The mention of Cornford reminds me of when we discussed his views previously. I continue to question the 'doctrinal' aspect of Cornford's argument. In...
Going into conflict, knowing full well it could end badly, is courage. Being certain that you will survive, no matter what, is fearlessness. So, you m...
I figure that saying: "When we do philosophy" includes all the efforts Wittgenstein is making as much as it includes views he is resisting. Stating: "...
I think Aristotle was on to something when putting the pleasure of perception and knowledge above others. And how will that be measured against anothe...
The efforts to remove T from the ballot in a number of States is an interesting expression of Federalism, where the rights of States can cancel nation...
I would go further and say that the 'ordinary' is precisely what is not given. This is expressed in terms of distance from understanding. From paragra...
With Powell and Chesebro in the bag, the T team loses the chance to have a trial before their trial. The sled is beginning to pick up speed down the h...
I did not intend to argue otherwise. The questions I am asking concern where philosophy ends and science begins. That is where I objected to this stat...
What the Wikipedia article writer fails to understand is that 'ordinary' uses of language do not become 'simple' elements from which models may be bui...
This is a reading of Aristotle I am not familiar with. From what I have gathered, not only was Aristotle an advocate for using "theory" in way that Wi...
It seems to me that you are putting the two views into competition with one another in a way that was not intended by Wittgenstein. When I asked wheth...
I think Tomasello is developing important models and is rigorous in his methods. You turned me on to him last year (or so). You acknowledge that such ...
It is interesting to look at psychiatric dictionaries that list the different "expressions" of depression. Whatever value that has toward differentiat...
The criminal cases are more substantial. Personal liberty is never something you want to lose. Losing all your money is pretty big too. I hope mostly ...
As a civil case, where the purported fraud points to getting an unfair advantage within a set of legislated conditions designed to deny that to busine...
I was thinking that Wittgenstein, as a survivor of the calamity of Nazi Germany, was proposing a measure of fragility not commonly observed. A way of ...
I don't understand this quest for "pure knowledge" angle. What I took from the passage is that means of discrimination have consequences far beyond th...
So, what about this paragraph? It does not fit into your 'reduction of skepticism' model: 420. But can't I imagine that the people around me are autom...
I brought up behaviorism as an example of a kind of theory making that Wittgenstein is not doing. The skepticism applied to the use of universals is n...
There is no way to confirm this to be the case. There are models of why it seems to happen in the way you describe. It does not introduce a "Platonic ...
Is that to say language gives the appearance of us sharing a world but we are actually stuck in an isolated theater of the individual mind? And if tha...
You don't get other people's problems. And yet you want them to help you argue against them in other places. The perfection of your form makes me wond...
You just dismissed the discussion of what "freedom" is about upon the basis of the conditions of our existence as an organism. Your beliefs are whatev...
You have located many of the problems of human experience within grounds presuming a determinism of conditions related to the possibility of our exist...
Your depiction of a "divided person" as literally cut into pieces makes me curious how you view the experience of desiring incompatible things, weighi...
One bit of the argument. I am not convinced this is a testimony of faith. Whatever one may think of Scripture or how it got written, this idea of sepa...
As the expression goes: "Taxation without Representation." It was also a about "lawyers, guns, and money." Also known as the British Mercantile econom...
Through Hegel, this dynamic is expressed as a doubling of consciousness, where the conditions forced upon the slave are replicated in their treatment ...
I agree Being and Time should be studied as an ontology thesis To what extent that thesis is inherently apolitical is a reasonable inquiry that doesn'...
What bugs me is that it got its form as a past participle so that one could cogently refer to things "having an impact". But then it started getting u...
The observation that a particular use governs the meaning of a word does not cancel the fact that language is referring to entities and events we enco...
I think Kierkegaard recasts the tension between faith and reason through looking at what changes our conditions in Philosophical Fragments. Obeying th...
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