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Yeah I think we have the same attitude and sense of transcendence of dogma. We embrace a dynamic, shifting reality. And, indeed, our human journey is ...

Well I think I agree with all of that, and it was a pleasure to read.

But this reading sounds just like Mach, who responded to Kant and had a problem with the thing-in-itself (along with other post-Kantians). To navigate...

I think that just means that intelligence is directed. To make sense of things we have to simplify them. And make sense of things in order to live wel...

Right. At the very least we have some kind of intersubjective situation. We are both (partially) 'here' ---wherever or whatever 'here' is. I think I c...

I'll add a little more that sketches his character. Note how willing he is to let the 'valueless and personal memories' go. He takes the impersonal pe...

This is good point. If we are made of physical entities, then it appears our concept of the physical entity is missing something. How does a sperm cel...

Good point. It's even in floating point systems. I like the idea of an old cash register modified to ring up \infty. I also like f(\infty) for the lim...

I do agree that what we often call 'reality' is socially constructed. By agreeing, I'm saying that 'in fact' (in reality) what we call 'reality' is a ...

Thanks for quoting with such surgical precision. Not my idea, but I claim that particular metaphor. I'm digging A Thing of This World at the moment. B...

Thanks. I hope you stay around. I love reading philosophy, but there's no substitute for paraphrasing and debating, in my opinion. As far as writing s...

I agree that aporia is inevitable if we try to do traditional metaphysics on the subject and object. I also agree with genetic epistemology, which sou...

I have been around that type myself. In my own adjacent field there is some scientism here and there. I personally agree with your resistance to the n...

I agree. It does seem that we can only argue within a common framework. So perhaps we have 'arguments' for frameworks that are (value-neutrally) rheto...

How about primarily quantitative? As some of the Vienna Circle discovered, the metalanguage is (for instance) English. We have to understand what a me...

In Braver's A Thing of This World, he stresses how often detachment as a path to correct seeing comes up in what he calls realism. Bias is distortion....

I have to drop a piece of my favorite Nietzsche quote (from The Antichrist). This is another take on the 'ironic mystic.' He's interpreting Christ. Th...

But surely you do have some sense of virtue that guides your steps? I do understand a certain inescapable darkness. We carry a torch through the fores...

'I must create a System or be enslaved by another man's' (Blake) I am 100% with you on this issue. If I had to pick the essence of philosophy, I might...

That is a powerful/terrible idea. That's one way to look at Sartre as well. The idea is like : man has no essence but is self-created or self-creating...

Great topic, but it's almost impossible to get right in public conversation. It's not that such taboo things would be said. It's just tough to get the...

I think you are forgetting how familiar we all are with wishful thinking and its dangers. While it is sometimes geniuses who are thinking differently,...

I think I understand and agree. It is (roughly) true or false that Gary was thinking about pizza at a particular moment.

Right. And I've been drunk on Rorty's kool-aid, which is good kool-aid. Anyone who can roll with Rorty will of course do just fine in ordinary communi...

Thank you. I say that's getting mundane in a good way. I didn't have to slowly translate it. It's your business, but you are asking quite a bit from s...

I do agree that meaning does not live in individual words. Meaning is more like a fluid that moves through words and time. I think you agree. It's ris...

Yo, there's got to be a clearer way to say this. Let me try to translate. We have to fit reality 'into' or 'through' our conceptual scheme. Reality (f...

I see your point. I wonder if our public intellectuals are just no longer called public intellectuals. Who are the folks that frame the situation for ...

I suggest that many individuals strongly detect progress. It's just that philosophical progress is more controversial. If you want to win over doubter...

Responding to the anti-natalism, I think of arguments for vegetarianism, reducing my carbon footprint, etc. You make some points that might persuade s...

We agree here. 'Life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing. ' What is this nothing? An infinitesimal pinprick in the balloon that makes it al...

I understand this, but in order to make the point you are holding some kind of content fixed and viewing it through different schemes. I agree that 'w...

I see why someone might want to do that, but now we just have a new kind of object, a new noun, an 'expectation.' So...objects are expectations. This ...

Yeah, I think we agree here. Our difference might be (correct me if I am wrong) that I don't equate what is this the case with the 'physical.' (I see ...

I like this. While some philosophy has sought first causes, etc., for me some of the best has just brought what we 'already know' into focus. And I ag...

I think the math is what we can understand and yet the relation of the math to ordinary consciousness is maybe especially difficult these days. I have...

Well I do look forward to talking with you. Your posts are fascinating and I even enjoy your arrogance (says one god to another.)

I like naive realism. It gets the human experience right for the most part. It's almost a description of common sense. Other 'isms' add a useful compl...

I have no objection to this. You yourself use 'metaphorical' here. Let's say you are right. In any case, your end of the infinite regress is indeed tr...

I'm with you on the centrality of prediction, control, and time. I'm mostly relate to what you write. I'm really only arguing with you about a finer p...

I hear you. But isn't this view itself presented as a fact? (Or is it only edifying? A cheerleading for open-mindedness?) I've been reading A Thing of...

For me the issue is bigger than naturalism. It involves the structure of human cognition. The blind spot of science is the blind spot of religion is t...

I very much respect this. The good stuff is 'beyond' externals (recognition.) Or at least I am tuned in to the image of a 'superman' who has this kind...

Maybe. But no one on this forum is standing in for that position. Try to zoom out for a moment. Are you sure you aren't constructing a target out of t...

Hmm. Well I like this idea when applied to ideas. But I'm skeptical about the transcendence of private property. There are just too many jerks in the ...

Enough for what or who? We don't have to dwell on this point if you'd rather not.

Fair enough. My theory is that any indicator of intelligence signals value. Even if the IQ is currently being 'wasted,' it's still evident in the gras...

I think I know what you mean here and agree. The superman is fascinating. I think of 'Him' as a twisted Christ image. What I take away from Nietzsche ...

That's a good point. Yeah, I guess even the physicists needed a certain character to see the world in a new way. And I agree a philosophical discovery...

I guess I am demystifying the use of 'meaning.' A few people might indeed build it up into something transcendent. But I think this is the exception. ...