I agree that showing that indication can't be disentangled from expression goes against what Husserl explicitly says. What I don't understand is why D...
It has never been my impression that Husserl has tried to define the transcendental without the empirical, and on the contrary he insists that percept...
No it doesn't. As I already showed, the problem doesn't arise from a representational view of perception, nor from the existence of sense data. A dire...
I'm really looking forward to the time-consciousness section. Probably one of the most interesting philosophical issues period. Time-consciousness is ...
Husserl does recognize the ability of indication to be independent of expression, but my sense is the thinks this is already intuitively obvious from ...
I was only responding to the way you worded your post. The whole point is that you don't know that, because you haven't antecedently figured out that ...
It really doesn't matter. Now the question is just about whether you're seeing merely light or the object. If you say you see nothing in a hallucinati...
Merely because we know some truth, namely that we are mistaken? Or is this the stronger claim that we must perceive real things in some sense to know ...
Nope. Even if, like you, we assume that all perception is without a representational intermediary, you still have to come up with an explanation for h...
It doesn't matter. The fact that this kind of imagining depends on a distinction noticed in experience doesn't mean that that distinction amounts to w...
No, this just doesn't work. You're only shifting the goalposts – now we can just ask, how do I know whether everything I'm seeing isn't what I think i...
VagabondSpectre is an ally 'wolf in sheep's clothing.' His primary interest in calling himself feminist is to police women and 'politely disagree' wit...
So when Derrida says this: Okay, but why? Seriously, why? There is no attempt to explain this, and it is so important! None of this matters unless we ...
First, it doesn't matter since the dreaming argument will go through in that this purported reality, the only one you've ever experienced, will have t...
Thanks for the summary, it's very helpful. I don't know about anyone else, but I found this chapter a little bewildering, and am not sure even now I u...
As long as the possibility of waking up in a Matrix-like scenario makes sense to you (which presumably it does, since you can watch the movie without ...
But that's just not true. Supposed people saw a bunch of glass objects on the water, but had no access to boats. They came up a word for these objects...
This doesn't seem like a good argument, since the fact that two words come to mean opposite things from use doesn't mean that we can't have been mista...
Significant interaction with other people beyond being given food by them is required to acquire language and to recognize the existence of other peop...
A couple things. First, I found the place where Derrida implies the twofold reason for thinking language is indicative when used communicatively. It's...
Case studies have been done with naturally occurring feral children that are the result of neglectful parenting. You can feed a child without speaking...
I don't want to dig my heels in too hard on this because these are only the beginnings of arguments. But I don't see how the first paragraph addresses...
I'm starting to read a little on this topic, and there seems to be some psychological evidence that the OP thesis is false – apparently feral children...
Yeah, this confused me too. I don't speak French, but there is a cognate in Spanish, querer decir, which also means 'mean,' but you commonly use it to...
Reading through this some more, and looking ahead to section 3, I think that I have been going about expression in slightly the wrong way, and 'semant...
I don't think it matters – you can accompany it with a phonological component to pronounce the words with differing stresses, etc. Still it's not mean...
Rather than contest these examples, I think it would be easier to try to make the point even clearer. Suppose we had, first, a language learning class...
Is there some problem with circumventing the issue altogether and using printed words on a page or road sign, then? Even if we don't, it seems absurd ...
I'll be honest and say this question doesn't strike me as that interesting, because the ambiguity of the word 'sign' seems like an artificial one fore...
To be clearer, I don't really have a problem with the notion of indication – it makes intuitive sense and I have enough of a working understanding of ...
No, I get it, but I'm wondering if, even if we have the distinction in hand, we will be able to justify the thesis that all uses of language are indic...
For one, I think discussing the premise 1) in the summary above would be helpful. From this first chapter, it is not clear why Derrida takes this to b...
It's confusing because Husserl concedes the point that every actual use of language makes use of indication. Husserl retreats to the position that the...
It's not clear to what extent Derrida tries to answer this. He explicitly says at one point that he won't be trying to answer the question, at least f...
Some preliminary summary of Chapter 1. Derrida begins with Husserl's distinction, found in Investigation I of the Logical Investigations, between two ...
I would say, unbridgeable gaps or things that don't meet – privacy, idiosyncrasy, lack of commonality, solipsism, loneliness, worldlessness, that sort...
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