This is contradictory nonsense. If something were once really a "self-evident truth" then it could never fail to be true forever. If it later comes to...
You're conflating two different things here. Of course we must be uncertain about what we will find when we investigate, but we cannot investigate wit...
No, the point is that, following this line of thought, we assume there is an ascertainable truth; we don't take an attitude of uncertainty, because th...
There does seem to be similarity, but I think the difference is that absolute presuppositions are not taken to be self-evidently and timelessly true i...
You're misunderstanding what is written there. "We hope that there is some ascertainable truth about it" means that we proceed as if there were, other...
No, it's not an uncertain thought under that definition, because its truth or falsity is not in question; we are not undecided about its truth or fals...
No, assuming something for the sake of investigation does not entail that I must believe what I am assuming to be true. Look at the example of bivalen...
I'm not sure Wittgenstein could be considered to be consistent if he were to say that "hinge propositions" are true, even though they are not justifia...
An "uncertain thought" is a thought about which we are undecided as to whether it is true or not. Absolute presuppositions are understood to be things...
Yes, I think what you say is kind of true, though not only of philosophy, but of science, economics, anthropology; in short of all domains of inquiry....
As I understand it. according to Collingwood absolute presuppositions are the fundamental principles upon which the fields of human inquiry depend. Th...
I think Collingwood makes a pretty good case that the only possible science of metaphysics would consist in a history of absolute presuppositions. Sci...
I think we can experience objects, feelings or whatever and also experience our experience itself. Also, what is a different thing again, we can be co...
And yet the tree can be something for my consciousness, despite that it is not itself consciousness. I had thought that earlier you were saying everyt...
But you are more than merely "the 'seeing' of the world", no? Are you not also the feeling of yourself? I agree; the tree is something for my consciou...
If we understood the world we experience to be merely perceptual phenomena the question remains as to what it could be perceptions of. What determines...
Actually I take umbrage at this. I fully comprehend your standpoint, as I used to hold such a standpoint myself. Now, I have offered honest and fairly...
I don't mean to say that you're being deliberately or arrogantly elitist. I'm just saying that the idea of esoteric knowledge is inherently elitist in...
A typical elitist response! Give me some cogent idea of what it might be that I don't understand, and I might begin to take it, and you, seriously. As...
Which is most emphatically not philosophy. Theology, perhaps? None of that speaks to any specific metaphysical beliefs about transcendence, but rather...
The point is: what was it that the Buddha knew; what was it that you could possibly say he might have had absolute knowledge of? Whether there is a Go...
The most likely cause of Nietzsche's madness would seem to have been a brain disease, since there is apparently no documentary evidence to support the...
If we don't exhaustively know what the conditions are then we can't say (exhaustively) what they are, can we? The point is that it is universally acce...
Yes, I think that's about right, although I would be cautious about what you mean by "transcendent'. I am against the idea that some people can have a...
If you are asking whether there are any conditions that give rise to human perceptions and understandings, but do not themselves exhaustively appear i...
I am all for allegorical interpretations...in the context of poetry. I am somewhat doubtful about whether allegory could have a beneficial role in phi...
I don't have a lot of time today, but I'll just try to answer this. For Collingwood an absolute presupposition is not a proposition that is claiming t...
But this is a form of disingenuousness. If one hasn't found the arguments convincing (either way) then one lacks a belief that there is God and also l...
No, I'm not saying that at all. It's not about what people say, but about what fundamentally seems to be to any percipient; a world of affordances (to...
Well, as far as I am concerned it is uncontroversial; science and its formulations of laws certainly do not "control reality"; so if you think we have...
I agree with that, but we are discussing what is phenomenologically basic, and by definition the noumenal is not a concern of phenomenology. I wouldn'...
I would agree that "being is convertible with the capacity to act", but I would say that refers to specific being, being as some kind of being and not...
I suppose I mean "umwelt" or "world" in the phenomenological sense. (The noumenal would be more properly what is real but not revealed to us, and henc...
It really is nothing more than a matter of different interpretations of the ambit of a term. I really don't care if you disagree with my interpretatio...
You obviously do misunderstand since I haven't stated or even suggested that gravity is "governed by any law". If gravity is indeed omnipresent, then ...
So, I'm saying that the shared experience of a common world is fundamental, which entails that there being others who experience as I do is not merely...
I can't see how a science of being as being is possible, except perhaps as a phenomenology which would have to start, as Heidegger did, with dasein: h...
The point is that the very idea of there being operations of symbolic signs, which rely entirely upon convention, entails that there is a shared world...
Well, it doesn't make for good debate, is all. I was joking really, though, since agreement doesn't foreclose on the possibility of further fruitful d...
You misunderstand me: I am saying that according to ordinary usage "the law of gravity" applies to both the human formulation, and to the natural forc...
No the rocks and trees are not part of we people, but part of our world. "We people" is as instinctive for us as the implicit "we baboons:" is for bab...
The "we" of experience is more fundamental than the skeptical or solipsistic "I" who doubts or denies the reality of others who share the experience o...
Well, semiotic thought is relatively new to me. :grin: So, as per Dfpolis' example, you can't "get beneath" the elephant you are seeing (and please do...
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