Janus

I'm not sure what you mean by saying that absolute propositions are not true or false. Can you give an example? It seems to me that the truth-aptness ...

Do you mean they didn't understand the logic of the systems they created? Or they didn't understand that their systems were grounded on groundless axi...

I don't miss Jundo, since apparently I missed, or at least fail to remember, Jundo altogether.

A nice one! I agree that Buddhism is certainly not theistic if that term is taken to denote a purposely created cosmos. By the way I also really liked...

Or any sort? Of course there is a logic to phenomenological analysis, but it is perhaps not always of the first order variety. There is a logic to met...

Yes, it's a profound (or trivial) truth that a language is needed. The question is, what kind of language?

I would never say you are an ignorant man; that's kinda cute, though! Phenomenology? Maybe it just doesn't do it for you. Have you looked at Braver's ...

It's an interesting point. I think it depends on what you mean by theism. True, Buddhism has no creator God, but it does have many gods and above all ...

Why would you give the "thumbs-up" to the voice of ignorance?

Heidegger's analysis is phenomenological. If I recall you have little respect for phenomenology in general, so it probably wouldn't be to your taste. ...

I found this to be a very clear exposition of the five hindrances: https://www.hillsidehermitage.org/new-book/

The point is that at soon as the questions become critical of the ideas in question (criticisms which may or may not be apt), then the recourse is to ...

I agree, but this is not an apt criticism of Heidegger, as he does not treat being as a thing.

Heidegger analyzes being as Dasein; "being there" or "there being", which he understands to be the primordial nature of human being. He also was the f...

I agree; Being and Time is not so difficult. His work after the "die Kehre" I have thus far found impenetrable.

In past discussions of rigid designation and reference, conceptual schemes and the PLA, I've asked you for simple explanations of just what you think ...

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I'll second that.

We respond to the hindrances otherwise they would not hinder us, no? I thought the idea is pretty standard Buddhist fare. I just performed a search an...

Freud was a pessimist. Happiness/ unhappiness: it's a matter of perspective. I'm not claiming there is. But I see no reason to think anyone would atte...

Nice play on "reel"! Strangely, I wrote a poem a few years ago called The Reel with a similar play in mind. The Reel For the duration of a bounded ete...

It is not "ordinary unhappiness" (for me at least: I cannot speak for you). It is a mix of up and down. I am familiar with the Buddhist idea of learni...

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OK, I didn't remember that, but it's years since I read it. If I can find the reading time I'll take another look.

No, that's not what I;m saying at all. I'll correct it for you so you can better understand what I am saying. Janus: Collingwood is not a metaphysicia...

And so Collingwood doesn't really count as a metaphysician, whatever else you might think he counts as. At most he counts as a kind of historian or hi...

That doesn't tell me anything unless you point to what you are not getting.

Collingwood is not generally considered to be a central figure in the historical evolution of metaphysical thought.

Only needed if your demand is to be completely happy all the time.

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There seem to be, broadly, two conventional definitions of metaphysics: the "traditional" and the "modern". 1. The Word ‘Metaphysics’ and the Concept ...

To my mind that does not read as a metaphysical statement at all, but as a methodological or historiographical statement. The other point is that trad...

So, what is its central tenet?

I have read An Essay on Metaphysics and I knew they were Collingwood's words. When you say that the distinction between studying the history of metaph...

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I agree that what we see depends on us just as it depends on what is there; seeing is interactive. Animals also presumably see things as things (but n...

Sure, but that isn't accounting for the fact that others who have also studied and meditated long-term may disagree with you.

That's not merely a perception of a glass with liquid in it, but a judgement. Of course we see a glass with liquid in it as a glass with liquid in it,...

Originally I responded to this: Attempting to find out "what absolute presuppositions have been made..." just is the study of the history of metaphysi...

Is your claim that it is metaphysics all the way down itself a metaphysical or ontological, or a merely epistemological one? I'm not sure if you're be...

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It would depend on the nature of the dismissal of metaphysics. If the claim was that talk of an eternal order is incoherent or meaningless then it mig...

This seems wrong to me. Metaphysics consists in various "absolute presuppositions (that) have been made". So, doing metaphysics is making such presupp...

If so, the p-zombie is not what we think it is then... :scream:

I thought the usual definition of the p-zombie is that it has no self-awareness, or actually any awareness at all. The man in the example who had part...

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Thanks gmba, I'll have a look and see if I can muster a comment or two when time permits.

An interesting case! It doesn't seem to me to support the idea of a p-zombie. The man was still aware of the neuralgic pain, which a p-zombie, by defi...

I think science can just study and speculate about nature as it presents itself to us, make predictions and see what works, without presupposing or co...

That's a nice historical story; so what is left for philosophy then, or in other words, what does philosophy consist in today?