Hi, Daniel. You should check out Heidegger. History meets ontology hasn't been neglected. I agree with all of this, but it's also already been said an...
You ought to jump in. But thanks! Might as well add this before I go to bed. Another old thought. As soon as we think of truth as a tool (an army of m...
I think this fits the thread (180 Proof led me to google Metzinger). First, I agree that the self is a fiction. I think this is an old idea, but it's ...
Maybe it's helpful to point out that you are assuming the time is like space. It's the usual metaphor, but philosophers have questioned it. https://pl...
I think this is true. We are symbolic, historical, metaphorical beings. We are profoundly social, able to talk across oceans with our sharing in Engli...
I agree with this framing of the situation. The issue seems to be about the interpretations of minds, communities, and languages, all of which are obv...
I think I see what you are getting at here. For you the philosopher is not operating empirically. This sounds like what's called armchair science. I g...
I prefer the honest of position A, and indeed I have largely been a kind of egoist in the past. I have even written my own The Ego and His Own type of...
OK, but then many mathematicians would agree with you. To me math is something like the formalization of intuitions. I like formalism, but it doesn't ...
I'm glad that we both see this. It's a great theme. Excellent. I thought so but wanted to check. If we understand the philosopher as the pursuer of tr...
Dualism gets something right. In practice, we seem to live and talk as dualists. We all agree pre-theoretically that there are dreams and chairs. I'll...
Ah, yes, that's clear. So we have something like subsets. I like the idea that concepts exist in a system or a web. To make sense of one is to rely on...
Right. Not saying it was about altered states. I'm saying the notion of exploration is involved in both space travel and in altered states of mind. ht...
It's Kubrick's film. But my point wasn't about any message of the film but simply to connect space exploration with the exploration of rare mental sta...
Equality? https://equitablegrowth.org/the-distribution-of-wealth-in-the-united-states-and-implications-for-a-net-worth-tax/ Are the little people runn...
That's a good point. How many people have been high when watching 2001? And consider the term psychonauts. Obviously one should be careful, but at the...
Indeed. Why truth? Why not untruth? It seems natural enough to try and make sense of the pride we take in possessing the truth not just for ourselves ...
If we understand 'objective' to mean unbiased or ideally intersubjective, then the problem disappears. I think you are suggesting that we can't see ar...
I like this. 'Enabling lacuna' is great. Complexity lurks in 'explain.' While I'm not eager to collapse explanation into prediction and control, it do...
I find it helpful to recall that objective is just unbiased. That we tend to conflate it with objects speaks perhaps to how uncontroversial talk about...
Could you elaborate on the second part of this? This makes sense to me. I read this in terms of a wariness about pseudo-explanations. For instance, 'G...
By pure meaning I just mean the imagined context that can be moved from French to English. That somehow an English translation is the 'same' book sugg...
I agree that we have an intuition of sharing meaning. I trust (irrationality?) that you understand these words roughly as I intended them. That, by th...
I agree. So that's why I like to call philosophy 'taking the impersonal personally.' It's difficult. Most people don't care about clarifying the talk ...
Right, but that's very hard in philosophy. We humans are good at teaming up to deal with objects. But when we talk about talking things get wild. Mean...
To me this is akin to the notion that biology is no substitute for philosophy, which with I agree. This theme is well explored, too, in I am Strange L...
This might help too. What I have in mind is something like this 'Anyone.' In some sense the 'we' is prior to the 'I' as a kind of software that makes ...
By correlations you mean 'a mutual relationship or connection between two or more things'? It does seem clear that language largely deals with relatio...
What kind of society are you living in? In the US we can dream whatever we want. That's what we do now. We get home from work (which might be staring ...
I'd enjoy any elaboration. I find some dark truth in 'war is god.' Yet the judge is also a madman, however articulate. He's a blood mystic, who can on...
Excellent. And I think we agree that language is a social phenomenon, only possible for a community in a shared world. It makes no sense without bodie...
Basically the mortality of the subject is tied up with the iterability of the sign. This is a dramatic way to express it, but the point is that langua...
In other words, do we know exactly what we mean? Are we ever done knowing what we mean? We have words that feel right enough, but when asked what we m...
Correlation is fine, but I guess I want more info. If we stretch correlation enough, maybe it'll work. Of course. And of course I know how to use the ...
I agree, and I think that's significant. Is it really the case that a 'full' meaning is present that we are merely finding more words for? Or somethin...
I agree, but I think we need to add something. I'm not reasonable merely by thinking about my thinking. I have to meet some implicit standard. To put ...
An attempt to make the minimum wage in the US exactly $15 per hour. Outlawing the sale of trans-fat in Sedona. An upper limit on credit card interest ...
Nietzsche was/is a highly complex personality. Maybe I am a clown! Nietzsche was sometimes possessed by a kind of mystic passion. His madness was arti...
I think Derrida makes a strong case that speech is 'writing.' (He uses writing as a metaphor for a new concept.) He challenges the notion of meaning b...
Here's a nice piece of Hegel. In his lectures on fine art, he offers the related position of Irony. He continues with another portrait of the skeptic'...
I love Nietzsche, but let's add to this picture. What do we do with our modern comfort? We watch TV and movies full of violence and drama. We have our...
Perhaps it is human nature to be haunted by the superman, what humans might become. We are endlessly transgressive. Our wicked hearts crave the beyond...
That remark isn't conclusive for me. We have the concept of the triangle and various images of it. All of this is still quite human. Well said. I like...
Well then I guess I agree with him there. I've read a fair amount of Zizek & always liked him. But I've also read his critics, who are sometimes right...
I've mostly wrestled with early Derrida, and I find him patricidal. The purple velvet sportcoat is the costume of an assassin. It does make sense that...
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