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You have made your point of view clear. Your descriptions of other points of views are arrogant.

I was referring to your efforts. But the example provided is interesting.

With that metric, you can sort all things with little effort..

I figured something like that was underway.

In that case, why assume a point of view above the arguments, where your judgements regarding others are given special regard?

Who made you the one who corrects?

If something is far enough beneath you, why bother with it?

If the matter is as inconsequential as you suggest, your insult is equally stupid.

You are using the claim for the purpose of your argument.

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The decision did not reverse the various statements of fact regarding what qualifies as an insurrection. It limited the rights of States to act upon s...

Framing it that way reminds me of Margaret Thatcher's saying, "society does not exist, only people and their families do." How does one separate such ...

The article on Logical Atomism linked by Banno taught me enough about Wittgenstein's changing view of the former work to be unable to call the later w...

This distinction is made in the context of limits to establishing possibility apriori but is also a moment in Wittgenstein's ongoing argument against ...

That is not true. You are judging that strictly on the basis of reactions to your comments.

That passage is the result of what cannot be said. It was arrived at by all the previous steps in the argument. Recognizing our condition is how we ap...

Your use of "fact" and its place (or absence of place) in the world has nothing to do with Wittgenstein's argument. What cannot be said is found throu...

That assertion does not appear in the text.

How does that idea connect with what Wittgenstein says? Do any particular passages bring that issue into the conversation for you?

They made a film out of it?! That would be like making a movie out of Metamorphosis.

I read Saramago's Blindness many years ago. Scared the crap out of me.

I recommend reading the introduction written by Bertrand Russell to get a sense of the "world" as a boundary rather than as a "thing." I don't agree w...

Given the angle of the other shadows, yes, there should be a bit of darkness to the right. There is no shadow of the fence either but that could be wr...

Aristotle certainly put the active principle above the elements being acted upon. I am not aware of any passage that expresses a ratio of the sort Per...

What if one does not know the facts well enough to speak about them?

For those of us watching at home, are you referring to:

Interesting image. The angle of the shadows changes for different objects. The light source is lower when striking the cowboy. The infrastructure visi...

You are referring, presumably, to the Sophists. Aristotle did criticize their use of logical fallacy but also their misapplication of theory and accou...

Thanks for asking. I should have said more. Kant would like to confirm the "thinking" as what humans do but does not place that on the level of experi...

I was not aware of "Mendelssohn's materialism." Will check it out. Or at least the conception is posterior to the intuitions which Kant confirms are a...

My life has mixed up those different kinds of action where I do not know where one begins and the other ends.

This goes in a lot of different directions. As a point of departure, how Descartes expresses it as a matter of moving from a center outwards is differ...

Just to be clear, are you addressing Kant's statement in that regard? Where he stated it was such a thing?

I read the passage to mean that we have no way to confirm the judgment, a neat reversal of the special province of the "I" granted by Descartes. So, n...

Well, the tiny units I introduced is also a caution regarding assessment. I was agreeing with Pantagruel that trying to learn a discipline required wo...

It is true that Kant took it as a given that concepts formed through reason were demonstrations of a universal activity. Wittgenstein's view of what i...

The mention of Hegel prompts me to ask about the role of time. Kant was very particular about how that as an element of experience. Wittgenstein is ah...

You have framed this in an interesting way. I understand the doubt that the passage was self-referential. If the observation is accepted as sincere, t...

How is an appeal to "family resemblance" a negation of logical structure? What structure are you referring to?

I read Wittgenstein to be saying he is still doing philosophy at that juncture. This is a balancing point for many different interpretations. The matt...

How do you see the 'relativizing' of separate language games as a rejection of logic and structure? That goes against the grain of passages like the f...

As a criticism of Descartes, the quoted section shows how Descartes presumed a private experience to be able to stand for what can be said of all huma...

On Kant's side, the "limit of experience" is not so much trying get beyond a particular domain, like a dog straining against a tether, but a problem o...

Is there anything you disagree with? That is the starting point of many philosophies. Given the possibility of being wrong, can anything be establishe...

Gold Sneakers and a large amount of money to spend. Apologies to Steely Dan.

I think the willingness to test is not only an acceptance of some starting place of conception but willingness to change responses. The Tao that canno...

It is interesting how Enrgoran connected the decision to past scams.

Amongst other objectives, Kant wanted to squelch Hume's depiction of cause as only consisting of accidents and coincidence. David and Immanuel both ac...

Well, the first word in Homer's Iliad is Anger. We are more easily offended than a flower is buffeted by the wind.

In saying "choice and your act aren't separable" are you agreeing with the thesis of the OP that the actor is ultimately the only "cause" that matters...