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Wow. I had a much different experience. The emphasis upon thinking for oneself was difficult to endure as it involved lots of criticism of what one sa...

Ending in The Last Picture Show. Imitation meets its maker.

Now that I have decided to read the book, I will not be reading reviews of it. I will be looking for what I gleaned from Hegel. Chief amongst them wil...

Belongs in Lounge with others of the same ilk.

I read the quote marks to refer to the problem of barely perceptible changes of grade. Salt flats are even enough to permit driving over at very high ...

On a large body of water or the ocean located next to a tall treeless hill, embark perpendicular to the shoreline after placing large brightly colored...

The idea of a mean between extremes is interesting. I need to sit with that for a bit in order to avoid saying something off the cuff.

I am curious if you meant to link to Gerson's article rather than Wang's with the same title. If so, there is a comment I would like to make about pas...

I appreciate everyone's effort to save me some bucks. I am frugal by nature and habit. But I will go through the front door and buy the book. I have r...

From what I have garnered so far from his references to Aristotle, Rödl’s book is not trying to frame "idealism" against a "materialism". In the footn...

I read the SEP and it makes distinctions between concepts that are conflated by your saying: The article says: Your comments about phenomenology are i...

The "polished dull" reminds me of saying "forced nonchalance" a while back. Mine is not quite right yet. I am reading stories but keeping mum for the ...

The latest Trump statements on overriding the sovereignty of adjacent nations shows him hoping to ditch the "sphere of influence' thing and go for str...

That "must be able" component played a big part in Sartre's Transcendence of the Ego. His arguments are interesting even if one is not sold on swappin...

Since the minions will all be connected to the man as a minimum requirement for participation, it will not be like the Team of Rivals ascribed by some...

The graphic part is annoying, but the music is good. The Daydream track is ensemble playing like it ought to be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvYG1...

That got me thinking of the role of collocations, where words are customarily connected such as "strong coffee" or "heavy drinker". From that point of...

I figure if one has "lofty", the use of "above" is gratuitous.

Whoa, Nelly, that hurt me in my hurt place.

That reference to De Anima in the footnote does point to a particular expression of "self-consciousness": Aristotle's point in the quote from Parts of...

The hammer only sees nails.

The question of causality on the cosmological scale of Metaphysics book Lambda is itself a product of trying to distinguish "active" and "passive" ele...

I am proposing that he is talking about it many times but with the humility of being a mortal creature who only can remotely glimpse the divine. Note ...

Your link points to another important reference: More important for the use of "active agent" in De Anima is the inquiry in Metaphysics of how potenti...

I have looked at a preview of Rödl’s book. It is an interesting challenge to the mind/object dichotomy of Descartes and Kant (and many others). I see ...

That example is not comparable to the situation in the U.S.A. But the citation does show you think the problem was manufactured.

Your proposed response would have led to much more of that.

Hardly a response to my challenge. I take it you are not equal to it.

So, you were onboard with much more death than happened. Unless you are one of the people who believe the attempts to control the disease were causes ...

That note is a reasonable generality of the different views. There is comparison of different jobs in the literature. It is easier to understand the w...

The literature includes many examples of previous social orders that were deemed superior to a present state of affairs. The Daoist writings include s...

That account does not include the talk about a natural world where the evils of the present world are not necessary.

There was that opposition. And it carried on over a number of centuries in the form of different narratives. I will try to round up examples that you ...

It helps to compare these statements with the words from Confucius and the role of Mohists as sources of legislation. The statements were made in a pa...

We live in a dynamic time. It is not my original thought but I think that rates of change between generations are different for different people in di...

As far as I know, you are not me. You have invited others to your solipsism party.

It will be interesting to see if a similar change of message will happen with agricultural labor.

Perhaps you could actually quote Wittgenstein. So far, you seem to be tilting against a windmill. It was your idea. You presented it as what made comm...

But the position you are opposing is not making a claim of necessity.

Your remark about probability does not address the question of "disposition" you introduced. Where does that come from?

Where did my "disposition" to have such a belief come from?

You include the word "communication" in your argument against the activity happening. How will the "same information" be the "same" if it is only what...

Good points. The method Wittgenstein incorporates pitches conflicting points of view of what is the best response. His knack for voicing views differe...

I don't read the Blue Book or PI as saying there is no use for reduction in all cases. The objects of shared experience do not have the same problems ...

I think Ludvig V's question about facts is germane. If the beginning of PI and the talk of live versus dead signs in the Blue Book puts a certain unde...

I meant to be clever rather than accurate. The limits of adulation are ironic. We cannot provide an Anselmian proof to ourselves what is proposed to b...

The inability to express such awesomeness should be reckoned as proof enough.

Aristotle took recourse to a distinction between the eternal and the "temporary" to arrange his cosmology: The arguments made against Parmenides in th...

It seems to me that the limits to analysis being put forward by Wittgenstein are arguing for a particular set of facts over others. In Philosophical I...

And I suppose that applies to all the other desires I have. There are different kinds of desires and pursuing their consummation is an engagement with...