But I would have thought you would agree that TGW has been peddling the shit sandwich here. The Vygotskian view is that it is indeed correct that intr...
Maybe what's weird is these kinds of mechanical accounts of mentality - hunger or whatever as bare qualia. If you are forever constructing local obser...
Well self-evident is always going to be a suspect claim. But anyway, are bounds not self-evidently continuous? So if there are (discrete) objects, the...
In fact MU points to problems for the position you want to promote. Do we eat because we are hungry, because it is a habit, or because eating is pleas...
This is an issue which doesn't get enough attention. Science has searched pretty hard for the material basis of being and what has it found? Matter is...
No. That's why I said sceptics could also be insincere about their apparent objectivity. So what I am talking about is the difficult thing of what it ...
What if I feel hungry for something - like something sweet rather than savoury? We can be satiated on steak and yet still discover an appetite for cho...
What I have in mind is the assumption that you can just pick out individuals and throw them into different contexts freely. But what if that identity ...
No worries on that score. I didn't take it that way because you are a very positive guy. Also, rudeness is part of the fun. It's all a game in the end...
Obviously the Pragmatic "we" - the community of minds that is the limit to rational inquiry (see Peirce). So yes, I already believe in that "we" and a...
I get the need to caricature me as the dry-as-dust reductionist scientist to legitimate the otherness that would be your heroic and liberated, yet sti...
I know what you mean. But the rub is in how you now define "sensible" in a fashion that is not how I'm defining it. If there is no empirical way of te...
It's up to TGW to make sense of that claim. My point is that in talking about "chemistry", he is misdirecting us from the formal cause to the material...
It is one thing to get involved in a social practice in a way that produces an experiential state of social value. It is another to then analyse that ...
That's right. Once you have axioms, you are good to go with the deductions. It all unfolds mechanically in a predestined fashion. But what is the meta...
Yep. Ghostly spirits. The essences that Newtonian mechanicalism so clearly leaves out. Now of course Romanticism was also a retreat into vagueness abo...
Set theory probably has the problem that it builds in the distinction SX hopes to derive. It's weakness is that its brackets that bound possibility ar...
The problem here would be that you simply set up an alternative dualism - the one of self and qualia instead of that of self and world. And so the pro...
If you could demonstrate that you understood it, your rejection would be a lot more convincing. Don't forget that I've always said biosemiosis is defi...
We weren't exactly expecting quantum indeterminism, but science found that. Just like science found Newtonian determinism and Boylean atoms 500 years ...
Why do you say "cannot" as if a no-go theorem applied. ;) But I'm not really saying that the truths of maths or logic can only be articulated in an ab...
Why can't we apply rational argument in the way that I have done to arrive at some image of the unsayable and unthinkable? I agree following that path...
Either way, the point is that they are the development of a more abstracted level of language. And increased precision doesn't have to mean a lesser s...
Perhaps you could restate what exactly it might be that you are keen to discuss. Seems like you are channeling Banno at the moment. :) What I am getti...
So basically you want to use words not maths. And my point is that there is a reason why maths is where we arrive. Logic is itself a branch of maths i...
The answer is the same as before. When we are talking about the ontology of a modelling system, we have two realms in play - the material and the symb...
Weird. The definition of vagueness is that it is the "not yet digitised". Vagueness is that state of affairs to which the principle of non-contradicti...
I still don't get you. All I said was that we can surely have representations of randomness. When I look at TV snow, my interpretation is that I'm sta...
Well if all this is a mistake, what is your alternative? Can you even define your epistemic method here? The Peircean model of scientific reason says ...
Hoo is right. Even noise has form. Any model of randomness still depends on identifiable boundary conditions. So noise comes in many colours - https:/...
You are merely choosing to highlight the bit I already agree with in general fashion. From a biosemiotic viewpoint, that states the obvious. But what ...
I'm not sure what you think I'm arguing here. It has been my point that we impose our frameworks of intelligibility on the world. But then a dialectic...
The critical issue here seems not about having a capacity for violence but creating collective ownership of that capacity. And the right framework for...
I can agree with Wilden. It is when you start pulling in Deleuze and "aesthetics" and other such baggage that it loses analytic clarity and becomes a ...
I didn't say the analog equates to the vague, so your reply is mostly off the point. I said to call the thing-in-itself anything is to take a theoreti...
I agree that analog~digital is probably not a proper dichotomy. They are terms that arose early on in the development of signalling technology. And so...
Well quantum theory says reality is fundamentally uncertain - so fundamentally vague. The discrete and the continuous would then be emergent in being ...
That's right. But then there is still the issue of how they can be imposed on the world - the issue of human measurement. And then - where this gets r...
The semiotic relation is triadic. And this insertion of an extra step - an epistemic cut - is what gets you past this kind of problem. So the analog t...
Questions about individuation and flourishing have an obvious logical basis in common wouldn't you say? And flourishing is a pretty practical issue to...
Except biologists themselves would say it is physics regulated by something further - symbols or information. The two are of course related in some fa...
Sorry but modal logic bypasses the essential issue of individuation. It treats possibility as countable variety and not indeterminate potential, from ...
This is important. Imagine how actually useful modern metaphysics would be if it were generally focused on the central question of individuation rathe...
But isn't what really happened that Newton made a successful simplifying generalisation? So for a start, technically, it was an induction rather than ...
That is a common misconception - that the Big Bang starts from some particular point of spacetime and then expands to fill the whole of that spacetime...
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