Yes, you’re exactly on point. I’ve often thought that we shouldn’t be trigger-happy about dissolving questions. It’s possible that “nature of being” has a real answer and shouldn’t be dissolved. But I’m pretty sure we would need a new attack for that, because I have zero faith in the attack used by Heidegger. Why do you have faith in it?
(The idea of “attack” comes from this talk by Hamming. It’s central to all my thinking about thinking.)
if intuitions are 100% garbage (not Luke’s actual conclusion) AND we can’t do without them, we are in a very bad situation.
Why do only certain questions get the dissolution treatment? Is there a formal criterion, or is it based on biased and intuition?
Yes, you’re exactly on point. I’ve often thought that we shouldn’t be trigger-happy about dissolving questions. It’s possible that “nature of being” has a real answer and shouldn’t be dissolved. But I’m pretty sure we would need a new attack for that, because I have zero faith in the attack used by Heidegger. Why do you have faith in it?
(The idea of “attack” comes from this talk by Hamming. It’s central to all my thinking about thinking.)
Versions of the “nature of being” question are relevant to things like MWI and the mathematical universe hypothesis.
I don’t, and I didn’t say I did. H. is one of my least favourite philosophers.