Janus

The problem I see is that if our experience of the world is always already interpreted, and we acknowledge that we are being affected pre-cognitively ...

I read through your conversation with the LLM about Davidson vs McDowell in the thread you linked. From the little I know of Davidson's work I had for...

If taken as merely general examples of sentences that could refer to actual states of affairs, but in merely being considered as such do not refer to ...

Could we not think of that as just the general form of a particular kind of proposition, really no different than 'it is q'. Both the "I" and the "it"...

I would have thought that the force/ content distinction reinforces the role of the "first person"—when judgements are believed we have the subject in...

Yes, it's puzzling.

Do you think Quine intends this to be read as indicating a common occurrence or merely an outlying possibility? Given charitability and good will I se...

That that it is possible to "talk past one another" relies on it not being the case that we always, or even mostly, talk past one another. It seems ob...

This seems obviously wrong. There is clearly a valid distinction between the content of judgements and the force of judgements. When I believe a judge...

No clear way of showing just how words refer to what we take them to refer to? And no clear way of showing that they refer to exactly and exclusively ...

Banno and Timothy are correct, it's not a matter of "absolutism' and it's not arbitrary. The Solar System as a whole has a centre of mass known as a b...

There is an actuality which is the Earth orbiting the Sun. We model that actuality using physics. And some silly philosophers say that because 'the Ea...

The problem I see here is that all such "frames" when dogmatically posited are actually, or at least potentially, ideologies. It is ideology, whether ...

'Objectivity' can mean different things. In the pragmatic context it just amounts to intersubjective agreement. In the realist context it is an acknow...

Thanks Paine, that clears up my apparent misunderstanding.

When we recognize an individual tiger we recognize the tiger, and we don't even need to recognize it as a tiger. So, it seems to me that the question ...

@"Joshs" is well read and articulate to be sure. It doesn't follow that he has hold of the right end of the stick. I have no doubt he has a response, ...

:up: Nicely explained! There is all too much ado about what amounts to nothing of any importance. When it is claimed that say 'cat' never means the sa...

Haha, I'll just say 'good morning'— it's 9.30 AM here...dreams are done, and it's time to deal with the 'real' world.

:smile: Again, thanks for your kind words Amity. :pray:

It seems that we like thinking about trying to discover just what it is we recognize when we recognize something. We don't have any need for the idea ...

Right, acceptance is appropriate of those things we cannot change. So, the idea of acceptance should not preclude, for example, political action, wher...

Yes, the concepts of substance, being, essence seem to be all closely associated. We could say that the essence of something is the archetypal idea of...

I don't see you "going to far" but as presenting engaged and engaging readings of texts. And thank you for your kind and supportive words. I' might ha...

A few thoughts— It works for me as poetry, evoking a sense of connectedness with both nature and the affairs of humans. It is also a kind of metaphysi...

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I have no desire to engage further but if you insist on misrepresenting me then I feel compelled to correct you. And your interpretations are infallib...

You know only my questions, you don't know my attitude. and it is presumptuous of you to think you do. It is an ad hominem because instead of addressi...

So, on the "no privation" view the perfect form of a tiger would be 100% tigerness, just as the form of the perfect circle would be 100% circularity. ...

This ad hominem shows you are obviously taking it personally. Others, with more balanced views have said they did not see me being disruptive but mere...

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I was questioning the justification for this interpretation which was being presented as the one true interpretation: : I wanted to know why the OP wa...

Cheers T Clark, it actually does work for me. It and the Bhagavad Gita are two of my favorite texts.

That's not the point though. The point is that he conceived of the forms as perfect—the perfect circle (which does not exist in nature) being the arch...

So, it's just poetry then? I have no argument with that. It seems to me that something that can only be apprehended non-linguistically cannot be spoke...

It seems uncontroversial that Plato considered the forms to be perfect and their physical manifestations imperfect. Do you deny this?

If everything that can be said misses the mark then there is no point discussing it. On the other hand how could you know if the mark has been missed ...

So, Man follows the Earth, which follows the Universe, which follows the Tao. No mention of Nature there. If you cannot say what you think Nature is, ...

So, you are not talking about Platonic essentialism? OK, but what it is to be a particular tiger is not what it is to be any other tiger, because thei...

How do you understand the difference between the manifest world and "reality itself". Are you invoking the phenomenon/ noumenon distinction? If so it ...

So if nature is the manifest world the Dao preceded it according to this verse. We cannot follow that which is Born before heaven and Earth. In the si...

I'm not sure what you mean by "manifest meanings". Do you mean to say that we are affected by how things appear to us? If so, that would be a truism. ...

This notion of a perfect form, eidos or essence is the traditional understanding of essentialism. You admit that essentialism is not monolithic, and y...

Sure, it can be said that things have essential properties in the sense that they would not qualify as whatever those essential properties would quali...

We see regularities in nature everywhere. We have a coherent and vast body of scientific knowledge that tells us there is not any reason to think the ...

Thanks, but I'm no clearer on what the problem or the "other problem" are.

Things have characteristics, not essences. So, what's the problem if one or a few characteristics are neglected? It would only be a problem if some ot...

Once we step beyond non-dualism, as all our thought does, and have identified such things as mind and world, then logical dependence relations may bec...

Yep, that's the one...

That's an interesting analogy. On what basis do I trust my own feet? Is it because they are yet to let me down, because they have proved to be, barrin...