apokrisis

And so you jump straight into a justification ... based on the impact it would have on the unrestrained freedoms of others within the collective. So a...

It does reflect the logic of nature, which is different to the logic of machines. So nature - as quantum mechanics has confirmed in foundational fashi...

The most general “right” ought to be the right not to be constrained except to the degree that it is necessary. So the default position is “why not?”....

Ordinary language use is ambiguous and thrives on that fact. Formal language is the attempt to remove ambiguity so as to provide the kind of certainty...

The LEM really only "exists" as part of a system of thought - the three laws of thought, indeed. And even within logic - as Peirce pointed out - the L...

But what does orthogonality itself mean? They are two non-overlapping directions branching from some common origin. So that is the secret here. If we ...

But that is still a dualistic way of expressing it. The scientific question is how to actually model that functional unity ... which is based on some ...

You can't just expect a "life of pleasure". It is personal growth and social connectedness that is what most folk actually report as rewarding. So rig...

Always one to look on the bright side, hey? :grin: I do a lot of strenuous and challenging things. If they actually hurt, I tend to stop. Likewise I e...

I hear that and I'm sorry for it. And I don't expect to cure that with words here. The only insight I am offering is that the relief of that state has...

It is going to be appearances all the way down. But why talk of it as being just a series of illusions? I find it more accurate to see it as also a hi...

Well OK. So here for example I would note that neurocognitive researchers don't actually talk much about conscious and unconscious. They talk about at...

I'm none the wiser about what you want to say here. My comments are based on pretty basic psychophysics and neurocognitive research. I would presume t...

I'm still finding it very unclear what it is that you think you are arguing. But maybe it is this. Maybe you are making the contrast between the roles...

You think the whole of psychology is a failed science somehow? A bit sweeping.

Correct. So what better example of a psychological truth could be imagined?

If we think we see a horse and not a dog, that is what we see. So while acts of perception do involve a general categorising conception and some parti...

As usual, the missing words are being white “to us”. Truths are always ultimately psychological facts, not ontic ones, as they require that reality ha...

My approach is semiotic. So as Baden notes, I wouldn't be defending naive realism. The self would be "revealed", as much as its world, by the process ...

Could it be - done right - that it is following the principle that ideas must be stated definitely enough so that they could be found wrong? The worst...

Why not begin by listing all the things science doesn't do then - like reading goat entrails, or accepting personal proclamations of faith, or wasting...

As if there were one reading of it. :grin: You know that there are many contrasting readings on what was meant by the intellect and how it was embodie...

So is the real debate about the accuracy of Aristotle's epistemology or the unreasonableness of Descartes's? I think Aristotle's approach - shorn of s...

Thanks. :up:

Surely it's the other way around. He believed he was in his chamber. And what he felt he knew - by rational doubt - was that was just in fact a belief...

Hah. And how do metaphysicians, logicians, mathematicians and physicists use the word? But anyway, I would highlight the metaphysics built into your o...

I am agreeing that pure indeterminate potential - the possibility of anything - is a form of nothingness. But what I am arguing is that nothingness co...

Well, weren't you trying to define it as even the absence of a definition? That inclusion of an epistemic criteria already gets you into the problem t...

I would suggest you are mixing up two alternatives that together give the more complete ontic view. So nothingness can be defined as the definite and ...

Then all you are saying is that people brought up in contemporary western culture would learn to say these kinds of things as that reflects folk epist...

Huh. Internalism makes no epistemic sense without the assumption that there could be the external as its other. So given this is about the foundations...

You mean "world", or unwelt? And so the noumenal - analytically - falls outside that phenomenology? It is the division that is fundamental, even if th...

You don't have to try to answer the challenge I've set for your position. If you can't see the incoherence of talking about the data of self-awareness...

Exactly right. But that is the analytic view of how to understand experience. You were talking about where epistemology has to start. And I would agre...

I give up.

Is that tree over there part of your “we”? What about that rock? If you are claiming experience as fundamental, you are already making a fundamental d...

Do I have to point out you are already assuming there is a “we” that experience. So without being able to experience that I experience, you seem ready...

My approach is internalist, not externalist. So I don't claim to get beneath, or outside, or otherwise achieve some actually transcendent perspective ...

It is just so funny how you repeat the standard comforting formula of words as if they could make sense. There is "me" who sees "my mind", and even se...

Pfft

Oh for fuck's sakes. :yawn:

Well how do you think social organisation develops? Give us your version.

I explained. Symmetry breaking breaks the symmetry of spinning on the spot to produce the local~global asymmetry of hierarchical organisation. Instead...

The division into the local and the global, the particular and the general, is a prime example. Having two extremes of the one thing - scale - is to b...

I thought it would do you for a start. There are plenty of more detailed journal articles you could browse.

I don't agree that the situation is so hopelessly circular. Instead - if you believe in the intelligibility of self-organised systems - the situation ...

Wavicles are one of those happy classical concepts - a convenient way to gloss over the issues. Quantum theory in fact relies on the indistinguishabil...

It all then comes back to the point of view that might make it matter. Two apples are the same if they both meet our purpose of having a bit of fruit ...

Hah. Your replies depend on such diligent misrepresentation of my arguments that it is pointless pushing them further. But note that I was very carefu...

Or Kevin robs a bank because that is his usual way to support himself - it is a habit that makes sense to him at some level - and also because if it r...