One of the reasons linguistics interests me is that I think that it's a window into folk ontology, and that once we have deeper semantic models of nat...
As I said, Derrida strikes me as impatient. Fine, it just means we have to read him less linearly. The best authors successively blow your mind in slo...
The Tractatus takes model theory for a fist order language and turns it into a spiritual exercise, or as a kind of ontology. It is disturbing in retro...
Isn't the point that philosophy has some death issues, though, not Husserl in particular? I think the point about my death is that the realization tha...
I'd like to make it clear that Derrida is not really psychoanalyzing Husserl's concerns with death. Husserl was mystified by personal birth, death, an...
I'm not really comfortable with the appeal to counterfactuality, because I think it will explode the thesis into triviality: talk of what could be rep...
I thought this too. It can't be an accident. Also, the footnote following this is funny. I am basically on board with Derrida with these motifs. I agr...
I'm going to be a little reductive here and point out that analytic and continental philosophers, around this time (50s and 60s) were both going throu...
I'm not convinced that an idiosyncratic sign can't be a sign, and I think it shows some structuralist prejudices, which are plausible if we are sympat...
There is no probability involved: the phases are perceived as noemata, but there is a kind of 'synthesis' that unites all of them to the same object, ...
The transcendent object isn't posited by the theorist – it's part of the structure of perception. When we perceive something, we perceive not only one...
A terminological point – transcendent would be for objects existing beyond experience, transcendental for the conditions of possible experience. And p...
I will try to say a little something about the comments on Saussure too, but I don't know how much would be helpful. In the meantime, let me know if a...
Hey guys, Sorry it's been a little tough keeping up the energy this week. I want to close out just by mentioning a couple things as promised about the...
Thanks a lot for this. Yeah, I was barely on the cusp of understanding that Derrida was referring to logographic scripts, and not some alternate writi...
"Justifications do explain choices, whether or not the agent actually goes through the process of reasoning following the justification. For it is a f...
Have you ever made up a word before, with a gerrymandered meaning that would be difficult to get beyond the inner sphere of expression into communicat...
Obviously not, but we need to stay on guard against the fallacy that Kant warns against in the very first sentences of the CPR. Certainly Husserl is a...
Here are some things I can pull out rather quickly: -Contemplation is an activity that something can partake in. -Contemplation is not something an in...
So, I think I disagree about the centrality of soliloquy to Husserl's thought generally. Husserl has a certain tenor to his work, and that tenor certa...
Yeah, or the word has an essence as a sign: an essential sound-form, an essential syntactic role, and an essential semantic role. We can then put the ...
Yes, my point was just that this lack of motivation is easier to see with a centaur, since there is no temptation to think imagining a centaur motivat...
A couple things – first, memory and imagination are very different for Husserl. Husserl does think that memory is 'positional' just like perception is...
Derrida talks a little about this on pp. 37-38. Perception differes from imagination as an intentional act in that the former takes its object to be e...
This has to do with what I mentioned with regard to Husserl's many arcane distinctions about what is real and not real, and the distinction between no...
Here’s a summary for Chapter 3. In this chapter, Derrida is concerned with tracing Husserl’s move toward the ‘solitary life of the soul’ in Chapter 1:...
OK, in time for the start of the third chapter tomorrow, I have some puzzling sentences and what I have been able to make of them. It seems that here ...
I never asked whether you can have 'an experience of your own experience.' Read the question again. It doesn't matter. You were unable to decide, on t...
True but I feel that while play always eventually gets boring, seriousness can suck you in and become increasingly enrapturing. And at the end of the ...
One thing I find interesting about Husserl is he is perhaps the most unflinchingly serious and earnest philosopher I've ever read. The greats that he ...
I like that, although I think I would like it even more if it were real. Deep cover jokes that can only be gotten by an extremely narrow audience are ...
The lived experiences are what's going on with the thinker when they make some logical deduction. These are connected to each other – one motivates th...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o2RNTlo1BE I picked up the clarinet as a kid after hearing stuff like this (and clarinet jazz groups, too). Man, was ...
I'm going to take a crack at the supplementary text to see if it has any ideas, but so far I haven't found it extraordinarily helpful. Much of the fro...
To the best of my knowledge Derrida is being faithful to Husserl here. Husserl is broadly Kantian on this point: the transcendental conditions of expe...
I can see this, but the discussion of time-consciousness then seems far more relevant than the discussion of expression, whose significance I still do...
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