Jamal

:up: I just noticed that the system uses them for quotes. It puts one in before the user name, as you can see in this post. This is not useful or inte...

I think I understand and pretty much agree with all of your points, but I've run out of steam on this topic. I now think that the steel man argument w...

Ah it's good to see the old crew again.

That's really just a steak pie rather than a distinct species of pie.

Blood in food tends to give it a black or dark maroon colour, so I usually recommend tomato paste when someone asks, “how can I make my food more oran...

I’ve enjoyed several Cornish pasties, but when I went to Cornwall I didn’t go near a pasty. Isn’t that ironic? In Scotland we have our own pasty, call...

Pie looks great. Another of my prejudices about America has been shattered, namely that a pie for an American is necessarily filled with fruity sweetn...

I don’t want to brag, I’m not saying I’m better than @"Hanover", (no matter how justified you might think that would be), I’m not unsympathetic, and I...

https://img.myipadbox.com/sec/product_l/TBD01836507.jpg Described on the website as “Adjustable Stainless Steel Finger Hand Guard Finger Protector Kni...

I prefer enlightenment to productivity, seeking the truth to maximizing profits. But whatever works for you :smile:

Turns out the raw version was available and I missed it. Next time.

Big brown bandage. :up: Goes nicely with the golden wheat walls.

But I agreed with you, and the word “sophisticated” fits perfectly. You said primitive in philosophy means “basic and simple, as in the ordinary means...

That’s a fascinating connection I hadn’t thought about.

:cool: How did you find #3?

In philosophy, and perhaps in art as well, the all-encompassing term is the world, and this is different from the universe, which is an object of scie...

You’d love him!

Wow, didn’t know about that. I just looked it up. I like steak tartare and that looks kinda similar so I shall try it.

Tucker Carlson?

Whether such a founding idea has merely not been lived up to, as you say, or else is in some way wrong or deficient is a difficult question that I’d n...

That’s my middle name.

You’ve had enough already.

I guess everything is hunky dory then. Well done.

This is a thread in which we announce what we’ve been reading and sometimes talk about it. I posted an interesting quotation from Adorno, which is wha...

That’s a bit rude. If you had actually engaged with what Adorno was saying then I’d be happy to debate it, but it’s pretty clear that you’re in a poss...

Fair enough. I have no wish to trigger sensitive Americans so I’ll retreat from this conversation.

Maybe lay off the booze before your next post.

So what?

Have you intervened merely to defend the United States Declaration of Independence or do you have something to say about the tension between legal equ...

Yes, good point and I see that. But it’s not enough is it? That a country beset with racism was founded on egalitarianism might prompt us to wonder if...

That’s it. I couldn’t remember the name, and it was my first Lebanese restaurant so I hadn’t seen or eaten a lot of the food.

:blush:

Are you telling me I cannot be a lady if I want?

Since I associate balloons with innocent joy, I was not prepared for the darkness of that story.

Interesting passage I’ve just read from Minima Moralia. It goes against the sort of view I’ve usually advocated: Fits very well with current arguments...

Just finished this. A clear and excellent introduction to Adorno but not entry-level. Significantly focused on the influence of Walter Benjamin. A bre...

You’re welcome. Have a nice day.

Note that when I referred to “my original analysis” I was referring to the OP. The numbered argument presented above is my not-very-thorough attempt t...

I’m currently using an iPad, on which a double hyphen will be turned into an em dash automatically. Or I can press and hold the hyphen key to choose b...

I would have inserted a colon or em dash there. Personal view: harping on about atheism is as bad as harping on about antinatalism, so I’m inclined to...

Thank you both. I’ll reply soonish.

Breakfast: Lebanese leftovers warmed in the oven. Cheese-stuffed flatbread, halloumi with plum sauce, deep-fried balls of spicy minced lamb, hummus, m...

Thanks. Yes, I used to fiddle obsessively with that stuff myself, but here on TPF it seems it’s only me who has the problem, likely because I’m in a p...

But although science cannot be separated from the rest of culture, it can be distinguished, and it can be intermeshed such that what we call progress ...

Yes, I think in philosophy it could be contrasted with something like sophisticated. For example, naive realism might be described as primitive in tha...

I wonder if my objection to “primitive conditions” is a trivial one, dressed up as a profundity. This is indeed how Pinker views the criticism of the ...

Ah, the OP! I forgot about that. So “us” may have referred to philosophers. Right. Well, as that isn’t remotely as interesting to me as what I was tal...

The other day I saw a liberated helium party balloon floating over Leninsky Prospekt. I joked that it was a spy ballon, but the joke fell flat, as the...

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I know you weren’t disagreeing with me. As I said, I wanted to point out that when I corrected ND, I was not being serious.