in the sense of ‘to describe’, but to understand in the sense of...
Well, I can give it a go… Time is not a linear extension - this is how time appears to us because we are perceiving events from the inside - we are in...
I get that the classical explanation of waves is ‘disturbance through a medium’. But look up the Michelson & Morley experiment - there is no ether. So...
I’m defending the position because it’s the only one (so far) that enables me to consolidate all the information and understanding that I have, withou...
:yikes: Ok, I’ll admit that it’s a matter of interpretation. Let’s strike that emotional outburst from the argument, and put it down to frustration… I...
Agency: action or intervention producing a particular effect (from Medieval Latin agent-, doing). This definition does not imply (necessarily or other...
The agencies are differentiating, not distinct. Distinct implies separation, which Barad is very careful NOT to imply. There is a lot of Newtonian ass...
First of all, you are reading more into what I describe than what is here. Read it again. There is nothing in what I’ve written that deviates from Bar...
Not accountable to the ‘criteria’, but to our inherent inseparability from the world. Objectivity means without bias, judgement or prejudice. Plato an...
Define ‘good’. It may seem pedantic to insist on ‘intra-action’, but for me it’s about being honest, acknowledging the involvement and variability of ...
You’re still trying to describe objects from some external perspective, a passive observer of two objects not interacting. But there is no outside. Ne...
“Philosophy without any understanding of the physical world can only be an exercise in making meaning about symbols and things that have no basis in t...
A few quick points about this: Any logical structure consists of variables - some kind of differentiation - otherwise you’re talking a singularity, th...
Kant does not include the human, experiencing ‘agent’, within the phenomenon - which is also a necessary condition for the existence of phenomena. Thi...
It’s something I’ve been working on, based on ontic-structural realism: relations without pre-existing relata. It draws from examining the underlying,...
I can’t say that I agree with ‘flat’ as an accurate descriptor for the ontology you propose here (although I get the reference), nor do I consider any...
I think the difference between your position and mine (or Barad’s), though, is that we don’t believe there is an inherent distinction of the ‘subject’...
I read this far too late at night, and am now re-reading it after some sleep. The clearest distinction between past and future is an understanding of ...
The distinction you’re referring to here is between two different phenomena: in the first, ‘the agent’ is involved in producing their ‘sense appearanc...
I can see that, and I will try to clarify. The important point is that this differentiation occurs within phenomena - the separability is agential, no...
Any description of the past OR the future is always in relation to a particularly embodied present. It seems to me that what you’re referring to is th...
To understand is “to be sympathetically or knowledgeably aware.” Understanding through rationality and logic alone do not allow for sympathetic awaren...
Time is not objectively linear - there is no inherent temporal separability between past and present. Rather, we enact this cut within the phenomenon ...
I would suggest that ‘love’ refers to a human perception of ontologically primitive relation. Perhaps by understanding that ‘the past’ is determined o...
Yes, you can have an appropriate excuse in theory, but if delivered incorrectly or without qualitative precision - that is, done without accuracy - it...
This would involve a conversation with my mother. My own 80-year old mother, who I love dearly and is still in reasonable health, has made it clear th...
What has seemed ‘essential’ for ‘our culture’ in the past has been found on numerous occasions to be no indication of its accuracy, let alone its impo...
We don’t really make a practice more responsible - rather we practice more responsibly. A key aspect of Barad’s agential realism is a performative und...
A methodology with which to understand relation itself. And in agential realism (based on quantum mechanics), which describes phenomena as ‘ontologica...
When we rationalise about infinity we invariably run into error. That is, when we think of ‘infinity’ (or ‘God’) as an object of the mind we are reduc...
The endgame is responsible and accountable practices, or intra-action. The categories/domains/fields are themselves apparatuses - “boundary-making pra...
It’s important to note that there is also no inherent separation between the human and non-human in these material-discursive practices. This is where...
This caught my attention. I’m conscious of the effort to not explain ‘maleness’ in opposition to the notion of ‘female’, and I recognise this is a per...
Sure. Physical space is a ‘material object’ like a table or a chair in that it is measurable in three dimensions - but only in relation to other mater...
Space refers to the 3-dimensional geometric structure of measurable volume, regardless of whether it contains matter as such. I take up space (volume)...
First of all, gender is not necessarily about ought - As a woman, I have learned not to make decisions based on societal expectations of how I ought t...
Perhaps we can look closer at this problem that the mere presence of the male sex is perceived as a threat to the female sex. This may be part of what...
Atwood wrote this in the 1980s, while stationed behind the Iron Curtain. The rapid and insidious advancement of this social change she described has s...
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