I guess the immediate deconstructive response to this ought to be suspicion regarding the very terms of the question: why are organisms acting within ...
See I'm not even sure about this either: I think that if taken to the limit, deconstruction entails that there are, as it were, constructions other th...
This is not quite it; the point would rather be to question the cogency of the very distinction between 'the real' and 'the conditioned' to begin with...
I think it might be handy, but it also might not be - depending on the situation. Human rights, for example, are a total fabrication, but I think an i...
Establishing a binary does not entail establishing a gradation. Between apples and not-apples, it is not necessary that there are degrees of apples be...
As far as I can see, the very standard definition you've cited contrasts the real with the artificial or the illusory, and at no point does it invoke ...
I'm not sure what it means for anything to have 'more' - or 'less' - reality than anything else. Nor do I have any idea what kind of distinction that ...
But surely 'property' also imposes itself upon us as inescapable; one can't willy nilly ignore that things belong by law to certain entities, without ...
I've spent the entire thread explaining what I mean by 'sensibly'. If at this point it is still unclear to you, I can only conclude that you have not ...
Sure, but John - or at least the John of that statement - would say either (1) they are talking nonsense, or (2) they mean something different than he...
Oh look it took you three lines and a single post to do what John has been dancing around for three pages now. Although John of course might disagree ...
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Speaking solely of women, Hannah Arendt is among my favourite political philosophers and I’d recommend her work unreservedly. Wendy Brown probably pla...
I really think you're talking past me entirely here. The question 'what is the meaning of life?', like any other question, either is, or is not meanin...
Yes, exactly this! This is what I've been trying to get at with the idea that solutions are coeval with the explication of questions. Hence the citati...
Yes. This is about the third time I've affirmed this in this thread. And this was the entire point of the OP so short of you not having read it, I don...
This is not what you did. What you did instead is the equivalent of passing along class gossip: you pointed out that, allegedly, if you take at face v...
Demonstrate the coherence of those notions! I mean, this was literally the point of the the thread: show your work - among other things. And what do y...
I agree, you backtracked subsequently in order to shore up your initial bluntly hurled assertion that had no argument nor reference to 'traditional no...
Oh I get it, but it's more or less irrelevant to my initial point, which was that you failed to provide any sort of sense or context for your statemen...
Actually, it's pretty useful to bring Ryle in here to clarify some things - he was the original proponent of the 'category mistake' after all: for Ryl...
I'm confused as to where you think my OP was meant to be somehow exclusionary of other approaches to things. To affirm the importance of something is ...
I don't know where you're drawing this vocabulary of 'subjective' and 'objective' from. It certainly isn't in my post, and nothing about my post warra...
The point is that this is an 'idea without content', or rather, an idea-awaiting-content: it is, at best, a kind of placeholder; it holds out the prom...
You think 'theology' has an internally undifferentiated, univocal, and consistent articulation between life, meaning and God? Not, of course, that you...
Hmm, I'm 50/50 on this. On the one hand, I think there is never not a 'universe-of-discourse', as you put it - and this is the case irrespective of th...
I didn't say it was incoherent outright, I said it would be incoherent if left standing as-is, without elaboration into the relation between life, mea...
What prejudices? All I said - in a few more words - is that you provided no reason to accept your assertion one way or another, rendering it more or l...
Why? -- I mean, this kind of response/post is, unfortunately, the kind of thing the OP is trying to correct against. You can't just make this kind of ...
For a moment there I thought you might have actually been responding to the OP, only to realize that the only way you could have reached this conclusi...
I agree, and moreover I think this art, this ability to create or mobilize concepts that are immanent to whatever problematic they attempt to tackle, ...
The 'price paid' obviously depends on the change of context in question. There's no a prioricy to this, you said it yourself. And really, I'm not sure...
I think we agree far more than we disagree. For instance, I don't think that category mistakes are the results of either (1) the combination of things...
To be clear, I didn't mean to imply that meaning-of-life questions are, well, categorically category mistakes - although I agree, my phrasing came off...
Yeah exactly! I think Deleuze shows how one can take on board Witty style criticism, and basically turn it inside out: yes, all language use must take...
Hah, I was waiting for the synaesthesia response. But then, one has provided a context by which one could make sense of such a question. And part of m...
In writing at least, the one reference Deleuze ever made to Wittgenstein was in fact to "the disciples of Wittgenstein" (who "spread their misty confu...
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Well, this is certainly a better definition than any that has been given in this thread so far. It only took four pages for someone to actually say an...
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