Good people living forever in heaven and evil people living forever in hell is a common, widely held belief in Christianity. I — Art48

Horrible theology. I was taught that in a mainstream Protestant church.

I’m reading his biography right now, and I’m starting to think that his extremely neurotic and depressive personality entered into his writing in the form of endless asides, apologies, digressions and ass coverings , and this is a large part of what makes it so tortuous to read him. — Joshs

The first few books by Derrida were interesting and original. After that he just published stuff that seemed Scholastic and writing for the sake of writing.

Bergson was among the first to recognize this with his concept of lived duration. — Joshs

I don't see this as an objection to Hume.

Also, it is true that I can quantitively measure the transition from one image to the next in the sequence as a counting of degrees? — Joshs

Seems to me standard physics.

What ties together this sequence of discrete images in my mind such that , for the sake of convenience, I can idealize it as a continuous movement. — Joshs

Right, an act of the imagination as a "fiction."

I see a ball rolling down the hill. This is actually a sequence of discrete, digital, images. Some see it as continuous movement, thus a "fiction of a continued existence" (T I.4.2.36).

How do thing become associated? Hume wrote specifically about this. — Joshs

Convention.

Cats have bodies. — DingoJones

Are cats in the species homo sapiens? I do not think so.

The question is , how do things become associated ? What is the ‘glue’ that binds them? — Joshs

No glue. What gave Kant hysterics.

Think about Hume’s model of associative synthesis. Correct me if I’m wrong , but like the behavioral
models in psychology that borrowed from it, it determines the conditions under which two events become associated with each in our mind in terms of temporal and spatial contiguity , etc. These are external criteria of association. — Joshs

For Hume, there is no necessity to association. Objects and events do not have continuity.

What I find extraordinarily powerful about Derrida and various related postmodernisms from an ethical
point of view is that they allow for a more intimate relationship of understanding between people than the more traditional philosophies they critique. — Joshs

Please explain what that intimate relationship is and why traditional philosophies do not have that.

Trump, whatever said and done, was voted into the White House in a fair election! — Agent Smith

Maybe. Therefore, what?

I would say having a body qualifies as being human. Need not be more complicated than that.

Clearly, the Proud Boys perceived it that way, but how do you establish Trump's intent? — Relativist

By every single thing that happened. Seem obvious and consistent. Trump never hides anything.

But then it would seem that Hume wouldn't undermine Derrida, but get along with him? — Moliere

Not sure. Hume did not reduce philosophy to text. But, there may be similarities.

OK -- so are you contesting that Hume basically did it first, more or less? — Moliere

I don't know first, but certainly Hume was radical.

Perhaps we'll learn that Trump was told about the planning of the Proud Boys for 1/6. We'll have to stay tuned. — Relativist

"Stand down, and stand by." Trump was directly ordering the Proud Boys.

f you're willing to spit it out I'm willing to hear it. How does Hume undermine all of this? I believe that's basically last we left off. — Moliere

For Hume, there is no inside or outside, as metaphysical categories. Actual physical objects do not have continuity and neither do our perceptions. Hume's main criticism is at the concept of identity. Are physical objects real, yes. Are acts of mind real, yes. Is the mediation between object to mind real, yes. So it is a non-representational idea.

A method is a way of proceeding in the world , a way of organizing particular meanings according to a larger scheme or totality of relevance. In that sense , method cannot be separated from value system, of which it forms a subspecies. — Joshs

Okay, agree.

This familiarity with the world is the basis of method — Joshs

Okay. And what does that have to do with method?

Derrida’s notion of deconstruction is not a method but a way of understanding the basis of all methods. — Joshs

What is the "basis of all methods?"

Later.

Do you still need to ask this question? — Alkis Piskas

Sorry, wiki is for losers. tired of people using wiki and dictionaries to discuss philosophy

The question is usually asked by Theists, who have a ready explanation for the universe - but have no good explanation for why there is a God. — Relativist

Leibniz asked why is there something, then argues because God.

Of course not. "Nothing" is an abstract concept formed by mental subtraction: imagine any set, remove members one by one. What's left? nothing. To claim nothing is something is self-contradictory, or a reification of the "nothing" concept. — Relativist

Or, nothing exists in the same way something exists.

Yes, why should we expect there to be a universe. There just is.

wow

wow, wiki.

Hearings tonight were damning. Trump should be afraid to walk out in public.

I have been describing skepticism in terms of the impossibility of transcending the rift between our representations of truth and meaning , and the world itself. — Joshs

The very idea of the rift is skepticism.

I really don't understand why people who have never read a word of Derrida in their life like to talk about Derrida. It's the same impulse that teenage boys have talking about quantum physics. It must sound cool or something despite their total ignorance. — Streetlight

What proof can you provide of your knowledge?

Malfunction!? — Agent Smith

ok

Brains are survival machines, not truth machines! — Agent Smith

Then why does the brain think about more than survival?

And it also leads to a very big unanswered question: how can minds arise from mindless matter? — RogueAI

Or, that proposition is false.

I find the whole idea of cognitive bias unconvincing. Even if it is true, so what?

Should I find the tiny violin player or will you? — igjugarjuk

I won't be reading your posts.

A Derridean point, by the way — igjugarjuk

An obvious point, to anyone who read Plato.

Point being that you don't care about Derrida and I do a little and pretty much no one cares about those first two situations, not even a little. — igjugarjuk

I am a philosopher and discussing ideas. I suggest you stop making personal attacks.

You offered a mere report of your feelings. So I razzed you for it. — igjugarjuk

Goodbye.

Should I find a journalist or will you? — igjugarjuk

I have no idea what that meant.