Piaget and Gopnik, et al, people who study babies behavior. To individuate is to "distinguish from others of the same kind; single out". A babies abil...
No, I think individuation is a developmental achievement. We can watch a baby track a ball as it rolls by her in the first few months, when the ball r...
Supermoons rise on the first and last days in January 2018, the last one featuring a total lunar eclipse and blue moon, visible in some parts of the U...
Sorry, I am not clearer but I think what the author intends/means is fully expressed in the authors work, but if you ask the author to explicate the m...
So who's right? Is the author's interpretation of his work superior to the readers', or as I am suggesting, nether of these view points are adequate t...
The question is whether intentional-less meaning is possible as pointed out in by Steven Knapp; Walter Benn Michaels in their famous essay on literary...
No, I mean that the author's intent is equal to the meaning of the work, there is no relationship between the author's intent and the meaning of the w...
Thinking about infinite regress. There is a difference between how regress works in thought and how it might work in being. We can come to an agreemen...
A written text, letter or whatever is available for anyone to read, assuming they can get to read it. Whatever it means it is contained in the work, i...
That's one of those things about the written text, while speech acts are generally directed at certain people, written texts are there for all to read...
Sure, but what the author fails to say is not part of what the author did say, and therefore it is not part of the work. The author's intent is exactl...
The authorial intent is the meaning found in the work, it exists separate from the author as soon the work is published. The meaning of a text is what...
Suppose you were a British agent (& latter an actual Don in Philosophy) in France working with the French resistance during the time of WWII and you h...
The trajectory of a ball can be described mathematically, all other components can similarly be described using math...and in higher math time (t) dro...
If "two states must lay on different points", then why is the concept of time needed in the first place. If any body can be expressed as a set of poin...
No democracy is perfect, their are always ways to improve it, such as modification of the way we treat inheritance. Nazism was socialization based so ...
My "Utopia" is democracy in which equality is striven for and not stiffed by a rich aristocracy. My "Utopia" is a just society under rules of law. Wha...
Survival and what we have to do to survive makes us creative. People want a say in how they live their life and they want to be treated fairly. Your b...
The problem I think, has to do with living in an equitable society. The current accumulation of wealth seen as a generational effect and not based on ...
I think unlimited inheritance tends to create aristocracies of wealth and builds inequities which can ultimately bring down governments or lead to aut...
I am not sure there is a difference, but I think we often act without really thinking about what we are doing, such as turning on a light switch, when...
I think we operate consequentially when the immediate effects of our actions are clear and determinate, which covers a lot of our actions. When effect...
I'd say self aware, but experience itself, I think is of the inside or of the outside, there is always a distance between us and what we are experienc...
I doubt an trustworthy discussion about this "Paradox" can be had outside of a full study of the Gorgias dialogue as a whole, which concerns rhetoric ...
If there is a God, he does not correspond to any of our logical schemata. The closest I can think of is that God is the Being of beings. In loving us,...
No, not paradoxical, but I wonder if Plato/Socrates would agree. In his Meno Socrates talks about true belief, and he worries about the stability of i...
Vat are these "characteristics and properties of god" that you speak of, who's god? God's being (if) in us, constitutes us as part of itself. The vigo...
I don't think the Bible thinks of Paul as a piece of equipment, rather I think Paul's agency is God's tool. Paul's becomes one with God's because he r...
We talk about love changing a person. The person's life (and perhaps their being) is changed, they are not what they were before they fell for the one...
Perhaps it is a question of orientation allowing for a double negation, a kind of sublation, where the ego it is not done away with but retained and p...
Humor as relief, is relief from stress. I think this is possible because humor has the involuntary effect of making another person laugh. This bodily ...
US Defence Department this week acknowledged for the first time that they ran a UFO program. Parts of their shadowy work — which is still continuing t...
Yea, as I said, I'll go with the Biblical account for now, just not sure about the deity or force that made the difference. Even if this field has exi...
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