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Is everything understood (semantics) within a language and is perception the first language?
And are all languages (math, set theory, whistling, English, Chinese, etc) somewhat inter-translatable? I'm sorry for the broad/overreaching question.
Is this something some philosophers agree on, ...
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Does Brassier say that perceptual objects are not paradigmatic objects?
Does Brassier say that perceptual objects are not paradigmatic objects? I think I stumbled on the claim he did, but didn't read, and have since given up on finding the phrase.
It would seem to make ...
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Starting on Husserl and Merleau-Ponty
I'm taking undergraduate studies in Social Sciencies and because of a research I'm working on I started to read Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception and realized that this book requires a ...
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Any chapter length study on the phenomenology of my reflection in a mirror?
Is there any chapter length study on the phenomenology of my reflection in a mirror? I'm just looking for a philosophical description of what's happening there, it has nothing to do with my (highly ...
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In what ways is Merleau-Ponty following (late/unpublished) Husserl?
... or, to put it differently: to what extent has Husserl already ancitipated in his unpublished writings what Merleau-Ponty has been developing later?
The standard narrative goes that Husserl ...
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Why is Sartre averse to "images" in consciousness?
Jean-Paul Sartre, in his book The Imaginary, describes a mental image of a chair as follows:
"My perception is, in accordance with the terminology that we have
adopted, a certain consciousness ...
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What optical features do we use to distinguish "life" from "non-life"? [closed]
Let's first define "living". A living thing is an object that shares some traits with other living things, e.g. it has a metabolism, it has been "born" (in the broadest sense, including cell division ...
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