Points of commonality between late W and early Heidi: (1) Holism, especially with regard to meaning. (2) (allegedly) Attempting to hue close to the co...
In terms of humans: the distinction between conscious beings and non-conscious ones doesn't parse according to Spinoza's categorisation of things. Con...
They have much different critical postures toward philosophy. Both of them think philosophers spend their time asking the wrong questions, and these e...
I agree with you that "every atom would somehow be alive" would generate no ends of problems for Spinoza's account, but I don't think he's committed t...
If you want a historical angle on it, I think in context the big problems he's speaking about are the mind body problem, God's relationship to substan...
1. It's arguable whether he does or not, I think. If the combination problem consists of how do little proto-consciousnesses come together to form a b...
Kinda off topic, but have you ever seen a generalisation of the iterated composition operator to non-natural indexes? Like... does the following notio...
Not at all. It's not either or: if you attempt to tackle a big question, you discover a lot of little ones. If you attempt to tackle a little one, you...
Oh absolutely it is. If you grant that the most important thing philosophy does is reveal instances of mere philosophy ("language running idle"), the ...
Another offering: failure to resolve big questions is inevitable but still worthwhile to try. Yes. And perhaps by attempting as big answers as you can...
It shows up in other ways too. That what one sees depends on how one looks crops up in all kind of places. The distinction doesn't need to be drawn in...
For @"Isaac", translation of the as structure and highlighting an issue. The as-structure is a component of active perception that takes a thing as a ...
I don't really know how Heidegger would deal with objects showing themselves out of a background mechanically, certainly don't recall anything about i...
What makes you believe they're not task oriented? Or in other words - what makes the sensible default hypotheses non-task relativeness for edge recogn...
:up: Then I'm glad we both agree. Perhaps I'm responding more to the act of highlighting bare minimum standards than the content of those standards. T...
Highlighting that you're performing a bad practice bias for the purposes of a rhetorical deflection doesn't make it any less of a deflection! From per...
:up: Also @"Josh". That's my take too, active embodied inference resonates very well with phenomenology. The nexus of conflicts between the two approa...
I don't think the bare minimum you've presented is a practical bare minimum. I don't think that is your fault however. I agree with you in principle t...
Also @"Isaac". I think that's a good challenge. Do you believe it relates to the point about cognitivism+internalism from the paper I elaborated on he...
The apparent paradox comes from equating volume as defined by an integral with volume as defined by a concrete, physical enclosed region. Minimally, t...
Hoo boy we're far from the OP. Nevermind. Completely merciless jargon use follows. I think this point in the linked paper is worth throwing some words...
That's most of us. People who have any qualification in philosophy at all are rare on here. Just so you know, usually posts like your OP get removed f...
I quite disagree with that; when applied to mathematics in total. It looks too much like the specialised language of a type of inquiry for me to think...
The ritualistic answer: p<0.05, p<0.1 if you include the word "suggestive" in your discussion of the interpretation of the p-value. The replication cr...
:up: If the connection ensured that whatever happened in the object shows up in our conceptualisation of it, there wouldn't be error and irrelevancies...
Wasn't intendeding to. If I measure something and it's 15cm long with a ruler, is it exactly 15cm long? That kinda thing. The ruler measurement is a r...
I don't have a recipe for you. That looks to me to be a question regarding how knowledge works, rather than taking that knowledge works as an intersub...
Understanding doesn't evolve into being whenever (a collective) believing something doesn't make it so. Objectivity isn't marked by the adequacy of a ...
The objective aspects of an entity are those that depend only upon that entity's behaviours and properties. Those aspects do not existentially depend ...
Software issues can make anyone feel stupid. If the extended mind thesis is right, perhaps software interfaces failing to work are rather like having ...
I don't think so. /uploads/resized/files/0m/hnauq90wt6km3kwb.png The above page is the page I'd get by clicking on your profile, name, etc, it's your ...
I don't think it fits into the middle options. Those options are two ways of collapsing the distinction to one pole, rather than undermining the theor...
:up: Another one for the pile: the immediacy of revelation/self evidence/unmediated cognition. The it "just seems this way to me" brigade vs the wealt...
The biggest lie I was taught is more of an attitude than a falsehood. The lie has the function of convincing someone pulled by the hideous strength of...
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