Tom Storm

I have to say some of the nuances of philosophical thinking make me long for the simpler world of common sense delusions. I guess any idea can be pick...

Oh ok, I get you. In which case my language was insufficient for purposes. Thank you.

Hmm - I'm trying to see this, nor can I see how this might help us in the matter. Can you sharpen this for me? If we say, for instance, that the mass ...

Are you saying the observation I made is vapid, or the way morality is generally framed across cultures is vapid? I partly understand this point, but ...

Do they? I thought they were more crafty. I thought they were more likely to accept that there is empirical justification for holding that (in this ex...

The it = It is the case that it is raining? :wink: That's an interesting example worth noting. This echoes what Richard Rorty says about truth as bein...

Could be. I think people often select positions based on whether they find them attractive or ugly. Like selecting some music. 'I think homosexuality ...

I'm not entirely sure I follow your argument. I guess morality is social behavior and probably only significant where there are other conscious creatu...

I think that's right. Painting is likely to depart from realism when the deliberate stylization (expressionist, impressionist, etc) result in aestheti...

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Wow! Amazing quote.

DItto god/s. :razz:

No question about that. I've never quite known if they go as far as the critics suggest. :wink: I think they are probably an easy target... relativism...

It's funny how truth only seems to take something closer to solid form when death is the accompaniment.

Seems perfectly reasonable to me. I think that is a very succinct summary of the matter as understood by Lawson et al. Thanks Sam. I have sympathy for...

I like it. :up: Generally I've found country music to be kitsch. But I only know Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard and Kinky Friedman, who seem to elevate th...

Yes. I think the more recent interest in Epicureanism is heading in this direction. It seems capitalism and marketing rule the world - not just in ter...

Minimalism is growing in scope. It's generally secular and tends to eschew consumerism and owning lots of objects. I have been an informal and not ver...

I'm not sure I understand the nuances of your construction, but I'll have a go. I do think about myself in third person or as a kind of protagonist in...

Thanks, I have, but I didn't know this name or source. Is this not Wittgenstein's understanding too, as in, “The limit of my language is the limit of ...

:up: Fair enough.

Could be but I thought your question was about why people use the terms interchangeably on this thread. Sounds like we’ve covered it then. Cheers T.

Yes, he says we don't have to abandon criteria of value (these are 'closures' which can be of great use to us), we just need to recognise their contin...

Yes, good points. I think there's a lot of complexity in such denials. What be a university professor? Why write books? I hear you and thanks for your...

:up: He's on the money here. Thanks for the verse.

That's the post-modern argument (as per Rorty's quote). There is no objectivity. It's a contrivance. What we think of as objective is actually a share...

Perhaps and yet I envy animals who are self-sufficient and need no cars or porn or bad movies by Disney; who have no reason and no governments and no ...

The notion that 'what people think of as objective is really just a construct of intersubjective agreement' is pretty common and certainly was (one of...

Yes, a metaphysical position, really - ontological realism. But I suspect it is two presuppositions 1) that there is an outside or 'real' world and 2)...

Do it - I have an interest in this one. I would like to understand more about the nature of revealed wisdom. I had some interest back in the days when...

:up: Yes, that's the conclusion I came to. And yes, you point out the other salient matter here - it doesn't make any difference to the experience whe...

Thanks, yes that resonates with me.

Depends. Totalising skepticism is quite popular with students and philosophy neophytes it seems. But some level of skepticism is useful and appropriat...

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I hear you. This seems to be influenced by a more pragmatic, or post-modernist, perhaps even phenomenological account, is that correct?

Indeed. I guess the reason it is there is to emphasize the non contingent nature of a theorized reality as opposed to 'what is the capital of Australi...

Catholic philosopher Pat Flynn has a robust YouTube site featuring significant Thomist content. It's a showcase for books and thinkers. Philosophy for...

My gut feeling is that we can talk pragmatically about a contingent reality, which works to get certain things done, but we can't make any pronounceme...

No. Just making the comment that the ineffable nature of truth or reality does appear to have a buck where it stops.

Having worked in 'ghettos' and with people experiencing intergenerational poverty, my thoughts are that a society can set expectations about appropria...

Christian theology... I do see why philosopher George Lakoff describes consciousness as 'embodied brain'. It's hard to see how consciousness can creat...

Yes, those seem to be the right questions. Yes, I think so. But I wonder what all this really indicates about the limitations of human knowledge. We o...

That's an interesting way of looking at it. Richard Rorty says something like truth is what communities of shared understanding describe it to be. In ...

Ha! That's curious. Remember my question was this: My view of realism isn't really the subject at hand. And I don't have a view on this worth a pinch ...

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Is human experience of phenomena the same thing as phenomena?

Cool. Thank you.

Thank you. Lots to follow up. Fair point. Right, that's good to know. I was wondering to what extent Lawson may have become fixated and how to stop th...

I've read it. Bentley is a gifted thinker and writer. Even if he can be a bit of a bitch. It's pretty much your argument being made here.