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The article speaks of husbands and bachelors but no bachelorettes. Nor of thoughtful philosophical wives.

Is that to say that women who partake in that 'over-abstractness' are 'men' by that measure?

There is an odd anti-feminist feel to this view of personal isolation. The space does not include much room for academicians like Nussbaum or Arendt, ...

I agree completely about the English rendering. I have been wishing I could read Russian from the first chapter. It is difficult to access the purely ...

I share your high regard for the Concept of Anxiety. The work is a part of K's conversation (and argument) with Hegel. As model of personal developmen...

Trump goes after a Judge's family because he figures he can. Not a good look if you care about appearances.

Trump attacks Biden over Easter coinciding with Transgender Day of Visibility I gather from this that the Easter Bunny is not gay. But if I cannot eve...

Trump shares an image of Biden tied up like a hog in the back of a pickup truck.

Point well taken about argument under his terms. But it is presented as a limit to explanation rather than a resolution.

W does not put it in those terms. What is shown is separated from what is explained. Is that the last word of what can be explained? Seems like a weir...

I was thinking of any creed in that a story is given to explain what is happening. How that story plays a part in any account is very various. Those v...

One element I wonder about a lot is the importance of a creed, as a set of propositions, to establishing practice and ritual. Unamuno is interesting i...

It all ends soon enough. If you have to check out early, I get that. I had friends who chose that for themselves. I do not know what you are saying ab...

Lenin argued that such a move required a vanguard who ruled as the dictatorship of the proletariat. That approach has had outcomes few would count as ...

What you added by parenthesis is not in the text. Edit to add: It is in the text. My bad.

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I think about it in Aristotelian terms. There are too many accidents to explain through necessity. But there are too many repetitions to blow off conn...

Cognitive dissonance is usually presented as an obstacle to learning. The result is a decrease of stress. Everything is okay. Never mind.

Would you be okay with accepting a world of consequences without being able to find out what they will be?

A problem well exhibited in the Theaetetus. Should an idea survive? Is the test right or wrong?

As a tradesperson, I found out about my poor reasoning by losing control of what I was doing. The only way back was accepting the mistake. And if that...

This is not the mark of those who try to engage with original texts or interested in those who do.

I don't see how saying: "no part of our experience is at the same time a priori" could be an expression of idealism. The single mention of "pure reali...

Wait till you have it as a sauce on ham. The journey to the dark side will be complete.

He does engage with the issue: The correlation you seek between the 'logical object' and natural phenomena does not approach the 'limit of the world' ...

His view of the condition of truth being found outside of what 'belonged' to oneself was brought together with needing to make decisions that shaped w...

I read the order to be important regarding what is intended. It is interesting how much the meaning of text turns upon such readings.

That is a pivotal matter in the question of how much this work presents an epistemology or not.

Re-reading The Doomed City by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.

I thought you were doing that by means of asserting Wittgenstein's project to be an alignment of some kind.

How does the equality of form relate to the reluctance on Wittgentein's part to assemble a world on that basis.

What do you make of: Citing this is not an argument for 'precluding a possibility', as you put it. On the other hand, maybe this would be a good time ...

I was thinking the following was an obstacle to 'equality of shape' or 'isomorphism': The difference between what is said versus what is shown becomes...

It seems there are a number of places in the text where we do not have a way to confirm or deny that. The passages move from thinking to language in a...

Honest self-appraisal is a painful process. It is oddly the most private and visible quality. The secrets I will die with are written upon what is sho...

I wonder how the "isomorphism" relates to ideas about representation. The following statements establish a connection but also a distance:

Pardon me for perhaps confusing the discussion but some element of Sartre putting forth a less restrained vision of change is part of his embrace of M...

Nice. Thanks.

The wager is a double edged sword. It cuts against the authority of any given time because nothing like that can answer the personal desire for salvat...

I find Transcendence of the Ego by Sartre to be the clearest expression of the idea as a point of departure. The view of it as a change of paradigm su...

Your question does not include what speaks to you on the matter. I may as well honk at the moon.

He was kind of interesting until he became abusive. I get enough of that at work.

Pardon my misunderstanding. How do you see the "illusion of free will" in relation to the deliberation involved in acting toward achieving ends in Spi...

I don't think he was advocating a kind of quietism. In the passage I quoted above, there is the emphasis on the wise being more influential than the i...

I like the bold language of the earlier work too. But I did not notice the moment of abandonment you refer to. Is there a particular bit of text that ...

Your reluctance makes sense. The discourse following the statement goes in many different directions. As far as I know, Wittgenstein does not abandon ...

I was thinking more about Vashane denigrating people as a component of the argument. I get a lot of the other kind of denigration at work. If you are ...

I wonder about the limits of direct personal insults. I recognize that I have not expressed the ideal of eschewing such behavior. In fact, I am part o...

I think of it more as a group of people who yearn to hear what they want to hear versus the different options that are put on offer. The many peasant ...

I think the matter is put more forcefully than that: That may have a shared purpose with other expressions of doubt. But it is also cojoining what man...