Max Castle

whether in everyday contexts or operational ones. Philosophical meaning talk, whereby philosophers attempt to use intentional cognition...

…in *every* attempt to explain anything.

some kind of exceptional deep information environment, be transcendental, phenomenological, logical, or what have you.

But the further away you move from perception the more *aboutness* talk starts to look like a constitutive feature of cognition.

tool sets strike us as spooky constraints simply because they are the only thing visible when we attempt to source our cognitive capacities.

In this case, operating at a higher level of functional abstraction is a virtuous filtering of irrelevant information, not neglect.

And how do you know it's virtuous? How do you know you're not neglecting crucial information? Abstraction is problematic precisely ...

…mere fact it abstracts.