David Mo

On the fidelity of Heidegger's translations: The experts I have consulted do not agree with you. Note the significant quotes in the text. I have consu...

I don't think I said I wanted to watch a youtube. But thank you anyway.

Techné, in platonic and post-platonic context does not mean "generating knowledge similar to physis (sic)", but in the sense of an inferior form of pr...

Gee, I didn't realize that attacking Heidegger could be an offense to you. You don't take it too personally?

Heidegger did not consider the Greeks to be competitors. It was the period when, according to him, the question of the Being had been most correctly p...

I'm sorry. Automatic correction program jokes. Although I do go over it, sometimes I miss some of its pleasantries. Read: "search for the Self Being".

Don't you think there are often obvious contradictions in what people say they do and what they actually do?Do you accept the statement of politicians...

I think you yourself are acknowledging my main accusation against Heidegger: ambiguity and vagueness. The text you recommended to me (Introduction to ...

According to the dictionaries I have consulted, disqualifying means rejecting someone from a "competition" because they have done something wrong. Thi...

If to say that everyone has forgotten or trivialized the essential question of philosophy is not to disqualify, I do not understand what disqualify me...

Good summary!

"Some of my best friends are black," you know. It seems that the publication of the latest Black Notebooks has left little doubt about Heidegger's ant...

From the very beginning: I was not referring to you, whom I do not have the pleasure of knowing, but to a certain type of Heidegger followers who func...

The characteristic of poetry is that it plays with language to create a world of ambiguity that is suggestive and emotional. The characteristic of phi...

To say that x is not y is not to define it. To define a thing is to give a series of characteristics that make it recognizable when it is presented. N...

But he never said clearly what that stupidity consisted of. He never disavowed the assumptions of his philosophy that led him to that "stupidity". He ...

Honi soit qui mal y pense. What is contradicted in the first sentence is the assumption that Aristotelian logic is the only one possible. Not that for...

To think about what the hell kind of clarity is that which " unfolds" the darkness. Very poetic and very unphilosophical, I'd say.

There may also be an angel and a devil pulling each to one side of the synapse. Why not?

Not only because of phrases like that but because the whole Transcendental Dialectic in the Critique of Pure Reason is mounted on syllogistic logic. O...

Sure, but the problem is that Nietzsche is perfectly understood (sometimes more than his fans would like) and Heidegger is not. What's more, Heidegger...

Heidegger disqualifies his rivals and the entire universal philosophy for not having understood what the Being is. He does so systematically. I have b...

But he ended up recognizing that he had been unable to give an explanation of the problem of Being. So much effort and so much praise for Hitler for n...

What I am saying is that the discourses on the mind and those on the brain run parallel paths many times. That doesn't mean they're different realitie...

The inconceivable is not the impossible. Kant demonstrated that the principles of logic are indissolubly associated with the forms of our intellect. B...

Sure, but Kant here has introduced a Copernican twist, as he says. Classical metaphysics has sought to find synthetic principles a priori about things...

Logical systems are only good as long as we stick to one way of thinking. The syllogism is only valid for thoughts that are organized around the subje...

Excuse me. If metaphysics were merely formal, it wouldn't be a scandal for Kant. The problem with it is that it pretends to be both pure and synthetic...

Trillions of self-conscious cells? What a scandal! It would be worse than a session of the British parliament.

This is purely imaginative. If you didn't use scientific words it would be like a fairy tale. Where did you get the idea?

I would prefer to distinguish consciousness ( awareness ) from mind, but these words are used the same in this forum and I preferred not to launch sem...

They're two different problems. Reflex acts of the body are independent of the conscious mind, but there would be a lot of talk about the pre-consciou...

You can say that if you like. But you risk having some conceptual problems. "Is space a thing or a property of things?" Well, I don't want to deflect ...

From a logical point of view, yes. From a rhetorical point of view, no, because it emphasizes something that should be taken into account. "The cat wa...

I don't know what the problem of materialists is, but the problem of idealists is not to have problems. When they can't explain something, they put a ...

I don't know if you've noticed that you're describing consciousness all the time in terms of ideas (of a pig), perceptions (of things), and sensations...

That is not why they are considered eccentric, but because of their interpretation of the problem of observation in quantum theory. Winger didn't get ...

The collapse of the wave function creates reality whilst it is measured. And according to Wigner this is because an observing mind intervenes. I think...

I don't think Chalmers' stuff has anything to do with science. I don't think a subjective science is possible. I don't think his "logical" experiments...

I know the idea may seem strange to common sense, but I am nothing more than what I am feeling or thinking. If you take away my feelings, my sensation...

Science is not more or less materialistic because the concept of matter is not scientific. It is true that many interpretations of quantum mechanics a...

The approximation clause is present in (almost) all formulations of contemporary scientific realism. The situation is the same as that of a study that...

If you put your finger in boiling water, it will burn. I'm sure of it, and I advise you to be, too.

Your are not gonna make it great by telling bedtime stories.

Music has a merely emotional or aesthetic meaning. It is not knowledge.

Theology does not seem to me to be a respectable branch of philosophy. I think Kant put it in its place, that is, outside of all rationality. The real...

Indeed. Note that Einstein, who knows very well that Pythagoras' theorem does not work in non-Euclidean mathematics, introduces the clause "approximat...

We seem to agree on the rejection of the consciousness of the universe and material things. But you're trying to replace it with the concept of inform...

I don't think we're invaded by a parasite called "mind". We're not in Alien. We're not doing science fiction. What there is is an exact relationship b...

And in your case too. It's natural with any language that isn't univocal like science. It's not a tautology, it's a redundancy. To say "rational reaso...