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That's true. I don't believe in the fall. @"Wayfarer" is our resident reactionary. While I do like some of the old school thinkers, I'd really miss 'H...

Nice. I agree. I like this too. Nietzsche is a great one to consider. Is he a great 'folk' psychologist? I think so. I don't see how thoughtful people...

This is true. But I personally find that turning back into my own depths just led me back out to the wide world. 'I' am only a vessel. The 'I' is the ...

I hear you, but I think there is an entanglement. I've noticed that depressed/anguished people tend to be self-obsessed or at least not that intereste...

This is a good point. While I do believe that philosophy progresses in various important ways, I also believe in something like human nature. We've be...

It's amusing. Lots of other pleasures fade as we age. Our knowledge organ is reliably erect. When my mind 'eats' a book, I don't feel sluggish. Our pe...

You can go that way, but it leads to some counterintuitive conclusions. If most of us disagree with you, I suppose you haven't stated a fact. And mayb...

Well said. I agree.

Well said. This is how I take my Heidgenstein. The old masters did deal with genuine life problems, though, I would say. So your critique applies to a...

Thanks. I like Popper too. I like his character and style. OK. I can totally relate to this. Yes! My mere opinion is...who cares? Serious thinking is ...

Thank you, son of Adam. I only invented sin to urge my mini-me creations to think as I do (to feel less lonely up here.) I can't remember why I create...

I hear you, but I'm not sure that you are addressing my particular concern. Can the world as whole (which would include any god or principle) be expla...

Word on the street was that my return was still expected by a few here and there. Right. And in a way it has, through its 'child' science anyway. And ...

Just for context, I'm pro-philosophy and anti-scientism. My point is particular. I've tried to sketch why I think it is impossible on principle to exp...

Hi. Yes it is fun. For me it was at first the result of some anguished, serious thinking about God and the justice (or injustice) of human existence. ...

I understand your hesitation. All I meant was something mundane. I simply mean considering all of reality as one thing. Sometimes people use 'the worl...

Thanks for clarifying . Just to clarify my position, I'm a skeptic when it comes to the metaphysical interpretation of 'physical entities.' I just pos...

I'm glad that you also see the issue. I must say, though, that for me it felt natural to come upon this question. It's like climbing the causal nexus ...

What is a physical object? We know how to use the phrase when we aren't doing philosophy. But I'm 'spicious of its potential for untangling the mind-m...

So you agree? That's refreshing. It seems so simple, and yet the alternative is so tempting. Or it was once long ago. And still is for others. Though ...

I tend to agree with you. I understand opposing views and would once have argued for them, but now they seem more clever than serious. Anyone who disa...

This is a great issue. 'Correlations within our experiences' along with metaphorical enframing seem roughly to be what we have. What is the deeper 'wh...

Is nothing amiss when 'thought' and 'speech' have to be defined? Aren't we repeating the issue with 'exist'? We already know how to use these words. A...

I agree, except he succeeded well enough for you to grasp what he was aiming at.

Just to be clear, I wasn't reading you as anti-Wittgenstein. Also I'm not anti-jargon in general. Jargon is just one of those things that can go wrong...

Can we separate ontology and epistemology? If I make ontological claims, you will want me to justify them. But it's hard to imagine justifying anythin...

I relate to the attitude expressed above. It's not that I think that meaning isn't embedded. I think I understand what people mean by that. I guess th...

Think what this means, though. How much time would you give to refuting the 'lizard people' conspiracy theory? A little more realistically, how willin...

This is a hefty thesis. Is it not better to shrug off the handwringing of those who in other modes know better? Who really know how to use the word 'e...

Maybe they/we are misled, but I think it's more a question of character than intellect. I mean that we get attached to certain games, not language gam...

I don't think anyone really doubts that. But the situation is strange if someone tries to grasp it conceptually rather than practically. I'm in a worl...

Perhaps we have no choice but to fix some meaning for 'random.' One fascinating way to do this is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

The noumena issue does lead to some ugly complexities. But the idea of reality apart from our descriptions seems to be baked in to the way human being...

It seems to me that there is some continuity in attitude. It's as if there is a type of personality that is anti-metaphysical and anti-religious on a ...

These do seem like good criticisms of one questionable interpretation of Wittgenstein. For me the use of Wittgenstein is going through the issues agai...