Constance

Again, how does this span the epistemic distance?

Better to stay away from analogies. Any attempt to describe epistemic connectivity would encounter the same problem it attempts to solve, for whatever...

Truly, I am not trying to be confusing. This is the way thinkers I read talk. There is a good reason why these authors are ignored: it takes a solid e...

[ Philosophers have talked themselves into believing experience isn't "really happening" by framing the claim that something is happening in metaphysi...

Or better, one that cannot be had at all, which makes the difference. Analytic philosophers like to say that that which must be passed over in silence...

I think that is an interesting way to put it because it identifies this historical ontological distinction as hermeneutical, merely. And I think this ...

Rorty did understand this. you will find in a footnote in this book an emphatic denial of non prepositional knowledge, and I take this as simply the s...

I can put something out there, but you won't like it. One has to understand that there is a whole other philosophical world that continues in Germany ...

There is one fundamental premise that really should preside over the entire inquiry: all one has ever experienced, every can experience, and hence eve...

As I see it, all it takes is the removal of the word representation and using presentation or givenness instead. Michel Henry puts it like this: Let u...

Idealism affirms that everything in the we encounter is idea. Phenomenology affirms it as reality.

Thanks for that. Then I will have to read Chalmers on the extended mind. But the more one speaks of such things, the more one leans phenomenology. Aft...

But phenomenology is not about first person experience. This is a notion that issues from the very scientific perspective in question: here is a perce...

Then the last word would be this: It's not my last word. All analytic philosophers know this. The distance between objects in the world and our knowle...

And worse, simply not true. I can imagine it. It is just far away from empirical science.

I certainly agree. I am coming to believe phenomenology holds the key.

The trouble is that on a physicalist model, and talk about nervous systems and axonally connected systems, neurochemistry, and the like, one is suppos...

You have have just missed the proverbial barn door, I think intentionally. Your issue is not with me. It is with Witt.

Okay, I'll look into it, but it would have to be something like an alternative to causality. The only way this can work would be two very radical idea...

In order for science to do this, there must be in place at least some working concept of epistemic relations that is grounded in observational discove...

What do you suppose Witt had in mind when he said this?: It is clear that ethics cannot be put into words. Ethics is transcendental

Read what I wrote, with underlining: What is meant by pre-predicative is very simple: There is in the world, that which is not language. Just this. Yo...

It is the ineffability in question. You say showing and doing are not ineffable, but is what is shown and done exhaustively effable? This was the poin...

What is meant by pre-predicative is very simple: There is in the world, that which is not language. Just this. You can say language is joined at the h...

Yes, you can articulate the involvement, but only within the involvement. Outside the involvement, there is no X. This is why familiar models fail to ...

The difference here is that compact disk's relation to musical sounds is clearly explained by the science. Here, it is precisely this relation that sc...

Thanks! Got it just now on Kindle. I'll give it a good read, but the prospects are dim for this kind of thing. As i see it, if one goes by a physicali...

Elsewhere he says different things. I'm not interested in these when the OP is "The ineffable".

Well, isn't that why they call the whole affair ineffable? Ineffability is entirely in the abstract until it is realized that it literally saturates o...

One has to actually climb Wittgenstein's ladder out, and this takes a working through the Tractatus, and implicitly attending there are Kierkegaard, T...

f Better, though, than that ode to aggression, The Star Spangled Banner: the music was lifted from a once a popular drinking song To Anacreon in Heave...

I would be fascinated to read about this.

See the above

This seems to be an important for you. How would it look if it could be done? It's difficult for people to see past Biblical literalism or scientism o...

This is, to me, as Tom put it, "Wow." If I understand this, empirical science, and the naturalism usually associated with it, abstracts from "the wide...

I quite agree, and it is simply fascinating: As I see this, generally speaking, propositional differences are not analyzable in terms of parts and rul...

Well, as Kierkegaard would put it, you seem to have forgotten that we exist, and Kierkegaard was a great inspiration to Wittgenstein. If curiosity eve...

Rorty would say, if I read him right, that one can only be skeptical if there is something to be skeptical about. And there isn't. Truth is made, not ...

You were dismissive of the references in the Tractatus to the mysticism and transcendence; you ignored Quine's admission that he could not reconcile h...

Because, Banno, it is a banality, one that simply begs the question about the world and language. You need to return to earth.

Adorable. And predictable.

But I underlined this:how epistemic connections work between knowledge claims and objects in the world. There is no question as to the embeddedness of...

It can go several ways, but here I am asking a simple question, which is how epistemic connections work between knowledge claims and objects in the wo...

Suggesting that something is fair game even if it cannot be conceived clearly or as a genuine interest at the outset. Quite right. But then, there is ...

In response to "What?" I wonder how you feel about Rorty's question, one of my favorites: How is it that anything out there gets in here? Out there, o...

You shouldn't raise questions about things you don't really have an interest in.

K:blush:

But those important ideas of family solidarity are incidental to God as a concept. It could be sort of thing that works like this that holds people to...

I don't see this. Other people see things differently, true. But this doesn't mean there is no objective basis for comparison. My view is that phenome...

But hallucinations aren't God. It's a supposition, so one has to play along. How do you know the conditional works at all? Or the disjunction? It come...