Janus

You are displaying an obstinate refusal to understand the actual claims made by some forms of idealism. What would be the point of debating someone wh...

One might have an intuitive feel for identifying true wisdom without possessing it oneself, just as one might intuitively recognize great music, art o...

I made a similar point above but...surprise, surprise!...it remains unaddressed.

Sure, but that's not the same as being able to make true statements about the unobservable aspects of what gives rise to the appearance of the tree.

Easy, just posit a universal mind or consciousness. :up: I am neither an idealist nor a materialist, but I object when proponents of one or the other ...

It seems we can talk meaningfully about the ideas that come to us when we try to imagine what the world might be like in itself. I would just say that...

We all knows what 'causal' means in the ordinary sense. Same with 'mechanical'. The meaning of both just consists in one thing acting on another to br...

For me what you say invokes another layer, another wrinkle in the fabric.When we ask for correspondence between language and world, are we asking for ...

It seems to me that the issue regarding how words refer and mean is troubled by a necessarily doomed search for a causal or mechanical explanation, fo...

"The world" is nothing more than the idea of what our individual images and ideas of a world seem to have in common; it is a collective representation...

No, it's just a piss-poor analogy.

The real word document is the one we can read; the icon is merely a shortcut,

Why? In order to create the illusion of knowing what is behind appearances?

If I read you right you seem to be referring to internalized ideas.

Yes, I think this is part of the deal of being human.

I think the salient point is not that the rock as appearance is not real, but that we have no idea what is behind appearances. Even the world understo...

I think all our thinking is in dualsitic terms, and, inter alia, in terms of subject/object, substance/mode and so on. Even "being in the world" is du...

The fear of death may take several forms. I might feel an existential dread at the thought of annihilation, just because it cannot compute in the cont...

I missed this response previously. I draw a distinction between feeling certain and being certain. We can feel certain about many things, and be mista...

Are you referring to significant places or objects that may evoke strong associations and potent meanings due to their having being integral to import...

For me it seems more plausible that there would be a pre-linguistic bodily-based sense of inner and outer. Of course I cannot demonstrate that with em...

There must be something prior to the spoken words themselves that enables coherent utterances; some pre-linguistic image or sense, since the words the...

I think non-linguistic thinking is much more than a mere "footnote". Well, if you do decide to start a thread on that I'll be interested. :up: I don't...

Intriguing!

:up: An interesting quote from Wittgenstein; not quite sure what the implications there are. It's not clear to me what you are saying here. My point w...

My seeing is all images. Are photographs images or is my seeing the photograph an image? What are my seeings images of?

So, the question is whether Heidegger is thinking of "persisting presence" in a phenomenological sense, that is that with the present-at-hand experien...

Is it all just opinion? Maybe, since most philosophical assertions cannot be empirically tested. My own experience of thinking seems to show me that t...

All I get from this assertion is a desire to say "speak for yourself".

I think it's more a case of disagreement over how to get there than disagreement over what they mean. I agree that people will defend what they have a...

That's a thought I would not ordinarily associate with Heidegger. I would have thought we encounter persistence with the present at hand...we can star...

Interesting, that's a different slant again: I was thinking more of the idea that all moments exist eternally and that there is no privileged present ...

I'm familiar with (to the extent I've had the patience to read) Derrida. I'm much more familiar with Heidegger, but that is presenting a different sla...

Present to who, though? Wouldn't it be more accurate to say being has mostly been thought as persisting existence or simply persistence, rather than p...

That's interesting; I know not much about Aboriginal spirituality. :up:

Leaving aside the notions of knowledge as acquaintance and know-how. the idea of knowledge implies certainty, even if common usage sometimes contradic...

I agree with the idea that there are different notions of progress, but wouldn't social justice and universal prosperity (and the other benefits that ...

From some ethical and aesthetical perspectives, there is certainly something ugly, something degraded, about capitalism and the priveleging of the pro...

True, (except for the fact that we can dispute with ourselves). Yep, it's most important to exercise that metaphysical imagination, and also to feel t...

Right, the logical distinction that is being lost, or ignored, is that between 'reality in itself' and 'reality for us'. We can only ever know the lat...

Where is that quoted from? Yes, the antinomies are intrinsically aporetic; and I think that is so on account of the way space and time are visualized....

If all humans could access the Mindscape, would it qualify as a "private world"?

Yes, nice point, what we count as evidence for beliefs is always based on presuppositions as to what should count. If beliefs change while presupposit...

Hoho, yes it's better to take it in a jolly and generous spirit as fun, of course. It can be, but I just lose my patience sometimes...which is admitte...

It's not a matter of being deceived, but of being under-informed, and of acknowledging the limited scope of what we do know.

I'd suggest giving up on Banno; he does not discuss in good faith, is only concerned about winning the argument, or protecting his naive, simplistic v...

Exactly, just as the idea of the tree-in-itself makes no ontological claims other than that our perception of a tree does not exhaust its nature or sh...

All you are doing here is stipulating a particular way of talking about things. As you say we theorize that there is something, some configuration of ...

An activity of the human organism may be caused by previous activities of the human organism (endogenous events), and may or may not also be caused by...

When you say this: "and caused by a single entity: the human organism" you are saying the activities of the human organism are caused by the human org...