Janus

This is a wide-ranging debate. I can only express my view on specifics. I really would much rather just discuss the ideas in our own words without ref...

The wording is irrelevant. You have focused on that instead of addressing any of the points or questions I raised. Oh well...

The answer seems obvious; if reality "contains" "particular entities" then it must contain entities. In order to qualify as entities they must share c...

Can you name a philosopher or two for whom this is a "central question"? What could it mean to say that concepts, laws and numbers are or are not real...

WTF is that supposed to mean? I also have no idea where you are going with the bright/less bright light/ darkness metaphors. No, it's not saying that ...

On the proposition that "bad" is merely the privation of good, then without bad there would be nothing but good; infinite goodness. Similarly, if igno...

Insights, at least poetic and religious insights (as opposed to, say, insight in the sciences) are sufficient unto themselves; in other words they are...

Yes, that's another way of making the same point than the way I took. "Grasping" is a metaphor, and Wayfarer seems to be hypostatizing the metaphor. R...

The point would be that there is no mysterious "grasping of the idea" beyond simply knowing how to proceed. The same applies to going to the shops; yo...

The way you are framing the question is appropriate enough for beliefs concerning empirical matters. Your questions imply the notion of 'truth as corr...

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I think this 'one-world/ two world' distinction fails because even if the thing-in-itself is understood to be, in the so-called "one-world" sense, mer...

From the "point of view" of eternalism everything exists eternally, in its eternal "right now" or eternal present. From a temporal perspective, of cou...

Thanks. I couldn't find anything that significantly disagreed with anything I had said in either of your responses, so that leaves me with nothing muc...

Watching that video, I thought it raises rather an uncomfortable question for Hoffman's position. How does the study of evolution give us reason to be...

From the Stanford entry: What is the difference between "existing right now" and being "currently present"? That is either a contradiction or conceptu...

Since we're on the subset of cultural stereotypes: How many gay men does it take to change a light bulb? Three: two to mix martinis and one to ring th...

Don';t you mean "eats roots shoots and leaves"?

A philosopher may also come to understand faith and belief as being entirely outside the context of "correctness of opinion".

I would say the laws of logic do not apply to things, but to our understanding of our experience, which is given in terms of 'things'. On the other ha...

I am just starting to get into Henry myself, and have read the first essay in Material Phenomenology and am reading I am The Truth: toward a Philosoph...

OK, but that leaves me wondering what criteria the political and ethical judgements will ideally be based upon. You seem to have misunderstood what I ...

I can see how it might cost more (being less beneficial in terms of explanatory power which has practical uses) to hold one explanatory theory rather ...

Not at all; things can be conceived as agents or manifestations of activity, rather than as bearers of states. Things must then be thought of as exten...

Of course, developmental biology will add to our stock of "phenomenal manifestations that we think of divergently as either living or non-living" and ...

Your argument falls down because the idea of things being "in a state" is a merely formal abstraction which does not correspond to actuality. So, actu...

Right, so the evolution of the actual forms of things is likewise not determined priorly by ideal forms.

I think this is too prohibitive in spirit. Of course no one works in a vacuum; but anyone who has anything to say that is worth hearing will be offeri...

OK, I get that particular ideals are particular ideals, but I don't see how that makes them particulars in the kind of sense that particular objects a...

I think he's definitely worth investigating. Probably a good thing....? Interestingly, Henry is also opposed to modernity. It seems that his various w...

No dualism is implied, because being is not thought as constituting multiple substance, or even a substance at all. If I remember correctly, Berdyaev ...

I was really just answering your question as to whether art should reflect reality in the context of making a distinction between life and reality. Th...

The following may be somewhat tangential to your concerns, but what the hell? In the ordinary sense we all broadly understand the distinction between ...

No, not really; I was just being provocative. :)

To say that things don't make sense is not to say that they "don't work out the way we anticipated in our lives" but is to say that we cannot understa...

It seems contradictory to say that an ideal or an absolute is a particular, Can you support this contention? The form of material objects is not fixed...

For sure, but I'm not talking about what we say we experience; I'm talking about what we experience. I don't believe religious delusion is very common...

I don't think this is right. The form of a tree, say an oak, might be prior to the existence of any one particular tree, but the form of an oak is not...

By "knowlegde" are you referring to your direct experience of God or some interpretation of the experience that you might have extrapolated? If the fo...

I agree that life often doesn't make sense; in fact in a certain way I would say that it never makes sense, insofar as life is not susceptible to bein...

Any characteristic or behavior that would not occur in the absense of socialization.

If any human characteristic is only developed through socialization, and is more or less universally (i.e. normally) developed when socialization occu...

I can't see why characteristics that develop in the process of socialization in all societies would not qualify as natural human characteristics.

Why would it need to be "hardwired...there from the beginning" in order to qualify as human nature?

OK, but I wasn't quoting that in support of an argument, as I already said; I was quoting it as an example of a scriptural expression which embodies t...

No, you misunderstood. Yes, I said they are existential truths; the kinds of truths that have been extensively forgotten. But I was asserting that the...

A very disappointing response; although not a surprise. I certainly didn't merely quote scripture. I outlined my standpoint; which you haven't really ...

Right, so I would maintain a strict division between questions concerning information (as per the OP) and questions concerning life (in the transcende...

I can't see how this says anything more than that truths, if they are to have any value, have to be understood (which includes the living of them); as...

180 must have changed his ideas, then? Maybe he lived up to his moniker and performed a 180! ;)