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The either/or expressed by moving from "meaning as representation to a view which looks to use as the crux of the investigation", assumes that the cha...

This prompted me to check Oedipus the King (by Sophocles) and Aristotle gets this right. Oedipus acknowledges hearing the Chorus and converses with th...

I will get back to you on that. I have to reactivate some of my cells devoted to that method.

Good observation! No hoi polloi. By that measure, the audience has less representation in the scenes.

It is realist to the degree that W defers to the engineer as providing a clear example of the statement meaning something.

Thank you for your kind words. As you typically open up many more paths than I can follow, our "relative" wisdom will have to be placed side by side i...

I am no expert, but the situation makes me think of Kafka: I think that the claim has something to do with the story Socrates recounts in the passage ...

Oppenheimer aside, Rousseau's view of 'natural' man challenges your view of the boundary between natural and 'idealized' commonalities.

Since language must be a component of the 'natural' society you distinguish from the 'abstract', sharing a language must be natural to some degree. So...

Yes, it is obvious that Oppenheimer was referencing Rousseau's " The Social Contract." That is why I responded as I did. I read the State because you ...

The dimensions of that concrete community are what I found problematic with your interpretation of a 'social contract' several months ago. Your man Op...

There is the language you use to interact. Where does that fit into your theory?

That is precisely incorrect. Consider the following: To which Wittgenstein's first comment upon was: The Wiki article can be discarded at the get go.

One central feature of the Civil War was that the South understood it would have to immediately replace the functions of government after leaving the ...

You call for an individualist autonomy that would dismantle the State, as such. You defend Trump as a victim of the Deep State. A Trump administration...

How are those two intentions connected in your mind? I have asked this question a number of times and you have ignored it.

I think that Sartre tries to address your point by the following distinction: This matter of creation at each instance plays a prominent role in Desca...

By this measure, do you object to the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court whereby corporations came to have the same rights as individual persons?

The review of the Divine Sign book review is very interesting. It strikes me that the question of the daimonion is a looking glass for different appro...

He didn't say it to particular people in real time but just a general statement as policy. I mentioned examples of the lack.

And in the case of 1/6, he expressed his love for them once he got around to telling them to go home. Then there are the regular predictions that viol...

That general denunciation you linked to does not cancel all the times he avoided calling out specific people. The "good people on all sides" statement...

Back in 2015 and 2016, a number of posters on Red State and sites of the Bannon variety boasted of using their participation on "liberal" sites to hon...

The decision to deny Meadow's move to be heard in a Federal Court is made on the prerogatives of the State Court. The Hatch Act finally appears from t...

I agree. I am also interested in how the agents in play in these scenarios are connected or not to politics as the means of creating law and policy as...

The following picture drawn by Socrates captures some of the tension symbolized through gender roles: This view puts Socrates turning down the wealth ...

Your comment about "Trump supporters" prompts me to ask you again why you support the man. What has he done or will do for you and what do you care ab...

Who do you include in this description?

I think the interference with State processes and officials by agents outside of the State helps establish intent since other possible reasons are dif...

It sounds like you are treating John Durham's last efforts as Special Counsel as conclusive proof of a plot to smear the Trump campaign. Years of inve...

The surrounding of a city seems to be bound up with what it is. The in between places are the premise of many wars. Outside the boundaries, as it is o...

Essays upon Actions and Events by Donald Davidson. The collection with Quine rebuttals in the appendices. The work is early in comparison to later dis...

True, that. But the terms of defending a crime are not equal to whether one has kept faith with a sworn promise. For instance, I take the vow of matri...

The Catholic and Orthodox churches. Having an Emperor crawl for forgiveness in order to rule. The Crusades. The elimination of 'heresies' wiping out e...

They did that a lot of that sort of thing after they attained state power. As reported by Paul, the world was about to change so dramatically that the...

I cannot argue that the distinction is always clear. The Aristophanes reference is well taken. I admire Thomas Paine, as my forum handle suggests. His...

In so far as I understand Kripke's interpretation of Wittgenstein, the rule following aspect of language games is seen as troubling the view that such...

The role of rhetoric may not lead to a 'truth' that cannot be put into question by facts. Crito does, however, put a lot of emphasis on distinguishing...

Plato does make one comment that connects to other texts. The following from Crito : is echoed in the Statesman: The seventh one is that of the Philos...

I think there is an expression of fear in Crito's argument here. There is also an element of corruption being suggested. The dialogue begins with Crit...

Which brings into focus what is a matter of law versus an appeal to public opinion.

The Giuliana defamation case peels off layers of the onion

That is an interesting observation. Plato does talk about how the relationships between classes and skills compose a city. The Republic presents the i...

That was the question asked at the beginning of the American Civil War.

The Time's magazine piece did provide what I asked for. That message is notably absent from other messages. What is missing from your representation i...

He says different things that do not fit with each other. You have put yourself in the role of clarifying these messages. You suggest that a narrative...

I don't look at it as suite of convictions. I recognize that I have long acted upon presuming some set of facts over another, but it was always provis...

Taking that statement as a point of departure, how do you interpret the "good people on both sides remark"? Who are these two sides? Do you count your...