I wonder about that. Do physical "explanations" really explain anything more than how things appear to work? In that sense they could be counted as me...
Not subjectivism, but inter-subjectivism. Scholars who devote whole lifetimes to studying ancient thinkers are better placed to understand them than l...
Whatever is observable publicly is observable by anyone. Only what is observable publicly can be rigorously inter-subjectively tested. Anything else i...
You're right I must have somehow misread. And I did pick up your allusion to (actually quote of part of) Jimi Hendrix's song (I know Bob Dylan wrote i...
'Affect' in a precognitive phenomenological sense would precisely be energy, since there is no affect without change and no change without energy, so ...
I say it's pointless because it's undecidable. What is the point you think I'm not seeing. Which man of the street, though? If you accept the statisti...
To me that debate is pointless, because there can be no decidable resolution. From one perspective (the phenomenological) consciousness is fundamental...
You should have said "phenomenology" there instead of "philosophy" and I would have agreed with you. Philosophy has broadened it's horizons to include...
I think that's right. We might say (granting for the sake of argument that they stem from a holy source but being books, via a human author and hence ...
It explains what, on reflection, human experience seems to consists in. Perhaps "explication" or "description" would be a better word. Human experienc...
We can conclude that because they are totally different kinds of explanations. Phenomenological explanations are reflections on the nature of first pe...
You've now switched from "adequate" to "complete". How would we ever be able to tell whether any explanation, whether physical or phenomenological, is...
Right, but I don't think it is the same thing, and the difference seems to be that we are pondering different questions. Whether or not we can tell th...
Sure, both science and phenomenology are "works in progress". But I'm curious to know what in particular you think is inadequately explained and why. ...
The point is that physical explanations cannot substitute for phenomenological explanations, because they are from two very different perspectives. Bo...
You still seem to be misunderstanding what I said. I said that all sentences in coherent form (and maybe even some of those which are not) however the...
First, the term 'intentionality' as I was intending it, and as it is used in phenomenology, refers to the fact that language, at least a good part of ...
The essential feature of language is intentionality or aboutness. You might say, no, its essential feature is communication; but what do we communicat...
I haven't anywhere said "it makes it so". The third person disciplines are inter-subjectively corroborable in ways that religious belief is not is all...
:rofl: Science consists in observation and hypothesis, prediction, experiment and the adoption of provisional theories, not merely in facts (the bare ...
OK, well have a happy life (even though your happiness will be according to you not real except insofar as it is a neural process), I don't persist wi...
Tautologies tell us nothing about what is the case. You are committing a rookie category error. Not a very good point then since you seemed to be clai...
You seem to think there is an objective matter of fact concerning whether or not subjective experiences are real. It;s really just a matter of the def...
:rofl: No I was right; you apparently do suffer from a terrible poverty of subjective experience. I haven't claimed that subjectively real phenomena c...
If you carefully observed your own experience I believe you would see that there are many phenomena therein which you could not possibly demonstrate t...
At the moment I've lost track of what we were agreeing, and what we were disagreeing, about anyway. Maybe it'll resurface later... You're right; I was...
Yes, I agree with that. However, there may be some "illusions" which, even though they might seem to be contraindicated from a rigorous "third person"...
You're still missing the point. Whether or not there are real neural correlates to my hopes, desires, fears, expectations, assumptions and so on; thos...
You seem to be missing the point that my hopes, fears, preferences and assumptions and so on, are real to me, in fact are the most real things of all;...
If our meanings and purposes are "Illusions" which are adaptive is there any sense in undermining them, though? What, that might be desirable, could b...
I don't think it would necessarily follow from the real being logically constructed that it therefore must be either intelligent itself or constructed...
We know our descriptions are logically constructed, but we don't know whether what we describe, prior to our descriptions of it, is logically construc...
No, because they are not claimed to be gods or God today; it is what is claimed about Jesus today that determines the focus of attention, not what was...
That claim is not without controversy. It is true that the earliest surviving gospels are in Greek, but there is also purported to be evidence that ea...
They existed; they were here in Australia in the early seventies; I'm not sure they referred to themselves as "Jesus Freaks", but they were certainly ...
It's possibly because of the claim that Christ was the Word incarnate; the one true Son of God, and that he literally died for our sins. No such claim...
See my answer to Wayfarer, Mww. Hopefully that should answer your questions. I didn't say that Kant claimed that. Concepts differ in their semantic co...
I am not saying Kant didn't make the distinction, but I am questioning whether the distinction holds in light of the implications of his philosophy. T...
Problem is unless you're reading Plato in his original language (and even then you will be imposing interpretations native to yours) you are reading P...
That conception of the transcendental seems to be based on the assumption that empirical intuitions are not always already conceptually mediated, even...
That certainly seems to be a possibility. It is certainly arguable though that it could be an abstraction derivative of empirical intuitions. It seems...
It's an interesting question, and I don't know the answer. Spinoza believed in intellectual intuition of a certain kind (understanding "sub specie aet...
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