Constance

I'm so glad you came to save the day. You need to put a little meat on those bones. You have read the Transcendental Dialectic? But then, the notion o...

I read the Strawson and I think he makes an excellent case for explaining the constitution of our mutual moral regard for others and how he shows that...

Of course, you are right, if you take intuition to be simply the immediate response your brain hands you to something you encounter. A mother's intuit...

It is not as if I expect you to see this and it does take work to familiarize yourself. But if all you read is science, you will never grasp phenomeno...

No, He was arguing that he could not make sense of it. The intuition is without an arguable basis. When we talk about it, and caste the intuition in t...

Some would say suffering requires redemption, not to invoke religious dogma, but as a stand alone phenomenon.

But this is a critical point. It is not the only approach, not even close. What happens is science's views become derivative, and primacy goes to it t...

I did mean to say I am not that find of him, but found him at least a clever dynamic presence. But god: it is a term that requires better clarity befo...

No, Zizek is entertaining, and seems right on several things, like his Hegelian ideas (of which I know relatively little). And I like his Marxism, whi...

But the idea is not what is discussed here. It is not logical discursivity that discovers the essential that tells us something cannot move unless act...

I am a moral intuitionist, and the issue is metaethics. What is the anatomy of an ethical act? There are aspects that are not really ethical, which ar...

An intuitive givenness. This comes for Husserl and his progeny. Reading Ideas one is invited to look closely at the reduction and what it is about. Th...

So a differential is what is there, but simply the way we talk about what is there. Originally, it is all just "of a piece". Rorty I think would say y...

This is almost willfully naïve (apologies). Do you really think a brain is a mirror to nature? Have you ever seen a mirror that looked like an opaque ...

But you don't seem to know about the presuppositional time, prior to anything a physicist might inquire about. Foundational time, call it: Prior to an...

He is often attacked for this, because on one can see how one can be so bound to the contingency of knowledge and truth, and hold that there is some m...

I don't know what the universe being created means. Causality is far more accessible and intuitive. And if you are going to support a motion uncaused,...

Truth as something discovered and this discovery lays itself before one's eyes as a discovered object, event; he would say no to this. Knowledge, trut...

Whenever you find yourself concluding something like a spontaneous effect or a contradiction built into the structure of logic, then you are going to ...

intraontology. Is this another name for hermeneutics? Or intentionality? But the idea seems clear enough, bluntly put, you look at it and your gaze is...

That is an interesting statement. I wonder what it means. The world shows itself as it is? I actually agree with this, but surely you don't mean when ...

An entirely abstract concept, along the lines of showing how the speed of light can be exceeded given that two beams of light whose paths converge whe...

The surprise I have in mind is usually just ignored. Paradoxes like Zeno's should be telling us that geometry and reality are very different, and geom...

Sorry about that. My back is not well, nor my disposition as a result.

Then you have an issue with intuition and I cannot help you there. Someone argued that causality was debatable because Bertrand Russell wrote a paper ...

Yes, and??

No, it's not the physics. It is the apriori impossibility of space bending. Space presupposes space, and you can't have something as its own presuppos...

It doesn't bend unless there is a mass to bend it. I see this, but of course, space bending at all is an issue for the aforementioned reasons. And obv...

It depends on what you mean by the object. Really, the fur of this cat shares something with a principle of organization (concept) that is used to tal...

And that narrative is? And it is true because?

God, the grand narratives strewn out over the ages and how sensible thinking can find where the two meet

Well then, you seem willing to drop what is familiar and venture into alien territory when it comes to talking about God, the grand narratives strewn ...

Well then, you seem willing to drop what is familiar and venture into alien territory when it comes to talking about God, the grand narratives strewn ...

Bending, curving, arching, swaying, leaning, accelerating, moving, and on and on. Things move IN space, e.g., space cannot move unless it moves In som...

But you have to see the whole idea presented. I am not way the gods do not exist, or did not. I am saying a comprehensive understanding of what this c...

Read that Russell essay and you will find Russel, in good analytic fashion, is complaining about how well causality can be explained using available m...

I mean the term 'gods' was certainly an invention, a fiction created by humans long ago; but it is not the case that this means there are no gods if i...

But this is just what I say space cannot have. Try to conceive of something bending without a medium in which something can bend. All possible example...

I will be listening for the god story, looking for a clue to something profound. Hint: I don't think they made us. Nor did we make them. It is a consp...

Think of it as an apriori problem, not an empirical one. What if someone theorized in a way that violated the principle of causality? Putting aside th...

Of course it is, that is, until you get to the part where it is bending. Then you have to explain this. When you reach an explanatory threshold like t...

Bring Parmenides and Heraclitus together and you have Plato, essentially. It seems Parmenides won the argument in Plato, the latter insisting the what...

Well, just note that you had to bring god into it. If you do your explaining of something with this kind of talk, then you must realize you have gone ...

I think quantum physicists "doubt" quantum mechanics, meaning they really don't understand it because it itself is not clear...yet. By counterintuitiv...

As I see it, to bend absolutely requires a medium in which a thing can bend. Bending is a contingent idea. Reification is the same thing as metaphor? ...

The idea of wind bending certainly seems unproblematic. It is not like bending something solid, but it is as determinate quantity of something, the ki...

Yeah, it works, and very well at that. But the actual "things of the world" are actualities that are not the logical forms assigned them when trying t...

Unless, on the other hand, the question begged leads to a finality that IS a finality. Put it this way, if logic were to conceive of its own generativ...

Yes, so account for distortions, what is the most elegant theory? The curvature of space. Is this an idea that makes sense, not as it is theorized abo...

Yes. But then, the very structure of the performative contradiction, "this sentence is false" is very curious. It is not really a misuse, but a simple...