It's like asking if your daydreams are internal to me, as if I could literally observe your daydreams. — Terrapin Station
Right. Anyway, I'm sure you have some sense of what internalize means, right? — praxis
Internalize has a connotation that something was external. — Terrapin Station
You're a Solipsist? — praxis
TS is stuck in infinite reflection - a perpetual loop of direct relation. He is unable to make the dialectical transition out of immediacy, where a new relation can be synthesized. — Merkwurdichliebe
TS is stuck in infinite reflection - a perpetual loop of direct relation. He is unable to make the dialectical transition out of immediacy, where a new relation can be synthesized.
β Merkwurdichliebe
Well that was a bunch of gobbledygook. I appreciate that it was only two lines of it though. (Seriously.) — Terrapin Station
I'm just trying to figure out why you're having trouble with the meaning of 'internalize'.
Maybe try to think of it as forming a habit. You can have the idea and desire to develop a particular habit but until it is actually a habit it is not internalized. Make sense? or is that too pedestrian of an explanation? — praxis
Terrapin Station is mired in a worldview whose logical consequence is an unbridgeable dualism between mind and world, a kind of solipsism, as I showed Here. — Janus
So then only TS has morality, I suppose. How would he possibly prove that another has morality by referring to "utterances a la sounds/marks etc."
Seems he has sufficiently answered the question for himself...
TS is the source of morals. — Merkwurdichliebe
A deeply confused view indeed! — Janus
Oh look. My fan club has arrived.
β creativesoul
Where have they been the last dozen pages? — Merkwurdichliebe
It is not my wish to be facetious but what would constitute a satisfactory answer to a source of morals? — thedeadidea
This is precisely what some of us have been at pains to set out. I invite you to peruse the recent discussion from it's beginning — creativesoul
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