But the measure of psi is still not 'intrinsic' to the notion of pressure gradient; it still a digital model of the analog; this has nothing to do wit...
As usual, we stand imperceptibly close on some issues, and unbridgeably far on others. While I agree with the thrust of your post, you continue to hol...
Actually, the issues around the question of boundary setting are quite important and worth pursuing in some detail. Recall that to institute any digit...
A delicate project indeed. Part of the motivation for this thread was to wonder if, within formal logic, there are resources by which to deal with the...
But there's no 'dark art' here: in order to digitize an analog continuum, you simply draw a boundary - and then you treat it as such. The cut is a sem...
Yeah, exactly. I said elsewhere in the thread that got this train of thought going that what I'm kind of after is something like a "critique of pure f...
Yeah, I was admittedly a little naughty in naming the thread. It was originally something like 'negation and the analog/digital distinction' but that ...
Oh come on, you were talking about numbers in the context of a metric, numerical scale which is what I was responding to. Talk about shifting goalpost...
And what exactly do you think ordinal numbers indicate? Distinctions between discrete elements in a set? Not at all. What they mark are relationships,...
As I said above, the analog is not at all anything like a 'thing-in-itself'. It is eminently knowable in the most trivial of ways; it's just that unli...
If you can make a distinction between discrete elements in a system, then you're dealing with a digital system. If you can't, you're dealing with an a...
Um, I don't know what to say other than you're simply wrong. That one can find a number between any two numbers still means you're effecting a distinc...
But that is not perfectly analog at all. If you've got a numerical scale, you're already operating digitally. The only way to speak of differences in ...
How could it? Again, the paradigm is the mercury in the thermometer - what even would negative mercury mean? To speak as such already implies a digiti...
DNA as a brute molecule is neither analog nor digital - it is a not a system or a process - but the process of genetic expression (DNA to protein) is ...
Part of my argument here is that what you refer to as material identity is a kind of hypostatization or transcendental illusion in which 'numerical' (...
I dunno; on first brush I'd say the Sorites Paradox is a kind of symptom of what happens when you try to completely model an analog system in a digita...
Sounds relatively OK to me. I'd definitely affirm that language is a digital system (although not all digital systems are linguistic, and if I were to...
Nah, I wouldn't say that the digital is 'artificial'. Wilden himself will provide a few examples of digital systems in nature (he spends alot of time ...
No, the the digital is a subset of the analog, they are not in opposition or in a relation of exclusion. The relation is not a?d (XOR), rather, d?a. W...
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari - What Is Philosophy? Jeffrey A. Bell - Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy?: A Critical Introduction and Guid...
This is a spin-off of a discussion I was having in the Dennett thread; there was too much I wanted to pack in a post, so I figured I'd give it a threa...
Ugh, I missed the qualification of 'probably' that I had meant to attach to that (I did the second time I mentioned in it my post!). Not that it matte...
Fair point. I should have said something to learn identity is to at least learn a fact about linguistic use, etc. In any case, the point is to resolve...
But you don't 'just' mean that 'they are the same guy'; you 'also mean' that they will respond to the same name, that Mr. Jones is responsible for the...
(I take) Wittgenstein's comment to apply to statements of identity that do not refer to an identity parameter. And it is the case the those sorts of c...
I don't know, give me a context of use. These things can't be talked about in abstraction - which is the point. This simply strikes me as a kind of tr...
No, no, it's not that people don't assert identity. Of course they do, they do so all the time. But the question isn't about assertion it's about onto...
Hmm, I don't think that saying Mr. Jones is Adam is the same as saying 'x is identical to itself'. It's the difference between x=x and x=y. One might ...
Perhaps one thing to recognize is that the term 'image of thought' in Deleuze is not just an arbitrary poetic term, but a technical one; In Difference...
Heh, the irony of course is that Deleuze's work is so absurdly technical that you kinda need a decent grasp of exactly that history to really understa...
I'll have to do some extended reading on this to give a proper reply; what I'm getting from this is that I need to focus on the notion of truth at pla...
Basically anything that abides by the law of identity ("a thing is equal to itself"). To be absolutely clear, to deny the law of identity isn't - for ...
No, you're right, I need to explain my reservations better. Basically I've always wondered this: how does formal logic deal with individuation? I woul...
I tend to find what little I read of analytic metaphysics more or less incomprehensible to me. I don't say this as a value judgement on my part, I jus...
Check out Vox's article on the movement, which is pretty comprehensive: http://www.vox.com/2016/4/18/11434098/alt-right-explained. "The label blends t...
You mistake me - I didn't say that 'the world is unintelligible'; I said that it may well be the case that something as abstract as 'the world' doesn'...
There are two ways to look at the question of the world's intelligibility. The first is to ask about 'the world', how it works, its structure, etc, et...
Karen Barad - Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (rereading) Vicki Kirby - Quantum Anthropologie...
Bahaha, douchebag. But you're wrong to boot: I still take the inferential constraints required by modelling to be particularizations of a more general...
We self-move; as biological creatures, we self-relate; we not only sustain ourselves metabolically, we seek ways to sustain that metabolism; movement ...
Again, you keep charging me with 'opposing' this, that or the other; 'naked aeshtetics' vs, 'social construction', 'inwardness' and 'outwordness'; the...
We can try this on for size: sensation is the qualitiy of/for a certain kind of existence. Part of what motivates many of the criteria I stipulate is ...
I think the point is more that on can imagine, at least in principle, explaining say, algebra to a disembodied being (assuming which we could get roun...
Not at all; I listed some quite specific conditions that need to be met for anything of the kind to occur: spatio-temporal and bodily differentiation,...
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