Basically there are two translations, the older one being 'Speech' and the newer one being 'Voice', which more appropriately corresponds to the French...
Not a great deal. At least, Derrida is quite clear in his exposition. If you want to have the best of both words, do Austin's How To Do Things With Wo...
Short of subscribing to some myth of free-floating qualia, I simply don't see how this could be true. Proprioceptive sensing has precisely to do with ...
But I'm not saying that the self is a 'social' construction (any more than I'm saying the self is a 'biological' construction); I'd rather say that it...
Interestingly, we can actually scientifically test the above. The rubber hand illusion is famous and should be self-explanatory in the above regard, a...
As usual, part of the problem here is in conceiving 'inside' and 'outside' as absolutes, rather than differentially produced boundaries. The OP is adm...
Oh look, I mentioned the words 'mirror neurons' so I'm an arch-reductionist who must disagree with everything you just said. It's not 'subjectivity' t...
Hey, I'm not making any claim to 'radicality' here, but I don't think it's exactly a stretch to say that the idea that recognizing other-selves came '...
I suppose we simply have different approaches to the history of philosophy then. The whole idea of self-affection is pretty much as old as God himself...
No - we 'create' zero by digitizing the cake and the not-cake. And not-cake is - as the name implies - a reflexive operation: it is a meta-statement a...
Eh, I'm of course exactly of the opposite mind, both historically and philosophically: the notion of auto-affection has been the theological thread th...
Yes, and? A more fun way to understand the whole deal with the empty set is that it's like distinguishing the cake from the not-cake, which means that...
I'm too tired to reply to your mammoth post properly tonight, but I wanted to quickly post that it seems to me our differences come down to whether or...
No, but you can make the law of the excluded middle apply by imposing a rule which would, on that basis, arbitrarily split said cake. That’s the whole...
The issue is more subtle than this, although I admit that in my haste to distinguish intensive (analog) differences from the Kantian 'thing-in-itself'...
I may or may not chime in with Word and Object, How to Do Things With Words, or Speech and Phenomena, if we end up doing one of those. Got alot on my ...
The latter doesn't follow the former at all. If I cut a cake into two and say that the two pieces now belong to the set 'Cake', it doesn't mean the ca...
Ugh, you can't even get the terms right. I said nothing about binary logic. Seriously, you are really bad to have discussions with. And that we can pr...
Ugh, that we work with digital systems has nothing to do with whether or not 'we are digital systems'. The latter phrase is literally meaningless, it ...
? This is what I've been saying from the beginning. Not sure what's being pointed out anywhere. I'm referring to the distinction between information a...
I've stipulated what I've meant by the terms multiple times, precisely defining them in terms of negation and reflexivity, meanings which are certainl...
I have no idea what you mean by 'we function digitally'. Sorry Terra, I don't think you have a grasp of the vocabulary here, which is why I'm being cu...
So which is it - do vague and crisp map on to analog and digital or do they not? If they do, in what sense can you claim that the analog/digital disti...
Depends on how you mean. Your original question quoted a statement about symbolic representational systems then asked if 'we' are digital or analog. I...
Sure, every setting of a boundary is always (at least) double: the explicit one between the two (digitized) elements in question (A, not-A), and impli...
"A nation is a group of people united by a mistaken view about the past, a hatred of their present neighbors, and dangerous illusions about their futu...
Yes, yes, if it doesn't come from the one of five of six philosophers you've bothered schooling yourself in it's all allusion and romantic melange. Bu...
Hey, I'm just relaying the theory here. Actually, now that you mention it, I relayed it wrong. It's the monopoly on the legitimate use of force, gener...
It's perhaps the most well known definition of the state - first given by Max Weber - that it possesses a 'monopoly on violence'. That is, the state p...
Au contraire mon ami, the reference to the discrete and the continuous mean nothing without the index of negation and reflexivity which quite precisel...
I don't think this is quite right. As a matter of principle, it trades too heavily on some kind of thought/world duality which I think is unsustainabl...
See my reply above to Apo - the analog is not just uncertainty and vagueness. It has specific properties of it's own defined primarily by relationalit...
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