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This is confusing: If we can agree that compliance with the law is not, or at least is more complicated, than various legal systems that have emerged ...

An aspect of 'information' theory that I am not sure fits with your dichotomy is the emergence of cybernetic processes and system theories. That does ...

People do not act, especially if badly, on the basis of what is permitted by law. So the following proposes a factor not observed in criminal behavior...

I apologize for my comparison. I should have left it as what I disagreed with.

The law, as practiced in the United States, sharply differentiates the criminal from civic disputes. So, the attempts to prevent criminal behavior, wh...

One twist in this narrative is how the good God has permitted demons to exist and some quantum of ecclesiastical authority comes from protecting the f...

Ray Brassier, from that collection of essays, The Speculative Turn, you posted in the other thread, calls for a relationship between the extremes that...

I was trying to say how I thought Aristotle framed the questions. i don't want to hijack the thread to address your more general question on that basi...

Those techniques may speak to the Aristotelian register of 'things happening for the most part' but does not treat them as a particular being which is...

Perfection is not something outside of a context. If you are a pretty good woodworker, you could be better if you did some things differently. Some of...

Yes, the passage is an objection to Plato's version of Forms. I read it also to say there is a great distance between our grouping by kinds and whatev...

We encounter the 'essences' each time we come upon a particular being. But there is a tension between this condition and the 'universals' needed to in...

I don't think this captures the significance of Descartes using the motif of an evil demon during his experiment upon himself. In a time when people w...

My impression from reading the essays so far is that it is not so much a general rejection of anthropomorphism but a response to Heidegger signaling t...

The Speculative Turn essays certainly represent very different views. It seems that much of the conversation concerns the logic of terms and what are ...

The reference to personal betrayal is interesting here. A loss of trust questioning the good faith of the interlocutor. The relationship is in peril b...

The fusion certainly did not come up in the Third Meditation when Descartes was saying his parents did not cause his 'thinking substance': The 'ghost ...

After Descartes concludes that he is not being deceived by the creator of his experience, he can learn from nature. He says that thinking is not confi...

A feature of this thread from its beginning is that no source of information has been accepted as a common ground for differences of opinion to take a...

Language and Death: The Place of Negativity by Giorgio Agamben An interesting philosophical view of linguistics in contrast to the scientific theories...

The Tomasello lecture is excellent. His observations are noted in a larger challenge to Chomsky presented by Brian MacWhinney and Elizabeth Bates.

That does take the long view of what 'development' involves. I suppose the development of children has to be seen in the context of that larger one. I...

It is sophistical for Harris to use the diversity of religious expression to bolster his simple unitary view. His emphasis upon the propositions of wh...

During a discussion of his predecessors, Aristotle said Plato included two of the four Aristote worked with and why it was not enough: The addition of...

The relationship between the learner and the environment can mean very different things. In the Skinner model, stimulus is always on one side and resp...

I don't think Aristotle would have described his work that way. He was surrounded by those who rejected the idea of an intelligible whole. He fought t...

This element is what confuses me trying to sort out what is 'innate' versus an imposed condition. Are all environmental factors to be dubbed 'structur...

That framework sounds like what one would need to compare religions with each other. Are there critics of religion who reject such comparisons?

I was not agreeing with your analysis of the circumstances but only observing that Ukraine cannot afford to just wait out the present situation if it ...

For Aristotle, the problem with infinite regression is that we would not be able to learn anything theoretical in such a universe:

Time is not on Ukraine's side. The Chechens thought they had won for a bit but were crushed eventually. If the annexations stand, they become 'facts o...

I can't answer your challenge to bert1 regarding the scientific theory of consciousness as a development that started without it and appeared after so...

Noted.

Language surely must be closely linked to cognition. But the devil is in the details. The range of theories between what the brain does and what socia...

Thank you. I fully understand why you want to see the remarks in the context of his views as they changed over time. I look at it through the lens of ...

I am not sure if this counts as 'hedging' in regard to what is innate or not but the following (written in the late 70's) suggests Chomsky is not putt...

The Business Party is not challenged by the focus on culture wars as long as property laws are enforced and debts are paid. A lot of the changes frigh...

The comment quoted by EricH does show Chomsky qualifying his general framework to acknowledge the transgressive inversion of the political institution...

A quality of Baudrillard's idea that the films do not connect to is how the 'real' is seen to have been removed as the result of a crime. The ways he ...

Yes, De Anima along with On Memory.

Your description is one of the interpretations of Aristotle's view of phantasia.

That is a good question. I think Jung would say yes, the pattern is there. Vygotsky is more circumspect. A pattern is underway. We do not know what it...

I am attracted to Vygotsky's model of the self as coming about from structures that are not given in personal experience but make it possible. We have...

I guess I was not expected to give a cogent account but to wrestle with the problems without a particular result showing I got it or not.

I was assigned to read primary texts. I came to appreciate commentary later on. But I am glad I did not start with that. What draws you to philosophy?

In regard to the relationship between language and the organic beings we are, the range of developmental psychology is worth considering. There is Beh...

This is an interesting curve in the Bossa Nova genre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Ne2Zs5754

I think some of the anxiety came from the revolutions of 1848 where institutions accepted some democratic reforms in exchange for protecting the statu...

The aspect of cause and effect says to me that there is not a sentient being tallying up a person's score but rather there is a structure that is chan...

It seems to me that generations of humans have dealt with being a self. It has been framed in different ways, but I am pretty sure we all are in the s...