Constance

I see Even Thompson and his ilk as intellectual Buddhists, which, frankly, is fine if you're going to be teaching it (the history, the explanatory tex...

But it shows none of the nuance of the brief review of the matter I provided above. Yours is a manichean pov, a reduction to a two sided simplicity of...

Oh. Well, thank you very much!

It is not a reference to quantum physics, no. Entanglement here is a descriptive feature of being attached to things in the world, like sex and ice cr...

I think you can talk about anything. there is nothing in language that stops this. Ineffability is about there being no shared experiences, not about ...

I certainly do. Häagen-Dazs coffee ice cream is squarely there. But this enjoyment is, you might call it, a hedonic fetish. A fetish is something that...

Not do much a lie if you consider what suffering is. Not that, say, requited love, is just miserable. But Buddhists claim this is far short of what ni...

Sure, but consider that the world IS suffering, Any time your mind wanders into any of the various institutions that comprise this world, from breakfa...

But this seems to bypass the essential idea, which is really quite simple. The meditative act is very simple; the interpretation brings in the complex...

Of course, it can be approached in many different ways. Historically, physiologically, contextually, even politically. But the business of understandi...

Meditation is not to be understood with talk about materialist reductions. The idea is absurd, for all things become the same thing. As if being in lo...

Taking responsibility is not the business of the so called so-self. the logic goes more like this: If there is no self, then there is no one to take r...

Soundness is a reference to the world. You deploy an abstraction, thinking deductively, as if there were something axiomatic about the metaphor of "po...

And Derrida refers to the "metaphysics of presence." The argument, the elephant in the room argument, is that amidst the theoretical work, there is th...

Then let's look at what you wrote: This is how I can see concepts are created: We first have an abstract idea, i.e. a concept, about something and the...

The trouble with this kind of thinking is that is assumes a time when there was no word/concept there for time. Consider what happens with a genuinely...

Physicists are daydreamers?? I wonder what this means.

But without the concept, time is no longer time at all. It is "something" but then, the moment I mention it, the concept is in play. The thought of ti...

I wonder how you will find the following: Time and the unconscious are always already conceptual, are they not? To even bring up the idea of time is t...

Of course, it depends on how you define progress and if this can be done in a way that something noncontingent is IN the progress. Kuhn's paradigms re...

You are missing the essential part of language acquisition: it occurs in time. See the pragmatists on the hypothetical deductive method (aka, the scie...

What the "real" is, I cannot say. That is, the issues that come out of trying to contextualize what it is to be real don't make things clearer until e...

this has an unintended double negative.

Confusion only if one is confused. Science proceeds on a body of assumptions, but does not claim because these assumptions have reached their conclusi...

What follows will sound a bit odd. It is not a mundane indeterminacy, as in cases of moral differences of opinion It is a meta-indeterminacy, an ontoe...

Heh,heh--a thought floating nowhere. I like that. But what if being here is shown to be just that? the trouble lies in a reliance on common vocabulary...

Interesting the way skepticism, alienation and nihilism works: the more one puts the question to regular affairs, the more these affairs become that w...

Consider two camps: in mine, everything is metaphysics. In the other, everything we call metaphysics is nonsense. For me, it is clear: all basic level...

But the response to this invites a broader discussion of "speaking of my life." What "event" are you talking about, that is, how does such a thing bea...

I am saying that the concept of the past is nonsense AS some kind of demonstrable, witnessable, logically sustainable possibility. The thinking leads ...

Time as a concept can make sense in different ways. You can think of it a fleeting "now" or as past, present future. You can look at time as an aprior...

I cannot imagine something that is not "anthropomorphic". Not in the naïve sense, but in that all that I acknowledge is of a piece with myself. I am, ...

I would call it, depending what "it" is, threshold meaning, which is where we "are". It is not as is if there were some line firmly drawn between prop...

Indeterminacy is what you get when determinacy is out the window. All claims that exhibit a determinate designation of time possess a baseline indeter...

Or, it requires a clear reduction. It is not a furtherance of theory we are looking for, but a clearing of theory. What it is about the world that int...

But then, this is just what I have been talking about, reality. What else?

Trust me Jackson, 180 Proof is clueless about Kant. His Wiki is the full extent of it.

I would bow at the alter of the phenomenological reduction!

Do no harm IS general and nondescript. It is also the default defeasible position of ethical/just actions. IF you are looking to cancel over and under...

Bentham was not doing metaethics. He simply accepted the premise that pleasure could be quantified. Very hard to do, but there is something in the att...

That is right, and it is a big issue. But think of it as Kant thought of reason. All rational affairs are given to us embedded in experience in the wo...

I'm telling you that do no harm is a foundation that gets entangled with complex affairs in which things are brought into competition and contextualiz...

I take it to be neither Christian nor anything else. For me, it is simply observation, nothing more. It is a reflex to assign a metaethics to some fam...

Well yes, something like this I would agree with. The devil is in the details. Hesse's Siddhartha imagines a world where every young boy wants to be a...

It's a merely descriptive matter, like the color yellow. One can imagine the color yellow being worn by fascists, the favorite color of a serial kille...

But your approach is apophatic. This leads you to foundational things. Do no harm is THE defeasible default principle. It is arrived at, not in the co...

But this just begs the question: what does having a good mel have to do with the qualitative nature of experience? Certainly there can be a causal rel...

A reduction, then. It is there already, from Mill and before: do no harm. This is the principle you seek. Not so much apophatic, which is reductive to...

Not that causality is more fundamental than time. Causality IS time. You have to put Einstein on hold: time is the condition of the perceptual apparat...

But philosophy's job is avoiding the devolvement into fantasy. I take issue with it "all about being not human". God is constructed out of what is hum...