... A Bedouin who has never so much as heard of the ocean has a chance, a remote possibility, of inferring its existence from a muddy watering hole, but it is ...
... call ... There was no "logic about the cone" save the logic of identifying a desire with itself. That is, just as a property of pain is the pain itself,...
I offer no scepticism. There are no true sceptics. You have to contradict yourself to be one. It's a big move I think,from "identifying a desire with itself"...
Please don't anybody get me wrong -- especially Budd. And Tom. Sometimes what seems to be so readily apparent, isn't. Even to onself. And I don't mind coming...
... Budd: Again, just as a property of pain is the pain itself, so a property of having a desire is the desire itself. If one is unsure about the desire, then...
There is no such thing as direct knowledge of anything -- everything you know, you know indirectly -- I am hungry. There is no normal case for anything -- you ...
Direct {stemming immediately from a source} Knowledge {the circumstance or condition of apprehending truth or fact through reasoning} Indirectly {deviating...
... Budd: I can know that I have a desire when I have a desire regardless of what else may happen, period. ... Budd: It is not a matter of probability when I...
On the contrary, if I came across as thinking you not worthy of response, I sincerely apologise. I seem to notice you and I are the only ones on this thread....
... Budd: Your jumping into the seas of Spinoza is one mark of an interested student of philosophy indeed. I guess one reason I came to have infinite respect...
Oops! See previous "reply to Budd" which was wrongly left labelled "reply to Budd" instead of "reply to Mark." Cheers, Budd ===== May the ride of your life be...
I really don't know that much about the philosophy of mathematics, so you can help me understand. Correct me if I'm wrong -- and I probably am -- but the ...
To be quite frank about it, I feel more like the boat in Perfect Storm -- have you seen that movie? And I recall reading in Spinoza somewhere about a cork ...
... As far as I know there are "four ways of 'perceiving things'" ('modi percipiendi') in "Treatise of the Emendation of the Intellect" (II,19) - another name...
... Budd: Humans and some animals are both extended and have beliefs and desires, thus partaking of the two Attributes Spinoza calls Extension and Thought....
I vaguely remember reading your post this am. when I got in. Weekends are bad here -- too many hours, not enough sleep. Spinozas different kinds of knowledge...
I will be away from internet access from August 10 until August 17 (I will be vacationing in a cottage on the shore of the Black Sea in Sarpi -- about 130 km....
Your quotes of Spinoza are accurate -- am familiar with them. But out of curiosity what beliefs do animals have? I can get into world-cat at Tech so will look...
Let me get back to the math. Either of you -- locate two for me? Mark __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use...
E.III, prop.IX "It is thus plain from what has been said,that in no case do we strive for,wish for,long for or desire anything, because we deem it to be good, ...
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... a process, an activity, a "becoming" and - through/via the body - a way of living. The "kinds of knowledge are not mere distinguished "capacities of the...
I just came in from work and read your post -- much thanks. Am trying to tie this in with something else. I'll reast a while and get back to you. Mark ...
... John Searle gives the example of a dog chasing a cat. As the cat runs up the tree, the dog barks at the tree. The dog must believe the cat is up the tree....
"E5Prop. [XXXII] Whatsoever we understand by the third kind of knowledge, we take delight in and our delight is accompanied by the idea of God as cause. ...
"E5Prop. [XXXII] Whatsoever we understand by the third kind of knowledge, we take delight in and our delight is accompanied by the idea of God as cause. ...
"E5Prop. [XXXII] Whatsoever we understand by the third kind of knowledge, we take delight in and our delight is accompanied by the idea of God as cause. ...
An open thanks to both -- In the things I've posted here, I threw my thoughts out there naked and unclothed, so to speak, why? Intending not to hide from view....
