Jamal

I hope you don't mind if I jump in here, even though I'm not a mathematician and haven't really done any mathematics for thirty years. My view is that...

Hear hear! Down with bad things!

Is that what inferentialism entails? That's a bummer. You're in danger of forcing me to read Brandom.

Cool. Still don't know what you meant but...cool.

Well, I see where you're coming from. BUT! Please never use olive oil to make egg fried rice or ... well, anything from Asia at all really. So many ot...

It's the same thing?

I agree. Marx’s principle for a good society, From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs, is flexible on the notion of needs: ...

To argue that Kant believes that definitions have a place it’s clearer to just stick with the Transcendental Doctrine of Method, where he makes an exc...

Well yes, I made that point in the OP, and not only by quoting Kant. I also admitted that the title overstated the case. However, you did alert me to ...

:up: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. The killing of an old man, if such killing had a name, would be just as significant. I agree, but ...

It’s not clear to me whether this situation is the result of a lack of definitions, or an excessive focus on definitions. Perhaps you answer that when...

Seems reasonable. Yes, I suppose Hegel is the next step here for me. The thing that bothers me about Hegel, and sometimes Adorno too, is the reluctanc...

That’s interesting. I hadn’t even thought to question Kant on that. I suppose then that when he says in the same section that “Mathematical definition...

Yes, that’s what is impressive and surprising. Not because I thought you weren’t capable, but because it’s a lot of work for a minuscule story.

I’m feeling a bit etiolated today.

It’s an impressive analysis. I admire your dedication and I’m amazed you got so much out of such a tiny story.

Starts quite slowly but becomes totally addictive towards the middle, and I loved the surprise ending even though I don’t usually go for happy endings...

Yeah, I love Turkish food, and the quality here is good.

Maybe I took the factory tour for all you know.

Sounds good. White beans and chorizo: classic :up: Breakfast: toast, one mini cheese cheburek, apple, coffee, kefir Lunch: leftovers from last night's...

There is debate among modern interpreters over whether Kant is an indirect realist, but it is not concerned with the distinction of objects and things...

It goes back to @"plaque flag"’s question, which I don’t think you answered (you simply denied the antecedent of the hypothetical). I’ll ask it again ...

Now I know why you’re reading a book about tax reform.

Yes, but in the post I replied to you implied that it was the denial of cosmic purpose that was evil, or that the only alternative to cosmic purpose i...

Maybe clearer for you like this: However, the idea that if one doesn’t accept that this is somehow reflected in the cosmos at large and one doesn’t be...

I think what I said is a clear response to what I just quoted from your post: Apart from the possibility that I misrepresented your view, I don’t know...

It's just my rough summary of the views you expressed in the post I was referring to: Since this is quite vague, it's possible I misrepresented you, b...

You should hear my Cough Concerto.

I agree with this bit. I think the profound truth is that human beings are special and that some things are sacred. However, the idea that if you don'...

I'm saying nothing. Last time I disagreed with you about it you left the Shoutbox for a week and your absence was palpable.

I blame the Mexicans. :wink:

My sneeze success is probably around 80%.

Right, sorry. I always think of it as a single track.

I've seen inamorata and pleonasm many times, don't know the others. It's a good word. I first became aware of it in the eighties thanks to Andrew Eldr...

Yep, common in motor racing, so it gets used on TV a lot. Also in urban planning and traffic engineering. You really need to brush up on your traffic ...

I just saw this. I do.

I don't know if this is common knowledge and I don't think it works for everyone, but when I'm on the edge of sneeze and it needs a push, I look to th...

How do you define success? In sneezing I mean.

Yeah, I wouldn't drink that. Fortunately that's not how they make kefir, ayran, tan, kumis, shubat etc. These beverages are enjoyed by the millions of...

Good title.

Three or four of them are very common (bricolage, quango, etiolated, chicane) and another two or three are less common but still not in the realm of t...

Sometimes it’s obvious. For example, @"javi2541997" hardly needs to mention that he’s reading Fiscal Reform and its Firm-Level Effects in Eastern Euro...

I don’t know what you mean.

Six of those are pretty common in my own reading experience. I read etiolated just yesterday. I did have to look up flocculent the last time I read it...

That was the thing I was most curious about but they didn’t give me any in the end. It was finished or they forgot, I don’t know. Needless to say, I r...

You’ve now given me a whole bunch of new words I have to remember. I’m not ungrateful but it’s hard work keeping it all in my head. My lagman, manti, ...

More lectures by Adorno: An Introduction to Dialectics.

Looks like a great topic but I think I’d have to divert my reading plans to contribute adequately (or even inadequately).

And that reminds me of this: But now I’ve probably veered off topic, not only from this thread and your comments, but from myself.

Yeah but chocolate cookies with tofu: :yum: