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It is not that we don't experience the world as it is in itself, we do, the problem is that we can't know or comprehend what it means for something to...

I don't think that pleasure can be an end in itself. We always take pleasure in something, it is not experienced except in relationship to something e...

Approval of GOP's Trumpcare should reduce number of poor people substantially, if they can't afford insurance they simply will not survive.

This from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance "If the law of gravity existed,' I say, 'I honestly don't know what a thing has to do to be nonexi...

https://youtu.be/6_35a7sn6ds

I think he may be genderizing his apollonian and dionysian distinction. But maybe he is also poking some fun. Schopenhauer apparently did not apprecia...

It is not known if there are any other self conscious beings capable of thought in the Universe, but we are part of the universe, the result of its ev...

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Just trolling along: Invent a new category, such as virtual reality.

My point is that a woman's top time today would have won a big margin against top male runners back in the day, look at the time difference.

Not as ugly as this:http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2841896.1477236558!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/statue.jpg

Perhaps they intend to demonstrate the breath taking beauty of the form of a pregnant woman's body. Demi Moore's photo in Vanity Fair was thought to b...

Williams photo was done by Annie Leibovitz, a very well known and well regarded photo artist.

You've been to Rome?

Well they have a lower center of gravity which means gives them better balance. I've been told by rock climbers that it is only a matter of time befor...

Woman actually had to fight to be able to run in marathons. Not until 1972 in Boston Marathon and 1984 in the Olympics.

Historically women didn't compete much in sports, it was not until the 20th Century that they competed in any numbers, and really only in the last hal...

Thanks for your thoughtful response. I have always wondered where Art resides... in the subject, the object, in both or perhaps in their relationship....

Delusional.

Obama's lies were ideological, Trump's lies are bat-shit.

The NY Times logged Trump in at least one false or misleading claim per day on 91 of his first 99 days. In a country where its leader habitually prese...

Twitter is a funny space 378 million users up from 317 million last year. There are 48 million bots that tweet, which means you might be following an ...

Isn't this, at least traditionally, an epistemological question and not an existential question.

Either that, or it becomes part of the Presidential record, or perhaps both >:)

I guess the question is "Is there something in waking life that cannot be dreamt, and if this is not the case, then how can we distinguish being awake...

The question is "is it art" or perhaps "how is it art"? Cage was chasing the pure experience of silence, if you remove the aesthetic from a work of ar...

Only by means of its sense (how it relates to other words in a language system), since there is no actual or real referent.

Gender roles are learned, biological differences are just that biological differences. conflation of biological processes with normative processes, I ...

But there are female bricklayers. Slavery and its associated roles in society were 'given' for almost 300 years in USA, but these assumptions are no l...

OK, so if I understand what you are saying, gender/sex is confirmed at birth, but gender role is socially constructed, it is not given at birth and it...

You are conflating 'nothing' with something...potentiality. The word 'Nothing' has sense, but it has no referent.

Well at the bottom it is the matter, regardless of what that matter is, that is formed by the artist into the work of art. The artist's idea provides ...

Some stories are plot driven some are character driven. Plays, novels and other works that are character driven like Hamlet can lose their plot to cha...

I think the characters in Hamlet took over the play, and forced its conclusion on Shakespeare, only sex starved Gertrude made it out alive. The ghost ...

The piece itself, the form and matter have a say in what happens in making a work of art. The spirit of the work leads to its own accomplishment when ...

"Spiritual Drives", yea well maybe but when I think of this I think more of what the piece itself demands.

So do I, but and I think it is important, until conceptual art came along art was, and to a large extent still is representational. Du Champs, Warhol ...

As a point.

I think Duchamp's Fountain established the artist's right to say "this is art" within the 'art world'*. It also was the first piece of Conceptual art ...

I can't imagine. How long have you done this, and does it make you indifferent to the disaster, are you only interested in the mechanism or how does t...

Honky Tonk Women, less twang & more base https://youtu.be/wssmFw0x3MQStones version: Gay lyrics? Check out last verse, latter Mick and Bowie apparentl...

I didn't see a complete answer to this question. One of the reasons why Adorno railed against Toscanini is that he accented the 'beautiful parts' of m...

When you say language is use, how is language used...is language's primary use for communication or is its primary use as a conveyance for thought? It...

Chomsky said language is "a computational system" one month ago, at 4.40 into the following. https://youtu.be/OPCGmsUTAlc

I think his concern is that a computer can't understand what it does with its code. Machines simply manipulate symbols, no disagreement on my part, ho...

I think in learning, training and experiencing we broaden the connections (in our imagination) and that affects how we experience what we experience, ...

Yes, but I think what we find, what is hidden is only available to us based on our understanding of the narratives surrounding what we experience. You...

But when I first saw Michelangelo[s Pieta, Picasso's Guernica , Van Goth's Starry Night or read Huckleberry Finn, For Whom the Bells Tolls...I was ast...

You are a musician, what you hear is the same as what I hear, but perhaps because of your training, experience, and practice you hear more than what I...

So then the question becomes what draws us to them. If all objects have matter & form, then there must be something in the composition of beautiful ob...