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And yet according to the idea of Karma present actions are understood to give rise to (cause) future states, aren't they? It seems there must be some ...

I'm not clear on what commitments that would involve. Husserl was the one who introduced the "Epoché" which is basically a suspension of concern over ...

As to whether Heidegger thought as Dreyfus suggests, or as to whether if her did think that, he was right? On the first I am not sure, on the second I...

Why would you find that disappointing?

Would it not be possible to hold both views? If a conceptual understanding makes explicit our pre-reflective experience it seems natural enough to thi...

I'm not sure I agree with Dreyfus' interpretation of Heidegger. As I said I agree the "fundamental way of being in the world" is prior to the explicit...

I see analysis as the (perhaps) primary activity of the discursive intellect. On the other hand all analysis presupposes prior syntheses, and should a...

That's fair enough; it might be merely a terminological disagreement. My take on it though is that it is better (more in accordance with common usage ...

I would say it is not a mindless state at all, but a state of pre-reflective, pre-critical self awareness or consciousness. It is only on the basis of...

Without form there is no matter; matter consists in in-formation. Abstraction evolves as an activity of complex in-formed matter.

Without pattern no sign, without sign no pattern replication, without pattern replication no stability (regulated instability), without instability no...

The maxim of the procrastinator: Never do today what you can put off until next Tuesday, and if you can't do it then, forget about it.

I see that you have removed your comment that it might be possible that they see something I don't. Perhaps they may, perhaps they may not, but in any...

Yes, of course it is so understood by Maritain and possibly by Zen adherents, but the point is that the belief that what is experienced in such states...

I have read Maritain's Introduction to Philosophy and I have had The Degrees of Knowledge on my shelves for many years, but have only dipped into it o...

Well neither he nor you are likely to gain more than a superficial understanding of modern philosophy if you are disinclined to study it adequately on...

For me poetry is a kind of reason, so we may be operating with different conceptions. I would say that poetry is as much from the trees as it is from ...

I read a little bit of Maritain years ago, and I thought his grasp of modern philosophy was superficial at best.

'Life' here must 'mean' something imagined to be absolutely unfathomable, indeterminate. In fact life does "answer to reason" insofar as it is intelli...

Explain exactly how you think they are beyond reason. As to Wittgenstein's,"The sense of the world must lie outside the world. In the world everything...

The problem with your argument is that a living tree is not merely firewood and in fact is not even suitable in its present green condition to serve a...

Do you believe reason and revelation are independent domains just on the basis of religious authority? Or do you have your own reasons? I would prefer...

No, they would have known that firewood falls or can be broken or cut from trees, that trees have other uses to animals and humans and so on. So firew...

The point is that knowing what it is as firewood is parasitic upon knowing what it is as tree, and obviously not vice versa.

Why do you say that revelation is outside the bounds of reason?

You seemed to be speaking as though it were purely arbitrary in relation to understanding whether someone referred to it as 'tree' or "firewood"

The assymmetry here is that firewood is merely one small possibility of tree. "Tree' is the umbrella concept under which 'firewood' becomes intelligib...

Of course knowledge is limited, and the degree of limitation will depend in part on what you count as knowledge. It's important to maintain a distinct...

No, I think that everything has its reason. What would be the use of talking about anything that is purportedly beyond the intelligibility of human re...

Nothing surpasses reason, and what falls short of it are only attitudes.

Good point; I think that's a very good approach. I often do go off half-cocked myself, and end up saying some ill-considered things. :worry:

I'm going away for a week, and I don't have time to write what I want to say, so it will have to wait until I return at which time it may no longer be...

Also these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UiV-vMOueY (Naturalism and Ontology from the (drunken) horse's mouth) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTf...

I'll await your return, but in the meantime: do you read the above as some kind of phenomenal/ noumenal distinction? Or is it more of a phenomenologic...

You still seem to be missing the point here. The "something which is independent of them, but which they have access to" is not number, per se, becaus...

Yes, but the "standard units of measurement and shared meanings" do not determine how many objects there are. Units of measurement and shared meanings...

I can't see how this view would not be an appeal to natural kinds or at least kind, which I had thought was what Sellars is purportedly wishing to get...

Well, in the passage I was responding to you spoke of "individual subjects who are measuring the same thing". And you often say things like "measuring...

Measurement may be understood to be an activity of minds, and the commonality of the characteristics of minds could plausibly give rise to a "pre-esta...

I spent eight years as a part time undergraduate while working as a landscape designer/ builder. I did well, even won a couple of academic prizes, but...

Sounds a bit like the "end of history". :nerd:

I would say percipients are required to experience, judge and formulate relations. This is the old question; do the processes we observe in nature exi...

'Existence' may have more than just one meaning. In any case the question is about the reality of God. There must be a valid distinction between a God...

I think this is too black and white. It fails to capture the possibility that the tree is really in accordance with my perceiving of it, but that it d...

Yes, the statement that the apple is red is not the apple being red and requires intersubjective conditions. As to the apple being red, I probably sho...

That depends on what you believe to be possible. :wink:

As I suggested in an earlier post, all properties (predicates) are really relations, and relations may be more or less complex, of course. Seeing pred...

Do you have any examples of disastrous metanoia in mind? Yes, I think that's the key: experiential openness.

Your criticism of Dennett would be more convincing if you provided an actual quote from Dennett rather than a statement from someone else talking abou...

If there was a discrepancy between two rulers, then you would be forced to investigate further in order to discover which ruler was inaccurate. I pres...