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But the positive claim here would be that you can't have "a nation state" unless there is some identity that indeed characterises that nation as being...

Is it logical, or even factual, that any nation doesn't have a concern for its identity? Every country wants to tell some story about who it is and wh...

So if we zero in on this, what would be the democratic ideal then? I'm not familiar with your definition of "public shared space". But I take it to be...

The problem would seem to be the internet. The new shared public space without a stabilising "memory" to fix some sort of useful social goal in mind. ...

Sure. I take it as basic to social structure that there is always a tension between the individual and the collective, the competitive and the co-oper...

This is an interesting point. But aren't churches different because they express the other side of the coin rather strongly - the push for identity-su...

The whole feral child literature is a minefield of romanticisation. The writer, Maxim Gorky, described meeting Keller in less glowing terms: " made an...

I'd mention that Keller didn't lose her hearing and sight until she was two. So she started off with a normal development. She also had a family langu...

So your own cite says the difference was like night and day. And yet you want to shrug your shoulders and say there's no big deal. Language is just a ...

So are you saying animals aren’t conscious then? You can’t have it both ways. But it is his post linguistic past which he refers to in that video segm...

I've shown that language ain't "just a tool" as you claim. If we are looking for something that explains the mental chasm between social animal and en...

I can see you are emotionally attached to your dismissive position. But think about it. Genes, neurons, words (and numbers) are all examples of someth...

But I wasn't trying to dissolve the distinction necessarily. I was responding by trying to make the best sense of it in my lights. So what I reacted t...

Yeah. Anything to avoid admitting we need to do metaphysics when using metaphysical terms in our good old "everyday".

So a pair of technical terms are developed within metaphysical discourse. And instead of applying dichotomous rigour to clarify the intelligible basis...

But are you looking for some everyday meaning - when everyday meanings are never sharply demarcated anyway? Or are you seeking a well-founded philosop...

He can say that now .... retrospectively. Equipped with a language that is suitably tensed. And the surprising thing about his reply was how indescrib...

If you are talking as if there really is a fundamental division between the mental and the real, the self and the world, the subjective and the object...

I see a conflict if you want to both use dualistic terminology and yet claim that you might as well just be talking physicalism. This is what leads to...

Yeah. To speak of “mind” is to slip into a substance ontology. It treats the mental as some kind of dualistic realm or stuff. I would take a process o...

So is the issue that there are claims we might make about the state of the world and claims we might make about the state of our mind, and it is alway...

The thesis I'm defending is that we can grant consciousness to neurology. And that involves a fundamental self~world distinction. However humans have ...

Sure. Socratic philosophy secured the modern Western cultural image of what it is to be a self-actualising individual. The culture of human selfhood h...

Yep. That is what I would mean by calling it a habit that is formed. It becomes routine or automatic. The relationship is maximally meaningful in beco...

But meaning is attributed because there is a sign relation involved. The gardener sees "dirt" as a sign that there is a place where some plants can be...

Not so. The claim would be that it is sharing the same culture which results in sharing the same style of selfhood. Language in a general fashion allo...

Fine. Be as agnostic as you like. Meanwhile the field of quantum interpretation moves on. The current trend towards quantum information approaches mak...

OK. But I am talking physicalism. There is no room for a Platonic world where forms exist as universals. Universality would be what emerges from the i...

Don't be obtuse. I said it was a balance. The ideal balance is a win/win. And to justify your Pessimism, you are always trying to construct a world th...

I told you how it was answering. I pointed out that the morality would concern the balance of two contrasting impulses, both entirely natural. I gave ...

I pointed out that the morality would concern the balance of two contrasting impulses, both entirely natural. I gave you a second scenario to make tha...

It might be a problem for predicate logic. But that already presumes the existence of definite particulars as part of its axiomatisation. That is what...

Diddums.

In the end, that is what I would be saying too. In the "beginning" - before some kind of ordered notion of time or action exists - there would just be...

I would say morality is aimed precisely at the issue of how we make those kinds of social trade-offs as social creatures. The social system is founded...

And what do you think happens to that in the case of a system of entangled particles? So you want to wind physics all the way back to absolute Newtoni...

Structuralists would take an expanded view of physicalism - one in which information becomes part of the picture. A context or history is the informat...

When I say observers, I'm not talking about human consciousness causing a wavefunction collapse. I'm talking about how thermal contexts would decohere...

We could suspend belief about whatever it is that might move the needle on the dial. But why even bother doing metaphysics then? That sounds like no f...

The peacock's tail. Is it frivolous or is it promoting the survival of the species? Could a medical process on an individual past reproductive age be ...

Yeah. So particles and spacetime points would be objects in a minimal sense. That minimal sense would include a "violation" of the law of identity - i...

In OSR, objects are the individuated. So they are the result of a multiplicity of possibilities being limited. Why do you find metaphysics such a stru...

On the other hand, a heck of a lot of alternatives have been eliminated. And we have arrived at the inevitable truths of permutation symmetry. The pro...

Well take the next step and realise that the duality of dichotomies speaks to the triadicity of hierarchies. The ur-dichotomy - in a world with comple...

This is correct. Self-awareness is a linguistic habit that evolves culturally. We are socially constructed as individual beings. Check out Vygotskian ...

Modelling is about maximising simplicity. You've been going on about bipolarity. Why do you think logic relies on reducing possibilities to crisply co...

But it is also pretty dismissive of all those objections. It shows that they are ill-founded. Or that atomism makes its own even wilder leaps of faith...

Well, I do take reality seriously. And so that motivates a concern to arrive at its best model. Idealism doesn't make any sense. It doesn't address th...

What makes you say that? Is this a prejudice you can support? Why would you disparage the ability to discover unity in opposites?

So what are your grounds for agreement being of higher value - in the context of worthwhile philosophical debate? As I said, I would have no problem w...