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Ok, but even if you were speaking about metaphysical generality, I still don't understand what you're doing here: Is the singular x everything - the t...

Yeah, I have some sympathy for this view. Though I think you may have gone too far in the other direction in correcting the idea of seeing-through. It...

So, I wrote that post in a fit of spleen. But what I mean by pre/post fall is the narrative that there was an idyllic period, then something bad happe...

I'm even more confused now. I can understand your thinking that I'd shifted the goalposts, if, earlier, we had both been speaking of singularity qua m...

Are you asking what the difference is between understanding that someone is wrong and understanding why they believe that wrong thing?

Ok, but what I asked was do you have a sense why they might believe that?

Do you have a sense of why others might think that facts aren't particulars?

Oh, ok, you probably won't get much from this paper then

Yeah, that's more or less how I take Sellars to understand the term too. But so you consider facts to be concrete, spatiotemporal entities?

Huh, how would you define 'particular' (noun)?

It's a reference to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. If you're not familiar with the Big Themes of that work, one central idea is that 'th...

I hear you, but if you want a space free of moral and intellectual posturing, a philosophy forum is probably the worst possible place to look. Like m-...

There's another point to be made: No reason a singularity has to be a 1. It can be a historical situation. Something crazy goes down, rewrites the coo...

Problem for the smart people who can resist advertising, by seeing through it, if they exist. Even if you can, others can't, and you can't always tell...

Ok, the directionality bit is certainly different than Deleuze (tho I suppose there's a case to be made for focusing on local zig-zagging at the expen...

Or at least that's the long-held consensus of everyone in the Deleuze Studies department ;) Just kidding, sort of, I really do like Deleuze, but do yo...

Alright, I believe I understand your broad portrait - but then I don't understand what you're objecting to here: The origin and the destination, in yo...

In arguing that absolute distinctionless potentiality is "left behind" musn't there be a time when there was no distinction? (bc otherwise what would ...

i remember when i was just seven and this hottie who called himself kevin we were watching shrek 3 as he reached for my knee and he whispered 'bush ca...

there once was a lady named penis who dreamt every night of a penis she said 'what a prick what a cock, what a dick it reminds me of me, (my name's pe...

So i experience not-suffering "happiness" - relief - more often than any other kind, by far. But there's also at least two other positive happinessess...

My life, at least post-10 or 11 years old, has definitely consisted more of suffering than non-suffering, yet there have been many times where I've be...

Humans don't always suffer tho (unless you pull some Kierkegaardian move where not knowing you're suffering is, in fact, its own type of suffering). I...

Yeah, that's the paper! Thanks for the link. It can also be found here, handily formatted section by section: http://www.ditext.com/sellars/epm.html

Cool, I'm glad there's interest. I've read about half of the paper and it's pretty dense, so I think reading maybe 2 sections a week would be a good p...

perhaps more pertinent is: What is science? Science is doing a lot of work in the OP. Everything can be elucidated by science. So also what is 'explan...

@"apokrisis" Do you have a 'skeleton key' recommendation for the Peirce texts which matter most?

Haven't read all the other responses, I'll admit - but all I see in the OP is the sketch of an idea about what philosophy is. There's nothing in it to...

Eh, not really. if the phenomenon of politically-driven fact-indifference is a perennial one & if a new term has been coined, to refer to this same pe...

I think this is a cool idea/interest, but - and I say this with compassion - you're unlikely to generate serious interest without a degree (not to say...

Phenomenology of Mind is really brilliant - I still haven't read it in full, but I find myself returning to it, again and again. I think there's a cas...

I more or less agree with @"jamalrob" & @"The Great Whatever" "Post-truth" had been seized upon by 'experts' (in the sense jamalrob used the word) at ...

playstation vr just arrived - v excited, been daydreaming about vr since i was 6

the witness, it's good, got ffxv, kinda lame, some good parts

@"Agustino" fair enough - It's not standards versus no standards but clear, achievable (even if challenging) standards vs unclear, impossible, perhaps...

Feverish for sure. Everything is always urgent, settings shift rapidly, blurring any clear sense of time and space, and there's always a lingering sen...

"Managing those around him" is an interesting turn of phrase, to me. Especially when it's used in relation to one's own well-being, and outside the co...

First, comprehension of the parable comes not from holding it up to one's own ethical code in order to determine whether or not the two or consonant. ...

How'd you first get introduced to Berdyaev? What determined the order in which you read his books?

I think you're right to bring Heidegger's being-toward-death into this. The whole point of being-toward-death is to get out of the Das Man doxa-pool a...

@"John" So the first time I read BK, Fyodor Pavlovitch was, for me, something like what Zizek describes as "the fantasmatic, obscene figure of the pri...

I don't think people shouldn't have standards, no.

oh man, can't post in full now, but I agree - and fyodor has actually become the most interesting character to me, so I'm glad you mentioned him!

haaa that was supposed to be an im, no idea how i accidentally posted it here. I won't apologize for euphonious tho, or God-y.

I'm not sure, I don't know Aristotle as well I would like to. And I don't know Aquinas very well at all, though I find his name extraordinarily euphon...

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What does hiding a relationship from your mother have to do with exceptional social skills won thru being an outsider? It sounds more like you had str...

(1)I don't agree with your definition of mental illness. (2) I think most mental illness stems from shame and most shame stems from bad early relation...

@"Thorongil"You can do a thing of making God/Being the reservoir of potentiality and sustainer of relations(so the source of novelty, free will/desire...

@"John"@"Noble Dust" Good convo, just want to toss in a parenthetical aside about Hegel's Master/Slave dialectic, partially to refresh myself. The rea...