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Fair enough.
January 03, 2017 at 23:12
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...
January 03, 2017 at 02:18
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....
January 03, 2017 at 02:08
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...
January 01, 2017 at 19:20
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...
January 01, 2017 at 14:47
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...
January 01, 2017 at 07:34
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 ...
January 01, 2017 at 06:18
They at least ascribe themselves to rational traditions, yes. Of course being rational is a whole different thing, but Liberalism -- classical liberal...
January 01, 2017 at 06:10
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...
January 01, 2017 at 02:52
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...
January 01, 2017 at 01:17
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 ...
December 31, 2016 at 05:05
Martha Nussbaum is also one of my fave female philosophers, personally. Her work on late antiquity hit home for me.
December 31, 2016 at 04:59
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 ...
December 31, 2016 at 04:58
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...
December 31, 2016 at 04:55
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...
December 30, 2016 at 22:32
I think the best way to surreptitiously introduce philosophy to those who may believe they are not philosophical (for whatever reason) ((and when they...
December 30, 2016 at 22:25
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...
December 30, 2016 at 22:16
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...
December 30, 2016 at 22:02
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...
December 30, 2016 at 02:53
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...
December 29, 2016 at 22:36
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...
December 29, 2016 at 22:06
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...
December 28, 2016 at 18:34
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...
December 28, 2016 at 18:00
Because lamda was unable to prove any of lamda's claims about philosophy.
December 20, 2016 at 03:09
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....
December 19, 2016 at 00:13
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...
December 18, 2016 at 02:44
Post what you think of it. I'd like to hear first hand accounts. It all looks pretty cool.
December 17, 2016 at 22:17
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 ...
December 17, 2016 at 22:15
A bit of a joke in that I don't see my brain. I arrive at believing in a brain by inference, which relies upon . .
December 15, 2016 at 17:31
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...
December 15, 2016 at 17:28
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...
December 15, 2016 at 17:10
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...
December 15, 2016 at 16:58
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...
December 15, 2016 at 16:58
When I read this: That is what I hear.
December 15, 2016 at 16:46
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...
December 15, 2016 at 16:40
Just really quickly -- putting your contradictory quotes into context above "insofar" means "if" in the above, not "Since".
December 15, 2016 at 16:19
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...
December 15, 2016 at 15:33
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...
December 15, 2016 at 12:42
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...
December 15, 2016 at 06:28
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?...
December 15, 2016 at 06:12
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...
December 14, 2016 at 22:05
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,...
December 14, 2016 at 22:00
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...
December 14, 2016 at 12:24
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 ...
December 14, 2016 at 12:13
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...
December 14, 2016 at 11:53
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...
December 14, 2016 at 11:42
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...
December 14, 2016 at 11:29
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...
December 14, 2016 at 11:14
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...
December 14, 2016 at 04:03
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...
December 14, 2016 at 03:42