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Heidegger is probably the best example. Diogenes is another, and it was intentional in his case, because it was essential to his philosophy. Sorry for...

Never heard of it. Thanks for the lead. And that last line was funny. :lol:

Good point. I think Nietzsche was making the point that folk psychology is historically/geologically embedded in human understanding and natural langu...

This has the sound of a life philosopher. I imagine that the one concerned only with systems, would ignore, reject, or ridicule you for writing this. ...

A true philosopher see the usefulness of the useless. I think one thing that makes philosophers special is that they are so paradoxical. Even if the s...

This is a nice prescription for how philosophy should be practiced. One reason I also like Popper is that his system doesn't seem to elbow out the ind...

I like Popper. He seems like an honest philosopher. From my general acquaintance to him, I would call him a systems philosopher. By "systems philosoph...

You have always been in my heart, even when I sinned. :pray:

This can also be framed in the context of the qualitative-quantitative dichotomy. The modern approach has married itself to quantitative understanding...

There is a great contrast between systems philosophy, and philosophy of life. The former depends much more upon scientific understanding, a coupling o...

Hi, I've always wanted to talk to g0d. :cheer: I think that hit the nail on the head. It seems, any difficult task we humans perform tends to be for t...

It seems like from the perspective of human reason, anything exceeding its bounds would appear to be quite similar to what is considered irrational. I...

@"Wayfarer " I have one more concern. How can we confidently assert that propositional logic has some correspondence to life, when we haven't even det...

This is a great description of philosophy. To me it sounds like a lot of fun. I don't get why some people get so hostile and uptight about it, speakin...

I think I had an identical exchange with some one else here on TPF. :grin:

What primitive idiots. They don't know the secret to life, like we do in the present age. :razz:

Do you mean it couldn't extrapolate its binary logic into some abstraction of meaning? Go figure? There is something else going on in natural language...

But going even deeper. Is there not something unspeakable about lived experience, something that is unquantifiable, and informal? Devil never does, do...

You might be right. I won't argue. I read him a while ago when studying atheism. I wasn't really impressed, and I felt he was rehashing many old empir...

"Subject-hood"... And what about those who regard it as a particular operation contextualized in some propositional format?

I wouldn't even consider Dennett a third tier philosopher. He is more of a theorist. And from a philosophical perspective, all you have to do is sit b...

I agree. Yet, I anticipate strong objections from the knowing ones. What would you say subject-hood entails, and what is it dependent on?

I think this is the gyst of what he meant. I'm pretty sure you mean this as an insult, but I take It as a compliment. So thank you. :victory:

One of the problems with comparing humans and computers, is that computers don't actually have a neurological structure, that is, if what we are refer...

:lol: Guano is a delicacy in certain cultures. :yum:

I agree that there is reasonable ground to consider the similarities between the cognition of bat and human. However, when we enter the realm of unfet...

One thing I know for sure, is that bats produce an immense amount of shit, so we should keep that in mind when attempting to enter the mind of the bat...

It's the same as asking what it's like to be a toaster.

Quoting unrelated fiction...that's what Banno does when he can't keep up and has nothing relevant to add, which is more often than not.

Talking stick. :blush:

Really? That's all you can come up with? What a plop.

Garbage.

I'm sorry, did I miss something? I'm still waiting for Banno to tell me which passages he is referring me to in 'Philosophical Investigations'. Its re...

Thanks for the link. But I have the book. Can you tell me which §'s you were referring to?

That's a good point. A musician too, thinking in terms of sounds and rhythms.

I promise to read it closely and carefully, and then reread it even more closely and carefully.

Cool. Do you know the specific pages? I want to check it out. Then I will do my best to reply.

I don't intend to settle anything. Rather, allow me to stir things up with some opinions... Thought is the product of thinking. Thinking can produce e...

I don't know what you were reading, it was a bunch of irrelevant nonsense.

Thanks. That makes sense.

Why, is speech blue and not red? Or, is it that "medium through" does not include "medium". What nonsense criticism are you trying to get away with th...

I don't see much of an argument here. Speech and statements are distinct, just as thought and speech is distinct. So what's the problem?

I said speech is not identical to thought. Statements are something else. Not all statements are posited in the form of speech, and not all speech cou...

Definitely not speech or writing. Hmmmm...I just can't seem to find a good example that illustrates thought that doesn't involve language.

No. All thoughts are unspoken. Speech is not thought, it is a medium through which thought can be communicated/expressed.

Any thought that doesn't involve language. Has one clear example of nonlinguistic thought even been posited?

It is a glorious victory to recognize the futility of all approaches, but discuss them nevertheless. :cheer:

I'm completely ok with dismissing the notion of nonlinguistic thought. The more I consider it, the more it becomes apparent that it is quite redundant...

@"fresco" is correct. As far as it concerns us existence is relative.

Any and all. I'm a philosopher. I have nothing to prove, and nothing else to offer but speaking all my opinions clearly and directly.