This is a wicked distortion. I have never denied, but on the contrary have explicitly acknowledged, that arbitrary semantic meanings can be assigned t...
(Y) I haven't read that much of N?g?rjuna, but I can remember being impressed at how meticulously he strove to formulate what cannot be formulated, wh...
God is always and everywhere defined as the necessary being. The five proofs are meant, in their different ways, to show that there must be necessary ...
No. you are simply conflating mathematical and semantic meanings. Whether X represents the number of times you went to the shop, cleaned your teeth, f...
The whole point of defining something like that as 'X' is to facilitate calculating it in cases where you don't know what it is, but you do know other...
The relationship between X and what it represents (some unknown quantity or other) in algebra is anything but arbitrary. If it was arbitrary we would ...
(1) Semantic meaning is inherent to any "meaning of life", at least insofar as we can speak about it. (2) we are enculturated into worlds, into life, ...
It's pretty obvious. In the process of growing up, of becoming enculturated, you introject the shared meanings of your culture. If you want to deny th...
You can stipulate any arbitrary eccentric meaning you like for any word you want to, as in your example; but your stipulation, if it is to be understo...
I don't take 'objective' to be synonymous with 'inherent'. The world has no objective meaning because their is no coherent conception of objective mea...
Then why are we discussing it rather than something else? Well you have demonstrated that it doesn't take a great deal of imagination to construct a s...
Yes, but I don't see how it can be claimed that sticking to your principles would be either more or less likely to bring worldly success. It all depen...
Losing due to sticking to one's principles I agree is better than winning by being crooked, but I would call that 'spiritual success' not 'worldly suc...
OK, but my point is that one should ideally not be at all concerned, in such spiritual or creative endeavours, with the the regard of others, or succe...
You say that sooner or later recognition will come, but I wonder to what degree luck may play a part. Let's say you are a great artist and you produce...
I think that's still mighty vague on a very broad spectrum, and on that account there would not be many people counted as failures. Not that many peop...
The body can be known as an object of experience, but not as a subject of experience: is that basically what you are saying? The body can be inferred ...
Fyodor Pavlovitch can certainly be seen as an archetypal despicable intruder and ruiner. A man who has so little regard for anything but his own whims...
I agree with what you say about authenticity; that it may take the form of emulating, but not slavishly imitating, a hero. To be a valid expression of...
No worries. My referring to it as "chest-beating bullshit" was probably just an example of my unfortunate tendency to be provocative; which is amply j...
You use the phrase "fail in the world". I want to know exactly what you mean by that. If you don't want to tell me, then fine; that's the end of the c...
It's interesting you should say that, I searched the book on Amazon earlier and found this in the lone review of it: "It is written with a more unrest...
Yes, but is the being of a being something separate from, or independent of, the being? Could the being of a being itself be independently of the bein...
You've reminded of some interesting elements of Hegel's dialectic here. I particularly like the idea of "self-relating nothingness" which I think ties...
I have read Slavery and Freedom , Spirit and Reality and am reading Freedom and the Spirit Yes, the story is generally conceived as having a definite ...
It seems we are talking about different things. I am saying that any form, any general configuration of structure, so to speak, can be represented vis...
That's an interesting take on it, and I feel I do have something of a grasp on what you are getting at, although I am not very far into the book yet. ...
Ah, now that's a book I haven't yet read, but want to, since I am very much involved in the arts and I really resonate with Berdyaev's philosophy. I a...
Some initial questions that spring to mind: Is the totality of being the totality of beings, or something else besides? Is the being of anything somet...
The perfect form is just the idealized form, which is the same as the general form. Not just maple leaves have stems and veins. Another kind of leaf m...
In your category of "someone" do you include God? Apart from that consideration; did undiscovered textual artifacts stand for or refer to anything dur...
Do you think the idea of freedom as primary is compatible with a theologically evolutionary view of spirit, though? Barfield and de Chardin I think, b...
Yes, but isn't the real problem that of how to escape oppression and achieve freedom? I think to do that freedom must be presupposed as primary. So, t...
Yes, I certainly agree that in one sense general forms are logically prior to particular forms. But from the point of view of the actual development o...
Yes, there can certainly be many representations of a general form and all of them are only ever more or less adequate. My argument with MU was actual...
Reason to hold positions are always underpinned by presuppositions, and there are no unbiased presuppositions. People usually have great difficulty in...
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