Well I have direct (personal) experience of the 17 gods who created our world. Is that an 'ultimate proof' of my 17-god theology? The hard problem is ...
That's a separate question, also worth looking into. Still, you did not answer why black citizens of the USA should tolerate statues honoring CSA rebe...
If consciousness is a private somethingness (some beetle in the box), then we can't even check whether we have the same (private) meaning 'in mind' wh...
What is this 'you' if not more language? Aren't 'you' assuming an ontology and an epistemology by assuming some ghost for whom the world is a spectacl...
I don't disagree. It's just that this not-being-able-to-be-error is the problem. If we want to be 'rational' about consciousness, how can it also be s...
I'd say that the 'precritical' public meaning works just fine for getting along in the world but leads to problems (like solipsism) if it is embraced ...
I will try to account for this from my POV. To predict anti-matter is to voice an expectation that certain statements involving 'anti-matter' will bec...
Perhaps it doesn't allow for any thing (in its thingness) apart from language. If one casts language as the (intelligible) structure of the world, thi...
I call myself an atheist as the least wrong summary, but a less wrong summary is referring to Sartor Resartus. If I have a religion, it's something li...
For me they live in the same world largely because they live together in as the language of that time and place. Language just is the intelligible str...
True, but then that's just ignoring the issue, which is that a certain conception of consciousness threatens us with its solipsistic implications. You...
What would be? And if there is no evidence and there even can't be evidence, why are you so sure about this mind/consciousness stuff? How can it have ...
Great question. Have you looked at Hume's version? I agree with others that patterns allow us to ask why in the first place. At the same time, confess...
I like this attitude, but we can ask if the real thing functions here as more than our expectation that we'll have to live in a different model. What ...
One might say that we are hyper-cultural animals. It's not just that some things are forbidden while others are encourage. Our very ability to think (...
I agree, but we can imagine that Shakespeare was a p-zombie. Or that ten thousand monkeys got lucky on typewriters. The text is the text. Even if AI n...
What occurs to me is that 'mind/consciousness' seems to be implicitly defined as a footprintless ghost. Language must always be mere clothing, a mere ...
I found a pdf of Barfield's poetic diction. I am also fishing a quotes page. Here are some goodies. **************************************************...
Really I'm repeating an old idea, that identity is a 'fiction' (or useful hypothesis). I'm fairly Wittgensteinian when it comes to meaning, so I think...
I found a Barfield quote that speaks to me: Yeah, I'll have to read more. ****** Language has preserved for us the inner, living history of man's soul...
Why do we put bodies in separate graves, under individualized headstones? Why is the rule or custom one soul per body? Why not some other number? Or a...
Awesome. So I rescued my metaphor a little bit? (I'll check out Barfield.) I also found one more passage that I was looking for (really digging Carlyl...
I will try to rescue the metaphor. The intelligibility or structure of mundane reality is dead poetry, or at least on its death bed. Even 'poet' is a ...
I mean that 'subjects' or 'egos' or 'minds' or 'poets' are themselves 'poems.' They are interpretations of us having (in some ways) separate bodies. I...
For me time in general is hugely tied up with ?????, given that language evolves while also 'remembering.' As far as Kairos goes (I have seen the word...
That's my philosopher's god too, more or less. Maybe it's bad philosophy out proper context, but given that philosophers tend to accept as real only w...
At first I meant that talk of the philosopher's god was poetry, but given the proposed primacy of ????? also expressed, yes: the mystic's god is poetr...
While I do understand where you are coming from --and while I do understand that in ordinary language terms that 'consciousness exists' -- I also thin...
I basically agree, so I'm really just pointing out that 'experience' is somewhat superfluous here, precisely because it is 'invisible.' Moreover, let'...
To me it seems that experience is playing the role of the given, but note that we don't put experience (the what-it-was-like) in an argument. We can a...
On the God issue, I think it's helpful to clarify (however roughly) between a God that interferes in the world and perhaps the afterworld and a philos...
In general I relate to this. At the same time, I would frame it in terms of language or ?????. There are patterns in the world. The 'same' river doesn...
As I currently see it, there are two sides of the same coin, and that coin is the myth of the given. Somehow the grand edifice of critical thinking is...
Maybe science can explain talk about so-called consciousness. Is there a science of ghosts? 'Consciousness is not physical.' "Consciousness is physica...
For context, I'm a science-loving atheist. I am coming from a quasi-Wittgensteinian place, and I am also impressed by Sellars, quoted below. **** Ante...
Right. To recall the forgotten/inherited framing of the situation that we don't even think to question is perhaps more than anything else philosophy's...
Consider, though, that the US has statues of CSA rebels everywhere. These enemy leaders fought to maintain the institution of slavery. Why should blac...
Right. Language is the easiest example, especially once it is grasped that meaning is public. Then one can recognize that language depends on the worl...
For me that framework is (to write it in a fancy way) ?????. Isn't it misleading to call it 'subjective'? If we are 'rational animals,' it's because w...
Is this not itself significant? How could we check? We can't look into the private minds (long vanished) of those who first used the words philosophic...
We basically agree, except that we might as well call it a language world. Yes, language is meaningful, but emphasizing 'language-independent meaning'...
We can thank more recent philosophy (improving on Kant?) for destroying sense-data empiricism as a serious option. Facts are primary (true sentences)....
For me it cuts both ways. I relate to the joyful nihilist and the anguished pessimist who longs for the end of the world. That's why I mentioned the e...
I find the fact that you asked me that illuminating. A speech act on my part is something we can reason about. It is there, it is public. The problem ...
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