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I'm a pretentious dummy who likes to pontificate on matters profound. Looks like I have to take a break from this vice. A fool and his money are soon parted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/heidegger/comments/8hhdnl/a_misreading_of_heidegger/

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In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
That is a tempting reading. You've located the crux. Is it anti-intellectualism or good sense to be suspicious of Derrida, Heidegger, & co. I'm famili...
March 29, 2019 at 05:37
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
I like Popper. Like many crystallizations of an intuition, it enriches us. But it's the working technology that I prefer to any theology of science. T...
March 29, 2019 at 05:12
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
As I mentioned, we can try to formalize/crystallize our intuition of what makes science science, even if the word has no essence. Falsifiability is go...
March 29, 2019 at 04:37
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
I like this goal. I hope my cynicism wasn't too offensive. I don't think this is an easy project. Why should every position fit in a living way in one...
March 29, 2019 at 04:17
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
Try to see it my way. I generally try to avoid quoting. I prefer to just paraphrase. But intellectuals like to drop names. Maybe it's a ritual where w...
March 29, 2019 at 04:11
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
I no more expect you to be dazzled by my anonymous perspective than I am automatically dazzled by yours. Despite our little clash here, I find you a w...
March 29, 2019 at 03:51
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
I agree, and I've criticized the style of statements that I otherwise value for being exaggerations. I'm familiar with that quote. I don't think Derri...
March 29, 2019 at 03:17
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
I never claimed an escape from angst altogether. We are mortal. And your talk of disabuse lapses back into the objectivity that some of your pomo take...
March 28, 2019 at 22:19
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
I like that too, but pointing out the limits of a distinction doesn't destroy its utility. I relate my reading of Heidegger to Wittgenstein through th...
March 28, 2019 at 21:26
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
To me this is an important point. It's the down-to-earth wisdom that cautions against forgetting ourselves in those spiritual complexities that makes ...
March 28, 2019 at 21:04
In: Philosophical Investigations, reading it together.  — view comment
I tend to agree with you here. Deception is a successful communication of meaning. In my view, it's better to read 'meaning is use' not as a theory (w...
March 28, 2019 at 20:29
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
Sure, but you don't do much to acknowledge the possibility that some difficult ideas are just smoke. You mention substanceless syncophants, but what a...
March 28, 2019 at 09:59
In: Philosophical Investigations, reading it together.  — view comment
Wasn't aimed at you, just to clarify. I tried, but I just can't find anything to disagree with here. Thanks, and we do indeed seem to be on the same p...
March 28, 2019 at 09:29
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
Indeed. Why not? I'm open to that. But this is also the problem with pomo insight. Anyone can accuse anyone of confusion. Yet at the same 'there are n...
March 28, 2019 at 09:05
In: Philosophical Investigations, reading it together.  — view comment
Thanks for the reply. We probably agree more than we disagree. By 'spiritual' I meant something like a matter of character. For instance, I am an athe...
March 28, 2019 at 07:08
In: Philosophical Investigations, reading it together.  — view comment
I agree. I'd say that the ideal in this case (from my reading) is 'spiritual' or a matter of character. Who wants to be pretentious? Who wants to be b...
March 28, 2019 at 02:59
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
Yeah that seems about right. I will say that it offer artistic pleasure if a person is designing something. Coding is building a machine more or less ...
March 28, 2019 at 02:45
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
For what it's worth, that's sounds about right to me, on that one issue anyway. And I think the later Wittgenstein is making the same kind of point wh...
March 28, 2019 at 02:41
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
I suppose excess is relative to time and place. If the proof of the pudding is in the eating, we are here talking about James, Rorty, Heidegger, Derri...
March 28, 2019 at 02:29
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
I agree with what you say about Heidegger and Derrida, but I'm not sure I agree with them on this. While we are all enmeshed in a contingent culture, ...
March 28, 2019 at 02:20
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
I think the common concepts of interpretation and bias already demonstrate a general awareness that representation is transformation. I also think tha...
March 28, 2019 at 02:09
In: Philosophical Investigations, reading it together.  — view comment
What if it's as simple as coming to see a certain style of argumentation as no longer cool? No longer the way to go? What if there's no gaping hole be...
March 28, 2019 at 01:51
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
You can probably tell from what I've written already, but I'll emphasize that I'm coming from an anti-foundationalist position in my criticism of cert...
March 28, 2019 at 00:49
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
It's not a huge issue, but I'll try one more time. I don't claim to be able to define reality. Consider what it would mean for me to do so. I'd be sho...
March 28, 2019 at 00:33
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
I value Heidegger as a philosopher and think there are important ideas in what you quoted, but I don't feel that the issue I raised is being addressed...
March 27, 2019 at 04:10
In: Are bodybuilders poor neurotic men?  — view comment
Great posts. You helped me see climbing in a new way. I also agree with the attitude expressed below. I agree with what I think is your notion that ou...
March 27, 2019 at 01:42
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
Hello again. I don't say that the quote above is wrong or is meaningless. In fact I like Heidegger. I even relate my criticisms of Heidegger to things...
March 26, 2019 at 21:42
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
My pleasure. One good thing about this book is that it pays attention to why philosophers caught on or not in their time. The main idea and its mood s...
March 26, 2019 at 07:31
In: Art highlights the elitism of opinion  — view comment
It's a complicated issue. I loved literature at that age, and some of what was taught was good. But given the depth of the good stuff, the Learning Ou...
March 26, 2019 at 06:58
In: Philosophical Investigations, reading it together.  — view comment
Yeah, I'd want to look. The guard says it all. I just wanted present the anti-profound reading as a current favorite that I didn't already see on the ...
March 26, 2019 at 02:53
In: Extract from Beyond Good and Evil (para. 5)  — view comment
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I still think you might be projecting some theory of 'mind-independence' on me, but it's a small issue. Nevertheless,...
March 26, 2019 at 02:28
In: Philosophical Investigations, reading it together.  — view comment
Thanks! That's very kind.
March 26, 2019 at 01:35
In: Philosophical Investigations, reading it together.  — view comment
I agree. I guess a certain suspension of disbelief is necessary in order to feel the strengths of a philosopher, but then an arrogance or restlessness...
March 26, 2019 at 01:31
In: Extract from Beyond Good and Evil (para. 5)  — view comment
I hear you, and I have been down that rabbit-hole. I've also read and enjoyed many of your posts. Lately I've just been pulling back from what I now s...
March 25, 2019 at 22:14
In: Philosophical Investigations, reading it together.  — view comment
I agree (with reservations below), yet you write as if I'm purveying some theory of the non-fuzzy kernel. My position is roughly that it's not worth t...
March 25, 2019 at 21:26
In: Philosophical Investigations, reading it together.  — view comment
I hear you, but I don't think anything is going to be proved in either direction. It seems like you want to knock Wittgenstein down, which is fine. Bu...
March 25, 2019 at 04:08
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
But why do they care about the products? Because they (we) live for that blather to the degree that they (we) are not just animals.
March 24, 2019 at 23:15
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
Actually it's a bit painful to come to terms with specialization. Or it was for me. If there's an itch for God, then there's a similar itch to know ev...
March 24, 2019 at 23:14
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
This 'system' is just lots of individuals though. From the guy at Best Buy they want the new smartphone. From the cutie on Tinder they want sex. From ...
March 24, 2019 at 23:04
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
I mostly agree, but wouldn't a younger person rather be a famous athlete or movie star? If tech people sell the shovels to the gold miners, some of th...
March 24, 2019 at 22:56
In: "Skeptics," Science, Spirituality and Religion  — view comment
Hi. I hope you don't mind me jumping in. What do you make of this old problem? How is 'there is no objective reality' meant to be understood if not as...
March 24, 2019 at 22:30
In: "Skeptics," Science, Spirituality and Religion  — view comment
Bingo. I almost made this point myself. It's not that such beliefs are meaningless. They may offer comfort to their purveyors. But they are suspicious...
March 24, 2019 at 22:15
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
I hear you and I agree. I guess it's only a matter of emphasis or arrogance. A person can politely tolerate or even empathize with those who cling to ...
March 24, 2019 at 21:48
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
I'm currently playing at a milder version of that with my forum persona. Does anyone live entirely without 'blather and nonsense'? I don't think so. B...
March 24, 2019 at 21:38
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
You are presenting a position that is not your own, correct? As I understand it, you are attributing this opinion to an ideological opponent, to mock ...
March 24, 2019 at 21:17
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
Aren't you forgetting what people use that stuff for? To surf porn, watch Peterson videos, see how Game of Thrones ends, or argue politics? Customized...
March 24, 2019 at 21:00
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
It seems to me that most people still value something or other more than technology. In a free society they just choose or find themselves with differ...
March 24, 2019 at 19:50
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
We are mostly on the same page, but I mentioned other high-status careers in the aesthetic realm to emphasize that technical people aren't alone on th...
March 24, 2019 at 19:44
In: Technology, Complexity, Science- No Bastion for Meaning Either  — view comment
I gotta say: I don't think you'll find many who will put it in those terms. Behind whatever hype is out there is still the old fashioned appreciation ...
March 24, 2019 at 05:50
In: Art highlights the elitism of opinion  — view comment
I've like many of the classics, personally, but I do have my doubts about forcing them on students, especially when students have to pay for the privi...
March 24, 2019 at 05:20
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