If we're not seeing the future, then protention is not, contrary to Husserl's claims, preception. We can of course project into the future without see...
How does retaining the sound of a past tonic describe the hearing any more than the present perception of a tonic-colored dominant? If I satiate my ta...
Insofar as Derrida's conclusions are in conflict with the principle of principles, yes it would threaten the project. But again this would turn on ref...
But it seems to me the stretching things into a length is what's artificial. In other words you have to see the timeline as implicitly linear already ...
I think I gave the piece you quoted a pretty fair reading and looked it over a few times. I don't find anything in it but incredulity. It may be that ...
I'm not sure what you're getting at. Why does Derrida first talk about protention alongside retention, then silently drop only to retention, apparentl...
How can I distinguish that from living purely in a present where I simply know what to do at each (the only) moment? Put another way, perhaps protenti...
Also, note the oddity that if protention is literally perceptive, this means that the future is in some sense 'there' to be seen. A disruption would h...
That is hard for me to separate from secondary anticipation, though. Sure, I expect things all the time, but I also have little memories flitting back...
MU, I wouldn't associate the sign with protention as you have. The possibility of repetition generally, or expectation generally, is something far and...
The absolute flow is hard to comment on because it's hard to understand – few people have 'real ideas' in their lives, and I think this is one of them...
I don't understand what you mean. The perception does not 'turn into' representation at its far end. Representation is going to be things like seconda...
Here, as I see it, is 'the problem.' One of Husserl's primary concerns in his account of time-consciousness is to demonstrate that perception is not c...
I'm not sure exactly what the context of that quote was, but one of the main theses of the Internal Time Consciousness lectures was to refute the psyc...
Then why is it so crucial for Derrida to overturn Husserl's own insistence here? Clearly Husserl believes in some sort of primacy of the primal impres...
To illustrate this as concretely as possible, here is Derrida on p. 55 (my bold, his italics): This is, in a way, the whole point of this chapter. But...
My biggest puzzlement with this chapter, before more substantial commentary: the argument here explicitly depends on Derrida not taking Husserl at his...
Universality and objectivity require intersubjectivity, and the ability to constitute others and relay the results of observation. This requires a com...
Interesting. I've always enjoyed experiencing art or participating in spirituality, but have never really enjoyed commentary on them that much. Some o...
I really love the formal semantic tradition in analytic philosophy, actually (which Witti is a part of), to the extent that I don't mind reading endle...
Yeah, the invocation of the Muses is interesting. I do believe in the Muses, and I'm even for going back to ingenuously thanking them before a written...
Sure, but none of this goes anywhere toward justifying the kinds of sweeping claims you're praising MP or Derrida for, and which are still a bad descr...
I don't know, I'm not schizophrenic. Maybe schizophrenic people think like this, but I do not. I do explicitly carry on dialogue with myself at times,...
The choices, in my experience, warp around a core, and what surprises me as the years pass is how little what happens to me changes me, and how much I...
I agree, but I don't see any reason to believe that those inherited forms privilege language or gesture in any interesting way. Even trying to concept...
Okay. All I am saying is that I don't see anything of thought as I actually live through it in these accounts. It sounds like an alien who lives a ver...
I think I agree, all I am saying is that sometimes the way you are wording it makes it seem as if there's first an imagination of a word, and then a r...
I think it is the difference between a real communicative linguistic act and an imagination of this (which is the representation). Not a a representat...
I agree with that as far as writing fiction as a genre. I thought the focus was on fiction in the sense of imagining speech (whether the imaginary spe...
I reread Chapter 4 this afternoon and don't really understand any better. The point about language use in imagination and actuality collapsing because...
Out of curiosity, do you believe this? It seems like it can give you a sort of theoretical elegance, especially if, like MP, and Derrida, you want tho...
I see the pull of the idea that a sign's function is carried out in full whether any actual tokening of the sign exists, and that even an imaginary si...
J.N. Findlay was an OLP guy and some-time devotee of Wittgenstein who renegaded hard and disavowed the whole philosophy, turning to classical idealism...
Maybe the reason I'm not that surprised by this is that I think I can and have done it? Whether or not this ability is independently mysterious, it se...
It's not entirely clear. Husserl thinks that there's a sense in which perception is primary presentation, and imagination, memory, etc. are secondary,...
I may just be more sympathetic to Husserl, but I don't find expression more mysterious than indication. It's linguistic meaning capable of taking part...
MU, imagination is representative not in the sense that it has to depict some real thing, but in the sense that for Husserl it's derivative of percept...
Yes and no, and Derrida talks a little bit about this. On the one hand, phenomenology is opposed to traditional metaphysics (and some phenomenologists...
I'm not sure what to think about Husserl on the subject anymore. The absolute flow is a mind-boggling concept, very deep and very hard to fathom, as i...
From what I've read, Chapter 5 is the most important. It also seems to me to contain the decisive point at which Derrida has to choose a reading of Hu...
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