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. Bingo. Though I can imagine phenomenological facts. Husserl writes something, we look at it and say yeah, things are like that. All that seems to be...
July 07, 2020 at 09:47
I'm inclined to say that philosophers of all people should be especially sensitive to ambiguity and polysemy. Just how modern are the philosophers you...
July 07, 2020 at 09:17
I suggest that we already do accept degrees of reality in a loose way as suggested by various distinctions in language. The difference is perhaps that...
July 07, 2020 at 08:58
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July 07, 2020 at 08:31
I agree that language is not merely self-referential. It's one thing to deny sensation and intuition and another thing to say that they can't function...
July 07, 2020 at 08:23
To make more definite my 'openness to panpsychism,' I'll emphasize my interest in ????? (logos), which is to say (roughly) language, which reduces nei...
July 07, 2020 at 07:53
That is a natural/common view, but leave it to philosophers to sniff out the problems with it. Somehow we are supposed to get from non-linguistic 'pur...
July 07, 2020 at 07:44
Yes, somewhat, and also with thinkers influenced by Spinoza. I was raised Christian. Lots of the thinkers I have read have tried to transform Christia...
July 07, 2020 at 07:32
I like this. Even if we can figure out ten milliion useful things, embrace countless narratives, it's seems valuable to remember the darkness as we ph...
July 07, 2020 at 07:22
I think it's best to let objective be a nice synonym of unbiased. If we are objective journalists, then we will stick to the the facts. What are facts...
July 07, 2020 at 07:00
As tempting as this sounds, I don't think humans prescribe their own meaning. To me it's more plausible to understand even the project of prescribing ...
July 07, 2020 at 06:24
Since you invite critique, your ideology is that of the consumer at the spiritual mall. I don't critique it from the outside as a stranger. In some wa...
July 07, 2020 at 06:19
That is a fascinating theology that I haven't seen before. Another view is just that we humans taken together in our environment are God, which would ...
July 07, 2020 at 05:58
Note that I am only trying to demonstrate the problems with precritical thinking about consciousness by showing what such thinking implies. I don't th...
July 07, 2020 at 05:35
Let's extend the point I'm trying to make. If the meaning of the James quote was originally 'in' the 'mind' of William James, then neither you nor I c...
July 07, 2020 at 05:19
In a way, yes, but the issue is not so much whether in fact we are radically different on the inside but instead that we can in principle never know o...
July 07, 2020 at 05:10
I suggest that it's our precritical linguistic habits that make it 'obvious' that ideas and sensations exist. I don't dispute that in some sense they ...
July 07, 2020 at 05:02
If the OP replaces 'consciousness' with signalling or communication, then perhaps the trouble vanishes. I also checked out a biosemiosis paper linked ...
July 07, 2020 at 03:41
I realize you are already rethinking your position, but let me respond a little more here. As far as I can tell, the usual conception of consciousness...
July 07, 2020 at 03:37
I really haven't given panpsychism much thought, and my leaning is more towards Freud's 'religion of science.' But I like the idea of facts (as relati...
July 07, 2020 at 03:09
I think you are missing my point. How do you know what I even mean by 'consciousness'? If, that is, the meaning of the word is supposed to live 'in' a...
July 07, 2020 at 02:56
I'm open to panpsychism, which I offer for context, and I don't think your feelings are hurt. In my experience, though, consciousness is a sensitive i...
July 07, 2020 at 02:08
The more philosophy I study, the more complicated the supposedly simple concept of consciousness becomes. I suggest that instead of arguing from dimly...
July 07, 2020 at 01:26
That's what I'm suggesting. The separation of language (for instance) into substance and form happens within language. It's the same with 'mental' and...
July 06, 2020 at 23:26
I like incarnation as a metaphor. 'In itself' the 'mental' and the 'physical' are one, or something like that. We impose useful distinctions and forge...
July 06, 2020 at 18:13
Oh, I understand that, and this is perhaps why 'meaning' has the use it does in our language, to get at what all translations share. Translate comes f...
July 06, 2020 at 18:09
Hume: *** Thus, not only our reason fails us in the discovery of the ultimate connexion of causes and effects, but even after experience has inform’d ...
July 06, 2020 at 06:42
I say don't resign. It's one of the greatest hits of philosophy.
July 06, 2020 at 06:35
I think Hume did serious damage, but he did so metaphysically. What does his problem of induction depend on in order to remain relevant? Maintain its ...
July 06, 2020 at 06:26
I just wanted to add a thought related the inverted spectrum scenario. If 'my' red is not 'your red, it doesn't matter as long as we both agree that '...
July 06, 2020 at 05:55
What I have in mind is a radical interpretation of this famous Neurath quote. *** We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship ...
July 06, 2020 at 05:30
But this isn't a binary situation (no trust versus complete trust.) Instead we are on Neurath's boat. It's like reading Darwin against Darwin too stro...
July 05, 2020 at 23:44
The visual metaphor is noteworthy here. ????? meant visible form or shape. What is this inner eye? And why does it depend on an eye-metaphor? Meaning ...
July 05, 2020 at 23:42
Note, though, that Aristotle offers no argument and only articulates what he takes for obvious. That translation occurs in some sense does support the...
July 05, 2020 at 23:23
While I also see something primary in judgment, the leap from language to the 'mental' is problematic. This is the dove trying to fly in an airless sp...
July 05, 2020 at 21:19
I agree with @"Adam's Off Ox" in their rejection of those bulleted points. I mention this in case it illuminates some of the thoughts presented in thi...
July 05, 2020 at 07:33
Perhaps we both see private minds as 'constructions' or 'fictions' then, or at least ontologically secondary or derived or dependent. What is language...
July 05, 2020 at 07:24
Sure, but note that I said (in different words) that articulate doubt trusts/obeys sociolinguistic conventions that make it intelligible, even for the...
July 05, 2020 at 07:14
While this is a pretty awesome way of viewing things (reality as the intersect of dreams), it ignores the successful-in-my-view destruction of the sub...
July 05, 2020 at 06:37
Yes indeed, and I agree with you that being is spirit or flame (or time or...). Carlyle apparently influenced Emerson, and other passages remind me of...
July 05, 2020 at 06:30
I like what I know of it. What I was getting at, though, was that the idea of suppressed spiritual knowledge was already by itself a spiritual text, a...
July 05, 2020 at 06:12
Below is nice quote from Sartor Resartus, the section called 'Natural Supernaturalism.' Carlyle was raised religiously, struggled for an intellectual ...
July 04, 2020 at 20:32
"Philosophy complains that Custom has hoodwinked us, from the first; that we do everything by Custom, even Believe by it; that our very Axioms, let us...
July 04, 2020 at 20:21
One way to make sense of 'doubt depends on certainty' is to emphasize that the questioner enacts a trust in the conventions of language as he question...
July 04, 2020 at 20:10
I agree, but reducing 'metaphysical' propositions to 'proposals to use words in a certain way' is itself such a proposal (it's also metaphysical). 'Ma...
July 04, 2020 at 20:03
We can't help ourselves, as Popper saw. We creatively project structures/uniformities on the world. So where is the choice you mention? We can find ou...
July 04, 2020 at 19:58
But what are we as outsiders to make of this? It sounds like a knowledge that doesn't involve words. It sounds like 'God as a feeling' that doesn't wa...
July 04, 2020 at 09:22
If I have God as a feeling, then I don't need to argue for God's existence. I just write poetry or prophecy. If I have God as an 'alien' who can physi...
July 04, 2020 at 08:39
That's what I had in mind, but without the moonlight that you go on to mention. This story of the moonlight would itself be light from the lantern. 'D...
July 04, 2020 at 08:00
I like 'falsifiable' theories, but doesn't this notion of falsifiable depend on the uniformity of nature? A theory makes some bad predictions or leads...
July 04, 2020 at 06:09