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Very roughly, for me it shows up as (1) less compulsion to define or secure a fixed identity, (2) more tolerance for uncertainty and contingency, and ...

Thanks for those passages, they are right on point. So he refers to the transcendental subject as something that can't be referred to! Which was the p...

I think you meant ‘last word’ (although it’s an interesting slip). But I agree - they’re not ‘the last word’ in the sense of conveying the absolute tr...

But you never demonstrate a grasp of the implications of philosophical idealism. In the various OPs and essays where I present it, idealism is closely...

Discussion is one thing, but re-definition in support of an argument is another. 'Everyone has a right to their own opinions, but not to their own fac...

My proposed second installment on Michel Bitbol was rejected by Philosophy Today. No reason given, but maybe because it's too specialised a subject ma...

Kant never refers to the transcendental subject or transcendental ego. That comes with later philosophers. But also, notice that in singling out the s...

Agree with the contrast you’re drawing: Plato allows a form of direct intellectual apprehension of intelligible reality, whereas Kant denies that huma...

I think @"Joshs" previous comment (above your reply to me) holds, I hope that what I've been arguing so far conforms with it. Here, you are treating t...

A note to clarify my view of what is meant by the 'in itself': it designates whatever has *not* entered 'the machinery and the manufactury of the brai...

It's not a contradiction at all. Note the use of “is” and "it" here — “if there is X,” “if there is something unknown.” In designating it as a somethi...

The kind of thought that was subject of an excellent 2008 BBC documentary, Dangerous Knowledge.

Not so: https://i-6uf0utvje8gy-cdn.plushcontent.com/uploads/resized/files/1q/jn1ewuik4bkpi0g8.jpg I'm sorry, but you're not seeing the real problem. T...

Yes — that distinction really does go back to Parmenides, for whom 'the Real' can’t change without becoming unintelligible, which is why becoming is r...

That’s actually on point. It’s very close to Bergson’s argument about clock time: what gets measured is not concrete duration itself, but an abstracte...

I don’t want to give the impression that I doubt science’s capacity for extraordinary accuracy in the measurement of time (and distance). Atomic clock...

It is. If you read the OP as saying it isn’t, then you’re not reading it right.

Hey, thanks! Most appreciated. There’s nothing I really differ with there. Again, I’m not saying that ‘nothing exists’ sans observers. What this, and ...

Thanks. I'm interested in this fragment from a review of the following book. (I acquired a copy, but it's very technical and specialised): My belief i...

But I respectfully suggest that you haven't. You will invariably view it through the frame of scientific realism, and the only kind of arguments you w...

I had the idea that his ‘eidetic vision’ was concerned with essences ‘the pure perception of the essential, invariant structures (eidos) of phenomena,...

Nothing like that is required. What appears mysterious is not some hidden feature of the world, but the fact that the conditions which make the world ...

Change — understood as physical variation or state transition — can perfectly well occur without observers. I explicitly acknowledge that in the origi...

What 'thing' is being discussed? TIme is not 'a thing'. For you and I to agree on a unit of time, we must use a common measure of time within the same...

The White House official web page has today launched a page that blames the Democrats for the Jan 6 2021 outrage. Nothing further need be said about i...

But I'm a bit uncomfortable with the suggestion that this is a state of kind of dumb indolence. I was responding to @"Tom Storm" question about 'God, ...

Of course, no contest. But the point is, the observer is watching, measuring, deciding on the units of measurement. The relationship between moments i...

I didn’t intend what I said as any kind of endorsement of Trump’s actions.

Right - agree. But here we're discussing a philosophical distinction. This understanding of 'the mind's role in the pursuit of scientific understandin...

Yes. Few do. It's a measured reality - and that is a world of difference. 'One second' is a unit of time. As are hours, minutes, days, months and year...

‘wax on, wax off’ ~ Karate Kid.

But as said, I have no reason to contest evolutionary theory or geological history. I’m not providing an alternative account of the evolutionary origi...

I was aware of that, but again, if Trump actually seized Greenland by military force, it would be a far bigger deal than extracting Maduro from Venezu...

I can't help be reminded of Buddhist abhidharma in this description. From Merleau Ponty and Buddhism, Gereon Kopf, Jin Y. Park: https://i.postimg.cc/v...

All that said, Maduro was responsible for a huge amount of suffering and economic degradation. Venezuelans have been reduced to living in poverty whil...

True.

There is a Mah?y?na sutra that explicitly rejects that idea. It would be a form of nihilism.

Everything I'm reading is that while Venezuela has huge oil reserves, it is uniformly said to be 'heavy, sulfurous and hard to refine'. And the world ...

Rubio was visibly infuriated when a reporter kept pressing him on what it means that all the other enablers around Maduro are still in place. Trump mi...

I think this is the key, and that it can be situated historically. This is why Husserl's book The Crisis of the European Sciences is important. He say...

I'm pretty sure Wilber was drawing on the traditionalist concept of the 'eye of reason'. The 'eye of reason' is what enables us to see 'the ideas' or ...

'Beyond the vicissitudes' is preferable. On the plane of born existence, all goods have their opposite - pleasure and pain, life and death, good and b...

Often. He attributes that quote to him. As for your other comments - perhaps look at the original post if you haven’t already rather than the passage ...

A crib sheet of the major points of Husserl’s Crlsis of the European Sciences from Part 1.2: This was developed in diverse ways by his successors but ...

I don't consider myself expert in Husserl, but no, I don't think his 'eidectic seeing' amounts to any kind of mysticism. It's concerned with grasping ...

Drug smuggling is a pretext for striking Venezuela, as it is a minority player in that business. And besides Trump pardoned a genuine large-scale coca...

Difficult to say without referring to the book. I asked my friend Chuck about where Schopenhauer differs with Kant on knowledge of the self. The respo...

There’s a difficult point at issue here so bear with me. It is often said that ‘materialism says that everything is physical, and idealism that everyt...

I don’t think he does. I have Kastrup’s book Decoding Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics, and he’s very careful not to misrepresent. Kastrup isn’t saying that...

Whilst I respect the sentiment, the phenomenological stance is not really reliant on such concepts as soul or spirit, or at least it doesn't use that ...