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Analogies work like metaphors, so if you say my mother is a tiger when she gets angry, there you have my mother and then the borrowed quality of the t...
August 14, 2021 at 15:54
But to speak at all is an anthropomorphic attempt, which is the point. You are close to Wittgenstein, are you not, in suggesting that to speak of foun...
August 14, 2021 at 12:50
Heh, heh...analogies for what?
August 14, 2021 at 12:18
Quite right . We invented that the issues of theodicy by imagining a God with all powers, like a person, only unqualifiedly more. These notorious "omn...
August 14, 2021 at 02:41
I love empirical science, and took enough courses in college to know well what it is. But it is not philosophy. A scientist asks, how do we understand...
August 14, 2021 at 00:43
Phenomenology is what existentialists are.When theories of natural science break down the the level of basic questions, one can only turn to phenomeno...
August 13, 2021 at 19:26
Does it? Keep in mind that the scientists are supposed to be the truly real, but then, the purpose of this challenge is to insert doubt into this very...
August 13, 2021 at 15:44
That is pretty much what philosophy is about. But it is, in my view, very important to know that in doing this, philosophy is an existential matter, a...
August 13, 2021 at 15:36
I don't mean to complain, but I find the above suspiciously unresponsive. If you are clear in your position, why not just tell me what it is? Apart fr...
August 13, 2021 at 02:30
The other way to look at this is through the concept of time. This is front and center in phenomenology, for apprehensions of the world are temporal e...
August 12, 2021 at 13:44
so are you saying the solution lies in this expansion? And I would say the world is what we experience, not what is beyond this. We are wired up to so...
August 12, 2021 at 03:04
Well, it is not that there is nothing, its just that this is entirely beyond conceiving, because it is supposed to be outside of experience. Forget Wi...
August 12, 2021 at 02:57
But how does one explain knowledge? this idea of getting the cat in the brain is just a way saying how absurd it would be if such knowledge were possi...
August 12, 2021 at 01:45
Noumena?? Whos is talking about noumena? You understand that Kant said nothing about this unknown X save that he was compelled to bring it up. It is n...
August 12, 2021 at 01:27
Neurons?? What do you mean?
August 11, 2021 at 23:29
Actually, it goes beyond this. It is NOT a matter that all that can be affirmed is mental activity. There is only one conclusion, and I mean only one,...
August 11, 2021 at 20:17
I see, but don't you see the difference? It would be as if explaining how food get in the stomach included an explanatory dead zone, and so there woul...
August 11, 2021 at 19:39
This, of course, moves along with the assumption of physical science. So, there is this cat thing over there, and my brain thing here, and my awarenes...
August 11, 2021 at 14:37
Best guess is the way of philosophers like Searle, and, as far as I've read of analytic philosophy, it is dismissive merely. It is hard to put this in...
August 11, 2021 at 14:28
Look at it like this: Philosophy asks the most basic questions. About what? Everything. Then what are basic questions? Questions that underlie everyth...
August 11, 2021 at 13:33
Rorty is a post modern philosopher, which sets him apart from the old school of pragmatism, and this means he is looking at language and vocabularies ...
August 10, 2021 at 17:48
My objection is that this is free of analysis. All of what you mention are extremely problematic, each one; and each one has to be gone into. It is ce...
August 08, 2021 at 16:20
But then, how can one be aware without having beliefs? The trouble lies here: if there is an utter vacancy of thought and belief, there is no you, eve...
August 08, 2021 at 15:35
I claim there is no real difference. The brain in a vat, as a descriptive scenario for a counterexample to naive realism, is descriptively incidental....
August 08, 2021 at 14:06
That would be a problem to demonstrate. Most would say impossible to demonstrate, as well as undesirable. Consciousness without thought and understand...
August 08, 2021 at 13:40
I know how you feel, of course, but there is the an essential element missing from the objection, inevitably: the question, what IS philosophy? It's n...
August 08, 2021 at 13:25
Glib, but confrontational. Not a good combination. You need more than this. Don't be shy, spell it out: what is it I don't get?
August 07, 2021 at 13:24
What does this mean? It means look with your understanding, and here, where ideas convince, structures of consciousness change, that is, if the ideas ...
August 07, 2021 at 13:22
Which is my complaint about both. Physicists' language has no place in genuine philosophy. And Dennett does not deal in Husserl, Heidegger, and the ph...
August 07, 2021 at 01:54
He looks exclusively to logic and the necessary conditions it imposes on knowledge. This will not allow the world to "speak" and mostly, he is right a...
August 07, 2021 at 01:49
You would have to explain to me how Rorty is not a pragmatist. Dewey a post modernist? But then, what is it to be this? Such terms. Post modernism? Su...
August 07, 2021 at 01:41
Wittgenstein's failing, if you ask me, was that, and this refers to the Tractatus, in ethics and aesthetics, he considered language to be suitable for...
August 06, 2021 at 19:01
Then we put aside what is hard to conceive, acknowledge the argument at hand, and admit: once the room is vacated of perceptual presence, the matter t...
August 06, 2021 at 16:14
Now you're talking. It gets sticky from this astute observation; I mean, what phenomenologists are doing where I find interest is taking the matter of...
August 06, 2021 at 16:05
But philosophy is open, because everything in the world is open at basic questions. You have EVERY reason to believe the rest of the world is so diffe...
August 06, 2021 at 15:35
I am reading Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit fully for the first time now. Always put this off because he requires work and time. The reason why he is...
August 06, 2021 at 14:30
Begs the question: Real world?? You are steeped in murky waters on this. To defend it, you would have explain how it is that anything out there gets i...
August 06, 2021 at 14:12
I will grant you that in the end what becomes evident is a kind of skepticism, but the philosophical thrust of it all depends on the arguments and how...
August 06, 2021 at 13:58
How so?
August 06, 2021 at 02:47
Pragmatist epistemology is, well, pragmatic, so my "knowledge" relationship with the world is pragmatic. What is it that I know? I know pragmatics, no...
August 06, 2021 at 02:46
Well, planting seeds of doubt is a far cry from what is being defended here. Look, if it were a seed of doubt "merely" then you would have recourse to...
August 06, 2021 at 02:18
I would remove "probably" above, agree with the idea that the "guessing" lies with the explaining, but then to say "some of it" seems to be subjective...
August 06, 2021 at 01:37
Take, say, a Hubble mirror as a model for perfect transparency (just a model of something "passing through" with near perfect accuracy. Then there is ...
August 06, 2021 at 00:04
Unless the idea of objectivity is also turned on its head: What does this mean if not agreement, and what gives itself to agreement better than the im...
August 05, 2021 at 23:49
No, rather emphatically. Evolution is not a purposive theory, and there is no guiding hand in nature pushing for the survival of the fittest. Random m...
August 05, 2021 at 16:10
But this ignores that issue at hand altogether. If you hold a materialist of physicalist view (or some convoluted compromise about these), then pray t...
August 05, 2021 at 15:57
How does one ever affirm a "true objective reality" is has not encountered such a thing to even talk about? this becomes an entirely metaphysical affa...
August 05, 2021 at 15:49
But Descartes escaped uncertainty with God. And it is not the rattling of a cage, as I see it. It is a revolution of the way we see the world. Science...
August 05, 2021 at 15:43
Genetic engineering? Or then, maybe it's time to realize it is not a vat or a brain at all. And in doing so, an awareness of existence as such creeps ...
August 05, 2021 at 15:29
It is guesswork? A bare phenomenological encounter is not this. Step barefooted on sharp glass, this is not guessing there is pain (putting aside Derr...
August 05, 2021 at 15:22