The question is whether contexts themselves consist in nothing more than networks of efficient causal interactions. Is the whole really something more...
Is it irrelevant to the OP, though? Does the very notion of 'philosophy as language game' not at least smack of a purported standing outside of philos...
I am yet to see any argument or explanation that convinces me that so-called meta-philosophy is truly distinct from philosophy.'Metaphilosophy' is mer...
Yes and that very mistake was yours. It's amazing that you now turn and around and emphasize the very point I was making against your position as if I...
The problem is that indeed the "map is not (is never) the territory". So our idea of infinity is not infinity, our idea of the continuum is not the co...
The problem is more that you are anthropomorphizing matter, in imagining that it would have to be able to "interpret' a law in order to be able to act...
I doubt that a person who had not been conditioned by their social circumstances to rely on piped water would be made to feel insecure by a broken wat...
Sure, but all the examples you give here are due to social conditioning I would say. And just how is it that you have earned the right to speak for mo...
I tend to think that the order of ideas reflects the order of things; there is really nothing else for it to reflect. If they are two completely diffe...
From one perspective, of course concepts are not physical entities they are mental entities. But from that, which is really just a matter of definitio...
It's actually not materialism, because I do not impute any primacy to materiality over thought. This is akin to Spinoza's position, which could be sai...
There are many versions of materialism. I don't really think of myself as a materialist, except insofar as I see no justification for positing an onto...
The interesting question is whether the information is created or derived. If derived then it suggests that our thinking is an integral part of the wo...
I think that since we are mortal some degree of fear is inevitable. Insecurity is a disposition; some people are more secure than others. Very often i...
I agree that the point of philosophy is to address different ideas, which is to say disagreements. And I can accept that you sincerely think there is ...
To the extent that what you say relates to the previous discussion of reverence, I will say this: I have been advancing the idea that having a feeling...
Unfortunately you are showing that you have no clue what I have been saying or how it relates to the Western canon. And you are making unwarranted and...
I don't know what you mean by "real, but immaterial". Concepts occur only, as far as I know in physical brains. They are finite thoughts that grasp fi...
I don't know woodart; I think you are over-simplifying what is a very subtle and complex question, characterizing the human situation very narrowly an...
This is where I disagree; what is represented is thought. 'Intellect' as I understand it pertains to the capacity for thought. We can rationally ( i.e...
They are all intelligible only in terms of physical things or analogues. Truth is the property of being true; if something is true then it embodies or...
Does that mean the same as to say that they are essentially conceptual in nature? Is a geometrical form, a law of grammar, or a logical relationship a...
Can you give me an example of a concept which is not given, even remotely, in terms of physical things or relations between physical things? I can't s...
So, you have decided that there are only physical things and the concepts of them? On what do you base this conclusion? It is obvious that truth is no...
I'm not particularly math or physics-literate, but looking at it from a simply logical perspective: if some hidden, more fundamental, thing efficientl...
No, what's ridiculous is the amount of effort you put into reading posts before responding. I explicitly stated that I think there cannot be a concept...
Thanks for your efforts, Timeline, but to be honest I've lost the thread of what this conversation was about beyond quibbling about different senses o...
I read something just this morning which bears, in an interesting way, on your question. It suggests that what is expressed in the 'cogito' is a synth...
Go, you good things! Another recent "thing": Moonlight explores valleys and streams a creeping stillness that touches blind waters and sentient mounta...
No, truth is not "turtles all the way down"; it is not anything all the way down, although it is "all the way down" insofar as it is groundless ( and ...
There cannot, because truth is more primordial than any concept. In fact concepts would be meaningless without always already taking for granted the p...
"True' has a range of senses: for example 'right. 'correct', 'accurate', ' in accordance with actuality', and the like. 'Believe' means most character...
I would say that identity and identification (two different things) are of the empirical (the shareable realm) and difference is of the transcendental...
Here you seem to be equating reverence with admiration. I can see that there is a certain sense in which the two ideas could be said to meet, but this...
You see someone in the street and you say to your companion "Hey look at that guy; he really looks like our friend Paul". Your companion replies, " No...
I simply don't believe it is true that you believe anything that you don't believe to be true. Perhaps you could provide an actual example for conside...
Then we are confronting different understandings of the terms. For me 'capacity' is synonymous with 'ability'. So, it makes no sense to me to say that...
I'd say that all disagreements about metaphysical matters certainly do come down to metaphysical beliefs. Metaphysical questions cannot be decided by ...
You're not sure what it means to say that people have different levels of ability? Think of athletic ability; it's a good example since it seems so ap...
Sure, but I was speaking about different "natural" capacities enjoyed by different people, which I think undeniably obtain. Ones could certainly devel...
Perhaps it is the time dilation effect of psychotropics that allows me to sustainedly examine them. That seems to beg the question as to what, in the ...
Sure, but maybe having a "a super vivid visual imagination" is to at least some degree dependent on the capacity to bring more of the processes of vis...
You seem to be saying that reverence is appropriate (or perhaps even possible?) only in intimate relationships. This raises the question of reciprocat...
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