You have been flogging gnosticism, both here and elsewhere, for the last couple of years without much 'success'. I put to you that any reliance of gno...
Not exactly....about 'things' which are 'affordances for interaction' which, for humans are, 'marked' by 'words'. By saying that a word marks an affor...
We all hold tend to hold various 'contradictory beliefs'. It takes a bit of intellectual sophistication to realize that ! One concept which follows fr...
No. You ignore the fact that 'existence' is a word like any other whose meaning is also contextually dependent. The alternative, that 'existence' has ...
To All Have you listened to the Rorty clip (above) ? There is no 'conflict' if science and religion are seen as operating in different domains of huma...
My reading of Derrida suggests that 'meaning' is a transient directive aspect of our interactions. Contexts are dynamically shifting so that a word li...
Complementarity is not a 'size' issue. It's in part a 'set membership' issue...particle versus wave.. which were thought to be mutually exclusive. I h...
I see ! So 'cause' = 'meaning'...good luck with that one! Let me know if you follow up my references. Thankyou for the conversation so far. NB. In ter...
Thankyou for the Brouwer reference. I certainly think he was correct with respect his critique of the law of the excluded middle (as evidenced, in my ...
Not 'odd' at all according to Derrida. Aporia is inevitable. Every assertion involves its negation as a backcloth to establish its ephemeral semantic ...
I suggest your concept of 'the real world' is just as nebulous, as say, 'the imaginary component of a complex number'. Both are concepts which stand o...
Correct because 'existential import' is a human value judgement outwith the formalisms of classical logic. This point is one illustration of the limit...
You ask 'what words are about'. They are about 'ephemeral agreement about action decisions' whether in internal or extenal dialogue. They are not abou...
I don't have a clue where you get this 'ad hom' nonsense from... ..on the other hand... ...maybe the 'clue' might be that you have invested so much in...
You are playing language games without the semantic background of references, such as those cited by me, but apparently not read by you. It is a truis...
i see, so your answer is 'Heidegger got it wrong' ! You dismiss his admirable attempt to use neologisms to transcend the infinite regress as futile ? ...
But your lay term 'aboutness' is vacuous, because unless you are a naive realist you have no 'bedrock'. My 'cordination of coordination' rests on the ...
'Languaging' is a form of behavior which co-ordinates behavior. Your languaging sample about 'just squiggles on a screen' is your attempt to to elicit...
But you havn't analysed 'context' which I suggest always consists of 'an action decision scenario'. Your examples: Take the word 'good' for example......
'Thoughts'..? I suggest you think about the 'meaning' of that one key word ...'context'. You might find that discussion of 'meaning' without that is a...
No, what I have 'done here' is to use 'languing' behavior to elicit languaging behavior from you ! There is no 'ultimate', but It would have been more...
'Realism' has nothing to do with it. 'Reality' a concept denoted by a word like any other. It's 'meaning' resides in its particular contextual usage w...
No ! All languages, including the metalanguage of mathematics exist ie. are useful concepts in the only 'domain' that matters to humanity i.e actions ...
Are you familiar with 'Where Mathematics Comes From' (Lakoff and Nunez) ? Your exposition above may have some points in common. LATER EDIT I note your...
Yes..'meaning' is a side issue which might arise in the case of problematic action decisions. Further social transactions (extending the action contex...
To All Having recently joined this forum seeking a more contemporary approach to 'philosophy', I am somewhat disappointed in what I find. On the speci...
You qoted T Clark's statement about what we call the universe being observer-dependent. For me, his point is self evident without the need for an appe...
In the case of 'talking about meaning' I remain bemused that you can't see that your exhortation for 'things to be clearly stated' is equivalent to th...
I'd be pleased to discuss references, some of which (Maturana) are difficult to commune with because they are non-anthropocentrically deflationist wit...
Ah!...a foxtrot into what we call 'the past' !...what could be called retrodiction, the bedfellow of prediction which helps fuel those confidence leve...
No, thats more incestuous 'word salad'. What is 'knowledge' or 'belief' other than 'degree of confidence in the results of potential action' ?. ...dan...
You fail to get my point because you fail to understand that talking about language is in essence an infinite regress equivalent to pulling yourself u...
Since 'meaning' is contingent on 'speech acts' , your title 'let's talk about meaning' could be construed as 'lets eat our tongues' ! BTW, an attempt ...
On the basis that one definition of 'psychosis' is 'an inabilty to function in normal social life', then the only implication with respect to 'reality...
I agree with Wayfarer's point that this is a false analogy. The significant issue in 'scientific prediction' is to draw attention or generate 'data' w...
I like the concept of 'morphic resonance', but I suggest we should also bear in mind that for Sheldrake this appears to lead inevitably to concepts of...
What some cultures call 'psychosis' , others have called 'in contact with a spirit world' (etc).. This implies that 'reality' is a word which denotes ...
There may be no such thing as 'objective knowledge'. The phrase ' reason for knowing' implies that. Nor can are 'perceived patterns' be considered 'ob...
You may be missing the 'skills' and 'motivational' aspect of 'knowledge'. We know 'that' but also 'how'. And 'reasons for knowing' can operate at both...
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