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Another way to view this is to consider the very many ways in which philosophers have attempted to define the proper way to locate that which is morally desirable. There's usually a prima facie plausibility to the matter, and in general it is upon closer inspection that we find there is something i...

He is doing me a favor in his burning down of Analytical Philosophy and its linguistic turn, however I reject his claim that he had burned my [& the Kantian] philosophical stance. Whatever is of Rorty in his 'Mirror of Nature,' it has no significant counter to Kantian-philosophy-proper. Eeeeeh,...

Not sure of your point. As stated above, my interest in that book is Rorty's exposure that to cling onto the concept of an mind-independent external world is unrealistic. I have extended the above argument to an evolutionary default and that philosophical realism is illusory. Btw, I do not use the ...

Atla's point about combining moral approaches into a convergent system merits more consideration. If we look at what Kant was doing when he systemised the synthetic a priori into being, it was to create order. This is why VA bangs on about Kant's supposed completeness; he arranges it such that ever...

I raised this thread on the same book by Rorty Rorty - No Mind-Independent Reality https://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=32188 What I am interested with Rorty is his condemnation of the very proud, arrogant but ignorant, Analytic Philosophers [PH, FDP, etc.] who insist upon and ar...

I raised this thread on the same book by Rorty Rorty - No Mind-Independent Reality https://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=32188 What I am interested with Rorty is his condemnation of the very proud, arrogant but ignorant, Analytic Philosophers [PH, FDP, etc.] who insist upon and ar...

Will Bouwman wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 2:07 pm

That's odd.

So you make a diagnosis without any symptoms. It's precisely the lack of symptoms that leads to the diagnosis. It seems to be one of your character flaws to think constructive criticism shouldn't cause even a modicum of distress to someone's feelings. You could try my unshakeable belief that far fr...

To communicate the mind must reduce action to a representation, to first transmit it to the brain where it is processed and then to transmit it, via semiotics, to another brain. In fact, I am "acting it out". :twisted: Every part of it is an action. Communicaiton is an action. Thinking is...

The act precedes the words men give them. And the thought precedes the act. The word supersedes the thought and precedes the act. I am going to kick you! Thinking is an act. All is an act. Even abstractions are representations in the mid - neurological matrices. A thought is a neural pulse moving t...

Will Bouwman wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:14 pm Ah, so you want to help me. Very well, Skepdick. What are these core beliefs I have that even your caring constructive criticism will cause me too much distress to change?

Who knows? Are there any you can change without any distress?

Nothing you say hurts. Yeah, you are impervious to constructive criticism. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: It is a product of one of your character flaws that you think constructive criticism should be hurtful. I'm thinking it's exactly the other way. Re-working one's core beliefs is alwa...

Having given it some thought I'm soon (but not just yet) going to call you a clown. It won't hurt either. Nothing you say hurts. Yeah, you are impervious to constructive criticism. Have you considered giving it some thought before you respond? I thought about it. And the answer is "No".

The act precedes the words men give them. And the thought precedes the act. The word supersedes the thought and precedes the act. I am going to kick you! Don't worry Lorikeet, it won't hurt. Having given it some thought I'm soon (but not just yet) going to call you a clown. It won't hurt either.

Lorikeet wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:33 am The act precedes the words men give them.

And the thought precedes the act.
The word supersedes the thought and precedes the act.

I am going to kick you!