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Bumped thread due to relevance to current discussions. @”Intellectus”

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I think it was Brad Warner who said that so many people look at a bucket of sea water and think that they understand and know eveything about the ocean.
I like structuralism and post-structuralism because it approaches philosophy with an interdisciplinary approach.

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Yes, there is a mark that is put ipon something to begin with, but Saussure reveals how given enough time and application, ‘structures’ can prevail over the participants who placed the marks to begin with.

Later structuralists like Louis Althusser, spotted how Saussures’ structure of language can be applied to the study of culture, so there is no need to make nature/culture distinctions, we are so deeply embedded within culture that there is no way to delve under it and so we all live on the outside.

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Philosophy is always a work in progress, when a problem is solved, it opens up many new problems and becomes increasingly complex. I’m not advocating relativism, or that there is sn absolute ‘right’ answer as you mentioned, just that nothing is fixed and that all is a dependent origination, therefore there are no innate ideas, or things in themselves. I don’t know if it’s possible to have an idea we can call ‘our own’ either, all is inherited, embodied and incorporated.

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@”Intellectus”

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@”Intellectus”

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I just want to point out that Rhema and Logos do not mean the same thing. Logos has always had more to do with the faculty of reason, whereas Rhema is more akin to the utterance of a word, speech.

Check out Ferdinand De Saussures’ structuralist view of language, he was a Swiss linguist, he made a distinction between ‘langue’, which are like ‘images’ or ‘concepts’ of words within a language, which are dependent on their relations (differentiation) and ‘parole’ which is the actual utterance of the words. What he does is separate language from human subjective ideas.

Logos/Rhema would have much the same differences.

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The view that you are describing is Mental Representationalism which is one of the most dominant views within Cognitive Science, it is part of Cognitivism.

Check out emergence and connectionism and the critique of sumbolic representation as a foundation of cognition within cognitive science.

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Thread moved to General Art, Music and Literature Discussion.

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To be human and what that means first requires understanding what ‘to be’, ‘being’ is all about.

Biology certainly can define a human, but we are certainly more than just our genes. I don’t think we can find one isolated object to define what ‘being human’ is, culture and language are just as significant and we can include a beyond good and evil perspective for sure.

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https://youtu.be/ReIAna459sg

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The hypocrisy is unreal. Corbyn was criticised during the election for talking to the IRA and then immediately afterwards, May violates the Good Friday agreement by trying to form a government with DUP. Next chance we get, the Tories have to go for good.

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I guess so, but the low pound is of benefit to the Saudis.

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Give us the link @”kFoyauextlH”

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The meaning of life is overcoming disappointment then?

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