I'm very fond of Epicurus. He's one of the philosophers I return to reading more and more literature about on a periodic basis to get a firmer grasp o...
There is no problem opposing people with the words they choose to identify with. I would also say it's not out of line to make historical comparisons....
Have all Democrats called every Republican candidate a fascist since Bush? Some have. I would say that most did not, though. And guess which one's mig...
Eh, to get all hipster about it, I've been saying this since before that line began running on the liberal rags. I've argued these same points with li...
Obama also had policies which he campaigned on along with his sloganeering. Obama certainly had a cult of personality surrounding him. That I don't de...
Yes. It will be focused in the Middle East, I believe, but the Republican party has been beating the war drums for quite some time -- even during the ...
They at least ascribe themselves to rational traditions, yes. Of course being rational is a whole different thing, but Liberalism -- classical liberal...
The former. Fascism is a political system which seeks to build a great nation. It is born out of humiliation, a desire for purity, a perceived ostraci...
The analogies between Trump and fascism are not merely rhetorical. There are a large number of parallels between fascist parties past and Trump's path...
Ah ok. my bad. THEN -- I have grown to really enjoy the Republic. But I admit that the Phenomenology of Mind was a very close second. The only reason ...
I have to admit that I find the question a bit too presumptuous to answer. "classical" already selects among many works, and it would seem to me that ...
I s'pose that seems a misreading to me. Descartes was certainly not a village idiot, and rejection of Descartes is characteristic of much of modern ph...
I picked Arendt. Certainly my favorite, though Judith Butler was a close second. I tend to think philosophers who challenge my beliefs the most are my...
I think the best way to surreptitiously introduce philosophy to those who may believe they are not philosophical (for whatever reason) ((and when they...
Of the bunch I voted Descartes because he's arguably the beginning of modern philosophy, and I would say the reason for that is because of his contrib...
While I agree that the causes for mental health problems are more often than not found in the environment, I would still say these two are distinct on...
I have to say that though I spoke in favor of likes in the aforementioned post, I've actually grown used to not having them and like things as they ar...
I'd note that I think all of your questions, including the title question, are asking different things. What gives art power over the human soul isn't...
That's true. People don't view it in the same way. And I agree with you -- especially in the workplace. I'm more open about my depression with friends...
It seems to me you're saying what is wrong, in some moral sense, with being depressed. As if having depression is a failure of oneself, and the reason...
I don't think there's a distinction to be had between the two. Hardware itself is programmed, and you can do the tasks of hardware within software (in...
Good point. I was just giving it a go, I suppose. :D I think I agree with un when he says it doesn't apply with exam questions. At least, not as much....
I don't know. I was just trying to give the best interp of question that I could. I'm not even sure if I'm right, it was just the only thing that made...
Best interpretation I can think of is that the human condition is the entity, and it is being described as logical -- but not logical in the sense of ...
Your brain does all this? Where? :D There's a lot of entities you're introducing in this paragraph. A very large story on how we "essentially" comes t...
People have discussions about categories, no doubt, and whether something does or does not fit a category. But when someone sees a chair as a chair, t...
I suppose because it's not the "explicit" part that gives me pause, but whether it happens at all -- I don't think people implicitly hold necessary an...
Yes, that makes a good deal more sense to me now. In one case we're offering a standard by which to judge whether something fits a category, and in th...
Alright, cool. Then I did (and probably do) not understand your objection. Usage is not what makes meanings true. Usage is how one determines what a m...
Usage is the method. If you want to know the meaning, then you look to usage -- or reports, sure. That is what one would look at. But whether a report...
No, I am not. A descriptive definition is true if it accurately describes the meaning of a term. We know the meaning of a term by its usage -- more sp...
The only answer I can think of is to state a basic version of both theories of truth, thereby making it clear how they differ. Or to say that we can a...
I'm afraid I'm not following what you're asking after here. What is "per what"? Like, by what authority? Or, by what feature of the world? or. . what?...
I suppose it depends, actually. If you could reliably hear green, then I'd just say you're using a different method that I'm not actually familiar wit...
I say that definitions can be true or false. Obviously a stipulative definition is neither true or false. A descriptive definition, on the other hand,...
Context-independence is your term. Insofar that you're using that qualifier I am too, but it was not I who introduced this notion. Hence why I asked w...
That's fair. I should be more specific. What I mean is that what a meaning is is not related to our capacities. Yes, we can see some kind of relation ...
No sarcasm on my part. The point is too rarified for me to be able to lodge sarcasm very effectively -- it's kind of one of those things where it's so...
I'd hazard that the truthmaker is no different in this context than any other context for which truthmaker is applicable -- it's just the facts. Facts...
No. I figured what you were saying, though, was that because " there is no truthmaker for "tomato is defined as x."" that it follows that meaning is m...
I think we're chasing our tail on this one. :D I'd say that anything that is true is not true context-independently. "context-independently" is an ima...
See. . . that definitely strikes me as a semi-platonic entity then (it may not be strictly platonic, so that's why I say semi- in that it relates to s...
No, that's not exactly what I'm going after either. Or, at least, if it is true, I don't believe that language is a series of barks chained to our rep...
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