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I seem to remember reading somewhere in a secondary work on Heidegger that his concept of authenticity could be equated with Aristotle's conception of...

I think this is right: acting on a belief is a way of expressing it. So in order to qualify as a belief it must be able to be either described, depict...

I didn't say that habit is that which fails to work; I said that habit is that which works reliably (until it is confronted by different circumstances...

The problem is that a habit can work to reliably produce horrible, unwise outcomes. Surely not all, or even most, of the old should be considered to b...

Oh, to have the ear of the world!

In a nutshell? Do your best to abstain from bullshit and self-hatred, and from asking others what those are.

Firstly, I would point out that although we can certainly say that the intended goal, in this example becoming healthy, is a cause of the act of walki...

Why would you say that because you are not reflectively aware of it, it follows that you don't experience it? You don't need to worry about that. I wa...

How would the reality of final cause entail free choice or chance?

In a deterministic system there are no chance events. in a probabilistic system only the constituting (micro) events are chance (random) and there are...

It's a tricky one to talk about! I think I agree pretty much with what you write here. I would probably say 'non-conceptual differences' rather than '...

Well if it cannot be expressed or shown then it may not be nothing, but it certainly cannot qualify as a belief. What could it be? Any ideas?

Concepts are abstractions, generalizations and are thus not, by definition, substantial. That which is substantial is that which can be perceived. The...

I think the point is that it makes no sense to say that you could believe something which could not, even in principle, be either lingually expressed ...

Sure, thinking involves distinctions; and we can think about the possibility that there is a distinction between a distinction that is merely conceptu...

This is more like a stipulation that determines an infinite set of propositions, than the kind of problem that can be derived by inverting a single pr...

That's an intriguing slant, but I am not seeing how it relates to what it is supposed to be responding to. I wasn't trying to address any question of ...

To be sure thinking relies on distinctions; but I don't see how that obvious fact relates to the discussion. So, as far as I can tell you haven't answ...

You can distinguish your hand from your eye, but are they really separate from one another? Or again, we can distinguish ourselves from our bodies, ou...

The notion that we project our way of being onto the world implies that we are separate from the world. A different idea would be that the world just ...

It is not black and white, though. Women as a whole have been victims of oppression by men, and I would say all the evidence seems to point to that. T...

Well, again I would say the conceptual explication of how to do anything is inherent in the skill to do it. It is also true that conceptual explanatio...

Yes, I think it is appropriate to apply the rules against any form of bigotry differently depending on whether the bigotry is directed against the opp...

Of course there will always be elements of an athlete's skill that cannot be made conceptually explicit, and even if they could be explicated they cou...

I haven't read the thread in question, other than cursorily. Did @"Jake" specify that the program would be enforced? In any case if it were enforced i...

It is undeniable that we live in a male-dominated society. Women are precluded from some roles in society altogether and do not do well in other spher...

Well then of course the program would be immoral since it would be oppressive to all.

How do you think my statements are "broad, meaningless"? Which ones, and why?

You think that precludes the possibility that you are being unreasonable?

You should have read 'undeniable' to mean that it could not reasonably be denied. No one can force you to be reasonable; it is your prerogative to be ...

Sure, if the method would allow men to reproduce men and men were stopped from doing that then it would be morally wrong. But since men hold the power...

I think it is undeniable that men have been and still are oppressors of women. They have done this throughout history simply "because they can". It ma...

OK, but again, no actual men would be killed or sterilized, so it could hardly be called genocide. You could say that humanity will just undergo a col...

Ah, I think I see now; you are saying that the written guideline do not make the distinction between bigotry against oppressed and bigotry against opp...

I can't see how the proposal involves killing any actual men. Note, though, I'm not saying I agree with the proposal.

Sorry, T Clark, but I can't see how, if I am agreeing with the actual forum policy, that agreeing with me would require the guidelines to be changed. ...

It is reasonable to condemn bigotry when it is directed against oppressed peoples, and not unreasonable to refrain from condemning it when it is direc...

I wouldn't say that subject/ object is fundamental. When I asked if the fundamental way of being can be understood in terms of subject/object I was as...

Sorry, Frank, I'm not sure I understand this question. Scientists generally ask questions of or about phenomena, dson't they?

Yes, that's better put: purpose, function, tendency. Entanglement?

Hmmm, interesting..."absolute nothingness". And yet absolute nothingness is not absolutely nothing...a deep paradox! The middles section of the quoted...

We might see a tendency of things to take paths of least action and enshrine that as a principle. This may give us the impression that nature is purpo...

I have no doubt that you are as competent as most of the people here. Personally I prefer open threads (with all their divergences and digressions) to...

But this purpose is a human purpose, not a purpose purported to be inherent in reality itself, isn't it?

I've read much more of Heidegger than I have Husserl; I'm familiar with the latter mostly only from secondary sources (Michel Henry and Dan Zahavi, mo...

I'm not sure what you want to say here; could you expand on it? The first part is clear, and I agree with it: I think reflection does seem to show tha...

I don't think there is anything wrong with your writing; what you are saying seems clear enough to me. I agree with you that Michael Jordan's "learned...

I had not enough time to write a more detailed response before. It might have seemed that I was suggesting that you are not well-versed in Buddhist ph...

No, I didn't mean it like that! :smile:

Thanks, but I'm already aware of what you write about here, and it doesn't really address my question. What I am wondering is whether there is any act...