Janus

I think he's referring to DDHH-bashing or should it be called DDHH Syndrome? ;)

I have said there is a general distinction between the elements art and craft in any human activity, where the first signifies the creation of novelty...

What, do you mean to say that the optimal portrait (for purposes of identification, at least), would not be the one that represents the features of th...

In music the optimum note, in painting the optimum tone and colour, in poetry the optimum word. We've already been over this. All but the first are th...

As I said all human activities are both art and craft. They are art insofar as they are innovative, imaginative and creative and they are craft insofa...

As I already explained, "accuracy" in the case of the arts consists in 'hitting the mark'. Perhaps you could provide some concrete examples that show ...

It seems that you don't understand musical composition very well. There is certainly a critical kind of accuracy in choosing the best possible note at...

Insofar as science is creative, it is an art. Of course all creative endeavors are examples of artistry; does that mean they are artistic in nature? I...

I agree with that, although I do wonder whether it makes any more sense to ask what matter or the sign "really is" than it does to ask what mind "real...

So, the intent of your whole account is not to represent reality? Has the " implied need for realism, completeness, faithfulness. etc." "dropped out' ...

I say that you are assuming that to be a conscious subject such as a human being with conscious experience is a situation that entails an entirely dif...

You're assuming your conclusion, and arguing in a circle.

I never said experience doesn't require a subject. In the case of erosion that is experienced by the hillside, the hillside is the subject, I am sayin...

So, they are objects because they exist absent experiencers? Does the erosion experienced by a hillside exist absent the hillside?

That is simply not true, your experience insofar as you know it, is the object you are speaking about: otherwise anything you say about your experienc...

But that's exactly what you are purporting to do. You are making comments, which you do not take to be purely subjective, because you obviously think ...

How can you say knowledge is a facet of our experience if you have no knowledge of experience? I can't see the relevance of this truistic example. If ...

If we could not have ":third person" knowledge of "first person" experience. we would not have any knowledge of our own experience. First person exper...

It's only problematical to your conception of meaning, which thus begs the question, as I see it. And, relatedly, I think the question of whether math...

By the way, the 'embodied' or 'enactive' philosophers, as well as early phenomenologists such as Merleau Ponty and Heidegger and contemporary phenomen...

Why do you say that when there's no way of proving it either way?

Well, we're swapping back and forth between verbal language and more determinate mathematical languages, now. Make up your mind what you want to talk ...

I have read parts of The Concept of Anxiety for an undergraduate course in Existentialism, and found them to be very rich and full of insights. I inte...

I don't believe there absolutely strict determinable meanings; there are rather families of association due to commonalities in the forms of human lif...

Yes, but Kant was so much more important than any of those inferior men. >:O

I finished reading The Brothers Karamazov for the first time recently, and I thought it was a great book, very enjoyable to read and wonderful insight...

It's just another way of saying a physical entity using physical marks and sounds. I mean, there's no way of conveying meaning other than by using phy...

To me it means means it is of the body, and of the spirit. It is something we 'know from the inside', so to speak. I certainly allow that there is spi...

Yes, there never could have been an absolutely physically invariant Ship of Theseus. If that were the criterion for identity, then identity would be d...

You didn't read it carefully. Here is the passage in full: I am saying that animals see differences and similarities such that they are able to recogn...

I agree it is getting ridiculous, but not for the reason you think. I haven't anywhere said that I would be able to read text if I was not a human bei...

How is it an abstraction? "Concrete entities" is, in this case, some marks on the computer screen which elicit felt and visualized associations in me ...

I guess what I'm really looking for is a good explanation as to exactly what constitutes abstraction. We see differences and similarities and from the...

The simpler example is not a good analogy to the ship, because a somewhat different logic is at work. An axe has only two significant components; the ...

Saying made it seem to me that you did think it was trivial, you seem to be asking for more than that. My apologies if I have misunderstood you. So yo...

If the structure of thought and language is an abstraction then thought and language must also be abstractions. What are they abstracted from? Yes and...

'logical identity' means the kind of identity which is implied in all our understanding of experience and linguistic usages; it means that the identit...

I quality 'identity' with 'logical' in order to indicate that I am not referring to any traditional metaphysical notion of substantive identity or ess...

That's not too bad as poetry but I don't find the simple explanation that logical identity is a matter of mere abstraction at all convincing. I think ...

I think indefiniteness or indeterminacy is certainly part of what I mean when I say that all actual entities are in-finite. I guess what I am saying i...

Yes, this is exactly the problem; and it is what led to Kant's great insight that we can and actually do think about absolutely everything, and that i...

I think the problem that this doesn't address is that every actual ship (or anything else, man-made or not) has a logical identity in the way which is...

You seem to be making the mistake of asking the metaphysical question and thinking it is the logical question. Logically speaking, the identity of any...

All this shows is that none of the parts are uniquely and separately involved in the identification 'chariot' or uniquely and separately constitute a ...

Again, I think this is wrong. All entities have, logically speaking, a unique identity. Whether there is a metaphysically robust identity beyond the p...

This is true, and only the particular is absolutely "specific". Both species and genera, as they are employed, are, relatively speaking, both specific...

Yes, but they don't guarantee identity since they can be faked. ;)

True since we understand living entities to be interacting with non-living environments and to be continuously absorbing, and actually "composed" of, ...

I was talking about the quality, not the quality of the members. I wrote "in-finite" rather than "infinite", to hopefully avoid that misunderstanding....

Yes, I would say that there must be some awareness, which means some sensory structure, in order to qualify as having volition, and hence experience. ...