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Perhaps one begins to see why the predilection for Heidegger.

No.

Good mushrooms?

Why bother adding "God"? Why not just worship what is good and true?

Chairs. Chairs transcend language. There are chairs, regardless of what you might say about them.

If the context is everything, then it's not a context. That's the trouble: insisting on telling us details of the ineffable.

Of course Heidegger had such things right. That makes the obscurity of his writing more culpable. "Existence is being-in-the-world" is itself senseles...

If there is no outside, there is no inside. I suspect you would agree, but given your sympathy for Heidegger...

It's more a question of where the soil seems most fertile.

...as if there were such as thing as "the meaning of..." That picture has us enthralled.

A further reflection on method; the picture has us enthralled. We need to see the rabbit as a duck - better, to see that we can see it either way.

I wasn't going to write anything in this thread, since the less oxygen given Heidegger, the better; but than you for your summation as to why.

Here he leaves Moore for a while, looking instead at rule following. Why? There is a way of following a rule that is shown in implementing it, as oppo...

SO to the methodological point: don't start a philosophical conversation with "First let us define our terms". Moore's "I know I have a hand" needs to...

So here is the core criticism of Moore: If his argument is to work he must be using "I know that..." to mean "I am certain that..."; and then the infe...

What's blind about it? The term's an odd choice.

I know that I know that I know that I know... implies I am incapable of being wrong... that doubt has no place here. Juxtaposed to objectively... I'm ...

That implies there is something "outside of our blind skill ". There isn't. We can't say what cannot be said... Which is a problem with those systemat...

The emphasis on showing is in the original. If we are thinking of knowing in terms of justification - a misleading term - then the justification here ...

Shown, not said.

There's some beautiful analysis of first, second and third person accounts here. Anyone care to unpack this?

Since they flow on, best treat them together. Note seems. "I know I have two hands" does not provide the certainty Moore seeks. I once had this conver...

Karen Attiah

So what is important in all this is how other countries see the 'mercans? That sorta misses the point. Scotty from Marketing tried to sell something a...

@"ernestm" has as much to gain as anyone from joining the Black Lives Matter marches.

Yep.

Racism will have bad consequences for white folk, too. But it does not follow that white lives do not matter. I would have given ernestm some of my ti...

Yep. We've no reason to doubt the story. Rather, does the desired conclusion - given in the title - follows from the story? No. The events might have ...

Yeah, that'll work.

No; first off, what in ernestm's story might not have happened had ernestm been black? What was it about ernestm being white that was pivotal? It's a ...

What the fuck?

Well, I'm not 'mercan. Odd, it seems, that you think my colour makes a difference to the logic of your post.

It still does not follow that white lives don't matter.

It does not follow that white lives don't matter.

I Cannot Remain Silent - Mike Mullen, seventeenth chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Ah, I see Baden linked to a related article.

...then anything follows.

That stunt with the church and the bible... indefensible.

I already have superpowers. I can make light at the flick of a switch, and travel at great speed for hours.

Seems to me that you are doing it wrong, then. Being embodied means being open to the slings and arrows. That's what it is to be who you are.

Yeah, I misspoke. The cat believes it has four feet, not that "I have four feet" is true. Ramsey. Worth a whole thread. My gut says that neurone don't...

Our cognition is far greater than the wetware, but extends out to the things around us. My thoughts become clearer as as I write this; the keyboard fo...

So... philosophy is just iteratively moving in the direction of steepest descent as defined by the negative of the gradient, by taking steps proportio...

Indeed; and although statistical analysis feels like winning Turing's test by cheating... If that (your post) were the result, then so what? Googles's...

Oh, she's way prettier than you. "C" never stood a chance. Edit: Which has me challenging my own prejudices. If the avatar you chose had been https://...

As do we! If this were written by a synthetic conversation partner... Well, that would be astonishing. If ModBot has progresses this far - well, I wou...

What if you are a synthetic conversation partner - would you realise that? Damn, if I'm just repeating the same stuff every few weeks, then how am I n...

:razz: Oh, I want @"Path" to win. Especially if she is a bot. But you should not take that personally. It would just be so very cool.

Come one, @"creativesoul", you've written worse.