Passive reception is misleading. The real question is, once a typical perceptual encounter has been analytically exhausted in terms of all possible pr...
Language CAN BE a fog with claws. It can also break through ambiguity and uncover essential things. There is a great deal of value in seeing what is N...
Sorry for the delay. I am a bit behind on things these days. But then: System? An inherently rational concept. Any system you can conceive is structur...
But then, does this toss the earnest quest for truth at a foundational level into the mix of meaning indeterminacy? I mean, as long as one knows a con...
The metaphysics of presence is what is denied by your position, and mine mostly, that seeing a duck, and taking up what is before one AS a duck is con...
Interesting thoughts, and very close to where I think things go. To me, if a person is not puzzled, if the world is not one big intellectual and exist...
Well, not quite the same, for if one grows up in a world where rabbits and ducks have an established presence, and are both brought into poetry, metap...
Of course, you are right about language being both suppressive and enlightening, liberative. To discuss something like this, I think it would require ...
Lots of interesting here. First, compare Luther's (there are, of course others. Kierkegaard goes through them in his Concept of Anxiety--a VERY worthy...
Isn't it? I don't want to quibble about what the understanding "does" but it seems clear that to "see" a rabbit requires a rabbit concept. It doesn't ...
Yeah, that's a good point. Is this trust is a sign of higher intelligence? Or is it mere expectation, not unlike a turtle of a fish "expects" the sun ...
You know, there is something about this kind of thinking that I find compelling, though not quite as you put it. You and I are, after all, the world, ...
I think this needs some clarity. Seen and understood? Are these not synonyms? You mean, without the explicit use of language. Of course, I don't talk ...
You need to abide by what Kierkegaard says. His descritption is contra Hegel and he is not a rationalist, but insists this rationalality we witness in...
What does one do with the elephant in the room, the "that which is seen" actuality? I mean, seeing as can be understood as taking the object before yo...
Begs the question: Where is a human brain? If thinking "takes place" in it, it must be somewhere, but to be somehere presupposes meaningful spatial de...
I am saying no to this: Science does not inform philosophy unless you are taking a course in the philosophy of science (which is specialized) and phil...
I would argue that it is exactly the same. Time is not like a river, or, the metaphor is too narrow. Read the Concept of Anxiety on Time: It is the pr...
Meaning is doing? No issue with this at all. But what is doing? A question like this takes language as an interpretative stand in for what ever is rea...
Threats are very basic, but promises, now that stretches witnessed behavior to a point beyond. What is a promise, essentially? One has to dismiss know...
Regarding Sparky, just a couple more thoughts. You seem to have a lot of respect for what (or "who") he is. I doo, too. But is he is a rational creatu...
But why this absolute rationality taking center stage? Rationalism and telos is always a bankrupt idea because reason has no value, that is, a rationa...
Or perhaps better: Language as we know it in our complex symbolic dealings in logic and math, is not qualitatively distinct from what Sparky does when...
You know, that is a very good point. So a well trained dog cannot, I think we can agree, produce an internal dialog. Sparky can't think, "Well, Jane i...
Yes. The freedom one experiences requires a transformation of elevated consciousness, which brings sin into the world, for prior to the positing of sp...
A thought: no, your dog does not understand "no". Understanding what another says means there is agreement between both parties, and a dog's received ...
Just to make clear: the rabbit out of the hat is not a world without language, but a world through language making itself and its alinguistic content ...
"I am tasting an oyster," for one. There is, in this event, a great deal of language involved, though it is not explicitly exercised in the actual tas...
This about the Bible: I have a lot of respect for what you could call primitive authentic experience. Ideas so full of nonsense, yet they are closer t...
But is a concept material? But then, what do I mean by material? Material is at the basic level supposed be the most inclusive term, including pots an...
True, and such it is with being a person. To put it in Rorty's terms, vocabularies are open, waiting to be recast. But again, I say, much in oppositio...
But the issue here has nothing to do with Rovelli or physics. Philosophy is not physics, nor is it abstract speculation. Think of eternity, for exampl...
The paradox you mention is between logic and the actuality. If you go by Hegel, then the real's rational nature is only imperfectly realized in our cu...
Not sure what you mean when you state at the beginning that you are not interested in insight, so I am reluctant to bring in a response to the rest. A...
Well, sure. I would bring in certain analyses that divides the playing field to make it more enlightening. I mean, you suggest that these terms are so...
But he is he uncompromising in the matter of discussing what is not to be discussed. He would turn his chair, e.g., to face the wall when the attempt ...
No, no, no...That's not it. It is certainly not the case that I do not taste oysters when I taste oysters. But point here to see that the tasting is o...
Well, you have touched on the very point: Kant was wrong to make this prohibitive distinction. The noumenal is the most inclusive concept imaginable, ...
Is speech material? Anyway, so you think conscious thought and its reason was there in the beginning of all things? As if God were a rational being wh...
Interesting question. First, an animal can remember without words. Second, I think for us, the words are there and provide a backdrop of remembering, ...
Not so much the efficiency of reasoning as the simplicity of encounter. One is not simply cutting out what is not required to explain X; one is rather...
I don't take issue with this at all. In fact, it is the kind of thing Derrida makes a big deal out of: after all, if (following Saussure) relationship...
i will put aside much of this. Sorry, because people who think like this are often very good people; I just take issue with what I call bad metaphysic...
But these comments are altogether vague. My experience tells me you haven't read Heidegger at all. Physics presupposes exactly what needs to be examin...
I tend to agree with a lot of what you say, the gist being that talk about "the word" really should be taken as a way to describe God's creation of th...
Take Kant's position, and there you are , this noumenal entity whose very thought structure prohibits access to the noumenal eternity that is the meta...
A most revealing question: How is it that within logic, we can acknowledge logic's limitation in a way that is non trivial, non abstract? We see delim...
Certainly. But it depends on if you are interested in philosophical analysis or scientific. This latter is not at the basic level, for it presupposes ...
But to talk about possibility of impossibility points first to the "'words or logic" that constructs concepts like possibility and impossibility. Perf...
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