Heidegger could have spared himself, and us, a bit of grief if he addressed one simple question. If there is such a thing as forgetfulness of Being, i...
As I said, I could not find the response of which I was notified. There is no mystical "hidden". But we do hide from ourselves, and with good reason. ...
Xtrix, personal. That is, the dynamic character of thoughtful discourse is the central issue, even of reality itself. The infinitesimal is the pivot a...
Are we supposed to take this as an exhaustive account? Reminds me of Permenides. In ninety pages Parmenides tries to answer a simple proposal by Socra...
Xtrix, The point is that time, and reason, is something personal. That is, the dynamic character of thoughtful discourse is the central issue, even of...
German is ambiguous about what "da" means. "Being" is that little word we put between subject and predicate in order to count one of the other. Or, ma...
I hope this point does not get lost. The dystopian view is that suffering is endemic. It ranges from apathy that let's it happen, as a pretext to maki...
Not mumbo-jumbo? Logic makes the distinction between “orders” of attribution. Pierce gives his bizarre ranking of first thirds and second firsts, or.....
I stand, mildly, corrected. I hate the clerical side of these debates. I'm not a clerk or scribe. Essence is ideal, existence is real. I've been assid...
David, What is at stake is Heidegger's tenuous claim upon his own ego trip. Kevin. At the very beginning of B&T, Sartre famously quotes him in the int...
Most of what we talk about is what we can't talk about. The punctuation above seems confused to me, but whatever the hell Heidegger thought he was get...
Being is a cipher. What does being mean in a syllogism? Is it a quantifier, or a qualifier? Analytic philosophy treats it is a quantifier. But so does...
The problem with history is that historians make a fetish of telling us everything we don't want to know. My studies are motivated by getting at the r...
America is the product of the English civil war, and the two sides in that war, though more or less reconciled in England, are still at each other's t...
I think you'll find Walmart, cheered on by Ronald Reagan, demanded its suppliers divest themselves of American workers. Not the whole story, but it go...
That's just the problem, isn't it?! The ontological fallacy is that unity and continuity is what is real. But to get from the certitude which one is w...
But what gets "rounded" out? Is it nothing? What if it's everything? There may be nothing unique in the mathematician's mind, but there is a great dea...
Apparently, he doesn't have "1"! One over infinity must be taken as the mathematical equivalent of zero, or the calculus, the basis of physics, is fou...
I hope I can be forgiven if I neglect to review this cacophony. Argumentation can only expect to be convincing if there is absolute confidence in the ...
What a load of drivel! Do you really think we understand what causality is well enough to draw conclusions from an Aristotelian meme? 1+1 only equals ...
Are there really any theories of either how language or consciousness evolved? What they are, sure, but not how they evolved. Fact is, there are no "p...
Schop1, Which just goes to show that too much "philosophy" poisons the mind. The only induction is the failure of rigorous deduction (entailed extensi...
Language is a subterranean conspiracy we engage in together, or that engages us together, against such terms and theories as stated here. One way to m...
Petulance? Obstreperousness? You do surprise me! Are you asking me for empathy? I've been saying all along that empathy is prerequisite, and that you ...
Judaka, The difference between analysis and synthesis is philosophy 101. The terms I refer to are every word you type at us. Yes, you have stated a be...
Judaka, You can't question your premise without yielding inferences already assumed to confirm it. But if not, how does a premise form to begin with? ...
If a person explicitly reports what you intuit is not what or why they show signs of feeling or thinking, what then of confirmation/dis-confirmation? ...
Well, do we have any way to confirm or refute our empathic impressions? The denial or confirmation of the subject? If not, how is that judgement not i...
If the infant cries, does it feel? Do you know "how it feels"? Do you know how you feel if you don't know "how it feels"? Empathy with the crying infa...
In Plato's Lysis, a young man asks Socrates for ideas about how to get Lysis, a popular fellow student in the gymnasium with him, to befriend him. The...
My access to the net is limited, so I can't follow this discussion effectively. But it seems to me it overlooks the obvious fact that empathy is the f...
Where is the issue of 'empathy' more real and complete? In a domestic relation that is suddenly recognized estranged? Or for the alien in a strange la...
If you can't know the difference between good food and bad food, it's hard to see that you know what food is at all. Plato covered this one better tha...
When we butt heads over ideas, if we have any self-respect, we at least sometimes discover we have been wrong. How far does this discovery go? If it c...
1/infinity is a contradiction. It is both something and nothing. George Berkeley wrote a paper on this titled "The Analyst". Hard to see how we can re...
Is philosophy a seance? Or, “awaiting upon the lord”? Where does rigorous or critical thinking come into it? Of course, get that little issue out of t...
The problem with the Turing Test is that it is rigged in favor of the computer. The problem with Heidegger is that he uses “being” as a cryptic operat...
Is reality, and reason, hermetic? Anything, any least shred of meaning, not captured by the causal nexus or within the bounds of premise and consequen...
If......,then? Are you quite sure you know what this means? If "if" is, there is no "if" about it! If "if" is not, it's all pretty damn iffy! Is "then...
Well, perhaps I seem impertinent. When others bring up authors I become impatient. Why do so many philosophy discussions hinge on the character of aut...
And I thought scholasticism was dead! But the ghost of The Duns still lingers among us, it seems! Does A=A? or does A=B? Can both be "true"? Does 1+1=...
Putting down Sartre is as popular a sport as always, it seemve you read his two works on 'imagination'? You see, he caught-up Husserl (and he was more...
Actually, Heidegger, infamously, wrote the book on metaphysics. Quantum physics is a summation of anomaly reduced to the infinitesimal. The theory is ...
Relativity is “bent”. It brings to mind the use of that word in C S Lewis. But relativity still holds time to be a continuum, a dimension. Physicists,...
Hiding from oneself is a very popular activity these days, if you haven't noticed. But think of it terms of responsiveness and responsibility. Plato f...
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