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When you said: Do you agree with Bertie that Witt disregarded his own statements? For my part, I disagree with a particular observation made by Russel...

I will sip upon a beer and imagine I am having an equal amount of fun.

That suggests you agree with Russell in a way that I do not. Russell says: The text does not support this addition to the thesis. The portion I quoted...

On this point, it is worth mentioning that Russell was not a supporter of the thesis of Tractatus but hoping it was not true. From Russell's introduct...

Since you take an approach where philosophical positions can be precisely located in an encyclopedic fashion, consider this entry from an encyclopedia...

Now Dante sort of had an underground parking garage. Does that give a finite depth with an infinite capacity to expand horizontally as generations pil...

There are problems with making the argument that justice is the same in the individual and the city. My point is that the individual is seen as being ...

I am not familiar with the text of this summary you refer to but Hobbes lived through the English Civil War and justified the monarchy on the basis of...

The dialogues are a far cry from stating "All men are created equal." There are many contested "histories" looking into how that talk came about. The ...

Is that for the sake of saving expressions like: "The Depth of his Moral Depravity?

It seems to me that the acknowledgement of not being able to explain the peculiar alchemy that brings a benefit (both publicly and privately) to child...

There is a correlation in Laws, where the qualifications for a suitable bride is discussed: The matter of a union beneficial to the City is discussed ...

One element to note is that the phrase "social contract" was coined by Rousseau. Applying that idea to what Hobbes was saying overlooks the "I won't k...

Please link to the collection.

What do you think about it? Are you reading the Leviathan or something else?

Have you read Hobbes?

Are you writing a college essay?

Results do vary. I have had enough good fortune to say it is true. I have had enough bad fortune to deeply appreciate what "lack of care" is like. One...

This reminds me of Foucault, who speaks of the "art of partnership" in his Care of the Self. Foucault traces the changing ideas about marriage from th...

I think of the difference between the religious and the psychological as a dynamic that plays different roles in different novels. When comparing The ...

The interviews with people who were recused from the current Trump trial are interesting. Finding the limits to one's own objectivity is such a New Yo...

Thank you for the considered response. I agree that there is a departure from Russell and Frege in the work but see it from a different angle. I, too,...

Regarding perception, the NYC entrepreneurial set of Trumpsters do expect a direct benefit from tax changes in one fashion or another. Moves to change...

Well, I was reporting perception, not actual policy on taxes. I take your point on the cost of trade wars. Not sure what you mean by that, but many pe...

From my encounter with Trump voters, in my family and work life, there is a difference between those who are mostly concerned with having the least am...

The case is about attempts to squash negative accounts before the election. The law involved concerns efforts to change perceptions of the electorate ...

Leibniz did present a 'universal character' suitable for a principle of sufficient reason to be up to the task of sorting out what things are. Or at l...

What is wrong with assuming the previous statements have been read and understood? Did I leave something out?

Lame response, considering what you have claimed.

So, you have none?

But you claimed that the apparent attempt by T to overturn the election results was a plot perpetrated by Biden. Those are your words. Are your words ...

I accept your withdrawal from your thesis.

Not even the part where Biden engineered the whole event?

The confluence of efforts to change the electoral votes combined with the support given on the day by T and afterwards, in the form of referring to th...

It is your narrative. Are you asking me to explain your theory to you?

Contrary to what?

That narrative would have some teeth if the evidence to the contrary was not so obvious to all who observed the incidents as they happened in real tim...

Are you saying that you have never hurt another person for the benefit of yourself? Never lied to avoid suffering the consequences of honesty? Never p...

It was pretty darn clever of Joe to get T to call for a protest on that day and send them to the Capitol with people he knew were armed. The genius of...

Interesting. That matter of abstraction puts the focus on what "psychology" is understood to be in the text. Close or far, as it is described.

One element in Descartes' session of doubt that is worth observing is the emphasis on not relying upon what we all experience as the basis of building...

I can follow your description of what is happening but the attempt to bring another to be more skillful is its own thing. The truth or falsity of that...

I was not thinking of the speaking as taboo. Zhuangzi confronts the categorical quality of Confucian expression but does not reject what it is trying ...

Pretty much the center of imaginary intellects. I love the book and the Tarkovsky movie.

The Taoist practices I try to work at don't frame the quiet as substance or emptiness but as what happens when the chatter stops. My brief encounters ...

Thank you. A discouraging word in the hand is better than two birds in the bush.

I was excited and surprised that the text challenged my thoughts so directly five decades ago. I took notes and annotated the text densely back then, ...

I see how Kierkegaard's argument is using the biblical accounts to build a sort of "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" model of an individual. But the ...

I don't know what that emoticon means as a proposition. Or the absence of one.

They (GOP) said as much, many times.