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That would be an excellent research question which would probably balloon very quickly and have to be pared down. So naturally I'll answer it from the...

That's terrible news. She had a way of making a conversation turn back to what's practical. Condolences to the family -- she will be missed here.

I thought I did, but I'll try again. Making everyone equal does not prevent learning. At least as a default assumption in a conversation -- I'll admit...

I know this is a standard way of looking at the world, especially as a teacher. We can't "make everyone equal" in the factual sense, but we can treat ...

I don't grant myself that ability, though. That's your interpretation which I'm attempting to demonstrate as false. You have your stories about why it...

Where have I put myself on a pedestal? That'd be a rule which I agree with that I wouldn't want to do. That is, I'd say putting yourself on a pedestal...

:naughty: Glad you see it as at least consistent. Bullets are my philosophical breakfast :)

Yup. Only sometimes. (in the logical sense -- in our phenomenological sense, many times) There are parts of science that aren't exactly falsifiable, b...

Oh, definitely. Or, rather, they work themselves out through discussion -- but not in a sort of random brownian motion. I don't mind a resolution by a...

Ahh, you see -- one must know a trade at least. I generally think that's where our intuitive appeals will come from first -- the trade that one surviv...

I wonder if "smart" and "experienced" were the criteria in these cases? There's something common among these pseud-sciences -- namely that they have t...

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Ahh OK. Makes sense to me. There's the critical side and the builder side. What do you have in mind when thinking of Hume as a builder? The Dialogues,...

I think you're rather missing my point, but this is quite common for you -- if you can't understand why someone would say something then you conclude ...

... ya'know, you're not wrong. "Crisps/Chips" would be more relatable than looking at the stars. How else are the kids to understand the contribution ...

True. But in certain circumstances I now know how to use the word "crisps" -- to differentiate between, when such a differentiation is expected.

ahhhhh -- ok. Now I have a word for it.

I had to watch a you-tube video to figure out the analogy, but yes. The important thing is that you can spend all of 2 dollars to bring a bag of chips...

O -- like Doritos or Lays, not like what we like to call French Fries. Out of the bag, not out of a frier.

I'd say they require potato/pasta salad with chicken sandwiches (from last nights roast), and chips. After that, some excuse for why we're out here li...

@"Count Timothy von Icarus" This essay is great to read. I don't have much that's worthwhile critically. I appreciate the method of having authors you...

Definitionally, yes. So I'm not quite satisfied anymore with that dichotomy... it was a first guess from the usual thoughts. Hubris/Humility would nat...

@"Banno" and I have a long history of talking on this very issue, as you can see in the aside where I gave Banno a theory of incommensurability -- an ...

Oh, I definitely agree there. I didn't mean skeptic like a/theism skeptic, but philosophical skepticism like Pyrrho, Descartes, Hume. I certainly don'...

First, a clarification -- A defense of dissection, in the sense that it is not superior to the builders of philosophy, is what I've set out to defend....

We do. By talking. Sometimes negotations fail, though. I don't think there's one way it happens. What settles a philosophical dispute? Isn't the volum...

Good post overall. I want to highlight this from it because it looks important to me. I think we can all accept that one of the general lessons of phi...

Ways of looking at, or doing, philosophy. To note two ways to philosophize. You wanted to claim that the builders are superior to the destroyers. Thus...

Tagging @"Count Timothy von Icarus" -- In case you missed it, click on @"Banno"'s post.

Having more to say is better than having nothing to say, so cheers to that.

I think I can go that far. Not sure how to disagree, but I split your reply for a reason... :D Assuming commensurability makes sense to me, at least a...

Heh, me too -- but I keep coming back :D

Only if we've stopped caring about doing philosophy and found our answers, I think.

I go so far as to say the ideas are brilliant. I mean, someone had to try to build the complete system of German Idealism, right? In a way his is the ...

But you see this is exactly the monolothic move -- to demonstrate how Hegel is actually appealing to whomever is talking about him, and how, in fact, ...

Definitely. I mean I think we do have to ask, eventually when we think we understand the philosopher well enough, "So is it true, though?" -- and that...

I think we have to make a case for, rather than assume, incommensurability between language games. I'd put the incommensurability on the side of inten...

Pyrrho didn't leave anything for us to critique. That's perhaps the most consistent sort of skepticism I can imagine. So, no, he had no need for them....

Well, naturally, I'd never dream to counter the phenomenologist which can see all of time-thought in the moment of the absolute... The analytic tradit...

I don't think the two ways are unique to the analytic tradition. At least I'd use Kant as a mixer between the two ways, and Hegel as the world-builder...

I tend to think that Wittgenstein's intent, at least, is to lead the fly out of the bottle. Noticing that a language game contains one way of looking ...

How would you group mathematics and philosophy into the same language game? I'd say they are different in the sense that math is a science, and scienc...

:D Hey, I'm the one defending the nit-pickers. I had you in mind in crafting the thought -- it's always a bit of an art in trying to simplify the grea...

As an example of the monolithic style of thought I'd say Hegel takes the cake. No one seems to claim to understand so much as he does. In the Adorno r...

Naturally it's tricky and subject to interpretation. Something that might be of value here is that Kant kind of does sit astride the line being explor...

When you say apprehension comes prior to judgment I can't help but think of Kant whose whole project can be read as "Judgment is the single fundamenta...

Considering it I can make sense of the notion, but given all of my stated perspectives. . . :D Seems to me that once we understand what's true we also...

Other examples could be Wittgenstein or Kant -- anyone that sets a limit to philosophical knowledge would in some sense qualify as a skeptic, I think,...

The critic criticizes themself. They don't have to learn how to build in order to do that. Suppose the builder goes away and the buyer decides to try ...

I don't see it as unprincipled when I'm directly telling you why I'm thinking what I'm thinking. I think we really can use different metrics at differ...