I think the problem with any form of idealism is that we cannot adequately model what we imagine might be going on. We can model the physical because ...
Oh right, I haven't actually read any Kastrup; but then that seems wrong because a "blind striving" would not seem to qualify as a mind or as being co...
Berkeley's God (mind at large) is metacognitive, whereas Schopenhauer's Will is not and afaik is not thought of as "mind" or even as being cognitive a...
Insofar as I understand them such non-linear, 'dynamic systems', 'embodied' approaches intuitively appeal to me in a kind of aesthetic way. Efficient,...
"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away"—Tom Waits This can be applied to free will, where the "small print" of causal determinism ma...
True, if they don't want to drink they won't, and nor will they if they don't know how to drink, and there is no guarantee they can learn to drink eit...
Having been an art student myself and having been involved in the arts for many years, I find myself disagreeing with this. My point was that there is...
Right, is there a public appearance of anything over and above the appearances to each of the individuals who constitute the witnessing public? Are ea...
I don't believe that what can only be shown, not said, is effable, because I understand the word to denote that which can be clearly explained. Think ...
Husserl was criticised by Heidegger for, according to the latter, falling back into a kind of Cartesain dualism and concern with epistemic certainty, ...
The most important aspects of the practice of any art cannot be taught. So, they are not teachable, but they are learnable in the sense that you can, ...
It's not clear what you are trying to say here. Phenomenology does not purport to investigate anything like "raw data" if that is what you were sugges...
When it comes to objects of the senses we can refer to attributes which are visible, audible, tangibly available and so on, to all, but this referring...
What you say here is interesting, it reminds me of something I remember reading about Zen, although I can't recall where, wherein it was said that enl...
:up: That seems close! The only way I can see it bridging the gap is when, due to our generally similar ways of experience, an account may speak to ou...
The meaning of words is shown by common usage, but new meanings are possible on account of the web of possible associations between words, concepts an...
Not silent. "Whereof one cannot argue, thereof one must distract, insinuate, cast aspersions, baldly assert, pontificate or utilize some other deflect...
I agree with this, but not everyone would. I need to reflect on my experience in a certain way to find "the formal conditions of the possibility of ex...
Sure, they are not determinate things, else they could be talked about, but they are not nothing. You seem to be developing the nasty habit of picking...
No, you're still misunderstanding. I am telling you that there are things I cannot tell you, not trying, per impossibile, to tell you what I cannot te...
I'm not claiming anything, just reporting my experience; I know there are countless aspects of experience I can't render into words, including many th...
Obviously it cannot be empirically demonstrated, but I know from my own experience that it is so. If you don't see that I can't help you; I can only r...
Right, the outcome was unintentional then. That would be an example of situational irony as given earlier in a definition gleaned from somewhere on th...
So, you're saying that irony (the unintended outcome) is only ever unintentional, or what? If so, that seems to be an impoverished definition of irony...
Is it necessarily ironic? Perhaps they were not attached to those activities, but simply enjoyed them (and were not attached to their enjoyment, eithe...
How things appear is not always, or even mostly, obvious. So, phenomenology calls for paying attention to experience, reflecting on the results and sy...
Yes, I have no doubt there are. The 'fine people' makes me wonder if your question is tongue in cheek, but I've answered it assuming it was not. I'm a...
OK, fair enough: I guess it depends on what is meant by "doing epoché". If it means simply not focusing on the metaphysical question concerning the in...
The epoché doesn't purport to be falsifiable, because it is simply the setting aside of a question in order to focus on other things. It is analogous ...
The epoché is simply the bracketing of the question about the reality of the external world, so as to focus on the phenomena as they seem to present t...
Well, I did say that a list might be complete, yet we be unable to tell that it is. As you say there may be forms of expression we cannot imagine. :lo...
Many things seem to be "odd" according to you. Says more about you than the things. In any case, I think it is salient, even if oddly so,since it woul...
There's a difference between a list that could never, in principle, be completed. and one which is potentially finite, but large enough that we could ...
That humans are "just machines" and that "there is a world that we experience" are not two necessarily conjoined ideas. The first is from a particular...
Seeing something red (and whatever else goes with that) is an impression, image or sensation, whatever you want to call it, experienced by the body-mi...
OK, I can agree that it seems reasonable to think that the neural machinery operates prior to the experience, but that is irrelevant to what I am sayi...
Right, words will never convey what it is to enjoy a hangover if you've never had one; if you've experienced a hangover then you might relate to the w...
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