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Just broke the bank on Max Scheler: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings The Constitution of the Human Being: From the Posthumous Works...

i went back to college about 10 years ago because the government paid me to get a programming diploma as a skills upgrade. I used to get there quite e...

Hence the Tao which can be spoken is not the eternal Tao... Personally I practise this by consciously trying to speak much less than is my natural ten...

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov The Metaphysics of Pragmatism by Sidney Hook

Yes, one very scary instance of this myself. I was up all night rationalizing why it was reasonable for the person to die, kept looping over and over ...

I have had a lot of prescient or precognitive experiences that defy all explanation except that there is a layer of reality beyond that which we routi...

The need to know the answer to the question, why?

I'd be lying if I said I understood what the confusion is about, but maybe if there is some more focused discussion I'll clue in. To the intention of ...

This is a misconstrual of the sense of these presuppositions. These presuppositions are accumulated with respect to a complete context of being in the...

The primitive hunter in my example may not consciously be aware that "massive objects appear to fall a certain way in the earth's gravity field" but s...

Which is why we're so thankful that you deigned to comment on it.

:up: Yes, but, they can be and are subject to indirect modification, insofar as they govern and determine both scientific and ordinary thinking. As is...

Well, you can be a Christian and go to the same church as your neighbour and so ostensibly ascribe to the same "moral ideology", but behave very diffe...

To discover the nature of the shared presuppositions that underlie our various analytical inquiries. If we are doing metaphysics, at any rate.

Only that you seem to comment upon interesting aspects of the text with fall squarely in the sights of my reading. This comment for example, for me le...

This is pretty presumptuous of you. You already stated that you were "not an authority" on RGC.

This is exactly the error that Collingwood says results in the suicide of positivistic metaphysics, trying to justify the presuppositions of natural s...

No, but they relate to a set of propositions which do or can have truth values.

I am assuming that, empirically and socially, the actions of a person that are directed by a genuine belief must be measurably different from those of...

Personally, I assume there are manifestations of genuine belief that distinguish it from fake belief. That's what the bit you quoted suggests. Authent...

Thanks. I feel it generated quite a bit of substantive discussion, and raised some interest in Collingwood. Discussion is good. I'd like to look more ...

I'd agree that ordinary language expresses its meaning sufficiently, as apparently does R.G. Collingwood.

The business of language is to express or explain; if language cannot explain itself, nothing else can explain it. R.G. Collingwood, Essay on Philosop...

Ok. from where I sit, something presupposed is 'presumed to be the case'. Does this not exactly describe a belief?

I don't understand the analogy at all. Believing is the most you can do. You react to something as if it were true. That is exactly what a presupposit...

Ok. Well, as I said, it amounts to a clarification of what constitutes belief. Beliefs are more fundamental than knowledge in the sense that you can h...

There is no reason to believe that absolute presuppositions are not presupposed. And I qualified the sense in which they were 'functional hypotheses'.

Even if that's true, having a choice in how to react to that seems like it might in itself be meaningful.

The interesting thing would be, to do this, and find at the end of the ten years that you had attained a higher wisdom, which would enable you to carr...

If they are presuppositions, then they are "pre-supposed". I would be interested to learn what kind of psychological mechanism "pre-supposing" is that...

Why should we construe belief so narrowly? Beliefs apply to things like cultural norms and habitual practices and for the vast majority of people take...

How can a scientific theory be conscious? You are talking about thinking people, and the thought of thinking people is based upon beliefs. As I have n...

As I said previously, they are fundamental to a perspective on a state of affairs, and our shared AP's constitute the milieu of our civilization. Prof...

Right. They are much more basic than facts. They constitute the viewpoints from which facts are perceived: ...different sets of absolute presuppositio...

Insofar as this might be interpreted as a fundamental commitment I'd agree. We don't just "get to believe" - there is more to it than that.

Collingwood's position is that the entire notion of ontology as a theory of pure being is erroneous and a mistake.

Collingwood takes Metaphysics to its Aristotelian origin, which literally simply meant "everything in his works which came after the writings on physi...

Let's lay the dispute about what is and isn't said by Collingwood to rest right here. "the metaphysician discovers what absolute presuppositions have ...

It's not. Collingwood is quite clear. It's a functional entity. Read the example from the Stanford Encyclopedia (which is from Essays in Metaphysics)....

It is in the excerpt from the Standford Encyclopedia I posted, illustrating how absolute presuppositions link to 'performative belief.'

The SE interprets Absolute Presuppositions explicitly as being essentially operational beliefs from a very unambiguous example in the Essay on Metaphy...

And just for good measure, here is from the Stanford Encyclopedia Collingwood’s denial that absolute presuppositions have truth values informs a commi...

This is dead wrong. Per the critical piece I cited. It is a reasonable line of inquiry within the parameters of Collingwood's writings, which do not e...

My point is, it is a reasonable line of inquiry, and that's all I ever claimed it to be Tim. There is always that which is implicit within the explici...

You speak with such authority. Here is an excerpt from the Journal "Graduate Studies at Texas Tech University," from "An Emendation of RGC's Doctrine ...

Yes, you've recapitulated RGC's arguments. None of which contradicts my interpretation. He says quite clearly, the logical efficacy of a supposition d...

I disagree. That's the essence of the whole post. It is in criticism of the whole process of "hypothetical beliefs," which is what you are espousing. ...

This is speculation. A belief is instantiated in the act of believing To the point, since we are measuring actual believing as a kind of commitment wh...

It makes sense. People who really believe can be committed in a way that people who do not really believe cannot.