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Lyotard has a really interesting engagement with Wittgenstein - it's a bummer he (Lyotard) is mostly known, if at all, in relation to the term 'postmo...

Lyotard, talking about something similar to the convo so far: /uploads/resized/files/6n/mcgawz5ia0f19pfu.jpeg /uploads/resized/files/e8/r0zzwl08fsj2jw...

Yeah I had a really good time with everyone on the discord, esp voice chat - but unfortunately, it became a kind of crack for me, really accelerating ...

I think it probably has some feeling though, however simple. For me socratic wonder is very much a military bombardment. Or maybe its that the space o...

thought i had, deep-cleaning my apartment. I was thinking about how I only really pay attention to the nooks and crannies when I'm cleaning, whereas k...

more like the bower bird, and yeah I'd give a shiny nickel to be able to feel what the bower bird feels as it sets about making its bower, without, pr...

(my bolding)

I'd say the opposite. Philosophers, in general, seem more fearful of the uncertain than most. That's why they're always cautiously circling around it,...

but it is easy what is real. real is when lady and, how do you say, real is when lady and very big horse and she is kissing horse and then there comes...

I philosophize because I have a kind of obsessive neurosis and I can't not. One side-benefit of this neurosis is that a lot of philosophy is sincerely...

Very much in agreement with this. One of my all-time favorite quotes from literature - its in my bio - deals with this, I think. He (William Gaddis) i...

It seems like you're trying to strike a difficult balance where mental states can be understood wittgensteinally (and id agree) while also saying that...

yikes. I was three sheets and borderline incoherent. mental states are, of course, related to the 'ineffable stuff' despite my confused protests (not ...

\ sure and everything you quoted would indicate I agree.

I think you've missed me from the get-go then I strove- strove - to indicate how the use of things like 'mental states' is unrelated to the people to ...

youre a diamond in the rough bb

i already responded to that point, thoroughly. talk to you in the morning, if then

Before we go further, I just want to make sure I understand. Your ultimate response to the idea that 'seems' talk is based on 'is' talk is to challeng...

I'd say that we're accustomed to thinking that the sun is large and out there. But I'm not trying to be difficult. I went to post something in agreeme...

Here's the post you're referencing: I sincerely - I'm not saying this rhetorically - don't know what this post means. I can't connect it to the broade...

Well, then post on here. I was being tongue-in-cheek, it's not that bad. I feel like the thing you said about posts being bad was weirdly placed. It s...

Look to discord. forums are the past.

Deal (sounds like you oughta find a better forum?)

you either - we're at an impasse! shake hands and be done with it?

Wait, but none of this has anything to do with the Cartesian turn, at all. I don't mind rhetoric - i love rhetoric, - but only when its wedded to good...

But this whole metaphor relies on an autocorrection of visual data in order to furnish a true picture of the world. It's not true that the sun is smal...

Based on my experience, the wisest people I know have little concern for wisdom. Or, at least, they learned what they now have to impart without consi...

When we see distances, we understand that the thing we're seeing is 'there', not 'here but small.' When we see veridically (building on your analogy) ...

When you say we're 'hardwired' - what do you mean by that? Why do you think that's the case?

Right? I do disagree with him, but it's still a pretty exquisite thought-thing. Just conceptually-aesthetically, :ok:

Just did a reread. You're right that the guarantee is based on benevolence, but the benevolence is definitely based on the infinity stuff. Something l...

I'll have to have another read of the relevant section, but iirc the benevolence was secondary to the infinity thing, not vice-versa. (i.e. God's perf...

To answer well, I'd have go back and reread (or sufficiently read for the first time) Leibniz, Locke and Hume, among others. All I can do is speculate...

It has much to do with the other part of my post. again:

I guess I'd respond by asking the same question again: --- I think you misread me here (bolding added) I'm asking for conceptual unpacking without ref...

Yes, exactly. But also an abstraction generated by the working of thought right? The impossibility of unifying the perceptual/sensual diversity of thi...

Yeah 'Desire' is a little loaded, borrowed that from Hegel as well. I'm as confused desire-wise (probably more) as the next guy. A more neutral descri...

Sure, but we need some sense of what it would mean were there such things as witches. In other words, we need some sense of what veridicality means. W...

I would only add that the beliefs, emotions (ineffable other being-a-person things) etc of the person to whom the mental state are ascribed are totall...

It wasn't that 'seem' statements are syntactically more complex. It's that 'seem' statements can't be understood unless one first understands 'is' sta...

I haven't read EPM in a long time (not since the reading-group thread here) so I can't remember if (and if so, how) he talks about this: It seems to m...

Here, I agree with apo: Only thing I would change is the language - not 'accumulating' practical 'wisdom' - but just finding a way to live practically...

@"darthbarracuda" I sympathize deeply with your post, tho also share some of the concerns voiced by others. They may also be both of these in part whi...

@"Hanover" First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is. More frequently: we realize the distinction after we experience things...

That I don't know. The people I talked to weren't in a state to give an objective account of their history. I can say that there was a very wide spect...

True, just a minor quibble. I thought you might be characterizing schizophrenia as in in essence a failure to adapt, whereas I would characterizethe f...

'failure to adapt' seems too broad to me though. There's a lot of ways to fail at adapting that aren't schizophrenia.

Most were paranoid about them. Some would deal with them through a particular kind of obsequiousness (this is describing stuff on the psychiatrist's t...

yeah! I'm more inclined to approach these themes in eastern terms, or at least western mystical ones (I like gnosticism a lot) - I feel like the chris...

It's hard to put into words exactly. So: I've spent time in psych wards, for major depression. In those wards, I spent a lot of time around people wit...