apokrisis

Sure. Oral traditions are thus dependent on the kind of narrative structure that human brains are adept at remembering. Reality has to get turned into...

Nope. I covered that. Speech acts are always performative - they involve pragmatics. But speech acts also need semantic intent constrained by grammati...

If you want to sharpen the definition of how something might be good, it helps to be clear in what sense or context it is bad. The general modern conn...

I think that rhetoric does just boil down to that ancient emphasis on oratory as a practical life skill - the social art of speaking persuasively. The...

So you have no idea if you would classify cities or the weather as physical phenomena? Sounds legit.

I don't think much hinges on the distinction if rhetoric is a social art of persuading an audience towards an already held opinion rather than a Socra...

If that were all that you claimed, there would be far less to discuss. That counts as the bleeding obvious. OK, you make it clear your concern is limi...

Do you accept them all as physical? Or even just the four listed after cognition?

So if you are the smart rational one with the correct opinion, it is fine to use any means necessary to carry the less clever crowd? Do you really wan...

Sure. The traditional meaning of rhetoric was about oratorical skill - persuasive public speaking. So it was about pragmatics - presentation - rather ...

Rhetoric would be logic misapplied in the sense that it is argumentation intended to bypass objective empirical validation and instead plug directly i...

I’ve explained why it is a poor question. But.... 1) cognition 2) traffic 3) cities 4) weather 5) ecosystems

Hah. It would look like a pattern - a pattern of entropy dissipation - of course. Everything physical looks more like a process, a "mindful" flow, if ...

The thoughts are causal. The productive interaction is what physically exists as "a self". You simply ask an incoherent question if your notion of phy...

But that is not what I said. I said the mind is an informational model of the entropic world. It is a pattern that exists to the degree it can regulat...

If the engine is running, but the gearstick is in neutral, is it a puzzle the car is not going anywhere? Consciousness isn't something separate from t...

And yet this is the kind of confused nonsense you feel is some kind of sharp reply. How could this caricature apply to a totalising that is all about ...

Sure. But here you need to show how that applies to what I actually do, not some mechanical caricature of that. You really believe your own bullshit d...

You don’t get it then. I will repeat. It is by “avoiding surprise” that one is sharpened to discover the greatest surprise. If your complaint about to...

Note how you then launch into a long defence of the subjectivist life as the unalienated and colourful alternative. Who would not choose that over the...

It seems easy to credit animals with inductive reason and hard to credit them with deductive reason. The brain is set up to form general rules from pa...

But hidden variables have been experimentally ruled out. If it is epistemic, you are left with a truly pathological metaphysics like MWI as your only ...

The problem for the US is that it starts with so many embedded geopolitical advantages that it is almost impossible to sink. It thus lacks the incenti...

So is the vagueness of a quantum potential ontological or epistemic? Do you believe nature is counterfactual all the way down despite the evidence?

That’s OK. I was just confused trying to figure the relevance.

Animals can think in the sense they are conscious and can respond intelligently to situations. But the OP was about the evolution of logic. And my poi...

Pragmatism simply bypasses Descartes with a wry smile and no backward glance. The ability to doubt is what it uses to justify belief.

That’s pragmatism for you. If your thought experiment specifies that there is no possible evidence that could make a difference then that is what you ...

For all practical purposes.

Why guess. Parse what I wrote and find out. I thought I said it didn’t imply that. Are you now claiming the physical consequences are identical? Maybe...

William James is a dirty word to the true pragmatist. Peirce was so offended by his disciple that he had to relabel the original as pragmaticism. :rof...

Are you agreeing with me?

So what was the point you hoped to make? How does it relate to the physics of a Big Bang universe? Break it down for me so that I might understand. Gi...

Recall my previous reply which says it is correct to think that the brain's experience of reality is "just an information processing model". So sure. ...

Start by telling me what isn't different. I'm not sure how you think anything is the same. Besides, the moon landing was faked. It was all shot on a H...

Yes. But what if this non-linear sensitivity is being regulated by a parameter that is a reciprocal relation such as y=1/x? And so yx = 1? A tiny tip ...

Interestingly, we - as complexity - arise bang in the middle of the spatiotemporal story of the Cosmos. Looking down, it is 33 orders of magnitude to ...

That's it. The trick then is to see how both sides of the dichotomy are equally "good" as each is the creator - the definer - of the other. We don't w...

Yep. That's the trick. You are against such totalising, even when it is a well proven success. You try to dismiss it as "pragmatic", as if being usefu...

Dichotomies are the limits to continuums. So they are necessary as the division that provides then the mediating spectrum - the actual world of concre...

That's exactly what I spent my three month lockdown sabbatical on - researching a defence of Hegelian history! Yada, yada. If you don't like the idea ...

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An alternative to size is complexity. What counts as the most complex thing in a generally very simple Universe? Pound for pound, centimetre for centi...

The current approach in cosmology and particle physics would be to see any global regularity in terms of emergent constraints. That is why symmetry an...

It is partly that. But more generally there is a lack of the necessary “top-downness” in neural control from those highest cortical areas. The brain i...

Things are pretty relaxed on that score - at least as the price of entry. But philosophy is a dialectical contest. So if you say something easy to bas...

That's just what they called the introductory epistemology class back when I was little. Hume, Berkeley, Descartes, Kant. The usual crew.

Uh huh. Or around these parts, question everything and believe nothing. :smile: That is certainly Epistemology 101.

Does nature offer counter-examples? What are they?

All possibilities are binaries if they are to be clear and not vague. To take a direction, you have to be moving away from whatever is its counterfact...