Now that you mention it -- one of the most practical ways of practicing anarchy in our world today is through the housing collective. Finding one and ...
Heh, fair enough. No worries. For myself the end-goal isn't as important to be achieved -- organizing with likeminded people was enough for me to want...
Couldn't it be the case that Descartes both censored himself and expressed himself? Or must we say, because he censored himself once all of what he di...
Heh, I've once again not been clear. I agree Descartes was self-censoring. However, I don't think he was doing so in his philosophy, while he was doin...
I agree he was self censoring. I'm not sure I agree he wrote the Meditations to stop the inquisition, though. I think he liked both science and philos...
Cool, I don't have that deep a knowledge of the sequence of events in his life so I'll go with it. But I know Descartes was not scared of doing scienc...
Same. He didn't establish certainty to avoid assumptions. He did not believe what he claimed to believe with respect to radical skepticism -- he expli...
Well, the anonymity won't be preserved if we add another essay, but I don't mind throwing another one that's done into the mix -- the next one won't h...
Yes. Trying again with some rest and your rendition -- "The meanwhile completely mismatched relationship (since degraded to a mere topos) between each...
I'm thinking about the physics, the metaphysics, on the weather, the prior analytics, the posterior analytics, parts of animals, and de anima. The pri...
Aristotle was not wrong in his time. But neither he nor we can make induction a valid move that secures knowledge. I say he wasn't wrong because I can...
But that is relevant to the OP -- if Aristotle secures knowledge of the real through a thorough review of all of what's known and induction towards be...
So, for instance, I wouldn't say induction requires, but I'd say that the manner in which Aristotle's induction does. The way I see him move is securi...
Aristotle's use of induction to reach metaphysical truths would require him to survey the prior categories before he could move upwards towards being,...
I infer that because of his method of induction -- in order for him to be able to consider being, as such, he would have to start with the lower categ...
Because it's small and could die and remains uncertain from its inception. It only grows in certitude with growth, or gets thrown out -- but its begin...
Something to ward: The privacy in question isn't who wrote what, but rather whether a search engine can find the essay through searching our website. ...
I'd start with Popper, at least, so falsification follows the form of a modus ponens. But then I'd say that in order to falsify something you have to ...
I'd say it's on par with "From the more certain to the less certain" For one, I intend the biological metaphor to apply to knowledge: and what was onc...
Re: Style -- I can understand him writing the way he does. Where I'm writing out the short version I'm mostly doing the thing where I'm checking mysel...
Ahhh thanks. That makes sense. Oh yeah, no worries. I wasn't sure what to say about those so I just hopped into where I was beginning to have difficul...
I'm just going to begin with the first section in trying to summarize what I'm understanding. It's thick enough that I'm having to slow down and type ...
But, really, if you think about it I don't even know if I'll finish in the month -- I'm committed to responding to all 13 with the same amount of care...
My plan is to create the general discussion and "Whose who?" thread on the 15th of June, and since I've orchestrated the thing and know whose who I'm ...
EDITOR: PART 2 3.6.6 The Minimal State and Structural Indifference Nozick’s state exists to protect contracts and property. It cannot address systemic...
Part 2: 5. When a Tree Falls in the Forest Plan: Show if the tree makes a sound when no one is around. Mainly When forests fall with none to hear thei...
Oh, I have no qualms with utilizing "beauty" in our reasonings about the world -- it's the determinism bit that I don't find beautiful, but terms of e...
Heh. I've heard. In fact I think I've put off reading him so long probably because I heard he disliked Jazz, at which point I thought "No man could be...
Looking over Lecture 10 again I can see these are just my little prejudices getting in the way. The real thrust of Lecture 10 is what resistance is, a...
Right -- I think expressions of elitism automatically incur some kind of disdain from me, but you're pointing out significant differences. I wouldn't ...
I suppose I don't see the appeal, but for reasons already stated. I don't see it as beautiful, though I don't know if it's ugly either. Determinism ap...
I think I can get used to it too. And I prefer accuracy to readability. The excessive use of pronouns reminds me of Norman Kemp Smith's translation of...
I'm not sure how else to put it, but I still see this as incorrect. While I think determinism is impossible to determine empirically, I also don't bel...
To my mind that begins to look like a ghost -- we can explain it, but we can't say it's certainly the case. For instance -- Spinoza has an explanation...
And if Hume is right, while true that it's paradigmatic, it's also just a habit unjustified by logic. I'm more tempted to inverse this -- How can we b...
Sometimes. And sometimes it's given "the shrug" -- "Idk, because there are too many possible causes" Usually that's when you figure out it was a bad e...
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