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The one you're asking about. I'm one of the staff.

This is good writing. The post I deleted was not. Sorry, it was just too unclear for an opening post.

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I don't think he actually says this, and this is the conclusion to his logic only if you assume that to misuse a word is to fail to satisfy an essenti...

The OP is very clear that the difficulty is not about being an introvert or socially awkward.

That's it! :up: I did suspect he was getting at something like identity politics as the flipside of neoliberalism.

Cool. It's almost as if the languages are related or something :wink: There are some tables of cognates across various Indo-European languages here: h...

I think you need to argue for this or cite the research. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is very controversial. What I find a bit more plausible is that wh...

Some thoughts of a non-logician that may have been covered already by those more expert... Doesn't it just depend on context, determined by the domain...

It works on my iPad.

Yes it does look like that. But it was the phrase "internalizing and reproducing all the most distressing aspects of the neoliberal economism" that pa...

Yeah, there's certainly a tension there! They could mean something like that, but it seems too vague to pin down.

I've had his books on my reading list for some time. I'm particularly interested in The Utopia of Rules and Bullshit Jobs. Interesting potted intellec...

:chin: :up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xewma_4OpLw

Cheer up :party:

Most of us are on our private islands these days.

I moved it to Interesting Stuff > Humanities and Social Sciences, and I think it just about qualifies there. If things go well with the discussion, it...

I'm not sure. I've been arguing against the idea that the Soviet Union was a Right wing or fascist tyranny, and I think you're on my side in that deba...

Sounds reasonable.

I had never heard of it. I got "a moderate automatic preference for African Americans over European Americans". Does this mean I'm in the clear? Or do...

What I actually referred to was the Soviet government's conscious aims, and its actions to destroy the monarchy and the old social hierarchy. The whol...

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I guess what worries me here is the desire to describe Left vs Right as Good vs Bad guys*. I've recently seen some commentators defining the Left as b...

Fair enough. Being some kind of libertarian leftist myself I also tend to emphasize the inherent libertarianism of leftist politics (sadly this might ...

You seem to have ignored the word "just". Was this a mistake? Generally, your entire response is based on either (1) ignoring the definition of right-...

@"JerseyFlight" You've made good contributions here, but I want to take issue with your portrayal of the Soviet Union as a fascist or right-wing dicta...

The best way to do it here is probably a reading group. We have a section for that: https://thephilosophyforum.com/categories/16/reading-groups You'll...

Judaka did respond with the following, which goes some way to ticking those boxes: I happen to disagree that it follows that you're racist, Banno, but...

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Profanity is allowed.

This from the IEP entry on functionalism looks about right: https://iep.utm.edu/functism/ But aside from these differences in ontology, I see the two ...

No I didn't have in mind anything so tasty (though I prefer chana dal). Lentils are like Kant cos they're difficult to digest but good for you.

Welcome to the forum @"Ecliptic"

Lentils.

Pretty good thanks Tiff, but I'm growing fat with big city life. I was lucky that I was in Moscow with my wife when the pandemic really kicked off, ot...

I banned @"Frank Apisa" for his low quality posts.

Do you then reject Marx's notion of species-being? Even accepting what you say, does there not remain "an inner ‘dumb’ generality which unites many in...

Iconostasis. The Canadian voice in my audioguide at the Moscow kremlin yesterday said "turn to face the iconostasis" when I was in one of the cathedra...

People, please stop posting here about moderator actions. We have a feedback category. By the way, it's our normal practice to delete any response to ...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/profile/members/staff

In fact, I was warning against that fallacy. If I admit to sometimes judging posts or posters that I agree with as good, simply because I agree with t...

No problem :smile:

What Banno said (thanks, I was too lazy to break it down myself).

This is definitely a thing. But personally speaking I can appreciate quality posts that I don't agree with. For example, I think you're a good contrib...

If you have cause to complain about staff members then have the decency to complain directly to me by PM or in a feedback thread, instead of griping a...

It wasn't for you.

In case it has to stated explicitly: this is not a Russian website, it's in a foreign language, and it's a philosophy forum with no mass appeal, and c...

I don't see why. You're clearly on a war footing already, and it's clouding your judgment. I serve the TPF members, not the Russian state.

Yeh, they only allow me to keep this forum going on the condition that I stamp out any criticism of Putin or the glorious FSB, defenders of the Mother...