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I think the issue reaches pretty deep: roughly, is the rational, the cognitive, derived from the non-rational, the non-cognitive? This is, it seems, t...

Maybe. But there are two other ways to ask that question: (i) what makes human knowledge possible? and, in a somewhat different vein, (ii) what makes ...

Suppose we wondered, is knowledge either the fundamental way human beings relate to the world or one of the fundamental ways human beings relate to th...

Is this the sort of thing you’re talking about? https://youtu.be/VPrimu4zP0o My son tells me this sense of living through the collapse of civilization...

That one day I'll have to study Kant, because I can't make any sense of the version of Kant presented here. I don't feel warranted to conclude anythin...

One reason this matters -- aside from whether you get mileage out of 'evidence' as a metaphor -- is that evidence is intelligible. Footprints are a na...

Maybe I can be even clearer: When@"Hanover" talks about phenomenal experience, he uses the word "evidence", as if phenomena could be understood as evi...

Not sure my point really came through. Footprints in the flowerbed are evidence of a man because there is a connection between a man and his footprint...

I keep wondering how the idea of 'evidence' is being used here. Footprints in the flowerbed are evidence of a man, who was standing there, or of his h...

But that was a test. The banned cannot return his everlasting gobstopper, and you will never say, “So shines a good deed in a weary world.” Just as we...

You're doing it wrong. But since Google tailors the results to the user, there's no general way to know. Signed out, I get us on the first page for Go...

Well, there's a lot to say about language. I wasn't wading into those waters, and I'm still not, but don't let me stop you.

Of course I don't. I explained an idiom, and its bearing on a quote, that's it.

I was just explaining what Josh posted, which would make no sense whatsoever if you didn’t know the German idiom Heidegger refers to. No, the point is...

It helps if you know that the common way to say ”There is ...” in German is “Es gibt ...”, which is literally “It gives ...” It’s an impersonal constr...

Sure.

You should have flagged it. But consider the post of yours that started this little love-fest: You have wrapped the argument that everyone who enjoys ...

Each of you have a position to argue. I do not understand why you are both more interested in talking about how appalled you are that the other has ta...

Interesting piece in the Atlantic about freedom, American style.

Well, this can’t be the first thing you say. It’s a conclusion, right? You have to have some ideas about the world and what’s in it, and yourself, and...

It’s at least partly correct: But what do we mean by ‘a priori’? What did Kant mean? What does Heidegger mean here? The way we got into this was the q...

But we do, and not just philosophers. People do care about and want to understand their own lives and their world. Philosophy can be understood not as...

Frank Ramsey’s version (I think he was talking about aesthetics, but it’s tempting to apply it, shall we say, more broadly): But there’s a serious que...

Not only would such “research” not be probative — you’re telling me you haven’t even done it? You haven’t even googled to support this spurious point?...

I’m honestly thinking of changing teams though. The preferences & expectations (our old friends, passions and reason) model has run its course for me....

Huh. From here it looks like there is, for you, no real distinction between philosophy and psychology, or you take philosophy to be a sort of ‘theoret...

But Kant, for instance, isn't telling a causal story about cognition. And that story isn't open to experimental disconfirmation. If Damasio's theory d...

This is a fair sample of your approach, I think. The question is whether "fulfills" is fully describable in conceptual terms such as @"Mww" would use,...

I don't. Intelligence, to start with, isn't one thing, and certainly isn't the same thing as academic success. More armchair sociology. I think there ...

This after your speech about how stupid and thuggish police officers are?

Maybe? It's just hard to be sure what we mean by this. Broadly, I'm not opposed to some kind of analysis that distinguishes internal and external fram...

I guess if I really wanted to do this, I'd assume fiction is a type of counterfactual, so you get your extensional semantics via possible worlds. Your...

Not until there are far, far fewer guns in the hands of the public, so never. It is true that there has been a militarization of police departments in...

For the logical analysis of literature, I would start here.

Do you think of Kant and Heidegger as psychologists?

What? You are claiming there’s an ambiguity to avoid existential quantification meaning exactly what it says and what everyone agrees it means. @"bong...

Suppose we did not live in an environment of natural cycles, no sun rising and setting, no moon waxing and waning, no predictable seasons. That’s pres...

No, not the Kant, which doesn’t mean much to me. I think it was something about the phrase “occur in a certain mode of our being,” which is terribly v...

That’s helpful for explaining what you’ve been trying to get at. There’s more to do, but I could definitely see preferring to start here.

So mathematical objects (expressions, theorems, etc.) are not ‘timeless’ but are perfectly repeatable, either because they’re unbound by the context o...

Yes, well, that’s the point of saying that mathematics is ‘timeless’, but you and @"Joshs" keep wanting to say something else, only I don’t know what ...

By hand, it might take you a minute or two to work out that 357 x 68 = 24,276. A calculator or computer will do it faster, but still take a measurable...

This is like arguing that mathematics presupposes oxygen.

There’s another way to look at this though: whatever understanding of being is implicit in logic (classical logic, Frege’s logic) and mathematics is a...

It's timeless, because it was designed for mathematics. That's why Frege's logic is missing modality too.

It's hard to know what to say here. Wittgenstein doesn't always and unconditionally give in to the temptation to say "here my spade is turned". He dis...

Wittgenstein and Heidegger are, in part anyway, barking up related trees: what it means to be in an interpreted and interpretable world. (Anscombe and...

That's not a terrible place to start, although you might have said in our lives rather than our conversations. I think the question is, can you give a...

Past the Linguistic Turn? I think this may have been his inaugural address on becoming Wykeham Professor of Logic. Grice fits in this little sub-discu...