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I don't think I did. I gave the pragmatists reaction to those who do/

The 'mathematical modelling' you suggest may already operate under names like 'nested systems theory' or 'state transition theory'. But the 'intuitive...

There is no account of 'truth'. Its an ineffable abstraction....a word contextually used where agreement is being saught about 'certainty of what is t...

I didn't actually say that. With my pragmatist's hat on I might say 'truth' is 'what works for you'...'objective truth; is a claim about 'what works f...

Once again, I am surprised. This time that some posters on this forum do not understand the difference between a formal coherent model, like classical...

I'm surprised that nobody has considered 'identity of A' as 'continued contextual functionality as A'.

Yes.. 'it matters'...because playing with the word 'truth' can involve contexts such as religion where 'revealed truth' is contrasted with 'objective ...

My (pragmatic) answer to the question 'do we need objective truth ?' is ' yes', because the concept is useful in particular human contexts. But when a...

How about Gurdjieff's view that we are being farmed like sheep to 'transform psychic energy from coarse to fine for higher beings' ! :wink:

You appear to be familiar with the resource texts for The School of Practical Philosophy (aka Scool of Economic Science). If so, I am sure you would a...

Kornelius Point taken !

I admitted nothing. On the contrary my implication was that the usage of those concepts was simplistic which an academic ought to have realised.

I'm surprised that having studied both psychology and philosophy you are using simplistic concepts like 'reason' and 'truth'.

Well said !

IMO Since 'classical logic' can be problematic in general philosophy, it is likely to be even more so in theology !

You have made a 'logical error'. (Refer to 'fallacy of affirming the consequent'). (Your argument takes the form iF p THEN q....NOT q...therefore NOT ...

I concur with Gurdjieff's 'committee nature of self', but as for his 'levels of awareness' which come from a 'pyramid selling' structure to his esoter...

...even more word salad ! There is a lot of rubbish here about 'the law of the excluded middle'. Since this is inapplicable in parts of quantum physic...

Your pessimism is well understood. And the 'Gaia hypothesis' seems to imply the inevitability of wars as a limiting factor on population.

So you are appealing to what is commonly called 'a medical condition' to account for your 'word salad' ? If so, I sympathize, but on an intellectual f...

There seems to be a lot of 'word salad' above surrounding the notion that what we call 'the world' is 'observer dependent'. From a species perspective...

Agreed.

I would say you are agreeing with a shifting world and shifting self where 'is-ness' amounts to little more than a snapshot memory or a projection in ...

Okay three points... 1. Derrida (endorsed by Rorty) pointed out that the import of any assertion (pivileging) was contingent on its negation i.e. apor...

It's not the case that 'expectancy' is 'just another noun' because the expectancy associated with using a word like 'tree' can vary according to conte...

No. I am claiming that objection to 'facts about facticity' is a futile issue akin to Russell's Paradox. The level of 'rationality' required to discus...

Re: your common sense view, I suggest you consider replacing 'objects existing whether perceived or not' by ' expectation of functional persistence ev...

Sorry..no time to reply in detail. Read my comment above above about Russell's Paradox for a reply to your 'fact about facts'. Back later.

The constructivist view of 'facts' is basically an anti 'naive realist' stance, which recognizes that 'facticity' can be negotiated and shifts over ti...

[reply="Terrapin Station;298744" Of course ! Languaging, like any other form of behavior can operate like a bodily habit (as in circling thoughts ), o...

Because 'thinghood' can be assigned to irrelevancies by parties to an exchange in their attempts to 'lead' the dancing.

Note that the word 'fact' comes from the Latin facere-to construct For me 'facts',are human constructions with a high degree of consensus. Note that, ...

There is no thing else, other than that which informs potential action. ( We've been round that thinging on the existence thread)

I can agree that 'philosophy' can be useful in assisting ethical decisions, but is pretty vacuous elsewhere.

Surely 'physicality' depends on the physiology of the observer. And 'time' is considered to be a 'psychological concept. So without humans and their p...

I just did ! The fact that you responded means it matters to you. Obviously other 'events' matter, for example had either of us been called away these...

At the risk of antagonizing most of the contributors above, I would say any 'bunch of words we care to utter or write', including this one, has one fu...

You miss the point. Thinghood always implies functionality. I'm currently sitting in a room in a friends house and have noticed a small hole in the wa...

Philosophica' 'progress' can nowadays only refer to 'ethical' matters. Its days of contributing to 'epistemology', as for example in promoting empiric...

To EricH 'Naive realism' can be thought of as a reporting mode which assumes that the 'thinghood' of what we call 'objects' has nothing to do with the...

Looks like your breakfast scenario was mostly 'seamless coping' .For example, I"m prepared to lay money that at least one or more of the words you use...

" Then maybe you can help me to get my point across. Existence is present at all levels of thought, linguistic or nonlinguistic" Sorry, but for me ' e...

In non philosophical situations, 'existence' is never attributed except in disputes about the utility of a concept on which the word 'existence' is in...

Of course you can operationally 'perceive colour', but it has been experimentally shown that that perception is ia funcrion of physiology, wavelenth, ...

Hmmm...'language' and 'languaging' differ only in as much that the first implies the human version with a syntax which allows for 'reasoning'. The sec...

I have no idea what 'basic thought' can mean other than a state of suspension or interruption of an S-R sequence.

I think we can validly conceive of a sequence of 'perceptually receptive states' which are associated with shifting 'physiological needs', for all cre...

But since the general view is that perception is 'active' not 'passive', whan can 'direct experience' mean ?

:smile: How about 'non linguistic creatures' don't 'think' !

Surely the 'undermining of epistemology' can be more significantly attributed to pragmatists like Rorty (Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature) than by ...