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I try to see through those lenses. But my personal and family quality of life will suffer if those changes occur. My workplace will change for the wor...

What was it like? Does this dream of Manifest Destiny promise to bring the old USA back? Musk and Zuckerberg run global empires whose fortunes will in...

It will be surprising if Canada puts together a rope-a-dope response to the tariffs of the kind that Mexico has done. Each of the Provinces have been ...

As far as values go, Nietzsche drew a sharp distinction between Christianity and ancient philosophers:

The scope of the book, of which I am less than halfway through, is said by Rödl to address the validity of empirical judgements by the end of it. That...

It was the day before tariffs and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, unless you were one of the many nations planning their responses...

What is being opposed by Rödl is the ground for thinking: By speaking of how "objectivity and self-consciousness can be conjoined", Rödl is sounding a...

The Klima quote does demonstrate that he and Rödl are both addressing a shared understanding of force/content propositions. 's description of second o...

Now that T company has had to retreat from the federal funding freeze fiasco, I wonder if they will carry out the promised tariff show on Feb 1. These...

You presume what you might conclude. If 'matter' is not a something we encounter in experience, then it has been shuttled off into another ward. No ne...

From what I have gathered so far, that is not Rödl's interest. It is in 2.7 that the objection to the force/content distinction comes to a head: Wheth...

The Federal Grant Freeze announced today has already started to draw lawsuits. The broad sweep is a thumb in the eye of the Legislative Branch as they...

T administration has their best people on it. The broad sweep of the federal raids has already prompted many workers to stay home in California.

Fair enough.

What is a self in the thesis is not a given. The critique of the Fregean sets of references moves away from the self who affirms stuff (or not) in all...

Have you not settled all possible readings to be useless?

While I appreciate many of your observations, the arrogance of this remark is not a benefit.

That is odd to hear after your years of arguing for a particular vision of that above others.

I was not predicting who came out on top. Just pointing to a paradox to accepting trump's conditions for those interested in doing a particular job.

As the matter involves the balance of power between the executive and the legislative branches, even the most hard core trumpsters may not kiss the ri...

Since the IGs are a crucial element of Congressional oversight, it will be interesting to see if the GOP will let this go forward. At the very least, ...

Are you saying this in response to actually reading the book or stating an opinion in general about such attempts?

So, what do you make of Rödl's statement that Nagel is making a similar mistake? (as pointed to previously}.

I think the problem of talking about what is a new 'thought' has to first pass through the issue of the first person being the one making the judgemen...

The non-discriminating pardon of 1/6 criminals is bad for the rule of law. It specifically empowers those who see themselves as executors of T's will ...

I get that you do not desire retribution. But there are others who do. What to do with them? Will they have power in the coming days? You seem confide...

Is your condition bereft of any differences that choices made will affect outcomes? Your laughter is like that of the gods.

Why comment when so satisfied with your superior position?

There is an ambiguity in your delight. You are above the fray.

Said like a true adult.

The latest T proposals speak of sending U.S. military down to the border before figuring out how that fits in with the other federal, state, and count...

I need to read and think more about it but perhaps Rödl may not want to accept all of Hegel either. Mww's account of the 'thinking substance' undersco...

I think Rödl is greatly influenced by Hegel's criticism of Kant. The expression of common ground can be found here: Where Rödl diverges from Kant rela...

On the eve of the new executive, it is impossible to know which part of the rhetoric was bluster and what was not. Will there be trade wars, the remov...

This says to me that the problem is not an unnecessary division. Rödl objects to Nagel and Moore in this way: The proposed solution is not to find a r...

What puzzles me in your charge of dishonesty is that it dissolves Rödl's efforts to separate first person thinking from objective judgment. Whatever u...

Rödl proposes "absolute idealism" as the way forward from where Nagel and Moore stopped: As your reference to the Hegel formula suggests, the goal is ...

Pardon me, that was a lame response. I will try giving a better one soon. I need to work for a bit.

If the problem is not like Nagel put it, then it is another problem. Röd proposes an alternative response after honoring Nagel for making it a problem...

Is not the Harmann quote appealing to those who have nothing to gain from the outcome?

Said like an entry in a text that does not concern you.

I have a problem with the encyclopedic approach to expression of ideas. Half of me roots for Harman's language while the other half objects to another...

About the remark about schools of thought?

I don't accept the pertinence of schools as presented here but do credit Harman for giving an excellent rant.

Thanks to you and to Wayfarer. Whatever else comes from the book, it is a different way to approach what has often been discussed on the forum before.

Rödl is more specific about where Nagel and Moore miss the mark: Put that way, "non-duality" sounds like a bridge between the terms as opposites where...

Rödl treats Nagel as the last exit from the highway of absolute idealism: This seems to be where Rödl also moves beyond Kant (as referred to here). Th...

I was just reading the post as it appeared. Did not realize that you were drawing from your notes. Taken at face value, that is a description of thing...

Now that I am reading Self-Consciousness and Objectivity, it would help if you cited where you are quoting from. I read the Schopenhauer passage as no...