Tom Storm

Those are amongst my questions too. It is enigmatic but not ineffable.

Is it even possible to achieve epoche? It sounds tricky and mystical. Here's Dan Zahavi on epoche: From: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11...

Is this similar to voting Republican yet again and having their class interests smashed?

Thanks, makes sense. These gaps in mutual understanding sound like they are almost insurmountable. Are there ways you recommend we manage gaps such as...

I can see how this might work. But it's not much different than saying that we all have a unique take and perspective on life despite some overlaps (d...

Not a fan? I know a smattering about it but have read some essays and seen some lectures on Husserl and Merleau-Ponty and 2 or 3 by Dan Zavhi. It seem...

Do you think Wittgenstein is hard to follow for a lay reader? I have been unable to get through PI but I am fairly hopeless at philosophy. Early or la...

Not sure if that's for me or a rhetorical question. My position is very clear from my previous posts.

Agree completely. Well argued. That's it in a nutshell.

Makes a big difference to me. Specific details aside - one's an act of nature which could not be prevented. The other was a cruel and deliberate act b...

You're making a classic error if you hold that that reason only supports views you like. :wink: Reason has been used to support views dreadful and goo...

:rofl: :up:

Not wanting to promote relativism. :wink: As I said - I think my morality is better than theirs and would argue this based on the notion of the wellbe...

This old thing? :wink: No I wouldn't, but I am the product of values and presuppositions associated with Christianity, liberalism and assorted Western...

So? What do you do with all this 'analysis' apart from going around and around in circles? I remain unconvinced that value is anything more than an un...

I often think of the Orwell quote: - George Orwell

I hear you. I'd privilege the first one over the second, but rewrite it as - a set of rules used to help keep us safe, implemented with minimal judgem...

Maybe this is a little silly but just because a lot may be said 'about' a subject doesn't mean it is actually being spoken of. Sound and fury...? Talk...

Do you have a basic description of irony in the postmodern context?

Perhaps god needs to host a show on Fox News.

The problem with theistic morality is that it provides no objective basis for right and wrong. Religious people find it almost impossible to agree wit...

I hear you, but I rule them out anyway since there is no way we can demonstrate 1) what they are or 2) if they exist. We have no choice but to be prag...

I know this is a brief summary but this seems similar to my position. This latter point also resembles Sam Harris on morality. I think this is reasona...

Interesting. Outside of examples, do you have a working definition (in a few sentences) for irony? Have you read Rorty's Contingency, Irony, and Solid...

What's with all those shiny baubles 'n' shit in your verkakte areca palm?

There are some drinkers (about 20% as I understand it) who do not get hangovers. I was one of those. I could drink an entire bottle of whisky over din...

There's no good evidence that 'Jesus' existed, but many scholars would say there was likely a teacher or two who may have inspired a range of myths th...

I think this is a fair and obvious question. My intuition says it's unlikely. Of course there's a lot hiding in those words 'everything' and 'reality'...

Projection. Just an observation on my part. :wink: @"Banno" is convincing me that it matters. Not sure how one goes about answering this question. My ...

Do you think that this notion of ineffable for some is a gateway to transcendence - a path for theists, idealists and assorted wacky metaphysicians to...

Nice. Classic film buff?

I don't remember agreeing (but I did follow orders) - I remember being told what the names of colors were and getting them wrong. I still do, as I am ...

You still haven't made the case that value is transcendent. Values talk is simply a conversation people share about the world. Like the idea of truth,...

Ah.. but not everyone sees the world the same or makes the same inferences. That's part of the problem when someone maintains their own worldview is r...

A lot of philosophy seems to be the same. Not you alone. It's one of questions most people seem to ask themselves. It's at the heart of Buddhism. I he...

Of course not. But why do it then? And the analysis is itself replete with confusions, omissions, contradictions, contortions and, perhaps, the odd gl...

You might even say it's an intersubjective agreement (I know you dislike that word :joke: ).

Do antinatalsits celebrate?

No, I was talking about your question of meaning. Asking 'why' of life seems moot to me. I have read some Derrida and Richard Rorty and understand thi...

I am sympathetic to this. What are your thoughts regarding the variations within a shared understanding? While it seems accurate to say that people ha...

I am not sure 'why' questions are of much use when applied to life but, as you suggest, there are plenty of baroque 'answers' available to such questi...

Given neither of us arrived here by reasoning, it ain't gonna be reasoning that gets us out. :joke:

I think it's saying that instead of defining objective reality in terms of an inaccessible and ungraspable beyond, phenomenologists would argue that t...

Principles are ineffable.

I think you may need to decide to follow the more contemprary Zahavi, who seems to think most interpretations of Husserl are superficial. You get a se...

Thanks for taking the time. I don't think this approach is useful to me in my daily life, but I am fascinated by what others think. The older I get, t...

Not suggesting it is a failing as such, perhaps a type of limitation. What's your take?

By way of summary, I'd be interested to hear what do you think is at the crux of this debate about the ineffable? It seems some people believe that la...

Thanks for clarifying. It's not always that the ideas are hard, it's just that everyone's prose style is different and it's not always easy to deciphe...

As a non-philosopher I find this is dense and hard to follow, but very interesting. It sounds like you are advocating for a metaphysical, shall we eve...