Yes. I find children are pretty open to philosophical exploration, especially with respect to adults. Obviously they're children and do it their way, ...
Something more substantive from me: I feel like I'm following along at an intuitive level here -- infinite as something we don't contain but instead o...
"Infinity" Having gone over the disenchantment of the concept Adorno turns towards a particular concept to disenchant it from its idealist home: Infin...
:up: That satisfies me, at least. Similar time periods, different areas of inquiry, similar conclusions indicate that we're dealing with something dee...
I am now caught up to here. One thing I want to highlight that I didn't see anyone else highlight just yet: The use of "hinge" stood out to me because...
Finished my first read. Something I think worth noting from the conclusion: I was impressed by that because I began to think while reading "Is this ju...
I could have done a better job here. And truthfully my hope is someone else takes the spot of coordinator for next year -- I'd like to participate nex...
Great essay @"Sam26", and I found your above responses elucidating. I can see the structural parallel. There's a part of me that still wonders: Why th...
I regret not having responded in time for your passing Vera. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. Yours is a good reflection on one of those p...
Nice. I like it! I am one of those who likes rhymes in poems because it makes them easier to speak aloud in a manner that captivates the audience. So ...
I'll unpin this message since the event is officially over, but honestly I'm going to keep commenting on them too. There's two essays I've yet to resp...
If it were to my preferences then I'd ask you to do something like iambic pentameter where the main thoughts are in the rhyming form of ABAB CDCD EFEF...
To be fair -- I haven't read Schiller. I do like your presentation of "play" though. I'd like to include this notion of "play" into "aesthetic judgmen...
Heh, then it's my ignorance that skips over the structure. Not your fault but mine. I think iambic pentameter works well in English -- but I like the ...
I'd push here and say "Is it ever true?" -- but I'd want Durant to clarify his use of "Epicurean" which I imagine is the more popular image. Epicurus ...
@"Baden" -- Just reread trying to look for an "in" for discussion. And the thing I'm wanting more of is specification of these enzymatic knowledge mac...
@"PoeticUniverse" Icarean poet; capture it all A breadth so wide with Being as your bride How can you speak this Truth without a fall? Visions from wh...
I'm interested in the general thrust of your essay where you're speaking in favor of aesthetics. I'm more inclined towards a cognitivist aesthetics, b...
@"Benkei" I doubt you'll find this surprising, but my reaction was an answer to the question: Why do you preach to the choir? So that they choir will ...
Cool. I do not mean to pick on this as something which isn't worthwhile, I'm only speaking my first impressions to the best of my ability (by the time...
@"Jack Cummins" I liked that this essay was a review and kept to that role. I've noticed that it's hard for people to write a review because they over...
@"ucarr" Your section on time is the part I found the most interesting of this reflection. "time compression/dilation", in the context of your equatio...
@"James Dean Conroy" Captured my first impression of the essay, and I think 's insight is correct. What do you make of 's find? Is that the same as wh...
@"RussellA" I'm noticing throughout the essay that this is the plank on which you seem to advance your case for the philosophical essay as a necessary...
Well, at the park at least. That's very much what children do when they play anything at all. Now note I'm talking about children playing with childre...
So Haidt compared video games to marbles and says that the video game is inferior to marbles because Piaget would play marbles with children and inten...
Understandable. In terms of your goals, though, I think that the best you can do is continue to do as you've been doing. Your goals are all worthy of ...
I think that's an opinion written from ignorance, honestly. I play video games with my family all the time, and negotiations about the meta-rules of p...
I don't complain about it -- I understand that guessing is a feature, and not a bug. What I noted is that there's a limit to guessing and checking due...
It's not a change of topic to note what the "perhaps" I had in mind as an exception was. Also, on the other side, "perhaps" means that there's somethi...
The relationship between the persons. Relationships are both communal and sometimes selective -- and really these work in tandem, I think. You don't v...
I think the invitation is for people to PM if they want to, not that the PM is a contribution to a public thread. So it would work by someone PMing hi...
Ahhh, OK. That'd be an interesting conversation to tease out. Generally Srap and I agree and I admit I only glanced over the post you linked. I was th...
No, history isn't a soft science. If you compare sociology, say, to history you'll see that the methods are quite different. Where sociology tries to ...
I think soft sciences, whatever we happen to include ( and could argue about if we wanted), are just as scientific as the so-called "hard" sciences. W...
I think they're using "science" in the old way of "an organized body of knowledge", rather than the 19th c.-contemporary way of "performing experiment...
Oh, an argument? If science were history then they would be in the same department at the university. They are not in the same department at the unive...
Oh, not by choice -- not a priori -- but a posteriori I started to note how they're different. It's certainly odd. I recognize that what I say is odd....
I did note that argument doesn't lead to truth. I gave two examples to talk through together. Arguments will be used along the way, but I noted the th...
Ahhh. Well, if someone were to say that to me, at least, then I'd ask more about what they mean and we could proceed, if they wanted to anyways. I don...
Yeah, I recall us having this exact conversation before when incommensurability came up :D -- something like it at least. I've still not read Goodman,...
In general I wouldn't define it onone way or the other but would leave it to the particular referent (the particular case of incommensurability) -- bu...
Oh, so as in -- one standard that was there before the paradigm shift and one that was there after the paradigm shift such that we know that the new p...
I don't believe so, but this isn't fatal to knowledge or philosophy. It even helps explain their use -- we'll always have some perspective so it's goo...
No. Yes Possibly so -- though I don't like calling it a mechanism. No. No. Depends on the thingy. The alchemy/chemistry example brought up shows how t...
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