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As I've said to @"Wayfarer" and @"Joshs" in other contexts, the dinosaurs called, they want their world back. The world back then is not a nothing, no...

I like the metaphor, but the flag isn't a given either. The flux has a habit of making islands to flow around - which push back upon it and give it sh...

The hierarchical asymmetry of power there only makes sense upon a reciprocal inter-dependence; you can't need to give an order without needing their a...

Beer is please in the language of beer.

I was reacting to your claim that philosophers are humourless gits, by providing an example of a pretty good extended joke in a philosophy paper. Whil...

What it was meant to highlight was that "I do" there is not just communicative, it registers consent. Functionally, it marries rather than transmits. ...

Something I've been entertaining recently is the integration of reason with passions. Hume was right that reason serves the passions, but to believe i...

Priest: Alice, do you take Bob to be your lawful wedded husband? Alice: I do. The priest nods: Bob, do you take Alice to be your lawful wedded wife? B...

So we've already been through that language isn't just information transfer, we can stipulate that that is one of its many uses; one thing we can do w...

Not being able to establish an existence claim through a proof by contradiction really sucks.

Does it really take that much effort not to pick a symbol like that? One imagines the use of the symbol by political groups shows up in basic research...

Doubt there's one cause. You can probably group the causes into environmental factors like workplace or relationship stress, mental health issues with...

In terms of mental health suicide risk factors, suicidal ideation is pretty key. But suicidal ideation alone doesn't let you distinguish between peopl...

Why do I have to explain myself in terms of Kuhn and Feyerabend and Rouse and Foucault and Rorty and Latour and Heidegger? Look, Heidegger made a big ...

I don't want to reject mathematical models, far from being a mere philosophical point; if I thought that I would have to change job! Specifically, I t...

You make it sound like if there were no humans there still would be Dasein in the human sense. This is terribly wrong. Nature existed without humans. ...

How empirically realist, it isn't how the universe existed before humans which poses a problem here, it's that it existed at all. It existed non-relat...

So this died, mostly my fault for leading badly. Would anyone be interested in starting this up again?

There's a lot going on in the question. (1) There's an epistemological issue - which Kantian/phenomenological considerations fit into - how are clocks...

I think it's a special interest social space. It's definitely social, and definitely media, but it doesn't behave in the aggregate like Twitter and th...

You know, the bolded bit amused me, because avoiding the reification of a time beyond or above the unfolding of processes was precisely what I wanted ...

And the idea that the thingliness of things can only be given an adequate account in terms of the existential hermeneutics of a late arriving structur...

Think there's information transfer without words though, smoke indicates fire. A spider detects flies in webs through vibrations. Indicators are older...

Since we've both referenced Lotka-Volterra in previous posts, I'm thinking of the following procedure: \begin{align} \frac{dy}{dt}= \delta xy - \gamma...

Eh that's fair. The point I was trying to make was that calculus has the tools to 'internalise' indexical time to any process which (sufficiently smoo...

Arguments from analogy never formally establish what they seek to, their purpose is to exploit a posited structural symmetry between the argument topi...

There's lots of discussion of it from various posters in the Philosophical Investigations: Reading It Together recent thread. Though it is very long.

And I take it you inferred this universal property of subjective experience, which will always and forever limit them, irrelevant of their content... ...

Suspicions like this are incredibly prone to confirmation bias. You end up seeing evidence for them just because you read a convincing anecdote. I'm v...

There is a certain pattern of people defending science in principle without actually knowing anything about it. For clarity, I'm not defending science...

How the internet influences childhood development is one thing, how it influences the maintenance, expansion or diminishment of (sufficiently) adult a...

The internet is a series of biased sampling methods from the set of possible social relationships you may attain. It is constrained to vision, hearing...

For my general perspective on the issue: I think there's a shallow (but correct) way to take this, and an interesting (but harder to develop, but I su...

Yes, I overall like Husserl's intentions, as far as I'm aware of them anyway. From what I understand of it, I disagree with the use of intersubjectivi...

Yes, I'm reasonably familiar with the critique of naturalism, and Husserl's attempt to provide a foundation for science based on the structure of expe...

Dinosaurs called, they want their time back.

Deprivation structurally in that post is potential loss. You've made a few examples of it. This is precisely what I was talking about; too much though...

And the phenomenological emphasis on the inadequacies of the natural attitude, or harping on about how unsophisticated perceptual naive realism and sc...

I mean, you could say that, or you could say that in general Kantian considerations are practically useless in modelling nature. The subject was never...

You might like this calculus identity: \frac{d f}{d g}=\frac{{d}f}{{d}t}\frac{{d}g^{-1}}{{d}t}=\frac{df}{dt}\frac{dt}{dg} One can imagine measuring th...

Don't know if this is a good place for it, but I don't have much sympathy for pessimism. Step (1): Characterise life as loss. Step (2): Characterise l...

Thing with mystical interpretation found in human body, I'll man the walls of reason until the woo parade passes. Edit: turns out it was found in rats...

Ah, sorry, seems we agree on the interpretation of W. then. :)

@"Baden" summon an admin, like this.

I think I might disagree with you though. There isn't always a unique justification for someone using language in any given way, there can be pluralit...

What he was actually doing was pairing the numbers into twos iteratively then inverting the elements. {0,1,2,3,4,5} becomes { (0,1), (2,3), (4,5) } be...

No need for the apology. Rather than apologising I'd rather you dropped what I suspect is a euphemism. Thank you for your input, really? This is what ...