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Gary M Washburn

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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...
July 26, 2020 at 18:03
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. ...
July 22, 2020 at 12:13
Xtrix, personal. That is, the dynamic character of thoughtful discourse is the central issue, even of reality itself. The infinitesimal is the pivot a...
July 21, 2020 at 16:42
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...
July 20, 2020 at 16:06
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...
July 20, 2020 at 15:27
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...
July 19, 2020 at 16:41
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...
July 19, 2020 at 16:41
Not mumbo-jumbo? Logic makes the distinction between “orders” of attribution. Pierce gives his bizarre ranking of first thirds and second firsts, or.....
July 18, 2020 at 22:41
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...
July 18, 2020 at 16:40
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...
July 17, 2020 at 11:24
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...
July 16, 2020 at 12:48
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...
July 16, 2020 at 08:50
No, I said dystopian "culture" is.
July 16, 2020 at 07:38
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...
July 15, 2020 at 09:44
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...
July 14, 2020 at 12:51
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...
July 12, 2020 at 16:45
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...
July 05, 2020 at 16:25
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...
July 04, 2020 at 19:59
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...
July 04, 2020 at 13:00
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 ...
June 24, 2020 at 09:53
PS, I'm on borrowed WiFi, and may not be back for days.
June 22, 2020 at 17:51
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 ...
June 22, 2020 at 17:50
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...
July 07, 2019 at 21:18
Schop1, Which just goes to show that too much "philosophy" poisons the mind. The only induction is the failure of rigorous deduction (entailed extensi...
July 04, 2019 at 15:24
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...
July 03, 2019 at 09:14
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 ...
March 03, 2019 at 12:39
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...
March 02, 2019 at 20:26
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? ...
February 28, 2019 at 13:39
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? ...
February 26, 2019 at 17:08
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...
February 25, 2019 at 13:33
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...
February 24, 2019 at 20:10
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...
February 23, 2019 at 10:12
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...
February 22, 2019 at 09:46
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...
February 20, 2019 at 13:00
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...
February 19, 2019 at 17:45
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...
February 19, 2019 at 17:28
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...
February 19, 2019 at 17:17
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...
February 16, 2019 at 13:42
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...
February 14, 2019 at 11:54
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...
February 13, 2019 at 13:44
I don't think in bullets points. Mind is holism.
February 13, 2019 at 13:42
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...
February 12, 2019 at 17:43
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...
February 12, 2019 at 17:19
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=...
February 12, 2019 at 17:10
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...
February 07, 2019 at 10:48
Actually, Heidegger, infamously, wrote the book on metaphysics. Quantum physics is a summation of anomaly reduced to the infinitesimal. The theory is ...
February 06, 2019 at 13:57
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,...
February 04, 2019 at 18:20
Alas, WiFi is only available periodically, so, bye, for now.
January 22, 2019 at 17:32
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...
January 22, 2019 at 17:31