What exactly do you mean by that? At first I took it to mean that a symmetry-breaking approach would explain the interrelation of words and rules as e...
Kinda unrelated, but I think the missing ingredient in all this is Sloterdijk's theory of 'spheres' which is basically Heideggereanized Attachment The...
Yeah, I think you're onto something too, and I can't quite place it either. Let me throw some more words then: I think here you may inadvertently be g...
This is a really cool experiment, but the first question that comes to mind is how did they test the monkeys on whether pairs were pairs of similar ob...
See, so. I see Sellars as one of the few AP guys who 'gets', really 'gets' Kant. And also has time for Hegel (a tradition carried on, of course, by Br...
What I'm trying to say @"apokrisis" is that reality is irreducibly polyvalent. The triadic thing is what the mind tends towards, often to great effect...
From the point of view of triadicism, nothing at all has been left out. There's the stoop, the non-stoop, and the third thing. You don't have to leave...
Ah, ok, so I guess what threw me is that what you and Janus are talking about ( feels to me) like exactly the kind of thing that Sellars is gesturing ...
I think the first thing to do when you think about people being alienated from production is to create a picture, in your mind (or in words) of what i...
So I got salty, apo, and I hope you'll forgive me that. I have this personal struggle with Theories of Everything where I'm sometimes drawn to them, s...
@"Bitter Crank" I think the problem people are having with 'social capital' isn't that they think the stuff talked about in the OP is unimportant. Lik...
Are there any properties, in this relational scheme, that wouldn't require a percipient/sapient? Property-as-relation, as you've outlined it, feels li...
Gotta show my cards here - I'm fairly ignorant of most analytic philosophy. I've read a little Wittgenstein, and a few papers (Quine, Davidson, Sellar...
Why is 'coming from' opposed to 'being given to'? Those subindices all feel like things that are 'given to' individuals in a such a way that they can ...
There's a difference, though, between works-because-it-establishes-some-relation-with-the-outside and works-because-it-totally-captures-the-outside. T...
There's a simpler way to put this: The world was rich and full of excitement and texture when I was young. Recasting all of that in Peircian terms see...
thinking about the world? The final formalization of 'explanation' maybe. That's a sad achievement though, isn't it? Why would that minimisation be an...
This is gonna bring things far afield, but I'm interested. I can't say much of anything about physics, because I don't know much of anything about phy...
The idea of predication as implicit relation is interesting. I went and looked up your earlier post Quick thought. When we say 'the apple is red' we d...
I've been thinking about the difference between 'atomic' properties versus 'complex' ones. Is this an absolute difference in kind? The complexity of s...
Ah yeah, the 'second-order isomorphism' sounds pretty close to what I had in mind. One analogy that comes to mind is user interfaces. They don't provi...
I like Sellars' account. If we discard a mapping relationship (such that certain words are somehow 'tied' to their referent) then it seems like we hav...
Ah, so I think we're almost on the same page. Or we are, as far philosophy goes. I like the theological notion of 'grace' by which I mean a (passively...
Hey, hi! long time. So. I am familiar with the distinction you're drawing, and I think the distinction is fair. The space of reasons is different than...
@"fdrake" @"unenlightened" Guilty of not having read this thread thru (it’s long!). But i wanted to talk about this subject and this thread is what pr...
I liked your post. I'm a lapsed Christian, but with a great deal of sympathy for christianity and christians. What I wanted to point out, in my post, ...
@"StreetlightX" So that quote from the Second Critique. He doesn't appear to be talking about the noumenality (for lack of a better word) of the self,...
Yeah yeah - so I think the subject/object distinction is fine, far as it goes, just needs to be neatly circumscribed, so that it doesn't spill out of ...
Probably important to add that the 'great chain of being' is itself doubled- both object and discourse. Without that double aspect the mediation betwe...
(hey guys) I think everyone's pretty much right here. So self-relation is a weird thing, right, because relation implies difference. The most basic fo...
@"StreetlightX" it looks bad arguing against joy, so that lets off the hook. And if a need for control can be chalked up vaguely to a mental illness (...
I appreciate the conceptually sterilized hystericism you've imputed to me, but I think I'm hysterical in a far more vulgar way, anxiety-at-the-dinner-...
Glad you liked it. It's part of larger 'series' ( called 'uruk machines', organized in the archive section) that tries, ambitiously, to synthesize 4 t...
@"fdrake" So first: yeah, the system will be changed if it relates to itself a system. Quick example, from here. (In this case the system becoming sel...
@"StreetlightX" I try to come in here with an an empty fifth and a bad attitude, and I'm still welcomed with open arms. Makes it hard, you know? But w...
@"Metaphysician Undercover" from where I'm sitting, everything in the op points to a poetic defense of conservatism. What's being conserved is open to...
@"fdrake" In all seriousness, I think this is an elegant way to sum up the difference between the 'in-itself' and the 'for-itself'. It reminds me a li...
(hey guys, been a minute) @"StreetlightX" What's the affective oomph you got when this new (?) idea ? I'm assuming, here, that you had some older mode...
I think a good way to look at language games is by reference to child's games, to play. Some games have strict rules, others are more free and loose. ...
Yeah, that's similar to my usual experience when reading fiction. It takes conscious effort for me to deeply visualize anything. (I first noticed this...
On board with this description. But I think this imaginative capacity is something very different than visualization. In that sense, Berkeley would've...
Like what are you visualizing when you visualize the abstract triangle with no particular angles....If you're actually visualizing, that shit has actu...
That feels a lot like a zebra with some stripes. I don't know. I think you either visualize a triangle, or you visualize a hazy triangle that would ha...
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