If a difference doesn't make a difference, is it really a difference? The Laws of Thought are framed for dealing with actual differences - differences...
I defined indirect in saying that we see signs and not facts. I defined indirect as a triadic interpretive process rather than a dyadic observational ...
It doesn't matter much that Peirce was a believer of some kind any more that it does Newton, Darwin and Einstein were. As to exactly what kind of thei...
That seems the likely story. But Porat is still listing it as part of his investment portolio. So all part of some grander clickbait marketing strateg...
As I've just posted, I don't find it possible to literally "not think about anything". And neuroscience explains why that would be the case. When we s...
Yeah. There is no escape from it. And the question is why would one even want to escape from it? If you do Zen, you will know that you can't actually ...
But that is what I am saying. That is what makes knowledge indirect. We don't see the world directly - which would be a simple dyadic relation of self...
But the linguistic framing begins when we are infants and becomes an engrained habit. So this is not about what you report to me using words. It is th...
And I want to acknowledge that the Hard Problem has something to it, while also deflating it as much as possible. The way it is usually presented is m...
Surely the debate is normally over which it is, not that it is both? Generally I take the distinction to mean that the causes of being are either full...
As usual, you missed the fact you also had to mention the "you" that has "the experience". Yep. The cognition does have to come from somewhere. The "y...
Yep. You can conceive of no middle ground between absolutism and relativism. And so - forced to make your choice - you side with absolutism. One can c...
Well that's true. Except you are talking only of simple anti-symmetry here, not the proper asymmetry of a reciprocal or inverse relation. So higher an...
Laughable. Sure, interpretation must be rooted in physical marks. Something must defy physics, defy the usual fundamental process of entropification a...
That's what I'm saying. Exactly. I always agree that there is this kind of Hard Problem issue. But then my position is that this boils down to an issu...
It's dichotomisic rather than dualistic. Yes. My point is that what is primal is the process of "separating out" (that being "apokrisis" :) ) We are b...
You mean judged by someone to be true or false about something. If a statement isn’t subject to an interpretation, it is just some trail of noise or s...
But my argument is that the very fact we can start to deconstruct the social construction is telling. We find ourselves having to step outside ourselv...
Yep. Thompson was on to what has become the evo-devo point of view. Nature has self organising dissipative structure. So biosemiosis has pansemiosis t...
Is this what you really felt or what you’ve talked yourself into feeling as a way to feel better? Honestly now. If you were to explore your most immed...
It must be hard for you to talk about differences in pressure or temperature when you don’t even believe in macrostate descriptions. Oh the tainted sa...
But are you agreeing there is more to truth than a world of real facts? That was the important point I wanted to make. Yes, there is a reality out the...
So this is another thing I've regularly repeated. Biology can internalise that kind of information. That is what the epistemic cut permits. The Cosmos...
Right then. The thermodynamic imperative is not pointing towards anything particularly grand. Just a Cosmic heat death. So it represents the constrain...
It's an important topic. As usual, I would argue that the notion of "objective truth" itself is a non-starter. We can't combat post-truth simply by sa...
The mathematical forms were a pretty convincing motivation for positing a concrete realm of abstracta. Philosophy began with the realisation that the ...
Metaphysics and phenomenology couldn't be more connected. Epistemology doesn't get going until we accept that we find ourselves already thrust into th...
Hmm. I thought you were referring to a realm of meaning, value, wisdom and consciousness rather than a realm of mathematical abstracta. I'd say that P...
Sure. The regulation of instability is something I've started to focus on because of the recent discoveries in biophysics. It is actually quite revolu...
I asked about this "higher plane of being". You've said a lot but nothing that counts as an explanation. What is it? How is it? What is it? Where is i...
History locks them in. When a wavefunction collapses, an event has now happened in some spatiotemporal location with a definite energy. By the same to...
But his hylomorphism led towards both a prime mover and prime matter. So there was some ultimate form/purpose (like the global shaping hand of circula...
I didn't say it had to be a recognised science. I was arguing that Western philosophy actually does employ "the scientific method of reasoning". This ...
I'm not seeing this as a good summary of some Aristotelian position - scholastically revisionist, or otherwise. This smashes together a whole bunch of...
If you want to claim that the higher plane of being is an ontological foundation to being, you will need to show how that isn't just a hollow formula ...
Yes. We can eliminate theories that are "not even wrong". If some formula of words makes no observable difference, then it is an empty and meaningless...
Well which do you want to say it is? My position is that the relating creates the division into knower and known. So I don't in fact claim there to be...
So where you are fudging things is talking about "the knowledge" and not "the knower". You concede my point about the relating, but seek to reify "the...
That misrepresents me. Quantification is the third step following the abductive formation of a hypothesis and the deductive formation of a general the...
I agree about Kant, but... ...seems too strong. I think this is because knowledge and perception are already such loaded words. Knowledge suggests dir...
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