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Just to make sure I'm clear: you take a standard deterministic position about time once linearized?

(I'm sincerely glad you're not taking an eternalist position. That would've bummed me out to no end.) I think what I said follows exactly from what yo...

It would follow, then, that the time at which it became true that the artifact came into being in 1966 was a time well before 1966. Do you agree?

Did time become linear and quantifiable before or after 1966?

Much of what you say, I agree with. Some of it I don't. For the sake of this thread, I'm not interested in Brassier's criticisms. I'd rather just foll...

Yeah, I won't ask you to hew to the Schopenhaueran letter. I don't think any violence is done to common sense by saying e.g. "it was only at some poin...

Thought this was pretty clever. If I read it right, it's an appraisal of the republican reaction in the style of a scalia-type originalist giving a SC...

ha no still planning on responding re: schopenhauer. Just havent had the time to do it right. Its a delicate thing.

The Illumintatus! trilogy is a little too cutesy for my taste. It feels like having a conversation with an aging hippy you meet at a bar and he's just...

duuude write it! what fantasies/epics/religious texts have you been reading?

ha, well I can agree with Wittgenstein as a guy with mental illness. (Have you ever read Thomas Bernhard's The Loser? ((An analogue of )W's the loser)...

Kant didn't promise enlightenment. Nor did Wittgenstein. I have my problems with both thinkers but at least they're interesting. UG just isn't very in...

U G's a fraud. Yeah he didnt peddle snakeoil feelgood spiritualism - and good on him for that - but he tries to portray himself as this dude who reali...

@"StreetlightX" the closest thing I ever had to a professor-mentor once told me (apropos of Deleuze & Joyce) that you devour the literature because yo...

Sorry tgw some unexpected life events swallowed all my time I'll post soon as I can. And sorry@"John" those same life events were stressing me out big...

Just retaliatory measures. You make me sad! I ? being and hate to see her scorned.

Idk. I've done my best to show why unexperienced objects *are* a problem and you responded with a stew of 'Wittgensteinian silence' & 'i guess its a m...

If only someone nominated Basically all of Philosophy is Silly But Here's Just a Few Brief Synopses of Philosophical Schools of Thought, Just The Bare...

The ancestrality problem has no direct bearing on M's discussion of necessity and contingency. Ancestrality is only a relatively short portion of the ...

I'll explicitly explain why I think schop's account is problematic later this evening. I want to do so carefully and precisely. As I hope I've demonst...

I'm a bit confused John but it may just be because I've misunderstood your stance. You think there *is* some in-itself, no? You think the correlationi...

Having read most of the Haugeland piece, I don't really think the Dennett piece *must* be read ahead of time. Also, the Dennet essay is much harder to...

First and foremost I think it's important to remember M is arguing against the correlationist so *he* isn't claiming different ontological statuses fo...

@"John" I cautiously agree with you regarding the "in-itself" but I think it's incumbent on us to think through the difficulties close examination of ...

Also down with that Bitbol piece.@"Pierre-Normand" I only saw dogville once when I was 17 and trying wayyy too hard to immerse myself in highbrow cult...

This reminds me vaguely of how Sartre treats the "being" of an object in the opening of Being and Nothingnes. (The opening is all I've read of the boo...

@"mcdoodle" I'll reply in full probably tomorrow. Yeah, the experience of light whose source is lightyears away *does* work just as well as the archef...

I also think it's worth noting that Schop explicitly says this formulation deals with world as idea and that alone. The "will" aspect, left out here, ...

I "get" it. I'm just not convinced by it. (I'm torn between a (humanly inconprehensible) in itself and a (humanly incomprehensible) panpsychism.)

Idk, I kinda doubt it. The Oscars is indeed an index of - and an influence on - people's attitudes about class and race but I'd say a better route wou...

Peter Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo It's fairly accessible, entertaining, and created a huge stir in German when it was released. It's intentio...

Thanks for the reply. I think I'm much more familiar with your general position than I thought I was; your analytic philosophy references and turns of...

The thing is, as dumb as the Oscars may be, a lot of really dumb people are influenced, consciously or unconsciously, by the dumb decisions dumb insti...

@"John" Sorry to respond so briefly and to such a small portion of what you've written, but I don't have enough time to mount a full reply tonight. Wh...

Yes, but plenty of people know the use and context of 'God' (implying, among other things, omniscience, omnipotence & benevolence) as opposed to 'mort...

If sortals are co-eval with the objects that fall under them, then how are we to consider the Pluto case? Since it came down to a vote, do we take it ...

Bluntly: our understanding of things would remain 'correlationist' since those scales and perspectives are, indeed, for-us. (Spatial or temporal) 'Per...

@"Pierre-Normand" Haven't had much free time recently. Just a placr holder to let you know I plan to respond tonight or tomorrow.

Peter Sloterdijk - Globes (Spheres vol. 2). The spheres trilogy is continuing to blow me away. Sloterdijk is rapidly becoming one of my top 3 favorite...

Thanks for such a detailed reply! I'm in thoroughgoing agreement that some kind of transcendental background is necessary to get cognition going. It w...

Sounds a lil like that old P.K. Dick quote: "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” Intimate relationships can - and ...

Where? Where does he make this criticism? (bonus points if you cite a passage that hasn't already been cited in this thread.)

You can understand what motivates his denial though. Do sortal concepts (or sortal conceiving) exist in the absence of conceiving beings? If no, and i...

This is decidedly not what Brassier is saying. It's almost the opposite. I'm sincerely confused as to why you think Brassier is saying something like ...

I'm sorry but I just don't think what you're saying has anything to do with what Brassier is getting at. I don't know how to respond.

If a philosopher's stance is x, does that mean that every argument or persuasive paragraph that thinker employs must be approached as a stand-alone pr...

Sorry, it's taken so long to respond. The spirit of The Gem - backlit by the reflections preceding its introduction in the treatise - is an attempt to...

This is very confused. Please cite some passages from the essay to legitimize (and clarify) these claims.

Yeah, but concepts without intuition are blind. But, ok, there is a distinction between the conception and the object. It's accepted that we can only ...

? But that's the point the essay denies! Everything in the essay is predicated on that being false. (Though I'm not sure what work 'strictly' is meant...