Janus

I disagree with this definition of definition, or at least I don't agree that it is the one correct definition or that there are correct definitions a...

I see the basic driving idea in conservatism to be the preservation of the existing power and class structures, with which the economic status quo goe...

I agree with this. At a basic level experiences are not mediated by beliefs. But there are plenty toady who disagree and claim that perceptions themse...

Yes, it's an odd situation. If we want to say there is something unknowable we seem to be commit to saying it is real, and yet the term 'real' finds i...

You misunderstood...I was going away and I wasn't trying to start a fight...just needling you a little...but thanks for the somewhat disturbing snapsh...

Saying the whole is not knowable seems to imply that there is that which is unknowable. If there were that which is unknowable, would it follow that i...

Do you think what is real to us is the whole of what is real? Invokes or evokes? I'm guessing you think counting life as a mystery, as opposed to mere...

So just to be clear you think that what appears real to us is (necessarily the whole of) what is real per se? Yes, the idea that life is absurd, at le...

:rofl: Now that's funny...or at least a little funnier than "Run along. You are boring"...! It seems you are starting to develop a sense of humour...

:up: No worries cuntstable; it's all just language games, after all...until it isn't...

I'm not disagreeing with myself. The only rational norm worth holding to is consistency and then only when the concern is with logic. “A foolish consi...

I don't think what I think you are looking for will be found via any discursive investigation. It is obvious there is no perfect communication and tha...

Most of us, by all reports, feel, so those of us who do all know firsthand what it means to feel, even if it might be hard to define. It's also true t...

The idea that our perceptions of the any colour are likely similar (leaving aside that some people are colour-blind) is based not only on questions we...

Yes it does: introspection is understood to be 'seeing into' the body/mind in order to notice what bodily feelings or thoughts seem to be present. It'...

Do you doubt that what appears real to us, what can appear real to us, is not (or at least not necessarily or not the whole of) what is real per se? O...

The empirical world is a Cartesian framework, if by that you mean dualistic through and through. On the other hand the immediacy of experience is not ...

:up: A whole day under the sun includes the brightest and the darkest hours.

Programming or designing is an intentional act, so I don't think the analogy holds. I'll beleive an AI is conscious when I see it write poetry that is...

Do the flowers I find in decline come before or after the death? Or both maybe, although I won't be there to find the latter.

In my view 'orange' doesn't refer to a quale, but to a kind of experience or perception. It's not a precise term, which is obvious if you look at a co...

I agree that language shows us the world; since the world is a linguistically generated collective representation in my view. This is not to say that ...

Ah, "pharmakon" is close to my heart, since I love psychedelics. (although they are mostly not poisonous except perhaps in massive doses). I seemed to...

True, we can do that. If we didn't know a language and found ourselves stuck among its speakers with no one to teach us, we might have to learn that w...

You may be right that I'm not getting what's there. But then given the idea that there are no priveleged interpretations, it's possible that you are c...

The view from everywhere is not the same as the view from nowhere, but is the view from nowhere in particular. The view from everywhere is achievable ...

I think I get what you're saying. What I was alluding to was something a little different: that we encounter number on account of pattern, difference,...

Right, I'd say the meanings of words are not "anchored" in anything other than the fact that individuals associate them (as sounds or marks) with item...

I agree that we are metaphorical creatures and that is precisely why I would say meaning can indeed be divorced from use. Numbers as metaphors for obj...

Your word-craft is not in question, but if you want to make claims fine phrases don't make the cut, you need fine arguments. However, if you don't wan...

Allusions to famous philosopher's arguments in lieu of laying them out in your own words (which I haven't seen but if there are such layings-out, then...

Still no argument; just another bad analogy.

It is empirically demonstrable that the Earth is not flat. You keep saying that the idea that meaning can be divorced from use is like believing in a ...

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That's true; the identity of a tree is no more nor less shaky than my own identity.

Do I take ideas seriously? Yes and no. How could I? Take ideas seriously? I don't know whether I do or not, or sometimes I do and sometimes I don't, s...

How is the ordinary communication of inner experience being "made absolute"? Inner experience is anything but absolute, if by absolute you mean 'in it...

I don't know what you mean by "logical sloppiness". I think all language is vague, but we manage more or less well to communicate our inner states reg...

I have read Austin years ago. He seems to convince himself that he has it all commonsensically figured out and that it is misuse of language and only ...

I agree; it is weird that people seem to be able to convince themselves on some imagined "objective" basis, that their inner experience is illusory. I...

We seem to be talking about different things. I agree that language probably initially emerged in ostensive contexts, naming things, giving commands, ...

Doesn't Wittgenstein advise of the bewitchments that come with language going on holiday? I would say our "mentalistic" language of private experience...

The only philosophy that is "useful" is the philosophy that provides us with ideas that we can put into practice in order to live better, or ideas whi...

Thanks, I'd be interested to read that Rorty essay. I've never really explored Rorty, I have had a copy of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature on my s...

I know my "box' contains something, and I assume that you know yours does, even though I cannot know that for sure. So, there is private experience, a...

Perhaps we all know how subjective conscious states feel because we all have them. If you had no subjective conscious states you would not know how th...

For me the challenge would be to find joy in decline; it's a different kind of experience after all. I don't set so much store in mental faculties. I'...

So, something like Heidegger's "resoluteness"? I won't be willing to die until I've already dropped from the tree and become so dried up and shriveled...

Right, the mystical is beyond all explanation, whether beneath or above. I don't understand what that sentence means. I think we can imagine that the ...

1, This is just a definitional stipulation. 2. There is a presumption here that nature is well understood, through and through. We have a comprehensiv...