:up: This is fundamental to a philosopher like Collingwood, for example, and his notion of "absolute presuppositions," which are the epistemological c...
\ This basically says that observation is theory laden, so all thought is the product of its history of conceptualization (including observations). Fu...
Yes. Bearing in mind that ...the work of observing facts is really done by the senses with assistance from the intellect. What the positivists called ...
I don't know that I said it was inconsistent, merely that your concept of "boundary administration" isn't gelling with me. Perspective might dictate t...
Which is why Collingwood's conception of logic-metaphysics is not just dialectical, but dialogical. Propositions only have meanings as answers to ques...
Consciousness can be construed as a species-collective property, which at the bare minimum distances (and possibly insulates) it from the individual n...
I think conceptually this accords with R. G. Collingwood's elaboration of the Ontological Argument: The distinction between processes that we can disc...
As regards its modus operandi, then, all analysis is metaphysical analysis; and, since analysis is what gives its scientific character to science, sci...
Rather more on topic... "That truth is greatest or truest which expresses most, which includes most successfully within itself a number of diverse and...
Thomas Kuhn's paradigm shift. Still there can be no science without art: "For Collingwood, art is the beginning of the process by which we create the ...
A society which thinks, as our own thinks, that it has outlived the need of magic, is either mistaken in that opinion, or else it is a dying society, ...
Is there a sense in which consciousness overflows its symbolic representations? Empirical knowledge is precisely reflected in exhausted by what is sym...
Conceptually, this is cogent. But it still begs the question of the exact nature of the representation construct. I view it in light of what I'd call ...
Math...among other things. But are we talking about the conscious experience qua representation, or are we talking about some kind of construct - pres...
To me this seems like asking the question, Is the "representation" real? It seems incontrovertibly to be so, the question being posed (by the represen...
Actually quantum phenomena are being practically harnessed at rapid rate, beginning with transistors and cascading throughout modern electronics. But ...
I completely agree consciousness crosses the quantum-classical bridge; I just don't know whether it therefore builds that bridge. Certainly quantum ph...
Why should this be the case? On the one hand, you seem to be presenting a metaphysics of consciousness as a natural feature of reality. But then you s...
I think pretty much everybody who is alive is pro-life. The so-called "pro-life" movement is really "anti-abortion". If it is an issue of personal res...
My take is that biosemiosis is essentially the materialization of understanding. So expanding it becomes a kind of self-understanding that embraces an...
I'm currently reading about biosemiotics. It is the science of signification that stretches across the biological domain, the logical extension of Lor...
Yes, we have an inherent disposition. In many ways, this is akin to having (being) a perspective. How does this not make sense conceptually? And just ...
What is your interpretation of "direct continuity"? I feel there is a "direct continuity" between individual consciousnesses, their socio-cultural enc...
Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1: The Structures of Everyday Life by Fernand Braudel The C.S. Peirce collection was edifying. Fro...
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett A Norton Critical Edition I happened across. Includes a critical essay by Sir Walter Scott I'll p...
You mean like when you asked me to explain Mario Bunge's metaphysical concept of energy and I provided a link to his text and you told me "never mind"...
I'm sorry, what exactly was the question again? All I saw was more of your trademark wit, but no actual philosophical commentary of any kind. I substa...
Inasmuch as you didn't see fit to amplify it I took it that way and responded appropriately. What I thought was funny was that you didn't bother to of...
Is based on a faulty premise that one can acquire "all the physical facts" that there are about something. Which is implied by my further comments on ...
Sure. "Practical Science...is philosophy, which deals with positive truth, indeed, yet contents itself with observations such as come within the range...
Not everything that can be proven can be proven at this moment, just like not everything that can be rebutted can be rebutted at this moment. Life is ...
:up: Quite right. From an organic perspective, the only analog to a "devil species" would be "some species that human beings don't like". Which means ...
I watched a small murder of crows spooked from their foraging recently. They dispersed in a strategic fashion, the majority heading to a distant safe ...
:up: Specifically, subjective experience overflows or transcends controlled settings exactly as concrete reality overflows and transcends the artifici...
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