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Materialism and Empirio-criticism (Lenin 1909) 1:(-)1:(-)1
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- a text that had textbook status in the Soviet Union. worth annotating entry with important motifs / propositions / Lexemes.
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- title (en)
- Materialism and empirio-criticism
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Motifs
- We can only perceive psychical elements, not physical elements -> the positivist core of empirio-criticism
- Sensation is a fence -> yeah, it's more of a fuzzy boundary between a lawn and a road if it's anything
- crossing from mental images into physical world
- Experiencing a unicorn doesn't make it real / Regarding the whole world as qualia fails to explain where the world comes from
- If the brain was a liver you wouldn't see anything / If the brain is a liver, you won't see anything / If the brain secretes consciousness like the liver secretes bile, that does not explain where external objects come from and how there are any external objects for people to see
- People's minds are not a single mind-plane / We don't live in Deltarune / Idealism is unworkable because Stalin doesn't perceive reality through Trotsky / Stalin doesn't perceive reality through Trotsky / Vegeta doesn't perceive reality through Goku
- If we can only perceive sensations and not object models, there's no way to predict how they will connect -> somehow both a problem in Idealism and fiction
- Structuralist linguistics is better than empirio-criticism -> I don't think this is much of a hot take. I think structuralism gets better when you see it specifically as ontology rather than language, but otherwise, yeah, it's literally better
- Inside the mind sensory information is indistinguishable from signifiers -> what I thought of instantly when Mach talked about "symbols". but somehow that wasn't what he was saying.
- the earth was the experience of a worm / prior to man the earth was the experience of a worm -> this one is violet because this thought experiment would get you all the way to meta-Marxism if you only did it with "the world before mainstream Marxism-Leninism" or "the world before Trotskyism". if Trotsky was only smart enough to be able to see a world where he hadn't been born and realize that for a Marxist theorist people are fungible and the actual world shouldn't be different we wouldn't be in this mess
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