Yes...but the 'words' are contingent on 'directing action' i.e.'transitional states' not permanence. They function as 'nodes of relative persistence'....
Well buddy, you've forgotten one thing, every theory need a 'theoretician' to function...maybe even the same one who might theorize that 'existence is...
I agree that 'phenomenological' and 'experiential' are synonymous in this case. (The 'rock' example is irrelevant unless you are claiming that 'sense ...
BTW ' A direct approach' would be pretty useless to a post-modernist like Derrida, who would argue that even the author himself would later put a diff...
Okay, but you did use the phrase 'non negotiable' somewhere above (I think) Please scan the links I have provided above, together with the Von Glasers...
I hesitate in 'elaborating' if you have not read up on Maturana yourself. I appreciate he is 'difficult' and that you would certainly have a problem w...
'Words' can be thought of as any repetitive behavioral gesture used to facilitate 'structural coupling' between individuals, or to internally resolve ...
If only some of you guys had read Maturana, who deflates 'thinking' as an epihenomenon of 'languaging' which is a behavior applicable to some animals,...
I agree its usage varies non philosophically, but I maintain that what those significant occurences have in common are 'a dispututed exstence' context...
The way 'things are' depends on our conception of 'things' and our conception of the duration of 'are'. Other species with different physiologies and ...
You've just named them, so you've answered your own question ! I regret, I cannot philosophically commune with the idea of an 'observer independent wo...
No. Nowhere have I said that internal dialogue wasn't linguistic. (I can even recall what I say to myself when playing Bach..'question then answer'......
Yes of course it is, but it's spasmodic with respect to a largely automatic activity like painting. Indeed much of the 'thinking' during such activiti...
No.Your report of that activity certainly involves language, but that activity seems to largely automatic puntuated by occasional internal dialogue. (...
I can't see it can be otherwise since all 'thinking' is done via a socially acquired language. (I would include the metalanguage of mathematics in tha...
Terrapin, Look at the first para of that post. I used the phrase 'relationship ...with humans'. I apologise if 'human relationships' implies a differe...
We are arguing from very different positions. I look at your posts as trying to justify the 'eternal, and absolute' aspects of 'existence of God', whi...
Ah...the 'have the cake and eat it' issue is based on the static set membership of classical logic with its 'law of the excluded middle'. But dynamic ...
I suggest no problem. The OLP situations I raise are ephemeral context bound episodes. The post structuralist view recognizes that transience and seek...
Of course believers would not admit to the 'utility' argument, anymore than a naive realist would admit it equally applying to 'the existence of trees...
To all discussing 'relative existence' as founded on 'relationship', I would say that the only relationship worth thinking about is 'with humans'. Tak...
Sorry ...that should have been addressed to EricH. As far as Heidegger is concerned I think 'clarity' is problematic when the work is considered in is...
...then explain why the word 'existence' was coined in the first place. Surely it can only function in the context of disputes, which is where I claim...
Once again, I will attempt to emphasize that the word 'existence' matters only in particular contexts like disputes about 'existence of God' . It is m...
To Arne. Unfortunately your request for 'plain language' begs a multitude of questions about language describing language. This is why philosophers li...
For me, the import of this discussion is that I assert 'existence' to be on the same level of every other concept which humans denote by a socially ac...
Its not a question of 'belief'. Its a fundamental later phenomenological pov which follows Kant's non accessibility of noumena and therefore discards ...
Then the mistake, imo, is that we can escape from the domain of 'language' at all. As 'thinkers' all we have is 'language', whose nonrepresentational ...
Thankyou for enlightening me about the contextual usage of the word 'splonk' which I thought I had invented ! (Actually, many verbal jokes rely on sud...
Thankyou all for many examples of what I think Witt might call 'language on holiday' ! The central point which I think is being missed is how is the w...
I understand 'antirealism' to mean that it useless to talk about the term 'reality' except in cases where consensenus is being sought as to 'what is t...
Of course ! The concept of the 'Big Bang' immediately raises my potential interaction with at least the literature on the subject, and related concept...
I did answer your point by asserting that only 'philosophers' tend to talk about 'a tree's existence' (period). Merdwurdichliebe is correct in saying ...
To Terrapin, All CONVERSATION is by definition, is not solipsistic, and involves the needs of language users (aka 'us') The fact that humans can opera...
But you are missing the point..we DONT NORMALLY talk about 'the existence of trees'! Thats what I call 'seminaritis' or what Wittgenstein might have c...
The problem for me here is that you keep refering to 'existence' as a noun. The observer does not 'recognize existence'....it expects/predicts the nat...
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