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But this can't be entirely true. Strictly speaking, there hasn't always been discursive knowledge. I would say there is a pre-discursive intuition, wh...

Yes, I said if not transcends meaning as a limitation. That's the funny thing about language. If you're not careful, it can sound like the opposite of...

For sure. My second wife is a master of sociability. I emulate her as much as possible. It's an art but it can be learned.

I don't think you read my reply. I agreed with you, intuition is integrally related to knowledge. I just don't see it as a trivial occurrence.

Sure. Academically I have university courses in maths, physics, and astronomy, a degree in literature with a minor in philosophy (one course shy of a ...

Interesting. You may be making less of it than it actually is. I fully agree that intuition is related to knowledge in that one is always intuiting so...

Yes, I'm aware of the eventual loss of accuracy that results from extensive analog processing. I'm talking at a purely theoretical level where what is...

I am not talking about bit states, I am talking about the objective data (information) which is digitally encoded. Since data is being specifically sy...

Looks like Nicolai Hartmann is another punitively priced author. I bought a couple on ontology for $110, but volume 1 and 2 of his Ethics are nearly $...

Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens

I think intuition exploits analogicity, yes, which analytic thinking cannot do since it involves working with an unknown.

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Yes. Analog vs digital collection and processing of information becomes interesting in this respect. Analog collection of information captures an actu...

I don't want to distract from the OP, which I think stands on its own as an important topic. The mechanics of belief and knowledge covers a lot of gro...

Again, here we must agree to disagree. Which I hold to be a significant difference. :wink:

Our senses take in a huge spectrum of information all the time. We only successfully process a small portion of that spectrum. Increasing our knowledg...

Roger that. For my part, I favour a radical view of belief. I believe that belief is constitutive of consciousness in a real and fundamental sense, he...

Well, falling back on the traditional, "true belief based on sufficient evidence," the sufficiency of the evidence constitutes part of the knowledge.

Well, knowledge is essentially self-justifying, right? It contains the framework of its own validation. Intuition doesn't. So what other option is the...

Without delving too deeply into the informational aspect, what I wanted to emphasize was the way that intuition bridges the gap between the ideal-theo...

I think mathematics could be construed as the extreme limit of ideal-theoretical symbolization? The golden ratio appears in organic forms, but these i...

As you've probably noticed, I like to try to view things as concisely as possible. Doesn't this really fall under the general rubric of a standard of ...

Discursive or conceptual cognition operates by casting concrete particulars in symbolic terms, which relies on general concepts or universals. But the...

Right and wrong are evaluations made of actions that are judged to take place in the context of morality. So you can heed a legitimate cry for help an...

The standard for overriding personal choice is usually public safety (as in the limits of the right to privacy) or the public good. This begs the ques...

Cassirer characterizes intuition as a consonance of being and knowing which bypasses and transcends discursive understanding. It overcomes the limitat...

I don't think that there is such a thing as "moral thoughts." You can think about morality. But ultimately only one's actions can be classed as moral....

If we were not able to identify objects it is unlikely we would have evolved to our current form.

Beyond the cognitive and psychological construal of identity, are you looking for some kind of argument for a logically fundamental category? Our mind...

We perceive objects in contexts, gestalts. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/waymaker-psychology/chapter/gestalt-principles-of-perception/

But would this effect have the opposite result? The anomalous galaxies appear much older than they should be?

You might want to look at some gestalt principles. Objects are always embedded in a context. Analogously, what is more fundamental, the word or the se...

Moral discussions are often couched in terms of "fairness" or "goodness" or other general terms. However moral actions are demanded in very specific c...

But is moral discourse an essential feature of morality? Or only incidental? Do you think morals are more explicit or implicit in nature?

Are you saying that proselytizing is a feature or purpose of morality? Morality is fundamentally performative in nature. The best defense of a moral p...

I guess the empirical cases would be: 1. Someone somewhere knows something or 2. Nobody anywhere knows anything. It seems pretty self-evident to me th...

This is the thrust of your thesis, correct? So, whatever your personal morality is, it is inherently just? So you are claiming that, regardless of any...

The "disposition" to see morality as imposed versus chosen can be explained through the external versus internal perceived locus of causation (as cite...

This appears to be a recapitulation and recasting of your "Morality is Coercive" discussion. As I said then, the essence of morality as a kind of duty...

I don't know about you, but when I read something historical, I always make allowances for the limits of scientific understanding at the time. Yes, re...

The more I tried to think from the standpoint of idealized rational subjectivity the more I encounter the fact of social-embedment. It's all well and ...

I and me in the work of George Herbert Mead Objective self-awareness is a fundamental stage of personality development and is integral to the function...

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 3: Phenomenology of Cognition by Ernst Cassirer

Yes, the way in which you understand objectivity reflects upon and determines the way in which you experience and exercise subjectivity. The self is a...

How so?

The Social Construction of Reality is a truly excellent book. Here's Cassirer's take on the subject and object: The opposition between "subject" and "...

I haven't yet read Jaworsky but, as I've mentioned elsewhere, he is on my short list. Systems theory has a satisfying perspective on emergence. In par...

In the context of modern ethical speciousness, your answer is glib and uncomfortable. :scream:

Cannabis has a vast variety of chemical profiles, ranging from the hyper-stimulating effect of a pure Sativa, like Durban Poison, to the deeply sedati...

I agree. The notion of a P-zombie is inherently contradictory. Consciousness seems more like a 'degree of freedom' that emerges from brain states.