Show threadPaul HealeyMar 9

@YellowTurtle Suppose no thing, which is put together is nothing, is absolute, so implies being is not absolute. Why should an idea be synonymous with what being is; why are the values of the ideas’ concept not absolute? When absolute values are presupposed, as in merely affirmed according to beliefs e.g. the geocentric model of the cosmos is true, which is actually false, they do not transcend their actual values if science is objective. By that I mean its claims can be independently verified and are not dependent on the beliefs in them. Ideas, having not just a form but being the exposition of the concept, transcend being e.g. the cosmos is infinite in time and or space as opposed to the values of the reasons for its dimensions are. #Philosophy

The dialectic is not linear in that its principle is constituted by the comprehension of contradictions, which are real, not transcendental e.g. as there are exceptions to speculative claims on modality that are spurious, as in without proof e.g. it is necessary that there are no absolutes, as nothing is absolute. #Dialectic #Hegel #TheAbsoluteIdea #TheScienceOfLogic

PhilosophicsFeb 10

I consider the divide between Continental and Analytical philosophy through my ontological lens after watching an IAI debate. I had already considered this as a use case, so the serendipity was convenient. What I used to call petulance, I now call ontological divide – and petulance. Thoughts?

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/who-decides-the-best-way-to-think

#philosophy #continental #analytic #ontology #communication #divide #iykyk #semantics #thinking #power #perspective #dialgue #dialectic #video #iai #blog #substack

Pretty Gnostic MachineJan 10

Hot take:

Spengler mistook fatigue for fate: a culture's winter for cosmic law.

He froze history into doom aesthetics and called it destiny, forgetting #dialectic, invention, and the obscene fact that decay is also compost.

Civilizations don't die; they mutate.
Growth hides in rot. 💩

donthatedontkillDec 13
One of my new superpowers in "debating" (I prefer a dialectic really) is just saying "I don't care." Or "Why is that important?"
"No matter what society you imagine, people will always try to take advantage of it." => I don't care.
"But I might miss something on my timeline." => Why is that important?
Give it a try!
#debate #discussion #politics #fediverse #leftism #communism #anarchism #anarchocommunism #dialectic #thinking #CriticalThought #utopia #utopias #conversation #NewWaysOfBeing
donthatedontkillDec 13
One of my new superpowers in "debating" (I prefer a dialectic really) is just saying "I don't care." Or "Why is that important?"
"No matter what society you imagine, people will always try to take advantage of it." => I don't care.
"But I might miss something on my timeline." => Why is that important?
Give it a try!
#debate #discussion #politics #fediverse #leftism #communism #anarchism #anarchocommunism #dialectic #thinking #CriticalThought #utopia #utopias #conversation #NewWaysOfBeing
WIST Quotations Has Moved!Dec 4

A quotation from Edna St. Vincent Millay

With him for a sire and her for a dam,
What should I be but just what I am?

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American poet
Poem (1920-11), “The Singing-Woman from the Wood’s Edge,” Vanity Fair, Vol. 14, No. 3

More about this quote: wist.info/millay-edna-st-vince…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ednastvincentmillay #combination #dialectic #father #heritage #mother #parentage #parents #self #upbringing

Poem (1920-11), "The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge," Vanity Fair, Vol. 14, No. 3 - Millay, Edna St. Vincent | WIST Quotations

With him for a sire and her for a dam, What should I be but just what I am? Collected in A Few Figs from Thistles (1921). "Singing-Woman" is usually hyphenated in collections, but in Vanity Fair it was rendered "Singin' Woman" and in the original publication in Figs as…

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Pretty Gnostic MachineAug 7, 2025

As a Gnostic-German Idealist, I don't see MAGA as a movement.

I see metaphysical atrophy.

A spiritual cramp. A refusal to evolve.

The soul curling inward like a dying star,
trying to become gravity instead of light.

MAGA didn't lose their way.
They lost their capacity to become.

#dialectic

Stean 🇪🇺🌹🌾🛠 📐✏️🎨Jul 14, 2025

In manchen Dingen erscheint Österreich (mal wieder) als Petrischale zu den Auswirkungen national-völkischer Politik als Modell der Interessen von Kapitalhaltern und Boulevard-Medienmonopolisten zu deren protegierten antidemokratischen Rechtsruck.
Der Gegenwind einer linken Aufklärung findet aufgeweckt konturierte Beiträge zur Debatte. Ein Hinweis von mir zur Wiener Szene – für Leseinteressierte:

https://emrawi.org/

#activsm #austria #democracy #dialectic #left #resistance #solidarity

EMRAWI - Infos: emanzipatorisch - radikal - widerständig

Show threadPaul HealeyJun 30, 2025
@johncarlosbaez Your blog makes a reference to philosophy, but what has the combinatorics of ‘counting categories’ to do with those that constitute the foundation of their concept if those are reasons, relations, properties, dispositions and forms. I’m thinking of Plato’s principle and realms in relation to Aristotle’s modal oppositions….. #Philosophy #Knowledge #Dialectic #Forms #Categories
Aurianne OrJun 26, 2025
#Lord– #bondsman #dialectic - #Hegel @Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%E2%80%93bondsman_dialectic
Lord–bondsman dialectic - Wikipedia