Mon 17 May, 2010 05:59 pm - [QUOTE=jeeprs;165181]Incidentally LongKnowledge, while we are on the topic, if I had to pick a volume on Ortega, do you have a recommendation?[/QUOTE]
"Human Existence as Radical Reality:... (view)
Sun 16 May, 2010 10:48 pm - [QUOTE=Reconstructo;164651]You don't see why I call negative ontology "nontology"? Or you don't see a thread that connects our views?[/QUOTE]
The latter.
[QUOTE]Sure, of... (view)
Sun 16 May, 2010 10:05 pm - [QUOTE=kennethamy;165132]The name, "Sophie" of course derives from the same root as the term, "philosophy". "Sophia" in ancient Greek means wisdom or... (view)
Sun 16 May, 2010 09:19 pm - The Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset once pointed out the ridiculousness of the name "Philosophy" and characterized it jokingly as "The Love of Sophie." (view)
Sat 15 May, 2010 12:00 am - [QUOTE=Reconstructo;164438]It's the same, yeah.[/QUOTE]
I must admit I don't see the sameness.
[QUOTE]It's my theory that thoughts are unities, whether we want them to be or not.... (view)
Fri 14 May, 2010 06:02 pm - [QUOTE=Reconstructo;164324]I like the notion of a [U]negative ontology[/U], which is just an awareness that our distinctions, the beings we disclose with/by language, are contingent. There is... (view)
Fri 14 May, 2010 01:14 pm - Thank you [B]Dasein[/B], [B]Deckard[/B], [B]MMP2506[/B], [B]Reconstructo[/B], [B]qualia[/B], [B]prothero[/B], and [B]jeepers [/B]for converting my OP into a most interesting discussion. But I would... (view)
Thu 13 May, 2010 10:11 am - [QUOTE=Dasein;163857][B][COLOR=black]longknowledge[/COLOR][/B][COLOR=black];[/COLOR]
[B][I][COLOR=black]con -adverb[/COLOR][/I][/B]
[COLOR=black]1. [/COLOR][COLOR=black]Against a proposition,... (view)
