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Perhaps. And what's your reason for saying so? That we understand only what we make? And does that inference require an understanding of the mind? 'We...

Thanks for responding. We're already here doing that. Feel free to look at my past posts and debate this or that point. I like Derrida. I think he mig...

Alksdf 34 kawdf!!!!!@lm asdfm35 34 $#. Explain using meaningless mystical meanings, I suppose? These 'people' you mention...are they all philosophers ...

I like this part. 'Objectivity' is a little tricky, though. To be objective is to be unbiased, to see not with personal eyes but rather with the eyes ...

Well the though police aren't going to kick down your door for thinking so. Nor will they harass you for denying the theory of special relativity. Per...

Indeed. I started from belief, brought up a certain way. But, as Zizek jokes somewhere, it's the believers that the faith should watch out for. Becaus...

I find the shadow of Nietzsche in this quote. If 'psychology is the truly decisive field,' then I think Nietzsche is decisive psychologist. The 'pre-g...

Here's another quote from Husserl that touches on our discussion. On one hand I'm the transcendental subject, which is to say being itself. I am the w...

That to me is just about the perfect reason to do so. While I do have specific views, studying philosophy leads to place of having views about views a...

You are talking good sense. The typical presentations of God are indeed absurd/immoral, and not only because of the one reason you bring up. Personall...

I'm guessing that an infinite number of bijections are possible. We can flip segments of length k and proceed as before. This works for any k >= 2. Fo...

Indeed. I have also studied those other results, especially in Kleene's Mathematical Logic. When I was first exposed to cardinality issues, I was, fra...

Here's another quote. https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/husserl2.htm This is great quote, rich with ideas. To me all of t...

This is perhaps the easiest diagonal argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_diagonal_argument One can still ask philosophical questions ab...

Right. And then one can think about constuctivism, finitism, etc. Or whether math is ultimately justified within a culture by its application. Its 'in...

It seems to me that only a certain kind of philosophy is subject to that accusation. Philosophy often seems to operate at the strategic level of human...

What is the 'closure' of the concept of an integer? I'm sympathetic to intuition-ism and constructivism, but I don't agree about this familiarity only...

No. Sorry. The equivalence is defined as the mathematical existence of a bijection. Mathematicians are well aware that they are different sets. And 's...

Others have pointed it out. I second their criticisms. This is, however, a fascinating subject, and I also second the notion that you should pick up a...

I like this.

I think I'm slow to offer a particular ethics because it would feel like merely spouting preferences. I think that knowledge might even come, to some ...

We can do that. But I should mention that I don't think we're free. The responsible, free agent seems to me like an important fiction, but a fiction n...

To clarify the offensiveness, perhaps it's also about the apparent self-deception of those that employ it. I am invested in not being self-deceived --...

I grasp that. And, to be clear, I think Husserl is great. I hope to study more of him, but the years pass swiftly. And Derrida speaks to me lately, in...

This caught my eye. I agree that artsy-mystical types can embrace Derrida-inspired linguistic philosophy as a flight from science. But I also think th...

Thanks for the background. And I do like Heidegger. But I don't see much of a response to my post. Perhaps you can share what you think on the points ...

I can understand vaguely what is meant. The will-to-live is like a demon at the heart of things. I find it metaphorically true in some sense.

Roughly I think we try to make harmony out of cacophony of drives. While philosophers emit neat little systems of abstract nouns, artists give us fles...

Hey, 180. It was in the same post that I amplified that thought. The cynical intro (perhaps an unconscious rhetorical device to rope in the grumps and...

That sounds like what I remember. I studied him some but not as much as others. I've spent more time with Heidegger and Derrida. If it helps, I'm curi...

Ha. Well, it does look cynical as I reread it. Or cold. But try to see it from a alien point of view, without taking sides. And without dragging in mo...

I must confess that 'will' was a concept in Schopenhauer that I could never digest. I like many of his ideas, but 'will' struck me as too vague, and I...

Husserl's theory depends, it seems, on his possessing the German language, which evolved for many years before it found its way to Husserl. He has to ...

If you ask them what they mean by 'meaning,' won't they be forced to add more links to the chain of signs? What do we refer to by 'I' ? Or 'you'? Is t...

I like 'embodied.' I'd also add embedded, embedded in a society,embedded in what is expected and prohibited. Embedded in what something that looks lik...

I agree. Meaning is independent of any particular vessel. This reminds me of one of my favorite themes in Derrida. I very much agree, with only a slig...

What is the evidence, though, of this will? Of course we have some intuitive notion, but don't we have an equally good intuitive notion of law? The id...

But we do understand electrons within an entire system of objects/concepts. To me that's a good anti-realist point (holism.)

In practice this is straightforward. Do X and people will like you and help you. Do Y and people will dislike you and hinder you. We want to be liked ...

Or, also popular, properties attributed to the Designer that we can't really make sense of. An explanation that's no longer intelligible is no longer ...

Perhaps. And perhaps all this is just a rationalization for an instinct that overpowers us --especially when it's coupled with what-one-does. Personal...

Indeed, and do we not depend on the rule as our foil?

My pleasure. It's a good thread. We all like to talk about 'our' (cobbled-together) philosophies, right?

To me it's just spontaneous for human beings, or at least something like religion is spontaneous, and philosophy emerges from religion, I think. My ow...

I think we know well enough in a sub-theoretical sense. I don't claim to be Derrida scholar, but I am inspired by what I take as his notion of somethi...

It's always still trying to answer that question. For me it's the highest & most radical thinking. It's like religion is the sense of its authority or...

That's how I see it, circular, like a Mobius strip perhaps.

Yes, because this 'us' is itself just a token on the map. 'Language speaks man.' Or the subject is a function of language. But what is language? It's ...

Davidson's whole approach seems a little strange to me. How is language grasped from the very beginning? The problem may be lifting a vague intuition ...

I mostly agree, but what of this speech act itself? The subject and object are vital concepts, despite their imperfections in certain contexts.