Janus

I think you have it exactly backwards. On cursory examination two stones or sticks may appear to be of equal length, shape or size, but on closer exam...

@"Darkneos" seems to be trading on the ambiguity of the term 'knowledge', What he said makes no sense if you consider knowledge as being JTB, but if y...

That's just a fancy way of saying that language and culture influence to some degree the way we see things. I have never disputed that. Dispassionate ...

Because he moves in mysterious ways or in other words "he just fuck'n does, right"!. :wink:

Such an analysis is a matter for phenomenology or epistemology. Those structures and worldviews do not make intelligibility possible; on the contrary ...

:100: Nicely and succinctly said.

Yes, of course I acknowledge the social dimension of art, the history of art; 'art' here denoting all the arts. Where art differs from mountain climbi...

I like to walk up mountains and talk philosophy with friends too. I agree, I'd say that, primordially, it's fear of the unknown and the incomprehensib...

If you have a particular goal in mind that will constrain your thinking, narrow it down. The semiotic modeling relation would be one conceptual constr...

Fair enough, I was thinking more along the lines of mathematical understanding itself being a directly motivating influence . Right, but there are dif...

Oh, right, I have a couple of his books, which I've only dipped into. It was the "Nobby" which threw me. Right, there is nothing rational about the ra...

:up: Yes, what could be the point of a philosophy which could not change the way we feel about life, even change the way we live? Let a philosophy be ...

It sounds like we have had quite similar love experiences in our youth. And yes, being hopelessly in love with a woman who was hopelessly in love with...

I am not familiar with Nobby Brown. It seems humans have long entertained ideas of perpetual life. There is no logical contradiction in the idea, but ...

Right, there is not one true image of philosophy. Personally, I favour the idea of it, not as a search for truth or correctness of locution, but as a ...

Yes, the ancient idea of passion was actually related to passivity, to being helplessly affected. The more modern idea is to love whatever is your cal...

Spiritual projects tend to be trying to short circuit mere thought. I'm all for that, but it is a different conception of philosophy—"philosophy as a ...

Right, you often refer to the importance of metaphor, and I think it is the "softness" and "flexibility of metaphor which enables the communication of...

The deepest aspect of this problem being that our language is Cartesian through and through, our thinking utterly suffused with dualism. :up: Yes, non...

it is true that some find their lives so intolerable that they run to the gallows. I'd say it is more precisely attachment to things which makes them ...

This is right on the mark...it is not uncommon for people to be unable to conceive that someone could rationally disagree with the ideas that they thi...

What book? Does that sentence convey any actuality? If so, how would that not qualify as its having pictured a state of affairs? Did the book in quest...

If I say "go and get the car out of the garage" you know what I mean. That instruction calls up a picture of opening the garage, starting the car and ...

The flip-side of that is that there is a sense in which all claims are implicitly realist. How can language mirror reality? Only if the reality it mir...

It has been my observation that people generally only toy around with pessimism and indulge in gallows humour when they are not actually facing the ga...

'Progress' is an ambiguous term, usually carrying the idea of improvement. So, yeah, of course there has been a progression of philosophical ideas. An...

For some.

I think it's likely a problem of complexity. Maths and science have cutting edges in ways philosophy really doesn't. Philosophy on the whole is a much...

It is also the approach Heidegger offers, and in much more detail than Wittgenstein. That said, Heidegger himself later came to think that the attempt...

I find nothing at all to disagree with in what you say here. I think we are always going to simplify things, even egregiously so, when we attempt to p...

I don't hold a low opinion of phenomenology, as you apparently do, so I accept that we can reflect on experience or perception and identify its inhere...

:up: Nicely put! I do see Kant as being, essentially, a phenomenologist.

:up: It's fine to disagree, but I should note that I don't favour either way of framing it. I think it is an inherent aporia and I am comfortable with...

Are we obliged to accept every aspect of a philosopher's work or worldview? We can't think for ourselves? Some are ahead of the times and others behin...

I would say that both ways of framing it are consistent with common usages. How do we establish which is correct? Whatever way we choose, I think it r...

All of this is very hard, perhaps impossible, to talk about consistently and coherently. Our senses are affected, and we perceive things which we refe...

:up:

This is something we agree about. Discourse, or narrative, rules only in the arcane world of philosophy. Use, or doing, is the source of all narrative...

Perhaps you are one of those who thinks the world is his oyster. We experience parts of what we think of as the world and parts of what we think of as...

You are attacking a strawman: I said we don't actually experience a world; I didn't say we don't actually experience oysters.

It seems we agree, apart from perhaps this: Yes, but I'd argue that such frameworks are inferentially synthesized by animals, including humans, from o...

Yes, I don't see why not. Yes, exactly...limited beings that we are... :fire:

I don't think it's a silly question at all. Since Kant posited things in themselves, I don't see why he could not equally posit space and time in them...

Yes, I think Kant does say that knowledge begins with experience, but that not all knowledge is dependent on experience. As with the example I gave co...

As I understand it Kant believed that we can know some things via pure reason. He called this kind of knowledge "synthetic a priori". But this knowled...

I think the shared world is the more discursively fundamental, because once you have the language to discourse you have already been inducted into the...

I, and as far as I understand it, Kant agree that the nature of the noumenal cannot be grasped. I keep saying that. for me, even the nature of our act...

Are you talking about philosophical types or just humans generally? I can see the point of not breeding, particularly now the way the world looks like...

I wouldn't say it is a hypothetical construction; it is rather a logical entailment; if we can all agree on the minutest details about objects, then i...

Thanks for your reply, Astrophel. Your thinking goes off on so many tangents that I am at a loss as to what to address in what you've said. So, to kee...