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They are working outward from Husserl's phenomenology. Husserl, for me, made a profound discovery. Of course, this is something that had been in place...
December 11, 2021 at 03:12
Hurt? Problem? What is it about these that make the matter an issue at all? I am looking not at these contingencies. One can, in this line of thinking...
December 10, 2021 at 20:55
I think you are right say it polarizes the world. But hmmmmm: failing to reduce the basis of quality-value enough. This is puzzling. Value as a deriva...
December 10, 2021 at 19:47
But this is about badness "as such". The phenomenon of badness, the touching the flame and the ouuuccchhh! Clearly, anything can be contextualized. La...
December 10, 2021 at 18:41
No, no. I am, heh, heh, "far closer".
December 10, 2021 at 18:29
To find the originating content is not so far flung. Just observe the pain in your finger as the lighted match burns, or the love of another. Observe ...
December 10, 2021 at 18:26
Also begs the question: Chaos and confusion are, well, bad. Why? This is the true course of philosophical inquiry, isn't it? Follow the rabbit down th...
December 10, 2021 at 18:00
But then, the trick is to define, make accessible to the understanding in language and logic, what is not contingent. I think what you say is quite ri...
December 10, 2021 at 17:51
Begs a question, doesn't it?" What "good" is a narrative?
December 10, 2021 at 17:01
Well, you should know that enlightenment isn't JUST a narrative. Even narratives are not just narratives. When we understand a narrative, we can ask q...
December 10, 2021 at 17:00
Jung was a psychologist, notwithstanding his unorthodox claims. I want to look prior to this, logically prior, into the thought that puts the idea the...
December 10, 2021 at 00:43
A Buddhist monk would disagree. Perhaps what is familiar is an entangled affair. In it, about it, one can inquire. Maybe the world is deeply grounded ...
December 10, 2021 at 00:13
I don't see pragmatism entering into it. Dewey and co. would have nothing to do with this. Rorty included. No, this is an honest observation. Observe ...
December 09, 2021 at 23:40
Forget about Jung, even if Jung said some excellent things. The measure of their excellence begins with what can be affirmed in the structure of the m...
December 09, 2021 at 15:54
I say, think of metaphysics as an "Other" that confronts the inquirer with as much vigor as anything else. It is the ideatum that exceeds the idea; th...
December 09, 2021 at 05:41
But then, all this talk about light and darkness itself is an imposition of thought upon the world, as if the world possessed something of their value...
December 09, 2021 at 05:24
You seem to think that space is something that is there in the world which one can observe and talk about its properties, as a scientist might talk ab...
December 09, 2021 at 05:08
"S knows P" is the disputed propositional form. The trouble with this piece of silliness is that the integrity of 'P' is simply an assumption. There i...
December 07, 2021 at 20:11
But I am the OP. I like atheists, and you are one I assume from your moniker. But I like them because they have at least begun to second guess orthodo...
November 28, 2021 at 16:46
Oh. Well, you did bring in science for your basic explanatory context, and I wanted to point out that the philosophical, as I argue, take on the world...
November 28, 2021 at 16:41
But the Concept of Anxiety is Hegelian,and ny this I mean while criticising Hegel, he uses the dialectical method to reveal existential structure of t...
November 27, 2021 at 15:44
Ah, but the beginning of an utterance? It implies creation is a narrative. Is this true? (Put temporal beginnings off the table. After all, "time" is ...
November 27, 2021 at 15:06
It like asking when the first words appeared. Language arrived as a pragmatic, social event, presumably on the heels of more primitive practices burie...
November 27, 2021 at 15:01
And so, this kind of reflection tells you what about the essential encounter of things in the world? It is not that language is to be discarded, for o...
November 26, 2021 at 18:21
Sorry, but....BEFORE??? In what sense do you mean this?
November 25, 2021 at 15:01
But you have to ask the Derridean question: When one says words, how do these stand alone as a reference to something? Does the term 'moon' really ref...
November 25, 2021 at 14:59
Typical, really. If you want to take the matter to the level where questions become philosophical, then, and I don't think this is a debatable point, ...
November 25, 2021 at 02:44
This is where you have to comes to terms with reality: The only non quantifiable theory of information there can be, is the art experience itself. You...
October 07, 2021 at 00:17
"But then, life and death qualitatively has nothing whatsoever to do with actuarial tables. This is why your announcement that art in information offe...
October 06, 2021 at 23:44
What is art? Information. What is life and death? An actuary table. I thought this clear: The latter is meant to be analogous to the former in that it...
October 06, 2021 at 22:47
I cant match what you say here to what I wrote. They are wildly different.
October 06, 2021 at 20:57
Heh, heh, careful what you call old. Speaking for myself, the post, post modern works that have a lineage that reaches back to Kant, through, Hegel, K...
October 06, 2021 at 18:01
But what does this mean? Solidity? Truth? These are meaningless without context, even if the context is talk about acontextuality, which would need fu...
October 05, 2021 at 15:05
Lots of metaphors in there. Perhaps you could say it in straight prose. Doing this, using language with as much clarity as possible, without yielding ...
October 05, 2021 at 14:35
Not to provoke, but just a quick note: this cart before the horse? The real construction of horses and carts lies in the hor-ca-se-rt. This is phenome...
October 05, 2021 at 14:17
As for me, I don't think you overstep at all. It is rather welcome, and this is because, while I don't attend much to religious scriptures, I do take ...
October 05, 2021 at 04:13
Circular in that a pragmatic theory of knowledge knows no way out. Peirce was the only one who had this "long run" part of his thesis that suggested t...
October 05, 2021 at 03:47
No worries Pop. I think you're qualifiedly wrong here, wrong in spades there, but you hold the fort pretty well. Looking forward to future posts, but ...
October 05, 2021 at 02:24
What can this mean????????? Not that it is wrong, but it requires some explanation as to truth, will. I mean, where does will enter into it?
October 04, 2021 at 14:46
But the reductive direction of this for a human being is appalling. Surely you see that, even while you want to allow consciousness its breadth and de...
October 04, 2021 at 14:44
Not my post. No matter. So you're saying the art object (not art) is reducible to a transcendental information bearing medium. This turns the object i...
October 03, 2021 at 18:27
The reason art cannot be given a definition is that art is affect-entangled, and entanglements are arbitrary, meaning there is nothing in affect that ...
October 03, 2021 at 18:03
Enactivism? If a person wants to examine at the basic level the interface between things and their subjective counterparts, one will NEVER be able to ...
October 01, 2021 at 13:10
But the art object did not carry or transfer or simply "inform" about something else. Rather, when the art object is absent, and one is left with the ...
October 01, 2021 at 02:44
And Rorty would agree with you, as long as you are not stepping into metaphysics. His pragmatism, at the level of basic questions, agrees with Heidegg...
September 29, 2021 at 18:16
You mean it "informs" which is does. But you are bypassing the point: That thing out there is not nor ever was independent of what is "in here" Well, ...
September 28, 2021 at 14:58
Just to add: Rorty thought things could be reconciled pragmatically. I look at him like this: there are no absolutes for, in good old Hegelian fashion...
September 27, 2021 at 17:47
Why, RussellA, you surprise me. That IS the question. It is the issue of "presence" or the metaphysics of presence, which issues from the assumption t...
September 27, 2021 at 17:37
I don't buy any of this. The question of art lies with one question: is there anything that is both the essence of art, what makes art, art, and absol...
September 27, 2021 at 13:55
It is not that art is not information. It is about whether the art object is nothing but information, such that the thesis, "Art is information" holds...
September 26, 2021 at 14:22