While I think the term is strictly speaking value neutral, I think its origin as a critical term of various strands of philosophy isn't a neutral move...
Oh yes! And it is a great irony that the meticulous inhumanity of Deleuze's metaphysics gets used to imbue the universe with human affect and structur...
Yes. I don't think Deleuze is a correlationist. I do however think he gets interpreted as one. People tend to use his theory, I think, to highlight th...
I was under the impression that, as far as assemblages are concerned, one man's synchronic is another's diachronic. Like you could form a history of m...
I agree that one could do that, and it would be a relevant way to study how the assemblage of eating cyanide was generated. Nevertheless, one can hold...
Not quite. The idea is that people can tell whether something is dependent upon human opinion for its properties, or existence. And assessing what sen...
Well I can't control how you read it or must parse it in your terms. @"Number2018" seems to have no problem with it in principle! But that's probably ...
I am interested in what else you would want? What would you like out of a theory of truth telling? It is nevertheless what happened with Newton's meth...
That would be worth another thread. Some assemblages behave as if there is a relevant concept of sufficient cause - pool cue strikes ball, ball goes i...
What do you imagine "actually true" means? For me, there are norms of what count as discovery. That includes actually doing things like opening the wi...
I'm not responding to your exact words, I'm responding to what I see as the construal of consciousness in it. The construal of "I think" as a universa...
A mathematical idea, or proof, which is morally true is one which says something which is correct or ought to be correct but in an imprecise or inaccu...
I don't seek to reduce correct assertibility to utility. There are correctly assertible things which aren't useful in context - like using "Luke's fat...
We probably agree more than disagree. I just wanted to note that jettisoning causality from assemblages entirely {not that I'm saying you do this} is ...
You've construed me as committed to this when I don't believe I am? Correctness conditions for assertibility aren't the same idea as usefulness. Simpl...
Mostly I'm needling {what I see as} @"Count Timothy von Icarus"''s insistence on a single way of doing philosophy as clearly, but unstatedly, Christia...
You're right. The state of things isn't arbitrary. It's very flexible. There are lots of things with lots of structures. Assemblage is a generic term ...
I don't believe that. Instead I believe avoiding metaphysics is a great hypocrisy, as every philosophy has metaphysical commitments - the question is ...
No bother. I try to be as direct as possible so that people can disagree with me substantively. Yeah. My impression is that you're imagining infinite ...
Proper time? Seems to be dependent upon motion and vice versa. And nothing like ye olde absolute time exists right. Seems an ambiguous reference. A mo...
I don't see why it would have to presuppose that. If a background doesn't change fast at all it doesn't disrupt any ontogonetic processes which use it...
Take the following as provisional definitions of process, behaviour, event, assemblage. I think they work for my posts. An event is something which ha...
I think that's a good question. What makes me want to engage in metaphysics which are naturalistic and kinda flat is that I see them as providing good...
@"Srap Tasmaner" - if you wanted me to make a more ontological argument for why thinking about things as assemblages is a good idea, I could try to sc...
I think the point of it is to promote some styles of description and disincentivise others. One context I'm familiar with assemblages "in the wild" is...
I'm also going to @"Srap Tasmaner" as this post gestures toward a metaphysics of "processes all the way down". I'm suspicious of treating all nouns as...
Nah. I see myself in the functionalist camp, and see the modelling thing I mentioned as how I approach metaphysical stuff. Being able to talk about wh...
No worries. You didn't do anything against the site rules. No one knows exactly where a thread will go, and we rarely keep things on topic with mod ac...
@"Arcane Sandwich" Arcane, T - please remain civil to each other. @"MrLiminal". If any of you wish not to engage with Arcane Sandwich's responses due ...
Yeah, I remember. Sortals are a good touchstone. I'd prefer to leave them to the side in my own posts for now, even though they're under the surface a...
Yeah. There's relevant questions about what counts as a behaviour, in what contexts. I enjoy that degree of recursion in a functionalist approach, but...
What I meant is that the deflationist who is a functionalist refuses all questions which do not take the form of that modelling exercise about a presp...
There are lots of ways this discussion could go. I'm just going to call someone who does metaphysics in the modelling approach a "functionalist", so t...
This one was me. Thank you everybody for your feedback. I splurged it in a week early, could've spent more time editing it. It's in a substantially mo...
Oh yes absolutely. I think the perspective I'm advocating accommodates this: the conditions of correct assertibility are historically fungible without...
Santa was kind to me today. I closed the captains of crush 2 for 2 reps on my left hand, and I discovered that Meehl and Sellars wrote a paper togethe...
I think I avoided this. I claimed that we assess mind independence - it is something we can establish. Like we'd establish that there are eggs in my s...
I think a weakness in my view above concerns the content of acts of language. Because I've spent a long time talking about norms and correct assertion...
I think being successfully identified as a duck counts whatever is identified as a duck. I think a correct identification would let someone correctly ...
I realise this could have been unclear earlier. Ordinarily the conditions under which someone correctly identifies X as a duck immediately count X as ...
If you're asking me how I'd approach the question IRL, I'd just say things like "it's a wild animal", "it's not something like a society or a contract...
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