My point about compassion being an antidote to solipsism, is simply that the essence of compassion is 'feeling-with' - seeing yourself in others and others in yourself. — Wayfarer
You seem to assume that those who do not agree with your interpretation therefore must not "get it"; a little confirmation-biasy and self-serving, don't you think? — Janus
I think it is only the living actuality of pre-reflective, pre-subjective/objective experience that allows us to make the reflexive move of talking about things in terms of subjects and objects. But then we often make the mistake of projecting the entities of our analysis (such as "transcendental apperception" back into our pre-reflective experience and imagining them to be primordial and a priori 'substantive processes' as opposed to being merely conceptual modes of understanding. Whitehead calls this the "fallacy of misplaced concreteness". — Janus
Simple answer: we can't because no parts/ entities of analysis are pre-reflective. If you think they are, then you have committed a fallacy of misplaced concretenrss and/or succumbed to a transcendental illusion. — Janus
How do we determine which parts/entities of our analysis are pre-reflective(what parts/entities could be prelinguistic and/or happen pre-reflectively)? — creativesoul
...no parts/ entities of analysis are pre-reflective. If you think they are, then you have committed a fallacy of misplaced concretenrss and/or succumbed to a transcendental illusion. — Janus
Are you claiming that we cannot use complex analysis as a means for acquiring knowledge of that which existed in it's entirety prior to the analysis? — creativesoul
Of that which existed prior to any conceptualization or analysis at all, yes. — Janus
So why are you asking me whether they existed prior to any conceptualization, rather than dealing with the question of whether we can preconceptually know anything about them? — Janus
What knowledge of trees as existing prior to any conceptualization can you arrive at through "complex analysis"? — Janus
...we often make the mistake of projecting the entities of our analysis (such as "transcendental apperception" back into our pre-reflective experience and imagining them to be primordial and a priori 'substantive processes' as opposed to being merely conceptual modes of understanding. Whitehead calls this the "fallacy of misplaced concreteness". — Janus
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