Pantagruel

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The property of being measured by any standard is always going to be subjective. You repeatedly use human artefacts as exemplars of goodness. Those ar...

In a very real sense, the entire progress of human understanding can be seen as the development of knowledge from esotericity to exotericity. What is ...

I guess my problem is I see this from the perspective of Fichte and self-founding conscious understanding - it looks like a fiat to declare an unknowa...

Isn't this just a vacuous concept by definition then?

This is kind of the problem that I am wrestling with too. Maybe Kant just lacked an awareness of the scope of application of scientific knowledge as i...

"intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest." So while you may not agree that a...

I don't see any evidence that those extreme forms of esotericism are what is in question here. However I can see this degenerating into a mishmash of ...

Again, I don't see where you are qualified to make that judgement for anyone but yourself. You claim to be capable of acting in the absence of a deep ...

I don't recall where esoteric knowledge became infallibly divine revelation in this discussion. That's a straw man by me, and not reflective of how I ...

Just because people claim to believe something doesn't mean that reflects their true beliefs about the nature of reality. When people commit to action...

Believers in intuitive knowledge don't agree with your definition of knowledge. Correct. Propositional knowledge is a latecomer. Long, long before any...

I don't see any evidence anywhere that this is the case. I accept your avowal that this is true of yourself, but what evidence do you have that people...

The degree to which any given scientist may believe in the provisionality or scope of said metaphysical commitments of course can vary. Which is why s...

It is the knowing of things that by their nature or current status resist propositional knowledge. The fact that you reject this kind of knowledge in ...

It is a commonly held view that science makes metaphysical presuppositions. I personally believe that our metaphysical presuppositions underly our bas...

I don't know if metaphysics is so much of a system as it is a question. Science makes metaphysical assumptions, within which it does its thing. The as...

Well, certainly the Pythagoreans went in that direction. Mathematics is definitely a very powerful thing, as things go.

Which would have no sense or meaning were there not extant men, both married and unmarried. So yes, logic is unconstrained by metaphysics, just so lon...

I guess we are asking whether metaphysics is better characterized by the theory, or what the theory is about. Like we assume any viewpoint has metaphy...

But that is an article on epistemology and modality, not metaphysics and modality. There are myriad considerations and presuppositions involved in rel...

Again, this venn diagram subsuming everything within logic isn't accurate. Modal metaphysics concerns the metaphysical underpinning of our modal state...

Great answer. In fact, we don't just lose the complexity of words, we lose touch with the complex-totality of the reality upon which words are based. ...

Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments Theodor W. Adorno & Max Horkheimer Gray Lensman (Lensman #4) by E.E. "Doc" Smith

I guess I am assuming that nature of concrete thinking is related to thinking about the nature of the concrete. I recall discussing Jaynes' theory wit...

Hmm. I just looked up structural realism, and it is the exact opposite of a concept I've been in the process of describing in another thread concernin...

Yes it does. Think of the relationship between the word (concept) concrete and actual concrete. Concrete is what it does, it is its function. It is so...

How is this a valid assumption? The hypothesized unified force shattered into the four fundamental forces, resulting in the stratification of effects ...

:up: I'm planning on-rereading it this year.

I read the Peaver translation.

Wow. Enjoy. I loved the book.

Practically speaking, no one would ever utter the phrase "this sentence is false". What they might do is assert "I am telling you the truth". Which, i...

I think you are using concrete in a different sense than me though. Being concrete refers to the complete, complex totality which is the now. Any part...

I think the notion of esotericity and its meaning (as discussed) is a crucial factor. I also commented on the various aspects of skills and capabiliti...

I'm thinking about revisiting Hegel, in light of my recent readings which highlighted Collingwood's emphasis on the immanence of the concrete universa...

Supervenience is indicative of a dependence of a higher order entity on its constituent components. Strong emergence, on the other hand, is defined pr...

Doesn't the strength of emergence tend to contra-indicate supervenience.

Conversely, the brain is also damage tolerant and in some cases is able to rewire itself to compensate for damage. So perhaps there is both supervenie...

Perhaps the challenge is knowing in the face of uncertainty, in other words, belief. For me, the notion of spirituality aligns precisely with the noum...

If I don't have certainty of my own experience I can't very well have certainty about anything else, since anything else will always be an aspect of t...

Sure, things that are trivially true are usually trivially evident. But some things are not trivially evident. And to people who lack the ability to c...

Ok. A lot of people place a lot of stock in logic, mathematics, and science. Let's take string theory. It looks all highly scientific, is based on a l...

As I said, this seems quite unique to me. I don't know whether I would be capable of it. There are other studies looking at long term effects in emoti...

Isn't that enough? The fact that thought can have similar effects to practical physical enaction is meaningful to me.

Yes, that is the definition of possible. The question is, to what extent is knowledge instrumental in actualizing the possible? A savant card-counter ...

Possibly.

Are you suggesting that those are the only possible kinds of knowledge? "Mystical" could in one sense just mean "beyond our current understanding." In...

Just as I have consistently argued for the existence of a spectrum of consciousness there is also evident a spectrum of knowledge (possibly there is a...

I agree. That is what comes of attempting to abstract logical form from content. There is a formalization in set theory involving the set of sets that...

I'm working on something new now, what I think of as the 'science of everyday life.' It concerns the ongoing undercurrent of the Cartesian and Positiv...