Not if you don't like it. For me it;s the best guide to what living is for us. You're tilting at straw windmills; I haven't said that the external wor...
I know my life is such, and I have no reason to think it is different in form for others, although the content would obviously be different, though no...
You're misunderstanding what I've said. I've said that our lives, phenomenologically speaking, consists in images. Out of the repetition of these imag...
Life is in the imagery, not in the propositions about hypostatized things, how to justify those propositions, facts about things, or logic. I'm not sa...
I'm not confused; I simply don't agree. In any case there is this: “6.41 The sense of the world must lie outside the world. In the world everything is...
You're missing the point, though.Our whole lives consist in streams of imagery, a unique stream to each person. From out of those concrete streams we ...
I'm not trying to "defend" anything; I just give priority to the poetic mind over the intellectual or discursive mind. And even though the rich imager...
Just to clear I'm not referring to "raw feels", The mind that matters, the mind that experiences life as an endless succession of rich and unique imag...
There is nothing public that can be pointed to, but from that it does not follow that there is no private mind. We all have our mental privacy, so we ...
For me empirical confirmation consists in unequivocal observation. In those matters there are truths, not merely perspectives, but of course those tru...
I agree with what you say about texts, at least in regard to some texts.Other texts retain their evocative power, and even reveal new things on subseq...
Music consists in concrete auditory imagery (sounds). Music presents, evokes, it does not represent in my view. I also would not say music is a kind o...
No, I wouldn't say that; feeling is basic, primal and indispensable. I also think that rational inference can be non-verbal; animals do it all the tim...
I think what you've written is sophistic nonsense. Saying "thought requires words" means that thinking is impossible without words. Saying some though...
Since you said that whether or not experience is external etc. is something that is not up to us, and I said I think it's a matter of definition, no m...
No, I didn't claim that. I said that whether experience is thought of as internal or external etc,, is a matter of definition. If you can quote someth...
I'm still not sure what you have in mind. Did you perhaps think that when I said the toddler's experience is what it is, I meant that it is, regardles...
Apparently you think you see a contradiction; I don't see it, so unless you explain there is nothing to discuss. OK, I can't do it, so I'll have to ta...
I agree, and I think the same applies to what we variously decide to name "experience". Isaac will correct me if I've misunderstood, but I don't think...
Not exactly; I'd say that what we count as the toddler's experience depends on how we define the word "experience". The toddler's experience is what i...
No, whether or not your experience of a tree is internal or both internal and external. As I said both can be coherently said, depending on context or...
Why would I bother trying to refute something that does not seem self-evident to me, just because you claim it seems self-evident to you? On the contr...
It wasn't intended to show that, but to show that there are different reasonable ways of thinking about it. In other words your blanket mantra "reason...
No, if some thought does not need words then the proposition "some thought does not need words" is true. "Thought does not need words" is a blanket st...
I think that's true. I think the main areas we might disagree on concern different emphases; on differences regarding what might be thought to be the ...
Good, then we've nothing to argue about. Better according to who? No, I think it's just a matter of definition, nothing more. If experience is defined...
The way I think about signs has been influenced by Peirce. To give a basic account: according to Peirce a symbol is something that signifies something...
No, I've already said that, in the context of thinking about experience as being comprised of both internal and external elements, which is one of the...
Symbolic thought requires symbols, and symbols are mostly words. It's true that things like love or hate or anger can be symbolized by images, but how...
Democrtius' reason told him over two thousand years ago that divisible extended things are made up of tiny indivisible extended things and that theref...
You are just repeating the same nonsense that I've already shown to be such without offering any counterargument. Materialists believe that what is re...
Sure I agree, but I see those claims as being more obvious, more trivial, than the point that there is no fact of the matter concerning whether experi...
You keep jumping all over the place instead of addressing what I say. "A mind-external extended thing" just is an object of the senses; how else would...
Are you willfully misunderstanding what I wrote? I didn't define a materialist as someone who believes in the objects of the senses, but as someone wh...
All material things are objects of the senses. From the materialists' idea that material things are objects of the senses it does not follow that anyo...
The way I see it it is the rise of capitalism-enabling technology which has brought us to this culmination of the largely Christian notion of humanity...
This is too simplistic, since it is obvious that mind is not a material things in the sense of being an object of the senses, which is the common defi...
Yes, and this kind of delusional thinking is what has led us to the situation we find ourselves in today. I agree that would be a motivation for this ...
Yes, it's a great book; I don't know how many years ago I read it, twenty maybe, and I don't remember too much of it specifically now, but it made a p...
All things are not subject to the same the same ways of conception, of thinking about them. If the mind is understood to be a function of the brain (a...
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