There are no 'teachers' in understanding the nature of self. Only the experiences of others...fellow explorers, who have come to understand its epheme...
It (your committee) is not ready for the literature ! First it needs to observe its daily operations involving its internal squabbles. As one writer p...
:grin: ...a typical 'naive realist' response, breathtakingly ignorant of the literature ! Next time you notice that you are having an argument with 'y...
Why 'fascinating'? Its a truism that much of humanity tends to be herd-like in terms of following popular trends, fashions and seeking 'leaders' with ...
There is only one purpose of the OP...to bait 'believers' with a religiously emotive word and in order to promote his version of iconoclasm. The turgi...
"We all idol worship in some sense. If you can think analogically you will agree". No I don't agree. I've watched your soapbox preacher video and I ca...
Alas no... the 12 year olds had great fun with premises like 'all US presidents have red hair'. I use 'truth' in the pragmatist's sense of 'what works...
MESSAGE FROM 'THE CONTINENT' I happen to have been teaching 'truth tables' last week to class of 12 year olds on an ITC course. (I'll send you the not...
I'm bemused by the longevity of this 'logical claptrap' from so called 'proper philosophers' ! It's obvious to me that the compendium of behaviours an...
I agree that what 'humans have in common' may be ostensibly more than physiology. 'Commonality' viewed from a nested systems pov, takes on semantic is...
I agree that 'nominalism' is an important issue in philosophy as it underpins all 'measurement', and as Protagoras said, 'Man is the measure of all th...
I refer you to my 'Existence is Relative' thread. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/5901/existence-is-relative-not-absolute I doubt whether in...
Wearing my 'pragmatists hat', I can only interpret the phrase 'relative existence' from a contextual pov.Thus 'existence' is relative if the concept o...
The ITALICS MINE tag is not a 'bellow' but a standard convention in academic correspondence when a quotation is modified by the citer. But being ignor...
To Rufoid. 'Rationality' is in the eye of the beholder unless put up for scrutiny, as you do, in which case 'consensus' operates. So before 'the quest...
Your facile comment about 'misusing terms' is merely a bit of belligerent posturing to cover up either your indolence regarding keeping up with the li...
:grin: No The rest of what I said is over your head. 'Continental philosophy' is merely another pole of one of your dichotomy games. I doubt whether '...
I'm not sure where you got the 'most' from. From a pragmatist pov, most dichotomies tend to be futile...this one in particular which refers back to th...
I've just spotted this thread which seems to hinge on the straw man dichotomy of 'subjective-objective'. Straw man because all concepts are socially a...
'Assignment of thinghood' refers to the human activity of 'naming' which is the first level,of any measurement. A recent example might be the concept ...
Yes. I think we may be getting into aporia territory here (Derrida) in which every assertion evokes its negation. Aporia may indeed be the ultimate 'r...
I think you are avoiding the notion that all 'concepts' are denoted by 'words' which are socially acquired. Convergent consensus may be inevitable, bu...
The only problem with that is that you are citing a mathematical model and maths taken as a metalanguage carries with it all the linguistic issues alr...
I'm not sure whether Heidegger himself used 'reality' in that way to imply his promotion of aletheia. Afterall, his use of Existenz was restricted to ...
As far as 'things prior to us' is concerned. in so far that it denotes a 'useful' concept for current humans as an imagined scenario, then 'such thing...
The first level of all measurement is 'nominal' i.e. 'identifying and naming a thing' That necessarily involves directed focal interaction of an obser...
I don't define it. It is a concept which denotes 'utility' of another concept and the utility of all concepts is relative to human needs. Some concept...
:grin: "Man is the measure of all things" Protagoras "All we call observation is verbal" Maturana "Language speaks the Man" Heidegger ( not vice versa...
The problem with 'common sense' is that it assumes language to be representational of 'extant permanent objects', which is fine for daily transactions...
'Reality'...? That is just another word used in social contexts to denote agreement about 'what is the case'. The fact that humans have much physicall...
You are using 'existence' as an absolute. The thesis here is that 'existence' is a word used by humans regarding what is 'a useful concept'....nothing...
I take the nonrepresentationalist view. Words construct what we contextually accept as 'reality' and contexts are transient. (Your logic above appears...
The implictations for religion are negative in that they are limited by contrived 'absolutes'. For 'free will', 'meaning' etc they do not apply since ...
Insofar that humans have similar bodies, whose experience may form the bedrock of 'metaphor', they may share the same 'reality'. Wittgenstein: "If a l...
Attempted 'visualization' is criticised by the pragmatists who argue that this is a bias inherited from Greek philosophy. (Rorty 'Philosophy and the M...
This is my last comment to you. Organized religion has historically been a rationale for tribalism, and ensuing genocide. But more pernicious are pomp...
I should have spotted that 'body parts' probably constitute a special case as they are part of the observer domain. However, at the most basic level o...
Have a look at your logic. Of course 'things' don't 'flux' because 'thinghood' equates to persistent utility. The thing coined by the words 'your hand...
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